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Krista Koeller
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*favorite film facts
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Researching why legless lizards don't have feet. (She/her) š·
Interests: convergent evolution, paleontology, ADHD, disability rights, and whatever my hyperfixation is this week.
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Krista Koeller
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*favorite film facts
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Krista Koeller
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Non-snake legless lizards have afaik 0 venom and usually have extremely poor eyesight and have small teeth for cronching bugs, rather than needles for puncturing skin. And they donāt do the creepy jaw dislocation thing.
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Krista Koeller
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Yes! Thatās one of my film facts! The āsnakesā in Raiders of the Lost Ark are mostly lizards from yet another major group! Theyāre called sheltopusiks and theyāre far from dangerous. They eat bugs, eggs, and small animals, but never archaeologists.
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Krista Koeller
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I mean did a person write a prompt for this and then post this result or is there an ai bot on some website just spitting out random stuff?
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Krista Koeller
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To celebrate the anniversary of Vermontās big flood, we got more flooding!
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Krista Koeller
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What caused this to exist? Obviously AI, but what caused the AI to make this?
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Krista Koeller
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Snakes and these guys are both types of lizards! They both had ancestors that were normal lizards with 4 legs but millions of years ago, they ditched em for the tube life. What makes a lizard a lizard is being descended from lizards, not anything to do with body parts or physical appearance.
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Krista Koeller
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That is very fair! Power hammers seem like a lot of fun! Iād need to find one where the hammering happens below my elbow height which is about 10 inches below that point for the average power hammer user. Iāll see if classes with such hammers exist in my area.
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Krista Koeller
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Also confession: when I first learned the Krebs cycle, my first step was looking in the periodic table to find out what NADH and FADH2 were. I got very confused. My prof just sorta skimmed over the basics and the background.
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Jung Choi "I dissent!"
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I came to believe commercial textbooks can tempt novices to become overwhelmed in details (in addition to being costly). So we cooked our own OER that anyone can remix and use for non-commercial purposes. Example single lecture unit: bioprinciples.biosci.gatech.edu/06-oxidative...
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Krista Koeller
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This is great! Thanks for sharing!
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Krista Koeller
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Yessss! Thatās a very important aspect of education that gets overlooked. For bio especially, what students learn is useful for justā¦living.
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Krista Koeller
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Would you still love me if I was a worm lizard? There are over 200 species of these strange, long friends. Most of them use their faces to burrow, are completely limbless, and have rings of scales. They are also extremely lovable! šŖ±š¦š©· šøChirindia swynnertoni by Poitr Naskrecki
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Krista Koeller
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None of that detail stuff is memorable! Memorizing it without an appreciation of how it fits into a larger story about evolution, physiology, ecology or something, is a waste of time. Non-major microbio should be learning how cells make tissues and looking at cheek cells under a microscope.
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Krista Koeller
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Thatās already on my list! Iāve been doing evo bio for like a decade and Iām still mad I had to learn the Krebs cycle. I appreciate it now cause the different ways organisms produce ATP really explain how eukaryotes were able to take off and diversify, but that shouldnāt be in anyoneās intro.
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Krista Koeller
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I was gonna say thatās a frogmouth, not an owl, but itās got too many teeth.
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Krista Koeller
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There are pretty fungus beetles out there! Maybe youāve gotta make a jewelry or nail art line. Idk what you could do about bull ants though.
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Krista Koeller
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What sorts of students do you teach?
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Krista Koeller
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I feel that! Thereās so much to learn and so little time! Iām starting to explore curriculum development cause Iām pretty sure a lack of critical thinking is behind *gestures at all of the problems* Honestly, Iād rather have everyone take a basic philosophy class than even a basic biology class.
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Krista Koeller
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Yeah but grandma also still thinks she can drive still so Iām still gonna mask to protect her.
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Krista Koeller
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Grumble grumble grumble I might have to go into education so I can teach the kids how to think critically.
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Krista Koeller
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These are all perfect, what are you talking about?
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Krista Koeller
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Beautiful!
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Krista Koeller
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Thatās so neat! Theyāre one of my favorite flowers.
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Krista Koeller
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Are you a smith??? Iām considering taking a class and trying out a power hammer. Smithing is just such a neat art+science combo!
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Krista Koeller
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Hamilton is extremely good. I donāt get why people suddenly decided they didnāt like it.
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Krista Koeller
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THANK YOU! As far as I can tell, people donāt like him because heās very confident for someone with a kind of annoying voice. Like are yāall trying to full cancel someone for racism cause the cast of the movie version of his musical isnāt exactly representative of the community itās depicting?
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c0nc0rdance
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If you are stung, grab some cellophane/Scotch tape to remove the residual stingers as quickly as possible, wash with soap and water. Monitor a patient closely for changes in mental status, seek medical care as quickly as possible.
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Krista Koeller
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Two of them are just pork butt puns. The other two are questionable.
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Blue Appaloosa
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Hello #PortfolioDay! I make 3d printed animal skulls, keyrings, magnets, and #SciComm models. I design, print, and finish everything myself. Check out my Etsy or Patreon for more!
Etsy: blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/BlueAppaloosa
#SciArt #PaleoArt #BSNM #ArtShop
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Krista Koeller
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Omg yes please! Who needs a hammer when you have an exosuit fist!
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Krista Koeller
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I ran out of Forged in Fire episodes but thereās still so much to learn about this craft that Iām physically too small to do!
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Krista Koeller
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I wonder what the soil pH is! Thatās gooooorgeous!
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Elizabeth Hargrave
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Board game design (and general) mentorship advice: I know a middle-aged dude assigned to mentor two young women designing games. He thoughtfully asked if I had any advice, wondering about blind spots. I posed his Q to a group of women and I thought they had some really good advice. š§µš š²āļø
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Krista Koeller
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Yeah youāre right.
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Krista Koeller
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Yes! My undergrad advisor studied them and I got to see them irl! There is no cooler frog.
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Krista Koeller
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Looks like a green apple gummy!
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Coach Finstock
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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
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Krista Koeller
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Same! Antisemitism is bad for so many reasons!
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Krista Koeller
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I think they did it to be funny. I donāt know why youād use your car as a joke, but itās like wearing those 80s glasses with the bar across the top. Itās a throwback to what has been universally considered a bad style choice in earnest but is fun when done semi-ironically.
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Krista Koeller
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Right? Also, if they wanna make it girlier, purple is already a secondary Halloween color.
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Denis - The COVID info Guy
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"Y'all Masking?" hashtag goes viral on X, showing maskers they are not alone.
"The "Y'all Masking?" hashtag has gone viral on the platform, and my feed has been filled with selfies of awesome, smart, kind, beautiful people wearing masks"
#YallMaskingš·
boingboing.net/2024/07/08/y...
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Krista Koeller
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Me right now:
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Krista Koeller
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How else did he think his plan was going to go?
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c0nc0rdance
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Greenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrates known, with some likely reaching 500 years old. They don't even reach sexual maturity until age 150. I'll save the secret of their longevity for another time, though. I want to talk about how we KNOW they're a half-millennium old.
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cait
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one of the biggest reasons i fell in love with my husband and why i am still just as much in love is that he has never once made me feel stupid for not knowing something, or not having heard of something, or not having seen a movie or whatever. not once
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Krista Koeller
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Same! My husband is one of the smartest people Iāve ever met and Iāve worked with MDs and PhDs for about a decade now. He made me feel stupid once after he tried teaching me magic the gathering. I told him how I felt and heās never done it again in 11 years. Quite the opposite in fact.
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Rosemary Mosco
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Obsessed with these illustrations from a 1940s book on spoonbills
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Krista Koeller
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Iāve been thinking about this a lot. The scheming and plotting of all the evil 80s, 90s, and 00s republicans resulted in this. Is this really what they wanted?
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Kinsey Brock
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We are seeking equipment donations/loans for our Cool Lizards in the City undergraduate mentored research project!
This is a multi-campus effort across southern CA aimed at understanding how lizard ecophysiology is influenced by urbanization and climate change!
š¦šš§Ŗ rescue-net.org/projects/mul...
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