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🌟She did it! G graduated from LASA with a 4.0 (!!!)🤯 I’m so proud… and excited for Georgia’s next adventures, including her science 🧬 research and studies at University of Pittsburgh. 🫀Thank you to all the friends and family who made her grad celebration so beyond. Love to you all❤️‍🔥WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW🥰

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literally every day should be women’s day as they completely and literally make the world. The era of men running the world and making decisions for everyone needs to be over like, yesterday. There are far too many women that are beyond important in my life to picture, so keeping it to family, me and all my sisters and mom and dad, my mom and all her siblings, my Mom, and Tess❤️ love you all so much, beyond words.

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Tender momos

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CHIOCO ASSEMBLY
Thank you @chioco_design
Private viewing can be scheduled by email contact@chiocodesign.com
Between November 24th and April 17th

#curatedexhibition #atxart #atxartist #chiocodesign #eastaustinart #eastaustin #groupexhibition #chiocoassembly

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Here’s a lovely new mural painted on the fence of Fresh Plus in Hyde Park. Great new work by a local artist

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Getting down and dirty! Led by our fearless leader, Nico, it was wonderful getting to explore a couple of awesome caves at the Wildflower Center today! (Despite the “waterfall” of Harvestman spiders that nearly landed on me). We learned so much about these important karst features that our aquifer relies so heavily on. Some of us (as you can probably tell by the mud on some of us) gathered the courage to squeeze through some very tight spaces. Our smallest cave explorer had no problem making it through and even cheered and encouraged many of us on. It was also a great opportunity to meet new friends and see some familiar faces. It was a great day going underground. Keep up to date for more cave explorations in the future by checking this page, our Facebook, and website! #southaustincreekalliance #saveourcreeks #austincaves #sierraclubaustin #ladybirdjohnsonwildflowercenter #hydrogeology #saveourspringsalliance

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🐸 HOPPY FRIDAY! 💦 We wrapped up our summer intern season with a field trip to the ever so magical San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center (SMARC) a critical arm of the @usfws US Fish and Wildlife Service🫡

🙌 giant hellbender thank you to Justin Crow (Fish Biologist and toad hero) and Chris Hathcock (Supervisory Botanist and wild rice whisperer) for giving us the grand tour and teaching us all about their cutting-edge conservation work.

🧐Did you know all toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads? We learned how the Houston Toads’ (Bufo houstonensis) chorus is the key to finding them in the wild, how salamanders ✨romance✨ each other with an adorable coy mating dance, and how SMARC breeds assurance colonies to ensure species survive ... no matter what. 🛰️🍝

🫶SMARC played a key role in the Houston Toad Recovery Program, helping release over 3.5 million Houston toad eggs 🥚 in Bastrop County this year to boost wild populations and bring this critically endangered amphibian back from the brink😅😅😅.

🌱 Endemic species like Texas Wild Rice (Zizania texana), the endangered San Marcos Salamander (Eurycea nana), and the mysterious Texas Blind Salamander (Eurycea rathbuni) all depend on the clean, flowing waters of the Edwards Aquifer.🌺

That’s why Save Our Springs Alliance💧and SMARC stand united in protecting our springs 🌱, managing our unique aquatic resources, and working toward the recovery of threatened and endangered species 🦎ensuring Texas’ rarest wildlife has a fighting chance. @saveoursprings 💙s SMARC! They’re actually too cool for social media, but the facility is available for group tours (check their website for details). Spread the word about their incredibly important work 👏👏👏

#WaterConservation #EndangeredSpecies #HoustonToad #TexasWildRice #sanmarcosriver

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📢 NEW Tee Drop 👚Celebrating two endangered locals of Barton Springs - the American Eel and the Barton Springs Salamander. Grab yours for just $20 at the South Gate of the springs all weekend💙

😶‍🌫️Have You Seen Her? Who can resist rockin the American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) shirt… A creature recently spotted in the springs after a 2 year hiatus!

🌀Super mysterious catadromous fish, lives in fresh/brackish water most of its lifespan, then makes a legendary spawn migration (back) to the Sargasso Sea, near the Bermuda 🔺

🌀Can breathe on land (in wet conditions) for up to 4 hours. WOW.😮‍💨

🌀No human has ever witnessed their spawn in the wild… yet! Scientists have tracked them for centuries, but the big mystery remains 🤫

🌀Declared Endangered globally by IUCN in 2014; populations have hit historic lows due to obstacles along their migration, pollution and overfishing.🧱

😎And How about the Coolest Sally in Town Tee? Barton Springs Salamander (Eurycea sosorum) is both iconic and adorable.

🎀A tiny, fully-aquatic, salamander that never leaves the water, its neotenic! It stays in its juvenile external gilled form its entire life.〰️

🎀Loves the spring’s clean, fast-flowing water to keep its external gills sparkly and breathable.✨

🎀With support from scientists working alongside Save Our Springs, this buddy was described as a distinct species in 1993, federally listed as endangered on April 30, 1997. Most of its population hangs out in Eliza Springs and is closely monitored by Watershed Protection. @austin_water 🧐

🏷️If you pick up a shirt, tag @saveoursprings, we love to see our fellow watchdogs out in the wild!

Big shout-out to SOS staff Namrata Chhillar and Adam King for being our stellar models! 🙌📸 tshirt designs by Comms Director Kate Csillagi

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Last night, @centraltexasmycology embarked on a mycological quest—collecting Mycorrhizal Fungi from healthy trees to use in our upcoming Cultivating Mycorrhizal Fungi Workshop! These underground networks are essential for soil health, and we’re excited to share how you can cultivate them with Danielle Stevenson, an expert in mycoremediation and soil regeneration.

Join us!
📅 Sunday, 2/23
⏰ 1 – 3 PM
📍 Myco Research Station at Circle Acres in E. Austin

Learn hands-on techniques to support soil health and plant resilience. Sign up here: https://www.centraltexasmycology.org/workshops/cultivate-mycorrizal-fungi

Let’s grow underground connections! 🌱🍄

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Stumbled upon this mural in the Hyde Park neighborhood here in Austin, it's really great. So colorful and fun. The artist is @kate.csillagi amazing stuff, give her a follow! And a commission.

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@kate.csillagi ‘s tribute to the late Medo Halimy for FOD 2024

“Martyred, at the age of 19, Medo Halimy went to painstaking ends to share a semblance of his life during the genocide of his people. His eye was tuned to grace. Medo was full of dreams: a connector, a lover of the sea, a sweet friend, a son, a brother, a bright light who understood that planting seeds in the shadow of destruction was a fierce countermove.

Medo cultivated an adoring audience (including me) amidst a terrifying landscape but insisted on sharing simple beauty he encountered, seeking out sunsets, a shared tea, sighing at the eternal line for water, making fun of doing laundry in a bucket, and making bread with his bestie Talal. His emerging garden, nurtured in salvaged cans beside his family’s tent, stood as a quiet rebellion against the relentless erasure of his people.

Before the war, he spent a year in Texas, and had ambitions of studying psychology in the States. His candid reels became an accidental memoir, a diary we watched in real-time, silently pleading for his survival. Displaced several times from Khan-Younis to Rafah and back again, Medo continues to share his generous spirit to the end.

I chose Medo Halimy because he held up a mirror, assigning no shame but allowing the absurdity of our everyday comforts to set in. Despite all the dark horrors we face, life has meaning in the caring countermoves. This spring, I am planting a garden in his honor. Rest in power, Mohammed Saed Oday Al-Halimy. May his memory continue to grow, flowering in every act of love and defiance, until Palestine is truly free.”- Kate Csillagi

#medo #medohalimy #freepalestine #fod2024

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