Dr Ru

@drru.bsky.social

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Med/research/epidemiologist, sci teacher, mentor, wife, mom, all around sci & art/craft nerd #BLM #Trans rights are human rights #Love is Love (she/her)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️#vaccines save lives

12 foot Christmas tree lit in front cathedral windows of living room.
Snowy mountain pass viewed through rain-covered windshield. Coniferous forest shows eemarkation line of snow/vs rain at altitude and mist layer between.
Mountain range in Montana, near Billings, fall foliage in foreground
Heavyset white man in a hoodie, appears to have armor on underneath, wearing American flag neck gator, dark glasses and baseball hat, jeans, white athletic shoes.
Bowl of chowder, freshly baked biscuit.
Three inflatable frog costume protesters of the Portland Frog Brigade, one carries a sign “Frogs together strong “
Graphic shows a female outline figure using a fold down bathroom baby changing station; places baby on platform, closes, reopens and baby is changed to a cat. Figure raises arms in celebration.
Two Bao buns, strawberries and blueberries on a shallow salad plate. Long shadows of evening.
Young teen in sunglasses poses in front of FiFi, the B29 bomber
Tortie cat, nested on wrinkled bedspread.
Tortie cat profile, sitting among sock knitting loom and iPad on sofa.
Purple water lilly and dark reddish leaves float on reflective dark blue water
Backlit macro shot of a white mum/daisy.
Tortishell Kitty curled up on a quilt-covered chair, in a patch of sun and shadow coming through a multi-paned window.
Two fairly large goldfish (2-3 inches) in a plastic hydroponics tank with additional live plants and hiding cave.
A map of the Gulf of Mexico. The text reads: A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico. 2. "Gulf of America" will be at the head of Google's answer. 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of "Gulf of America". 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" text. 6. Select "Inaccurate content". 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in whatever text you want such as "The correct name of this body of water is "Gulf of Mexico". The more reports to Google the merrier....
A tabletop saw with a blade hidden in a central spindle and some test cardboard cutouts
Tortie cat tortellini-sleeping on a quilt/chair in the sunlight.
Tortie cat tortellini sleeping on a plaid wool blanket
Tuxie cat and large Pyrennes puppy having a discussion in which it is clear the puppy is about to get her face pummeled.
Tortie cat apparently sound asleep on a chair, on a quilt.
Electric skillet with a pair of men’s glasses laying inside, under the glass lid along with the removable electrical cord.
Tuxie cat laying white belly-up in the middle of the floor.
Young buck looking into our library window
Roses in foreground, empty fluffy dog bed in background
Watercolor wreath with the words, Merry Christmas and Joy in 2025!
Attentive Great Pyrenees mix (very large livestock guardian breed) stands waiting for Santa by the side of the road
Excited goldfish looking directly at camera, mouth open. Body is blurry because he is in rapid motion.
Young, 6-point, deer buck looking directly at us in surprise as we open the curtains. He is less than 3 feet away.
Young male deer (with a small rack of antlers) enjoys the last fragments of a large pumpkin. He is camouflaged well in the brush and grasses in our yard.
Very high frozen cirrus clouds scatter sunlight to form a circular rainbow of the sun positioned behind them. Sky also has some high contrails, some intercontinental flights crossing behind the deck as they are at higher altitudes. One flight seemingly leaving St. Louis leaves a larger trail crossing at approximately the same altitude as the clouds.
Piper the tortie cat sitting on a pouf judging us all with her party toes front and center.
Yellow, curled maple leaf lying on fluffy, wet snow.
Close up of another otherwise-intact pumpkin with a 1”x2” region of squirrel tooth marks.
Large, uncarved pumpkin on a porch with some squirrel tooth marks and a tablespoon-sized indent missing.
Tortie cat lounging on a pouf with left paw draped, extended forward. Her expression is somewhere between self-satisfied squint and judgy. One ear is extended back, one forward, so probably slightly irritated.
Large Great Pyrennes/lab mix dog flopped chin down on a fluffy bed with her fur wooly(curly) from a bath. Her expression is not happy; large eyed and worried.
A sticker with the letters of words, “I voted”written on the palms of multi-racial and multi-gendered hands.
Black/white tuxie cat, Thor lounging in the sun on a wide windowsill after pushing items out of his way .
Young Cooper’s hawk looks down from a roofline vantage of a tall brick medical facility.
Cicada from Spring emergence on a cluster of unripened wild blackberries.
Moon photo with Tycho visible to the left. Just a couple days post full.
Picture of mature oak tree crown from underneath. Blue sky visible, leaves only starting to turn red-brown and dry out
Picture of a shelf-type fungus on a fallen tree. Trunk.
Close up view of palm of right hand with a shingles rash along the side under 3rd and 4th digits
View towards sunny sky of thick clematis vines and trees over a trellis and gazebo frame