Eurasian Otter (Lutra Lutra) near Inverness, Scotland. This beauty had been snoozing off a good fishy meal and its fur was bone dry - not often you see a floofy Otter 😊🦦 #OttersOfMastodon #Otter #Inverness #scottishwildlife #wildlifephotograhy
Some colors just make my heart happy. This gown is dates from 1840-1850, potentially of German origin. If you like layer cake gowns with staying power, this is ideal.
Miles of rose pink taffeta silk, Chinese style embroidery, and those mirrored V shapes at the bodice top and bottom just make this perfect for a princess (or a princess at heart). The embroidery at the bottom of the bodice just kills me it's so beautiful & delicate.
Dies ist ein Versuch, einen rennenden Rothirsch wie einen Rennwagen zu fotografieren: mit der Kamera mitgehen, so daß der Hirsch scharf, der Hintergrund verwaschen wird. Dies ist bei einem Hirsch etwas schwieriger als bei einem Auto, da der Hirsch sich beim Rennen nicht nur vorwärts bewegt (was man mit der richtigen Kamerabewegung kompensieren kann), sondern auch von oben nach unten (und umgekehrt).
Hier ist es aber einigermaßen gelungen 😅
Imagine you're a visually impaired Mastodon user and your screen reader encounters a post that says something like "A stunning view I saw this morning" or "This is hilarious." But the image is the equivalent of what you see below: a blank. Wouldn't it be frustrating to encounter post after post like that?
Describe images. It's an act of love. Describe them as you would to a dear friend you were talking to on the phone.
Gracie is so damned pleased with herself each time she follows me down the stairs by walking along the banister. Admittedly Josie before used to be the exact same as though she had discovered a magical new way to traverse the house.
#DescribeThatMicrobe an out of this world looking contaminant on an old TSA plate in the fridge. #microbiology #scicomm #Science
The beach near Mission Point Lighthouse on Old Mission Peninsula, Michigan, US (November 2020)
A misty river on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
#nature #photography #landscape #fog #moss #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Photomonday
I believe these are layers of #sandstone but I have no idea what the bobbly things are #geology #NorthumberlandCoast #NorthEastEngland #WhitleyBay
A new find today, the thick fungi on the top are hoof fungus, the lower brackets, I'm not sure!
#fungi #Sporespondence
My #PhotoMonday contribution are these little flowers in the front yard/garden that persist in sprouting up and blooming regardless of how many times they are mown over. Inspirational little ones. #Garden #Nature
A time line cleanse, or just a little positive distraction, is here for you!
On behalf of Arwen and myself, we hope you'll have a fabulous start of this new week... It's almost December already!
The many faces of Pumpkin. Again. I'm sorry but she's just too cute.
#MiniatureDachshund #MiniDaxie #LittleOne #puppy #Pumpkin #SoManyLooks #TongueOut #EarsUp #CreamMiniatureDachshund #DogsOfMastodon
3,013 neurons, half a million synapses: the complete #connectome of the whole #Drosophila larval brain!
Winding, Pedigo et al. 2022. "The connectome of an insect brain" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.28.516756v1
We’ve mapped and analysed its circuit architecture, from sensory neurons to brain output neurons, as reconstructed from volume electron microscopy, and here is what we found. 1/
The #fediverse is my happy place. I post and boost #science, #animals, #photography, #poetry and #art. I may add a little about politics and the real world, but I want to keep my happy place happy and will use #ContentWarnings if possible. I’m one of many #WomenInSTEM who love #myco and #astronomy and #coding and #philosophy and #comics and #books and #MetalMusic I #bike, play #bassguitar, and care for my #dogsandcatsofmastodon models when not working. Ich lese Deutsch. Schreiben ist schwieriger. Manchmal werde ich es versuchen.