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Altho his poem about looking at a statue of some guy on a horse (that turned into musings about mortality) got tangled up in my head with the cub-reporter Pratchett story about the statues getting worried when a little old lady failed to show up to the park (because she had died).

My cat found a snake *inside the house*. 🤷‍♀️ (I released it, slightly injured, which is better than it starving to death in the basement. But still.)

Yep, I did miss that. What the heck.

So this is was pre-Discworld, but it's already got that flavor. In the first story, yes, the witch rides a vacuum cleaner. & there's sheep rustlin' in the Wild West (aka Wales). & a wizard in the town of Blackbury. This is a fun little collection! & the narrator was great.

The cover is *fantastic*. & the POV character keeps going "I'd paint that in washes of ochre" or whatever, but there's no art in the book itself. 🫤 & there's so. much. more. I really hope you like it!

(I had to specify that it was signed - Otherwise my husband, who works at an indie bookstore, would have ordered one for me.) (It's very dangerous to have such easy - & discounted - access to books.) (Also, I'm ignoring the discourse.)

There's so. much. more. I really hope you like it!

It's *fantastic* & you should read it! (The gross bits were with one of the other pictures. It's a seriously lovely book.)

If you're an entomologist or if you work with water color, this book is for you! If you like sensible female leads dealing with weirdness, try this. (There is a tragic romance but it happened to someone else.) I heart Kingfisher's books & I hope you like them too.

Ug, I messed up the thread. 🙄 Anyways, there's mysteries & secrets & dark doings. I don't think I've read a story set in that particular time period before, so that was neat. If you like Kingfisher's creepy horror, this is absolutely your book. If you're a natural history nerd, try this book!

So if the idea of fly larvae inside of living things (the wolf worm of the title) freaks you out, this creepy horror book will be extra horrifying. 😬 Throw in the racial attitudes of the post-Reconstruction South (which were Not Good) & some religious fervor, & that's the background society.

I'm gonna tell you upfront: I'm the target audience for this book. 1) It's full of cool biology - So much info on bot flies! The larvae grow inside of the hosts like a huge disgusting pimple! 2) Our point-of-view character is a very practical woman. She just keeps being curious...

Here's the HHMI Biointeractive video. There's a lot more info available. I'm going to have fun bird-nerding out. 😆

Mapping Migrations: The Bird Genoscape Project | HHMI BioInteractive VideoYouTube video by biointeractiveyoutu.be

O, also the bird feed, I guess. This is why I found out that the Yellow Warbler has been split, & that the AOU has been lumped. 😆 (& that a "shared names" group took over the AOU name. 🙄) The genoscape video is neat work. I wonder if it overlaps with the feather isotope studies. 🦉

It might be worth it to hire a teacher for the summer to turn your research into lesson plans. You might even get some new teaching material - My assigned professor stole one of the lesson plans I made for her undergrad class. (She asked, actually, even tho it was open source. She's great.)

I know the funding situation is a nightmare right now. Is "broader impact" still a thing? Because those 10 questions I made are now posted to an international audience. & when I did a BIORETS program a few years back, I posted 3 lesson plans (with scientist bios) to an open-source hub.

JK, I'm going to use this activity in environmental science. 😆 But I was the only one who made something new, rather than modified an existing HHMI resource. & most of us didn't have previous careers to draw experiences from. Which brings me back to my scientist peeps.

I pulled in my previous experiences as a field biology tech (yay, bird banding!). The whole point of my slides/ questions was to get the kids to consider the strengths & weaknesses of different data collection techniques. If they can do critical thinking in biology, they can do it in real life.

I chose to make a supplemental resource for the video "Mapping Migrations: The Bird Genoscape Project". It features US & Mexican scientists working with Yellow Warblers & Wilson's Warblers. My resource is a series of slides with discussion questions. doi.org/10.57929/vfws-t970

Mapping Migrations - slides and discussion questions for determining migration routesMapping Migrations - slides and discussion questions for determining migration routes |doi.org

As a high school biology teacher (& previously a field tech for bird work), this seems pretty obvious...