Angela T. Beck

She/her, kama'āina. MS from UH-Hilo TCBES. Nerd about native Haw'n birds/plants/ecosystems. Botany Tech, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands.

[Angela T. Beck @malamawao]

"Vanishing Voices: Saving Our Hawaiian Forest Birds" #BirdsNotMosquitos #AoleMosquito https://t.co/lv5JmLNbtJ

[Angela T. Beck @malamawao]

I just learned that baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng's name means "bouncy pork".

BOUNCY PORK.

[Angela T. Beck @malamawao]

Been raining in Hilo/Puna all week; Ho‘oilo (wet season) has definitely arrived! Meanwhile, up in the Humu‘ula Saddle, the weather continues to be glorious!

[USGS Volcanoes🌋 @USGSVolcanoes]

Heads up! A live view of Nāpau Crater on the East Rift Zone of Kīlauea is now available on the HVO website: https://t.co/YLIH4vxJbK View is to the southwest, and the image updates every 15 minutes.

[USGS Volcanoes🌋 @USGSVolcanoes]

#Kilauea eruption continues in Nāpau Crater, a remote area of Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. Geologists on the AM overflight report lava fountains ~10 m (yards) high generating lava flows on floor of Nāpau Crater. Lava confined to crater. #HVO updates at https://t.co/Jh7l2Xgn3i

[Angela T. Beck @malamawao]

Kīlauea is erupting again which means this is now a volcano news retweet account

[Joakim Juti 🇫🇮🇲🇽 @jutyrannus]

Proboscidipparion mare and foal.
This was a prehistoric species of equine that may have had a tapir like trunk, based on the skull.

[Connor Healey @Healey_Photo]

This isnt the woof woof he’s used a different sound with every group of people lmao

[USFWS Pacific @USFWSPacific]

WARNING: Extreme cuteness 😍😍

An adorable white tern chick, or manu-o-Kū, orients itself to the new world around it on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, at the northwest end of the Hawaiian archipelago.

USFWS volunteer video: Dan Rapp

[Amanda Wong @amandawtwong]

Oh my god I love him, I love that 4900 years ago the artist captured the human experience: a bellybutton and existential horror

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Ducks protecting young penguin from predators

[Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D @SarahMackAttack]

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- how many squid facts you knew
- if you offered others squid facts
- how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact

[Michael Fogleman @FogleBird]

A couple months ago, I saw a pair of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers mobbing a Red-tailed Hawk. Not unusual. But then the female gnatcatcher LANDED on the hawk's head!

[Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O]

Fun #ornithology fact for the weekend. Chickadees increase the number "dee" syllables in their calls as the potential threat of a predator increases. Small predators are considered more dangerous than big ones.

Source: https://t.co/aElayt5fJS

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

TOM BOMBADIL, WRITINGE YNSTRUCTOR:

Hey dol! Merry dol! Sheepe and birdes and llamas!
Add to sentence claritye by usinge Oxford commas!

[Rysiooozaur🔞 @rysiutokwiat]

last unicorn

[Angela T. Beck @malamawao]

Can't recommend enough this wonderful piece of science communication, "CrashCourse: The Universe", a podcast in which cosmologist Dr. Katie Mack and novelist/memoirist/philanthropist etc. John Green discuss the universe from beginning to present to future. https://t.co/jbL46tV4YD

[Angela T. Beck @malamawao]

Rainbow in front of Maunakea welcoming me home. :)

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

American Yellow Warbler.

[Angela T. Beck @malamawao]

She gonna erupt while I'm out of town again huh

[Dane duPont @GeoGolfHawaii]

Hawaiian Volcano Update: Kīlauea Upper East Rift Intrusion Ongoing, July 25, 2024

Over the past four days, an intrusion of magma has triggered over 1500 earthquakes around Kīlauea’s Upper East Rift. #hawaii #kilauea

LIVE Update https://t.co/UHZcdnFGXl