rebeccathenaturalist
Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist
Master Naturalist, Nature Educator & Writer, Author of "The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants and Fungi Wherever You Go" (Ten Speed Press, Summer 2025); PNW Nature Tour Guide, All-Around Nature Nerd. Reblogs, OC, Weekly Deep Dives Into Natural History Topics - Asks Open! http://www.rebeccalexa.com - http://ko-fi.com/rebeccathenaturalist
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I am pleased to announce that I will be teaching quarterly mini-classes! These will be replacing the quarterly chapbooks I was writing, and they will be available to everyone free of charge, whether live, or as a YouTube video afterward.
If you've been following my social media over the past several months, you're likely familiar with my criticisms of AI foraging guides that have popped up on Amazon in the past year or so. In this free mini-class I'll show you just what's in these questionable sources created with programs like ChatGPT and MidJourney. Just how accurate--or dangerous--is the information in them? How can you tell when a book is written by AI rather than a real, live person? And what's being done to stop the spread of potentially fatal misinformation?
This free mini-class will be held on Sunday, June 16 at 11am PST and last about an hour. The class will be recorded and the recording made available on my YouTube channel afterward for those unable to go to the live class. To attend live, please RSVP at rebeccathenaturalist(at)gmail(dot)com and I'll email you the Zoom link; space is limited and RSVPs help me gauge how many people will be attending live, so the sooner you RSVP the better!
(Reblogs very much appreciated!)
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I think it's cute when he holds the millet in his toes
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It’s Tell a Friend Friday! Please enjoy this picture of a bridge on the Four County Point Trail in Oregon.
Then tell someone you know about my work–you can reblog this post, or send it to someone you think may be interested in my natural history writing, classes, and tours, as well as my upcoming book, The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go. Here’s where I can be found online:
Website - http://www.rebeccalexa.com
Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/rebeccalexanaturalist
Tumblr Profile – http://rebeccathenaturalist.tumblr.com
BlueSky Profile - https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social
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LinkedIn Profile – http://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccalexanaturalist
iNaturalist Profile – https://www.inaturalist.org/people/rebeccalexa
Finally, if you like what I’m doing here, you can give me a tip at http://ko-fi.com/rebeccathenaturalist
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speaking of the scary ocean, in the Salish Sea we have bioluminescence in the summer. It’s not like in movies where the whole sea glows. The microorganisms which cause it only glow when they’re disturbed. On a warm, still night the sea is black until you stick your hand in and shake it around, then it lights up blue.
anyway my friends and I dive at night and it’s really cool to watch someone from above because they look like a celestial being in the water, glowing blue underwater.
what is deeply UNNERVING is when a Very Large creature passes you at some distance, and you know because you see a blue, glowing mass go by and you think well, that’s just not my business.
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Timely: from cursed clocks to wind-up dresses, clock imps to clocks with faces, here’s my collection of vintage timepieces.
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Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870-1966), Water Let in on a Field of Alfalfa, 1902. Oil on paper laid down on board by the artist, image: 15½ x 10 in.; board: 17 x 11¼ in.
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Frigatebirds
By: G. Haist
From: The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands
1972
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It’s Tell a Friend Friday! Please enjoy this picture of a bridge on the Four County Point Trail in Oregon.
Then tell someone you know about my work–you can reblog this post, or send it to someone you think may be interested in my natural history writing, classes, and tours, as well as my upcoming book, The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go. Here’s where I can be found online:
Website - http://www.rebeccalexa.com
Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/rebeccalexanaturalist
Tumblr Profile – http://rebeccathenaturalist.tumblr.com
BlueSky Profile - https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social
Twitter Profile – http://www.twitter.com/rebecca_lexa
Instagram Profile – https://www.instagram.com/rebeccathenaturalist/
LinkedIn Profile – http://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccalexanaturalist
iNaturalist Profile – https://www.inaturalist.org/people/rebeccalexa
Finally, if you like what I’m doing here, you can give me a tip at http://ko-fi.com/rebeccathenaturalist
#PNW#Pacific Northwest#nature#forest#bridge#nature photography#green#naturecore#outdoors#hiking#trees#ecology#naturalist
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I am pleased to announce that I will be teaching quarterly mini-classes! These will be replacing the quarterly chapbooks I was writing, and they will be available to everyone free of charge, whether live, or as a YouTube video afterward.
If you've been following my social media over the past several months, you're likely familiar with my criticisms of AI foraging guides that have popped up on Amazon in the past year or so. In this free mini-class I'll show you just what's in these questionable sources created with programs like ChatGPT and MidJourney. Just how accurate--or dangerous--is the information in them? How can you tell when a book is written by AI rather than a real, live person? And what's being done to stop the spread of potentially fatal misinformation?
This free mini-class will be held on Sunday, June 16 at 11am PST and last about an hour. The class will be recorded and the recording made available on my YouTube channel afterward for those unable to go to the live class. To attend live, please RSVP at rebeccathenaturalist(at)gmail(dot)com and I'll email you the Zoom link; space is limited and RSVPs help me gauge how many people will be attending live, so the sooner you RSVP the better!
(Reblogs very much appreciated!)
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I'm sure this kind of poll has gone around before, but I'm curious...
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(also apologies if i got some of the state abbreviations wrong)
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The Nature Conservancy is leading the Expanding Agroforestry Project to provide training, planning and funds for 12,140 hectares (30,000 acres) of new agroforestry plantings in the U.S.
Goals for the program include enrolling at least 200 farmers, with a minimum of 50 from underserved communities.
Initial applications have surpassed expectations — 213 farmers applied in the first cycle with 93% coming from underserved populations.
The first round of payments is set for distribution in fall 2024.
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refseek.com
www.worldcat.org/
link.springer.com
http://bioline.org.br/
repec.org
science.gov
pdfdrive.com
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the general population’s education of indigenous american cultures is literally painful like people walk around not knowing that native americans domesticated dogs and turkeys, that many communities had farms that stretched for hundreds of miles, that many communities had completely terraformed their territories, that there were native trade systems stretching across the continent, that there were native metalsmiths before european arrival, that most native people were multilingual etc
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"There's no such thing as a fish because you can't define it phylogenetically without also including things that aren't fish"
Man I have bad news for you about lizards. And reptiles in general. And wasps, but I guess that depends on your opinion on wasps. And I don't think you're ready for trees.
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