In the night, I am real

omg it’s dr. roberta bobby, author of one of my favorite tweets ever written

Omg she wrote one of my favorites also

I love the “captain’s log” mechanism in Star Trek as a method for time skips and exposition.

Who are you and why do i follow you

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?