Who is a scientist you wish you learned about in school?

I'm coming up with a list of people to include and reference in my lessons as a science teacher!

In particular I am interested in diversifying the people I talk about especially marginalized genders and people of color in STEM!

Here is the spreadsheet of all the suggestions! I am still working on updating and adding more info. It will take me a while to do an in depth research dive on each person!

Do you have a scientist you wish you learned about in school? Submit scientists here:

https://forms.gle/wpYwK36m1Tvjc64D6

After several weeks of painstaking work, my weevil costume is done!!! I made it for a parade where our uni’s entomology club participated in, which was a lot of fun! The colors are based on Eupholus magnificus.

The build is made put of cardboard and masking tape. I covered the top stripe, eyes, and underside of the head with mesh, so visibility and breathability is pretty fantastic. The antennae are adjustable too! The head is attached to the thorax with a velcro strip.

The extra arms are attached with fishing line and velcro to the top gloves. Definitely a challenge to figure out, one of the arms unfortunately snapped off during parading :(

Overall, I’m incredibly pleased with how the costume turned out, it’s been a while since having a cool project to work on!

I’ve been having fun sculpting creatures from medieval manuscripts

Kea in New Zealand, 2018

This photo shows a Kea (N. notabilis) the world’s only alpine parrot, soaring above Mt. Luxmore in the Fiordlands of New Zealand.

Photographer: Phil Narodick

"This has to be edited." I say, looking up the animal

"The cream-colored woodpecker (Celeus flavus) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay" From Wikipedia

There's also it's close cousin, the Chestnut-Colored Woodpecker for your Phoenix needs:

What the sneef? I'm snorfin' here!

Megan Whalen Turner

I wanted to share a video of one of my thinstripe hermits changing shells :3

Everybody give it up for columnar jointing

Woo! Yeah! Woohoo! Yippee! Hell yeah! Woo!

Much as I adore hippos, this is undeniably just. (via @persian-slipper)

Relatable

excuse me?????

i learned that fossilization is so unlikely that scientists estimate that less one-tenth of 1% of all the animal species that have ever lived have become fossils (x)

For anyone who needs a reminder on how absurdly powerful gun lobbyists are in the politics of the United States, you should know that the only reason that Florida’s state bird is not the Florida Scrub Jay (the only endemic bird species in the state), is because a single dumb fucking NRA lobbyist hates them and thinks they’re “frumpy”

Like are you fucking kidding me with this

It's beautiful wtf

I believe that photo is actually a California scrub jay but the Florida scrub jay is indeed beautiful

One of the nicest looking birds in the country if you ask me

forgot to post these magpies i doodled yesterday .

days 6-10 of my lent fish drawings!

Butterflies of America. 1900. 

This must be one of those “cottonmouths that chase people down” from all the stories. Im betting most of them were just ones coiled and doing threat displays while floating away.

✨there she goes✨

I just found out horsehead grasshoppers exist and Hahaha!! Haha? Omfg, hahaha! Okay, well, maybe put it back.