do you ever just submit something thinking “fuck it, I don’t care anymore” but then 5-seconds later you realize you actually care very very much and are seized by a gripping anxiety.
Staffer Ann supplies scrumptious sharky snacks to our sevengills for supper and for science!
Our largest sharks at the Aquarium are only temporary visitors here—by diving in and feeding each shark individually, we can keep track of their diet to monitor their health, and also learn more about their life histories before they return to the wild!
It takes a lot of TLC to care for these LTCs: Large Toothy Critters! Fortunately, Aquarist Ann is the best shark mom around 🦈❤️
Dive in with Ann and her buddy Kelsey as they hop into our sharkiest exhibit to feed a few of our residents!
Resurfacing this fintastic awws not jaws moment for Shark Week 😍
imagine being the guy who discovered microorganisms trying to explain to people that you promise there are millions of little secret guys on everything
“Some of the ciliates we find in the microcosmos have a sort of stoutness to them, like the declarative trumpet shape of the stentor or the oblong of the paramecium. But then you have this little weird fellow, which looks more like a twisty, slithering worm than a unicellular organism. This is a trachelocercid, and no, I do not know if I am pronouncing that entirely correctly. It’s a member of a class of ciliates called the Karyorelictea.”
What a great day to remember that the trans women, trans men, and the lovely nonbinary individuals that I follow (and all who follow me) are important people who deserve to have a free and valued place in our society. Thank you, and may I always remember to do what I can to lift our community up.
