top 10 favorite Nature ID pictures from 2010

http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/02/arboreal-salamander-aneides-lugubris-my.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/03/snakefly-agulla-sp.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/05/armored-darkling-beetle-eleodes-armatus.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/05/unknown-thingamajigger-doesnt-it-look.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/06/acmon-blue-plebejus-acmon-yep-another.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/06/california-sea-lion-zalophus.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/07/giant-western-crane-fly-holorusia.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/08/coast-horned-lizard-phrynosoma.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/10/painted-tiger-moth-arachnis-picta-i.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/10/tarantula-aphonopelma-sp.html

women in science

I never thought I'd collect information like this. I cherish a book, given to me by a lovely volunteer, where my mentor was asked to write about her experiences in science. None of the stories in the book (same title as my blog post, plus add the words "Journeys of..." and "...and Engineering, no universal constants") were this matter-of-fact. What are your thoughts?

http://mlmlblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/so-why-bother-studying-seaweeds-anyways/
http://scienceblogs.com/observations/2011/01/ive_never_been_very_good_at_hi.php
http://deepseanews.com/2011/01/let%E2%80%99s-talk-about-sex-in-science/

first mass bird deaths, now fish?

http://robwardwildlifephotography.blogspot.com/2011/01/hundreds-of-fish-dead.html
http://sniehans.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-deadly-cold/

ento-pop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tiPndMqxLQ
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/bad-roamin-ants-lady-gaga/
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/04/entomology-in-pop-culture.html
http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2011/01/18/tuesday-tunes-fly-on-the-wall-miley-cyrus/

birds falling from the sky

http://www.audublog.org/?p=5149
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18birds.html?_r=2
http://seagullsteve.blogspot.com/2011/01/flying-in-night-under-enemy-sights.html
http://www.audublog.org/?p=4916
http://monarchbfly.com/2011/01/04/dead-birds-falling-from-the-sky/
http://deepseanews.com/2011/01/who-ya-gonna-call/
http://www.audublog.org/?p=4909
http://www.audublog.org/?p=4906

fungus amongus

http://curbstonevalley.com/blog/?p=4525
http://phyteclub.org/2011/01/04/mushrooms-part-ii-aman-neatos-and-friends/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomtruth/sets/72157622970057510/with/4350484166/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwallphoto/sets/72157625264224299/with/4207772808/
http://curbstonevalley.com/blog/?p=4304
http://jwallphoto.blogspot.com/2011/01/wild-vittles.html
http://santacruzbirdclubnews.blogspot.com/2010/12/schwan-lake-area-121010.html
http://phyteclub.org/2010/12/28/mushrooms-part-i-meltdown/
http://handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com/2010/12/december-world-texture.html
http://jwallphoto.blogspot.com/2010/12/days-work.html
http://tmousecmouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/rain-glorious-rain.html
http://jwallphoto.blogspot.com/2010/12/going-up.html

2010 blog retrospectives

I had originally planned to do a New Year's compilation of well wishes, but there were too many to keep track. It seems to me many people have their own way of welcoming a new year or looking back on the previous year, all of which is a bit arbitrary to get sentimental according to some calendar date. For a moment, I was planning on posting a Nature ID highlight of 2010... until I saw several other people beat me to the punch:

http://falltoclimb.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/see-ya-2010/
http://plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com/2011/01/top-12-patsp-posts-of-2010.html
http://billsbirding.blogspot.com/2011/01/hello-2011.html
http://drystonegarden.com/index.php/2011/01/miscellany/
http://beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/bitb-top-10-of-2010/
http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/top-posts-of-2010-remembered/
http://myrmecos.net/2010/12/30/the-best-of-myrmecos-2010/

older illustration styles/illustrators I like

The Phantom Tollbooth illustrator Jules Feiffer
Matilda illustrator Quentin Blake
Rube Goldberg images and info
Charles Adams images and info
Bill Bates images and info (RIP, Bill. You were a fun person. I miss you.)