Trained as an optimist, often in internal debates with my inner realist.
Left at the Crossed Pitchforks
Joined November 2016
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Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
I crocheted the very hungry caterpillar and all the food it eats if anyone CARES
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
So...Mammals normally store fat under the skin in an even layer, but camels evolved to pile fat in one spot, so the rest of their bodies can stay cool in the desert.
Why don't other desert animals do this?
Well, they do.... but for some reason, we never talk about them..... 🧵🧵
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
A little feather, a little floof. This is the colt’s mama last summer. Sandhill Crane.
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
The slugs ate the flower spike on my biggest Aeonium tabuliforme plant so now it's growing lots of small flower spikes. Hopefully I will end up with some seeds after all. #SucculentSunday #aeonium #succulents
ALT Aeonium tabuliforme succulent plant which has a wide flat rosette of green leaves. The slugs ate its flower spike so now it's growing lots of small flower spikes instead.
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
ALT Delosperma Suntropics Red succulent plant with tangerine orange flowers that have a yellow centre.
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
I wanna talk about the disabled angels: there's so many 'in heaven they will finally be free of their wheelchair' and 'they will be made whole again in heaven' narratives around disabled people, so to see visibly disabled angels means everything, thank you @neilhimself #GoodOmens
ALT Screenshot from Good Omens, showing Saraqael, a white angel with red hair and a white outfit, sat in an electric wheelchair in heaven.
ALT Screenshot from Good Omens: an unnamed white angel, in a white robe, shown with one arm stopping just above the elbow.
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
Good work from a German ad agency which reads "protect the wildlife before it's too late"
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
« When a team of doctors, scientists and engineers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge placed an air filtration machine in COVID-19 wards, they found that it removed almost all traces of airborne SARS-CoV-2 »
Clean 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 air cam.ac.uk/research/news/air-…
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
With fish like these, who needs aliens
Always love Gigantura, the telescopefish, even when distorted by glass. #deepseafishes #ilovepins #ichthyology #vanlife #hotyoga
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
Sinéad O'Connor's death at 56 was a gut punch, even if it wasn't a big surprise. I explore why this is affecting so many of us.
She was, in a sense, a martyr. The world became more of what she wanted, but she never got to be part of that.
salon.com/2023/07/27/sinad-o…
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
If it fits, I sits.
📷: Bobcat perched between the arms of a large cactus at @OrganPipeNPS.
ALT Bobcat perched between the arms of a large cactus at Organ Pipe National Monument.
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
This is my maternal grandfather, Nelson.
From the 1940 census:
Occupation: Farmer
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 4th grade
Class of Worker: Working on own account
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 0
ALT Black man sitting in armchair wearing blue denim overalls
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
So, for those still interested in trying to understand what's going on with covid, three different early indicators are all pointing to a current uptick. We'll need to stay tuned to see if this correlates to anything else, and we need lags in data to improve to facilitate this!
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
There are two highly anticipated movies being released this week. One of them is about a controversial public figure and how they reflect the enduring cognitive dissonance between our stated values as a society and the reality of our myriad systemic hypocrisies.
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Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's neighbelline.
ALT Two horses standing in the sand showing off their wind-blown manes at Maryland's Assateague Island National Seashore.
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes! 🤯 Even for me as a nest researcher, these are the craziest bird nests I've ever seen. Today my paper came out on this rebellious behaviour. And it's like telling a joke...
A thread. 🧵
Rainonthescarecrow retweeted
Thread on my first- first author paper: "It Pays to be Bumpy: Drag reducing armor in the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker, Eumicrotremus orbis", published in @ICB_journal doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad076
