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Emily

@emgenovia.bsky.social

HS science teacher, disabled, chronic pain, she/her

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's Nobel Prize season again, and i will take literally ANY excuse to tell this story, it's one of my favorites. It's about Nobel medals, and foiling the Nazis with science!

Adrienne@adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 2y ago

Okay, here's the story of George de Hevesy vs the Nazis! I really do love telling this story. First, some background: George de Hevesy was a Hungarian-Jewish chemist, but he spent most of his career post-1920 attached to the Niels Bohr institute at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark. (1/n)

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just emailed 26,000 people about snail facts advent calendars. This better result in 500 snail sales. Snales. Wait that just sounds like snails. Is that a good omen?? Get a calendar here: SquidFacts.net

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · last mo.

He fell asleep in my arms with his tongue out, purring

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · last mo.

Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜

Young Ruby Bridges, photo in black and white

Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

Rachel Leggett@rleggos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When y'all see the shot I think I just got, you'd best believe it's not AI

Me squatting in the rain holding my camera and there is a rainbow in the background

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷@crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What....have I done?😭 I just went out the back door to feed the birds... That's ALL I MEANT TO DO Poor, sweet oh-so-skinny kitten was trying to eat BIRD SEED WHAT have I done? But they came right TO ME😭 Who left this kit to die?🤬 Do I extend my Go Fund Me or just start a new one🤣😭🤣

Photo of a very tiny black kitten sitting on a patterned rug.

Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦@secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m still processing this 2 days later. I was sitting in a kayak when this baby beluga decided to play with me. Other whales joined in and you can see what happened next. What isn’t on camera is that one then started pushing me around the river for five-ish minutes. It was an unforgettable moment.

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

Emily @emgenovia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy Landiversary Curiosity!!

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CURIOSITY HAS BEEN ON MARS FOR 14 YEARS!! HAPPY LANDIVERSARY CURIOSITY!!

Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I no longer had twenty-seven frogs. Instead, twenty-seven frogs had a resort room.

Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What I look like when I’m psyching myself up to make a phone call.

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Feathered phenom 🐦 Kagus suddenly splay their head crests and wings to make themselves look larger, scaring away predators and defending their territory. Known as the "Ghost of the Forest" for their pale plumage and eerie calls, these flightless birds are actually quite gentle and docile.

Emily @emgenovia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Omg it's Kilroy!

Ainsley S@americanbeetles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

beloved intern/volunteer Fiona described zygopines as having "large pathetic eyes that look as if they should begin welling with tears" and she was right to do so

one of the various tragic zygopines of bugguide, this one an allegedly undescribed species of Cylindrocopturus. Its huge sad clown eyes are accentuated by its white body color.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I was so busy yesterday I missed the commemoration of the greatest battle this country has ever seen. Honor to the soldiers who fought in it 🫡

TW@twesq.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On this day 3 years ago a man sent up a call for aid and his neighbors answered, giving us the greatest video of the decade. Happy Chairteenth to all who celebrate.

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 2mo ago

volume up for Noise

Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s #WorldEmbroideryDay ! I make #SciArt #embroidery of #anatomy and #symptomatology. After I got sick with #MECFS in 2015 I started stitching as a more restorative creative practice than my previous music and theatre work.

she breathed (2018). An embroidery on a pale natural linen. There is a bone white diagram of a vocal apparatus, trachea, and bronchi/lungs. In between the branches of the bronchioles are small words embroidered in cursive in thin burgundy thread. They read: she breathed. Inhaled. exhaled. she knew. that breathing. was beauty. was the way. inside. to outside. when her breath. tightened. she found. ways. to soften. be still. to allow that. in. of the out. breath. to be. the. way through. she found the throughline. somehow. it. also found her. still. and breathing. deeply. each day was. new. each breath. a. different. path. always. through her. and. throughout her. such a. simple. thing, breath. such a journey. through. trees. and. branches. how the body knows. to still. itself. if we learn how. to. listen deeply.

summer mitosis sampler (2024). Two reproductive cells dividing embroidered on off-white linen. The edges of the dividing egg cells and the nucleus membranes are in bright acid green split stitch. A circle of dark green stem stitch is started for the cell membrane. The corona radiata is in sage green zig zag chain stitch. The nucleolus of each cell is in sage green bullion stitch. The polar bodies are stitched in purple single strand back stitch. The cytoplasm is in variegated dark to bright green thread in a mix of seed stitch and French knots. Lia’s initials are stitched in off white whipped back stitch on the lower right.

deep dilation (2025). A pelvis with lumbar vertebrae is stitched in thick backstitch in a white just slightly bluer than the white linen. Part of the iliac vein is outlined in grey-green stem stitch. A section on the left branch is outlined in darker grey-green split stitch with a honeycomb filling stitch stent on it. Intricate turbulence is stitched in single strand dark aquamarine backstitch within the iliac vein. Three blocks of text are stitched in dark grey. They read: Branches of the internal. A single trunk. A stem which opens. Deep. Deep. Deep. Dilated. A tributary. A portal. Lia’s initials stitched in white thread on the bottom left.

Paresthesia (tongue 2) 2018. An embroidery on black linen. There is the outline of an open mouth with the tongue sticking out. The lips are outlined in dark pink, the tongue in paler pink, & the teeth in bone white. There are sections outlined on the tongue in thick blue lines. The tip & sides of the tongue are covered in tiny red, orange & white dots. In the center there is an hourglass shape of tiny pink dots. There are taut lines of thin dark blue thread stretched from the tip of the tongue to the sides, from the sides of the tongue to the lips & palate, & from the palate to the tip of the tongue.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My daughter has just sent me this lovely photo where you get an even better view of the puffin.

A man (me) in a blue coat and grey woolen hat, seen from behind. A puffin is sitting on his head, looking straight at the camera. In the background a grassy slope, then grey sea and sky.

@81wiggy101.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Work starts tomorrow and my classroom could use a little help with supplies and snacks. Anything would be greatly appreciated. Please share for more exposure. 🍎3rd Grade Math/Science ⏰️22 years 🏩Title I Schools 🌎 Florida #clearthelist2026 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Emily @emgenovia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

May as well attach my classroom wishlist to this post! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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The Onion@theonion.com · 2mo ago

Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary https://theonion.com/teacher-required-to-provide-own-salary/

Moth Mouth @placecalledbliss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey I'm Lenny! I'm a goth guy who makes jewelry and loves painting cats! We huge bill hit us unexpectedly so I'm going some more abstract pet portraits for a little cheaper, dm me if you're interested! (These are my 2 babies)

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2mo ago

Got 3 hours of meetings I gotta pay attention too, please enjoy this duckling while I'm away. Don't let the bad and frustrating news get in your way of believing and when possible, fighting for, a better world! 🪶 🐣

Emily @emgenovia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This thread of multipurpose utensils is fascinating!

Spock Says Fascinating

Alt: Leonard Nimoy's Spock looking sincere as he says Fascinating

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c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm down a rabbit hole on combination utensils. There's my beloved SPORK, but then we get into the much more exotic combos: This one's called a FORKCHOP, designed by Donald BonAsia in Los Angeles, available now through a variety of online retailers.

From the e-commerce site named after the river basin it's destroying, a red plastic device with chopsticks joined in the middle to a fork head pointing the other way.

Eschire Cat-tle, MSc @escherbug.art · 3mo ago

She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.

Lt the black cat wearing a champagne colored ribbon ruff and a suspicious expression.

Emily @emgenovia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is my last week of summer break. Please help support my students if you can--donate or share! The light covers for the fluorescents in the classroom would make a huge difference for us! Followed by the class set of calculators. Thank you! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · last yr.

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

punkitt ‼️🧣@punkitt.bsky.social · last yr.

mucho texto i know but i wanted to write a lil thing about how u can treat yourself nice!!

art of a wolf girl eating broccoli and brushing her teeth. the dialogue says:
I've been an adult living on my own for a coupleyears now and since I have ADHD and bouts of Sick Brain Disease I can fall into a rut easilyESPECIALLY when it comesto taking care of myselfbut the awesome thing about being an adult is that no one is watching over your shoulder making
sure you're perfect i used to give myself shit that i wouldn't be able to eat healthier or take care of myself in an optimal way here's a cool trick tho: ANYTHINGis is better than nothing. if you can only eat a couple vegetables? buddy thats better than no vegetables. worried about brushing your teeth for like three minutes? do like ten seconds instead want to socialize more often but you're worried you can't do multi-hour events? babe you're an adult now, if you get tired you can just leave lol If you want to improve, fuck yeah, work your way up to more of whatever. starting at all is the hard part - if you can do that then you've got a lot of what you need already anyway ive crunched the numbers and treating yourself a little bit better than yesterday is actually a million times better than trying to Fix Your Life Completely and getting mad when you can't do a 180. be nice and recognize that you can live a lot of your life in first or second drafts; if you're not perfect yet? fuck it, you'll get better later! u can do it!!! woof!!

Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E.@mauratwit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Gave him a fresh basketball to kill. Took 30 seconds for him to maul it to death. Hasn’t put it on his head yet though

Little black dog with white on his chest sitting triumphant over a deflated basketball. Behind him is another basketball carcass

Same little black dog panting and very pleased

Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E.@mauratwit.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’ve finally captured it. My meathead of a dog purposefully pops basketballs immediately and then puts them on his head and runs around like a basketball head.

Black dog in a garden, head behind a basketball

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4mo ago

Bonus whittle wings 🥰🥰

A duckling sitting up and flapping their wings next to their moms butt

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Swallowtail butterflies for you 🦋 💚

A blue and black swallowtail butterfly on pink Joe pye weed with green foliage in the background

A yellow, blue and black swallowtail butterfly on pink Joe pye weed with green foliage in the background

An orange, blue and black swallowtail butterfly on pink Joe pye weed with green foliage in the background

A yellow and black swallowtail butterfly on pink Joe pye weed with green foliage in the background

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 3mo ago

WHAT HATH THIS DAY DESERVED?!!? WHAT HATH IT DONE, THAT IT IN GOLDEN LETTERS SHOULD BE SET AMONG THE SO LISTEN FIASCO JUST TRIED TO HOP UP ON MY DESK FIRST OF ALL HE *MISSED* HE HIT THE SPOON IN MY BOWL AND SENT APPLESAUCE CATAPULTING ACROSS MY FACE ALSO THE ROOM MAYBE THE UNIVERSE????????

Chris P. Bacon 🇭🇹🥃@jokesfordays.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

Tomorrow is my last Friday of summer vacation, & the depression is real 😭😭. Please take a look & support my classroom if you can. Been blow away by the love & support so far. Keep it rolling! #EduSky #TeacherSky #Clearthelist #clearthelist26 #GA #BetterTogether #AdoptATeacher

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Chris P. Bacon 🇭🇹🥃@jokesfordays.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

Really can’t believe I’m back in the building on Monday 😭. I still need some help getting my classroom ready. Help a teacher get what they need for a successful school year. Thank you to those that have contributed. Will you? #EduSky #Teachersky #clearthelist www.amazon.com/registries/g...