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Thanks! I asked because the fruit looks like a cute lil chili pepper but nope. 🤔 Beautiful!
I’m curious, do you know what fruit/flower is depicted in this stunning mosaic?
Not yet!! But I remain hopeful! It’s in its second spring so we’ll see 🌼
Yellow flower of a gum plant (in the sunflower family) with two native bees in the center. The bees have tiny hairs making them look fuzzy, and are covered in pollen.
Purple clusters of flowers of a Santa Cruz Island blue dicks, with a native fly dining on nectar. The fly is black with yellow stripes making it look almost like a wasp.
Image of Santa Cruz Island blue dicks plant in a planter box with a purple flower head at the top. A monarch butterfly is sipping nectar on the left side and a honey bee approaches from the right. An old 5 gallon bucket is in the background, beautiful!
Here’s some native bee/fly pics being supported by native plants: Santa Cruz Island blue dicks (Dipterostemon capitatus) flower supporting an endangered monarch and honeybee at the same time, a native fly (hence the Diptero!), and native bees on a gum plant.
A great way to support native bees and pollinators is by planting native plants. No yard? Try pots/planters! Even California natives (which can be picky about water) can work well!! I’m particularly fond of native geophytes paired with native succulents or other perennial for year-round color. 🌼
Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?
Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.
The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.
The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.
“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”
A sphinx moth came to slurp at a desert lily as we were watching the sunset over the Anza Borrego badlands.
In early college I would just eat off a tub (like 3 lbs) of red vines for a week or so. The texture as they “aged” just got better. So gross and so good 😂
Me too! I love that it’s an early one, hinting at the extent of blooms to come soon after.
So is the Carrizo Plain 🌼 #superbloom
For those familiar w/ "ARkStorm/ARk2.0" flood scenarios for California, a comparable event has been unfolding on the Iberian Peninsula. These ridiculous rainfall accumulations, caused by a long series of extremely moist atmospheric rivers, have brought widespread severe flooding to Spain & Portugal.
Oh my, Weiss here opening her ugly mouth again. Kudos to UCLA and San Manuel ✨
Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.
The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
My idea for reforming ICE is somewhere in the Carthago delenda est realm.
Yep, as a kid we went across often as a family just for day trips to Tijuana from San Diego.
Love it. My favorite is Salsipuedes in Santa Barbara, aka “leave if you can”. So much history!
Yes! (😂 Manteca)
Lots of Spanish names and Indigenous ones too, like Malibu, Topanga, Jalama, Pismo.
Lol. I had a copy editor insist that the publisher’s guidelines for an academic volume stipulated all words must be in English. They wanted me to “translate” dozens of place names in Southern California 😂🥴🫠.
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A lot of disabled kids who require 1:1 aides won’t get educated online, but may not be safe to go to school.
Map from NOAA Climate at a Glance depicting the relative rank of Nov-Dec 2025 temperatures on a county-by-county basis. Most Western U.S. counties experienced their warmest Nov-Dec on record, as depicted by all locations dark red in color on the map.
Well, it's now official (per NOAA): Dec (and Nov-Dec) 2025 were the warmest such periods on record for Western U.S. (and also for most individual Western states). It has been an extraordinarily sustained period of winter warmth, and this eerily balmy winter continues into Jan.
I learned so much about platypuses w/this episode. I look for ways to be optimistic about the future & seeing @ologies.bsky.social at the top of science podcasts helps. Thoughtful & fun interviews w/scientists from all backgrounds, often mentions Indigenous ppl, dispels misinformation, I 💜 Ologies.
*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.
🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
Image of Morro rock in the background, boats and otters in Morro Bay harbor in the foreground.
We’ve been loving the sunny heat wave on the coast 😆
Map showing current temperatures in California (from PivotalWeather.com). It depicts balmy and even record warmth in the mountains and hills, as well as SoCal, with temperatures into the 70s and 80s in these areas, but very chilly temperatures in the Central Valley remaining in the low 40s under a dense fog layer.
Central California is currently experiencing one of the most remarkable temperature inversions I've ever seen in this part of the world. The Central Valley remains miserably damp & chilly under dense fog layer, but it's balmily warm & sunny just 2,000ft up nearby mountain slopes!
