Brittany Sutherland

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Assistant Professor, George Mason University Polyploidy, Evolution, Plants, Mating Systems Plants and Cats and Plants and Cats and

A large Saturniid moth with a human hand just left of it to show scale.
A male Imperial Moth showing large yellow and brownish-purple mottled patches and a broadly fuzzy texture clings to a screen door. He is about four inches across.
Screenshot of the complaint options for contesting a photo on Facebook, commonly used a meme shorthand for something hitting too close to home. It says, "What's going on?" in bold black letters and gives four radio button options below: "It's annoying or not interesting", "I'm in the photo and I don't like it" (this one is selected), "I think it shouldn't be on Facebook", and "It's spam".
Slightly blurry photo of a dark seal-point colorpoint male cat. He has a nearly black face, ear tips, paws, and tail, and a medium brown body that's showing slight tabby stripes in the warm June weather. He is peering out from inside the legs of an octagonal wooden table that forms a cage-like structure our cats love to lurk in. He has wide blue eyes and a curious expression.
Pond covered completely with a thick layer of invasive Giant Salvinia. While a water surface, it looks like flat, plant-covered ground.
Several thousand tightly packed black plastic spheres floating on top of the blue water of a reservoir.
Large Cane Toad sitting and staring directly into you soul. Photo credit to Ian Waldie of Getty.
Suckermouth catfish species with mottled grey and black skin skimming along the gravel in the bottom of a fishtank.
A small Toxicodendron radicans (Poison Ivy) plant, showing typical ternate leaf structure and lobed, thumblike lateral leaflets.
Fluffy black, grey, and white female cat laying on her left side on a navy fabric couch. Her eyes stare off into the middle distance like someone who has never experienced joy or churus.
A cut open boudin saudage (pronounced BOO-dann). Most boudin is a combination of cooked rice, pork, onions, green peppers and seasonings ground and stuffed in a casing.
A white woman with short blonde hair holding a paper cup of hot cocoa with both hands and looking over the top of it at the camera.
Close-up of a mostly white-faced cat with grey and black tabby markings near the temples. He has blue eyes and large pupils and is staring through the top grate of a pet carrier.
Comic from the Bird and Moon series, by Rosemary Mosco. Four squares show different Cardinals--a brownish juvenile, a bright red adult male, a mostly brown adult female, and "Bloodcheep, Frightful Molt-Demon of the Cursed Abyss" showing the catastrophic molt process whereby cardinal lose all their head feathers are once.
A six petaled light purple flower. Flowers of this species, Campanula rotundifolia, normally have five petals. While six are not uncommon, they are all symmetrically arranged around the center, not occurring as three mirror-image pairs as in this specimen.
A dark seal-point (light brown body grading to nearly black tips) male cat is curled on top of a small brown cardboard box. He has one front paw extended with his claws flexed, as though threatening me if I were to touch the box.
A male Ocellated Turkey puffed out in full strut, with a fan of orange and blue-tipped tail feathers, iridescent blue and orange body, and light blue head.
A simple cartoon of two grey robots fixing a grey spaceship. Underneath, black letters say, "Canvas is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance".
Video of a nursing female squirrel hanging upside down to raid seeds from a supposedly squirrel-proof bird feeder.
A thin brown male color point cat asleep on a cluttered outdoor shelf, with his back legs and tail dropping as though he is melting.
PBS election result map from the April 21st special redistricting election. Each county has a teal (YES) or orange (NO) circle proportional to the size of the population. The cluster of YES counties in the northern part of the state have been labelled, "NoVA".
A large female tortoise sitting in grass seemingly unbothered, with a tiny male about one-tenth her size standing almost vertically against her rear, neck straining as he tries valiantly to mate her.
A dark, cracked laptop screen covered in random lines. The computer was knocked out of my hand when I collided with a student who didn’t see me, and it hit the floor at just the wrong angle, apparently.
Two white millennial women with glasses leaning in and smiling in front of a shaded grassy area.
Tommy Lee Jones in a sheriff's uniform, holding a newspaper and looking overtop a pair of glasses with exasperation.
Herbarium specimen of a Giant Saguaro cactus, featuring a color photo of a small cactus in the center and an information record in the bottom right. Typically, these contained preserved tissues used for identification and other purposes.
Question on an exam that asked students to draw a genetic map for three traits. Student drew a treasure map.
Suranne Jones portraying Anne Lister, showing her in rustic attire in a barn, sitting in an open, swaggering style holding a dusty field hat and smirking slightly.
Tall thin white women (Suranne Jones portraying Anne Lister) wearing a black top hat with satin ribbon, a black military-styled coat, and holding a dark wooden cane. She is standing before a mottled grey-green background.
A mottled brown bird standing on the end of a dead trunk with its head pointed upward and eyes closed. It blends in nicely with the wood.
Spring beauty flower with seven white petals with light pink veins.
Stem of a pink-striped white Claytonia flower, multiple flowers have more than five petals, and five cauline leaves are present instead of the usual two.
Bizarre spring beauty flower with all petals fused into a semicircular corolla.
Close up of small white flowers in grass. Two of the flowers have five petals, one has six. No pink striping visible.
A Muscovy duck, with dark body with subtle iridescent green, a white head and neck, and bright red caruncles on his face, is side-eyeing, sizing me up as a potential mark.
Pale woman in dark fancy dress wearing black opera gloves and a black headdress that is vaguely heart-shaped.
A staged photo of starfruits: two whole fruits to the right, and a wooden plate with slices, showing the five-pointed cross section.
A newborn giraffe at Tanganyika Zoo in Kansas sitting on the ground and looking at the camera. His downturned eyes and overhanging top lip give him a look of utter exasperation.
A dark brown color point male cat with blue eyes balanced and lounging on the edge of a kitchen sink.
A dark blue fabric couch in the extreme foreground with the top half of a cat face peering over it looking directly at the camera. Wide blue eyes look at you from a grey and black tabby face with white ear tufts.
Two dark green flowerpots filled with damp soil and the dried brown leaves from last year’s plants. New dark green leaves are emerging from both pots.
A three-second exposure of an ice-covered backyard in bright moonlight. The snow and ice are undisturbed, leaving a clear surface to project tree shadows from the moon overhead.
Cartoon image of Pikachu, the yellow rat-like electric Pokemon. He is waving and has a big grin and bright eyes.
A black and white husky holding a small stuffed toy in its front paws. It's looking at the camera and appears to have a broad grin, so though amused at telling a bad joke and waiting for your reaction.
A Len brand Excalibur-style black food dehydrator out on our back porch in winter storage. The front cover is off and the trays are not stored inside it. The resulting open plastic chamber has been claimed by our medium-hair grey and black tabby point girl, who is lounging comfortably and looking at me calmly.
A chubby woman with messy brown hair from just coming in from rain. She is wearing wire-rim glasses, an army green t-shirt, and a grey and black speckled cockatiel with yellow crest on her head.
A fortune cookie slip being held on a hand. The text says, "Seek professional help when needed for your mental health".
Grey and black tabby stripped cat with white muzzle, chest, and forelegs laying against a black t-shirted woman’s chest in dim light. He is curled up but looking away from the woman, in the direction of a laptop screen off camera.
A large mostly white cat with grey and black stripes on his head and front legs. He is laying with his belly up on some discarded brown gift ribbon next to an orange goldfish string toy. He appears to be about to paw at the camera.
A video of two cats perched awkwardly in front of a windowsill. Both are watching rapt out a window to the right, with their tails flicking energetically.
Package of Albanese brand gummy bears. A white bag with red left stripe and red oval logo, and twelve gummy bears all arranged in a circle.
A photo of a lake covered in ice that's begun spring melt. The shape of the lake and the ice is...slightly anatomical.
A large black and grey tabby cat with white muzzle, chest, and belly laying under a Christmas tree. He is staring at the tree and a reflection in the camera makes it look like a green Christmas light is emanating from his right temple.
A medium-hair black, grey, and white tabby sitting at the edge of a Christmas tree skirt, staring intently at a purple Christmas ornament.
Three roughly six-month old kittens lined up eating out of three bowls on cheap landlord-special beige carpet. All have begun changing color and have dark ears and tails with mostly cream-colored bodies.
A green glass bottle with a white and red label that says ALE8 1
Video of a dark seal point cat with blue eyes curled up in the cavity underneath a blanket that has been draped over a chair.
A high backed light purple office-style chair with a red, navy, and cream block and plaid blanket draped over the back and arms in such a way that there is a cavity between the blanket and seat.