#calacademy

[stylewithsubstance]

All the amazing creatures at the @calacademy today plus the view I was given a big chunk of two hours travel home to appreciate. #calacademy #californiaacademyofsciences #orchidmantis #butterfly #theboy #aquarium #claude #sanfrancisco (at California Academy of Sciences) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQHvUgrEg6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#calacademy #californiaacademyofsciences #orchidmantis #butterfly #theboy #aquarium #claude #sanfrancisco

[inaturalist-propaganda]

Pinned post.

The iNaturalist staff have decided to prove, the day before Pride month begins, that iNaturalist's proclaimed acceptance of Queer people is just as performative as any other corporate that pridewashes.

They banned me from the forum for asking not to be misgendered by someone who is purposefully misgendering me and literally admitted that she knows it's wrong but she's going to do it okay.

The staff have done nothing but victim blame, tone police, and punish everyone for the bigotry of two people, which they refuse to remove from the thread.

Meanwhile, they've hidden posts by Trans and ally users who have called out the bigotry and criticized their reaction, and have, from their very first response, been treating our reaction to the bigotry as more aggressive and offensive and inappriate than the bigotry itself.

They literally are leaving the posts where I am purposefully misgendered up, but have hidden and removed my posts as well as the posts of other trans and ally users who have been criticizing their abhorrant behavior and asking for an apology.

According to the iNaturalist staff, asking someone not to misgender you is hate speech, but purposefully misgendering someone is not

= = =

Read this shit for yourself:

The original thread for LGBTQIA+ people:

"https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lgbtqia-and-inaturalist/23565"

The thread the staff created to hide the responses and criticism many trans people and our allies who criticized their first response:

“https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/moderation-decisions-about-several-posts-in-the-lgbtqia-thread/42122/56”

Ways you can help:

[Ways you can help]

You can send the parent company a message on Facebook here:

“https://www.facebook.com/calacademy/”

And you can share your feedback with the parent company through google:

“https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoaW33mQfJgl9pEIo9aUoDQ-nKFVYvvcXM0pbOBNvkt5PAog/viewform”

Call iNaturalist's parent company, and/or send them a direct email:

The phone number for the California Academy of Sciences is:

1 415 379 8000

Their email is:

[email protected]

Be nice to the person who answer the phone! I just called, and I was told that the number for the academy is not the correct place to call about concerns with bigotry --

However!

That is exactly why you should call this number. Be nice. Be polite. Explain that you found this number online and wanted to contact the company because you have serious concerns about bigotry being done by paid staff members of iNaturalist.org.

Again. Be fucking nice to the person on the phone. They will redirect you to send concerns to [email protected], which you should then do so.

But calling this number and being redirected is going to make these people extremely aware of the problem, and make it that much more urgent when they've got dozens of people calling them about this as well as sending feedback through google forms and the Facebook page.

I highly recommend that any written messages you send, you type out ahead of time in a word document that you make sure to save in case the site glitches and eats it somehow! I am also saving all the messages I have sent for accountability purposes, so that no one can claim they didn't receive anything, as well as making sure that my words are not misquoted or purposefully taken out of context.

I hope that's just unecessary paranoia but I literally was expecting the iNaturalist staff to do the right thing, and instead we're in this nightmare now.

Take a Survey:

[Plain text: "Take a Survey:". End plain text.]

You can now take one of two surveys I created. When at least 20 responses are given for each, I will begin emailing the results to the California Academy of Sciences.

Survey for those who already have an iNaturalist account already:

"https://forms.gle/YsAcaVpzS2AbWkmJ7"

Survey for those who do not have an iNaturalist account:

"https://forms.gle/YUyhzpxETLqWiCJq6"

I will be encouraging the California Academy of Sciences to create and distribute their own official surveys for iNaturalist users and potential users.

= = =

Here’s the parent company’s About Us section about diversity and inclusion so you can see for yourself that they're claiming to support Queer people and inclusivity:

“https://www.calacademy.org/diversity-equity-inclusion-access”

If you have an iNaturalist account you can comment on the forums directly.

They literally just said that if we don’t want to be misgendered we can just leave.

Archived link because I know they’re gonna delete my response like they’re deleting all the posts that criticize them.

If you don't want to make any posts or send any messages, please signal boost this post and share it on literally any social media you want. You don't even have to screenshot it, you can copy and paste the whole thing and just put it in quotation marks.

If you care about trans people, please help us call out this blatant bigotry on the part of the iNaturalist staff. Either by sending a message to the parent company, posting to the iNaturalist forum, sharing this post elsewhere on social media, or reblogging it here on tumblr!

Thank you, and have a happy wrath month.

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#iNaturalist #trans #transgender #nonbinary #xenogender #pride #pride month #Queer #queer pride #wildlife #ititspronouns #itisantagonism #transmisia #wrath month #Queer wrath #trans wrath #nonbinary wrath #it wrath

[rjalker]

Yeah how about we boycott iNaturalist?

" https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lgbtqia-and-inaturalist/23565/373

Hi nonbinary-naturalist,

It’s Tony, I’m writing on behalf of the iNaturalist Community Circle.

While we can’t know the extent of your pain, we understand you are angry and hurt. You feel you’ve been misgendered by people expressing unwillingness to use your pronouns, and you find our response to be inadequate.

You’ve made a lot of good points in these threads and we think the community is better for having considered them. Thank you for that, and your many other constructive contributions to iNaturalist.

However, your multiple posts attacking other members of our community, including our volunteer moderators, violates the guidelines that require us to criticize ideas and not people, and they’re dominating conversations where everyone should feel welcome to contribute. We’ve hidden two of your posts because they’re direct attacks against other participants and do not contribute to productive discussions.

Please take some time away from the discussion. If your actions continue to violate the guidelines, or reiterate points you’ve made multiple times, we will temporarily suspend you from the Forum for a week.

Tony"

Me telling people they're being bigoted is apparently "attacking" them but someone purposefully repeatedly misgendering me is totally appropriate and not hate speech at all!

Read this shit for yourself:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/re-lgbtqia-and-inaturalist/42153

"https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/moderation-decisions-about-several-posts-in-the-lgbtqia-thread/42122/56"

Send the parent company a message on Facebook here:

"https://www.facebook.com/calacademy/"

Share your feedback with the parent company through google: "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoaW33mQfJgl9pEIo9aUoDQ-nKFVYvvcXM0pbOBNvkt5PAog/viewform"

And here's hte parent company's About Us section about diversity and inclusion:

"https://www.calacademy.org/diversity-equity-inclusion-access"

If you have an iNaturalist account you can comment on the forums directly.

They literally just said that if we don't want to be misgendered we can just leave.

Archived link because I know they're gonna delete my response liek they're deleting all the posts that criticize them.

Edit: You know what at this point pelase just make an iNAturalist account with a throwaway email so you can comment directly in the forums. Before I didn't want people making account just for this because I thought it'd be disrespectful but this shit's gone too far. These fucking transmisics are way too fucking comfortable doing this shit. They don't get politeness anymore.

#trans genocide #trans #transgender #nonbinary #iNAturalist #wildlife

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[evoldir]

Fwd: Conference: LosAngeles_Online.VisualizingDataVIZBI.Mar13-15

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#IFTTT #Email

[bryn]

School photos & updates

As the Silicon Valley and San Francisco trip enters its final days in the USA, today was spent at the @calacademy in the morning, then onto to @AlcatrazIsland, Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito this afternoon. Dinner at @HardRock concluded the day.

[theglutenfreezookeeper]

Happy Penguin Awareness Day Everybody! I sometimes miss working with #penguins, but I’ve found an app that makes it all better. @calacademy (The California Academy of Sciences) has created an app called Pocket Penguins that lets you watch their African Penguin exhibit from three different views LIVE and it’s on 24/7. You can even catch a feeding if you time it right with the schedule on their website. So cool!! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocket-penguins/id444756994 #pocketpenguins #californiaacademyofsciences #africanpenguins #jackasspenguins #zoo #zookeeper #zooeducation #zoolife #endangeredspecies #penguinawarenessday #penguinawarenessday2023 #endangeredspeciesconservation #conservation #azasafe #bestappever #penguinsofinstagram #penguin🐧 (at West New York, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnplddmv_bs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#penguins #pocketpenguins #californiaacademyofsciences #africanpenguins #jackasspenguins #zoo #zookeeper #zooeducation #zoolife #endangeredspecies #penguinawarenessday #penguinawarenessday2023 #endangeredspeciesconservation #conservation #azasafe #bestappever #penguinsofinstagram #penguin🐧

[saintvictoria]

Spent the day with my bestie, @gregoryadamson We went to @calacademy with his brother and family, the rainforest with the butterflies was lovely. A quick stop in the Haight for coffee @flywheelcoffee and a visit to @amoebasf Then a stop #oceanbeach to watch the sunset. #butterflies #sunset #sutrotower #besties (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiHIebguVPH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#oceanbeach #butterflies #sunset #sutrotower #besties

[muffinjai]

I learned lots today 🧑‍🔬🔭🔬🧬🧫 @calacademy #SanFrancisco #BayArea 💚🇺🇸🐶🐾🇨🇦 #SanFranciscoDogs #BayAreaDogs #TravelDog (at California Academy of Sciences) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgnDefyPxN5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#sanfrancisco #bayarea #sanfranciscodogs #bayareadogs #traveldog

[pixelgary]

Up Close and Personal with Claude (albino alligator)

#photo a week #photography #photographers on tumblr #tumblr photographers #California Academy of Sciences #Claude #albino alligator #calacademy

[codyvrosh]

Yeah, it's pretty cute now, but not finished! Special tricks to be revealed at the California Academy of Sciences and SF Bazaar Virtual Nightlife, tonight at 7pm.

#CalAcademy #Penguins #watercolor #art demo #galaxy #SF Bazaar #california academy of sciences #painting #art #illustration

[landopeezy]

Worked a holiday party last night. . . #snowman #dinosaur #holidayparty #SanFrancisco #calacademy (at California Academy of Sciences) https://www.instagram.com/p/B51Drd2nfC3/?igshid=165tjsexho2ma

#snowman #dinosaur #holidayparty #sanfrancisco #calacademy

[heycalacademy]

Mule deer / CAS:MAM:26565 and CAS:MAM:26566

Scientific Name: Odocoileus hemionus    Age [Sex]: adult [M] Locality: unspecified Higher Geography: North America Collection Date: Jul 1981 Collector Name [Number]: R. Bandar - RB607 RB608 Notes: Skull without mandibles, antlers locked in combat with CAS 26565; no locality data, collected in North America, possibly in California. Department: Ornithology & Mammalogy, image © California Academy of Sciences

#mule deer #skull #calacademy #mammalogy #odocoileus

[everydaydeeds]

Day 1904 - This weekend is the City Nature Challenge competition weekend, so I headed to my favorite nearby park for a mini bio-blitz collecting @inaturalist observations. There’s still more time to get out and contribute to your city’s totals!

#city nature challenge #inaturalist #california academy of sciences #calacademy #citizen science #community science #bioblitz #black-crowned night heron #california ground squirrel #red-eared slider #green heron #western frence lizard #frog #canada goose #gosling #bee #contest #competition #teamwork #everydaydeeds

[friendsafforestation]

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[stylewithsubstance]

Dinosaurs! #calacademy #dinosaurs (at California Academy of Sciences) https://www.instagram.com/lucylarou/p/BwQZ06RBL2L/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=np3l1sz4thte

#calacademy #dinosaurs