Ziv E. Lieberman

@formicula.bsky.social

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ants. emmets. mires 🞚 systematics🞚evolutionary morphology & anatomy🞚 paleoentomology🞚biogeography🞚3D imaging PhD candidate at UC Davis || views & statements my own {they|them} ☄

A person dressed in a mascot suit of "Gunrock" the horse, mascot for UC Davis. It is a bipedal blue horse wearing blue sneakers, silver basketball shorts and a black t-shirt with the text "Aggie Pack". The mascot's mouth extends too far back for a horse, giving it an uncanny look and recalling the memes about horses with dogs' mouths.
A close up point of view photograph of a person's hand holding a Sierra Nevada ensatina salamander. The salamander is about as long as one finger and is sitting on the middle two fingers, with its body bent in a hook shape. It is a dark purple-ish brown with irregular bright orange spots on the head, body, legs, and tail. Its eyes are large and bulging, protruding from the sides of the head. The person's hand is dirty and there is a pine needle stuck to their little finger.
A photograph of a fen environment with a pine forest in the background. The fore and middle ground are carpeted by rushes and other short plants in a spectrum of dark and bright greens. At the bases of these plants are red sundew plants, which are only visible close up and obscured further away. In the background is a dense forest of tall, dark green lodgepole pines, and there is a swath of tall white flowers near to the forest on the left side of the image. The sky is clear and blue and the sun is shining.
A top-down view of a fen habitat. The ground is covered with a mix of dark green rushes and brighter green herbaceous plants. A dark green tiny stream of water is flowing through the middle of the image and surrounds an irregularly shaped patch of ground, forming a tiny island.
A of a fen in the foreground, with mixed pine forest in the background. The fen is full of light green, low-lying rushes and grasses, and there is a swath of red near the camera which are sundew plants. The forest is made of tall, dark green lodgepole pines, and some dead gray trees are scattered among the living trees. Fallen logs can be seen at the edge of the forest. The sky is blue and clear and the sun is shining.
A California pitcher plant standing among other emergent aquatic vegetation under a small conifer sapling. Light is shining through the translucent pitcher.