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This article documents the severe and ongoing specimen neglect I witnessed over 12 months working at Florida State Collection of Arthropods. FSCA actively solicits donations, then picks and chooses what specimens to care about based on individuals' personal favorites. The rest are left to rot.

Please take a look and consider sharing this, it's extremely important for people (especially in science, taxonomy, natural history, museum curation, etc) to know how and why scientific material is being lost.

I kinda wish pikmin 4 just made a new type of bulborb to be the helper animal instead of Marketable Dog Thing

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I found my little clamshell pokemon playsets... probably some of the oldest pokemon stuff I still own. Can't believe I still have most of the pieces

I really want to keep working on rewilding the invasive trash forest but my family makes me miserable so I may have to give up and head home. I'm pretty unhappy about it but hopefully some of the plants still make it.

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I'm glad everyone is enjoying bibby the hadal snailfish and/or non-threatening soft blob hadal fish in general

people at FSCA upset about me publicizing their failure to do bare minimum specimen upkeep for 20+ years can rest assured I will continue to talk about it for as long as I have a platform ❤

hi tumblr, my redbubble store is 20% off until the 17th. you can get a small print of my illustrations (sans watermark) for less than ten dollars, plus lots of creature stickers. also please let me know if you have any suggestions! my shop is called mossworm, same as I am here

this just hit the window and scared the straw out of me, I thought it was a bird

I'm so thoroughly annoyed I have to look into grad school again because I had the nerve to get frustrated anonymously on the internet at the wrong pathologically fragile old man. I'm missing cool developments in the world of shrimp

tiny bee has to shove past the huge stiff bracts to get to the actual florets, like those dog bowls with the pegs in them to make the dog eat more slowly

is there a name for this