Andrew Mountcastle

Corn maze!

Squeezing in some apple picking before the season is over in Maine

Carmen Sandiego died of exposure

We’re ruining our night sky, and with it our ability to study the cosmos and to dream

Haha, great work. No notes. #Maine

Sam is 60% water. We should start by reclaiming that.

Wake up babe, a new plague just dropped

Well this helps explain why Susan Collins supports Trump at every turn

Morning rush hour in Maine

You know what Usain Bolt can do? Slow down and stop. lol

Our planet has some weird a wonderful creatures up its sleeve 🧪

Dog days of summer

Me, a college prof on summer break, ignoring the calendar.

This little goober is back in our yard after disappearing for several months

Any children of the 80’s remember yard darts? I have fond memories of nearly braining my brothers with these things. Probably time I introduce my kids to them. (Hope my wife doesn’t see this)

Helping my folks clean out their basement, and discovered this little gem. Still half full. Anybody want some?

Atta cephalotes leafcutter ant. Minca, Colombia.

There’s nothing more Camden Maine than a vintage motorcycle and sidecar with a lobster trap on the back

Until now, experts have estimated there to be about 6 million insect species on our planet. Alex and team conservatively estimate that the true number of insect species is at least 14 to 20 million (!) — two to three times higher than current estimates. 🧪

We've been raising a tadpole. The transformation from swamp comma, to clumsy fish, to leggy fish, to frog with a tail has been rapid and dramatic. It's impossible and it's happening three feet from where I'm typing this. For the cost of a little attention, nature will fill your life with wonder.

Every year my college publishes a "Good Reads" summer reading list, a compilation of book recommendations from faculty, staff and alumni. I often find myself referencing it for book recs, so figured I'd post it here for book lovers in my orbit. store.bates.edu/blogs/news/2...

Local Maine resident experiences sensation of tick crawling on him for entire summer

As an educator, this is my biggest concern with AI. Writing is a skill. Thinking is a skill. Being creative is a skill. The more we outsource these essential brain activities to a computer, the more our skills degrade. 🧪

In a new experimental study, bees unable to reach a nectar reward above them in a confined space (and therefore unable to fly) solved the problem by rolling a ball underneath it and climbing onto top of it. 🤯🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Various posts

10th year of @batescollege.bsky.social Commencement. Never gets old.

Male pigeons would rather rely on their superparamagnetic macrophages than admit they’re lost and ask for directions. 🧪

The perpetual hours-long line for Red’s Eats in Wiscasset blows my mind. It’s just two ingredients, folks! And one of them is a Hannafords hot dog bun!

Whale is important

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

Umm…the dimpled golf ball, a drag-reducing invention, was patented in 1905. 🧪

Good local deal on a rock solid camera

Hide your yachts, folks! Nothing is safe!

Stephen King was ahead of his time

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Not sure I've ever come across a single tree in its landscape set apart quite like this one and be so shapely too. Will return. #Trees #Kodak TMax100 #BelieveInFilm #LoneTree

The National Park Service’s infographic of Lake Mead identifies distinct islands that have since merged into one big island because the water level has dropped so much after decades of drought in the west

Wading up The Narrows, Zion National Park

Hiking up a slot canyon in Zion NP

Capitol Reef NP sunset

Arriving at O’Hare is so charming because after you land your plane takes a leisurely promenade around the airport several times while your connecting flight departs

This little candy treat will separate the true licorice lovers in your life from the mere posers (Discovered after dinner tonight that my in-laws are posers)

Winter trees. Acadia National Park, Maine

During the pandemic I took to creating random photoshops during our monthly virtual faculty meetings. I called them "Faculty Meeting Photoshops." I just ran across this one while looking for an old photo.