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Dr Michelle LaRue

@drmichellelarue.bsky.social

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Antarctic wildlife ecologist, Rutherford Discovery Fellow, Assoc Prof UCNZ, speaker, children’s book author. Love dogs, coffee, and outside. drmichellelarue.com

I run Penguin Research, donations: www.alumni.canterbury.ac.nz/penguins-nz

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The shark doctor is in! Ask me anything. Have questions about sharks? Marine biology? Ocean conservation? Me? Anything at all? Ask me anything! Ask away, my flight is in two hours and I’m bored. Tag friends who might have questions, and please share! 🧪🦑🌎

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The haunting howls of wolves fell mostly silent across America's West by the 1930s.

Their loss to the region has been largely overlooked by humans, even in our scientific research, a new review finds, but the impact of their absence is written loudly in missing trees... #AmWriting #wildlife 🧪🌎

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They're a boy band called Krill Krew and this is a still from the music video for their ballad "Galapagos Girl"

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This #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD deserves a caption contest, exception channelling Drew Carey, "...where everything's made up and the points don't matter" so in other words you're not winning anything if you win the contest. other than bragging rights.
🧪🌍🦑🦉

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Seriously, you can’t tell me that braided rivers are not the coolest things! Tasman River, New Zealand.

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"Geologists digging into the massive ice sheet of West Antarctica have discovered the remains of an ancient river system that once flowed for nearly a thousand miles."
🧪🌍
www.space.com/giant-river-...

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Furthermore how long do they think they can stay? You need visas, reasons to be there, justification/employment, and/or proof of return tickets for many places if you want to be there beyond the length of a tourist visa.

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A timeline cleanse that's not a penguin, my internal monologue when I look at this picture of a humpback whale says, "HALLLOOO" in a British accent Now it does for you, too, hahahahahaha 🦑🦊

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Missing the joy in playing make believe with a kid? what on earth

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I found my sunglasses in my coat pocket and that's the only good thing I can say about today

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Dr Michelle LaRue's avatar Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social
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I definitely have told penguin chicks, "I'm so proud of you!"

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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.

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You know how sometimes in war there’s the one side who has rules and thinks they know how war is fought but then they’re shocked, SHOCKED, when the other side runs out of the bushes and like, stabs their horses and shit? And that side wins? Yeah I think about that phenomenon a lot these days.

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Today's #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is of an Adélie penguin parent fresh out of the ocean being mobbed by its STARVING* chicks

*while the chicks might think so, clearly they are not starving, they actually look quite well-fed, or at least very fluffy, and undoubtedly very obnoxious
🧪🌍🦑🦉

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The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is of emperor penguins (can you tell I have literally thousands of pictures of them?), which can be about the size of a small Labrador retriever (in weight)
🌎🧪🦑🦉

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The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD today is of some Adélie penguins! One of two “true” Antarctic penguins, these birds live on ice free land that just-so perfectly contains pebbles for nests. Which they steal from each other.
🌎🧪🦑🦉

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I'm so excited, I found an app that uses the Māori sky map and I found Matariki! This way I can watch it rise even if it's cloudy (the app is Stellarium, free version). Mānawatia a Matariki — Happy Māori New Year!

About: natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/m...

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Mānawatia a Matariki – meaning to honour, acknowledge, and welcome in Matariki.

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Glad to report that @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social & I won a 2024 Indigenous Media Award for Best Coverage of Indigenous Communities-Podcasts🥈🎤 🌎

For this @mongabay.bsky.social Newscast ep w/ Kiliii Yuyan, an
Indigenous photographer for National Geographic

Listen here or wherever you get podcasts:

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Today's #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is of some little blue penguins (in te reo, kororā) which are undeniably the CUTEST because they are... well I guess they are also aptly named because they are the littlest penguin species. Size of a bag of sugar. And although they are small, they are TOUGH.
🧪🌍🦑🦉

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yes that's my understanding but very glad to avoid that possibility altogether

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Danielle Rivet, PhD 🐻🐻‍❄️'s avatar Danielle Rivet, PhD 🐻🐻‍❄️ @grizzlygirl87.bsky.social
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Are you ready for a super tricky #KnockKnockWhosBear? Hope your bear species ID skills are sharp!

Today's photo comes from @RyderDAR on Twitter. Take a look, & let me know what bear species you think this cute little kid is & why. I'll post a clue in 1 hr, & reveal/explain in 3 hr.

Go!

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And your #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is a particularly clean chinstrap penguin at Barrientos Island, striking a post for the camera like it's not completely out of breath from swimming probably dozens of km back home. Effortless beauty, amiright.

🧪🌍🦑🦉

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It's a BAY-BEH! Black-browed albatross that is. What I learned taking this picture is that when learning how to use manual focus it helps to have a subject that sits perfectly still while I fiddle. Lots of swearing, quietly so as to not disturb the little one, was involved. 🧪🌍🦑🦉

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Being dive bombed by them is never a dull experience

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