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Jason Jong

@plesiomorphy.bsky.social

📍Somerville, MA, Ward 7 bikes and bugs and snakes and salamanders and also a rescue pibble Wildlife photography | traditional art | environmental field audio https://soundcloud.com/jasonjong

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Tess Gallagher@tessasaurus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excited to announce that my second manuscript, “Fossilised Melanosomes Reveal Colour Patterning in A Sauropod Dinosaur” has been published in @royalsociety.org !! Diplodocus scales are complex and diverse, and it turns out their color patterning was even more so. A 🧵🦕 1/26

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Jason Jong@plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I liked the world better when doing my hobbies was something to pursue just for the joy of it, instead of it being a brief period of escapism from the horrors of reality. Portrait of a refugee Charcoal on gouache-primed paper, 2.5 hour sitting from life

Monochrome portrait of a young woman in profile with shoulder-length hair. She is a refugee from Russia who fled at the start of the war.
Tapani Hopkins@tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 11mo ago

* Admitted, everyone always goes "canopy specialist?" whenever a forest species is rarely caught. - Laticoleus are really rare? Canopy specialists. - Only one Epirhyssa johanna ever caught? Could they be ⭐Canopy Specialists⭐? - Didn't see any elephants 🐘 today? Perhaps they're in the canopy?

Jer Thorp@jerthorp.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This is Costasiella kuroshimae, the sea sheep. It's not a nudibranch, it's a sacoglossan, another mollusc clade. The green color is a tip-off: sacoglossans are herbivorous where nudis are carnivores. Like nudibranchs they can eat things and then repurpose cells from them, in this case chloroplasts

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Jason Jong@plesiomorphy.bsky.social · last yr.

Leaf cutter ants are so abundant in the tropics that it doesn't seem rare to find queens. But it's still jarring to see an ant the size of a ping pong ball. For scale comparison, the ant on the left side (probably a species of Monomorium) is what you'd call a normal sized ant. #invertebrates

A very large reddish-brown leaf cutter ant queen on a leaf. She has a big head, robust mandibles, a large pair of wings, and very large body segments filled with energy reserves for flying and laying eggs for a new colony. A small worker ant from an unrelated species happens to be next to her on the leaf, it looks puny by comparison.
Jason Jong@plesiomorphy.bsky.social · last yr.

Just like a car, you can use a bike to transport a boat. Unlike a car, you can strap the bike to the boat so you can float downstream as far as you want without having to backtrack.

A bicycle with a rolled up packraft strapped to the rear rackView from the packraft on a river during a sunny day. The bicycle is strapped to the bow of the raft with ski strapsThe packraft with bike attached pulled onto the shore of the river. The sun is getting low and the foliage above the river looks like it’s glowing
Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2y ago

I want to make a personal request to those of you who use a bike for transportation purposes to start taking more photos and posting them. You can do so much by showing even the most mundane errands with a bike to educate and inspire others. They're often more effective than words. 📸

Bronwen Scott@snailseyeview.bsky.social · last yr.

We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole. In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9) Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

Small, perky snail with head poking out between its two shells. The snail has a pair of long, tubular tentacles. The shells are like clam shells, except they are vivid green. The hinge is at the top. Julia exquisita: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/166680082In this photo, the snail is lying on its side with the hinge of the two shells pointing towards the camera. The shell and snail are both very bright green. The snail has white blotches on its back. Julia exquisita: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/263219540