🧬 Scientist / Cave Biologist (MS)
🐶 Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA)
🌈 Trying to create an inclusive world 🍉
Profile: dark backlit cave image with a waterfall on the right, outline shadow on the left, holding a progress pride flag
Cover: rappelling into a vertical cave system
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Enjoy another bat release slomo video! :D
It has been a fun week of field work. I really enjoy spending time in nature with other nature geeks as we all work to protect this planet 
(Handled under permit for a conservation study, never play with wildlife without proper training and permits!)
headlines I want to read:
* president apologizes and resigns after being caught lying
* last prison closes forever
* 10th consecutive year without wars
* remember fossil fuels? visit the new capitalism history museum
* the great green wall, worlds largest and only wall, finished building
* Amazon cuts one CEO job to save billions
* a rise in empathy and critical thinking leads to 100.000% less AI use
* Fediverse continues to be the largest social media network while not a single server has more than 1000 monthly active users
* the weather is just as it should be this time of year
There are a lot of calls to donate to NPR and PBS, and rightfully so. But your local community run radio stations were already in peril, and they’ve just lost funding too. Definitely a smaller dollar amount, but likely a bigger part of their annual budget. NPR/PBS will get a lot of attention, and folks with deeper pockets will likely be moved to donate…
So if you live in one of the few places in the US that still has independent community radio, please consider helping them out with some mutual aid if you’re able. If not with cash money, consider committing to volunteer hours with whatever your professional skillset is. They do so much with so little already.
Driving in Huntsville this week and the rain broke for a second. Blue sky and sun showed up, and as if on cue, a rainbow appeared over the Saturn V rocket. This rocket put us on the Moon!
The SLS is the new rocket for taking us to the Moon, and Mars, and beyond. It is designed for long space flights. This is what the government wants to cancel. The SLS is flying, it's first launch went perfectly. No explosions in the sky. Just a boring nominal launch. This is because of the dedication and safety focus of NASA and the hard working individuals to ensure the culture of safety is promoted, hard lessons remembered, and protocols adhered to.
I have hope we will soar again. The sky agrees with me.
(Please keep telling your reps and congressfolk to fund NASA, and to keep the SLS! Canceling it now when it's tested, ready, and flying is what would be a huge waste.)
#NASA #space #flight #engineering #science #technology #rainbow #nature #Rocket #RocketCity #Alabama
Looking for easy (1-5 mile, high end only if less elevation change, my dog is old now) hike recommendations for any "New England" State (NY, VT, NH, MA, Connecticut, NJ, DE, RI, Maryland...)
Also, which parks have nice quiet campgrounds with hot showers?
Any nice dry van camp spots (thinking nice pulloffs in national forests and whatnot).
Feel free to DM me if you don't want to put your favs on blast : )
#dog #DogsOfMastodon #hiking #NewEngland #roadTrip #nature #travel #hike #camping
She woke up! But she cannot dig for a while, and she says that is the pits.
We went on a hike today, got muddy, had fun.
(CW the following: dog medical health)
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This sweet thing has surgery coming up that is necessary for life, but scary due to some other medical issues, which mean she may not wake up.
She'd better fucking wake up.
I'm not crying, you're crying.
Fireworks? No
Fireflies? YES!
#fireflies #lightningBugs #beetles #coleoptera #nature #science #art #photography #longexposure
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Lisa 🦔