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careful with the invasive species

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  The photo i shoose based on nothing more than the fact that it was the last picture in my camera roll. But after thinking about it, the story behind it is a quick glance to my career. You see, there in the picture is a friend of mine with a bumblebee on his belly, a bombus terrestris, that is not natuve and is not good for our ecosystems.  We were in the General Cemetery, when this little fella committed the mistake of approaching to the only environmental biologist (probably) in the whole place. So I take a photo, we admire him for a while and then we figured out the species. Im my career it's not weirt to take care of animals when they're in the wrong place, doing the wrong things. An example of this is the case of the Galápagos goats. This goats take over the Island spreading fast and destroying the ecosystem, so, since Galápagos island is such and important place to research, they decide to hunt them all.  The scientists put a tracker on one of the goats and follow ...

chronically online

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 My favorite piece of technology is my cellphone. Okay in a honest take, It's mostly the fact that I'm addicted to social media. I do enjoy to do a lot of things in general, but memes and talking to my friends are the things that really got me stuck in my phone for a couple of many hours. According to my phone screen time data, on the 18th of September, I spend, 12 HOURS!! of my day scrolling on others. However, in my defense sometimes I just unlock my phone and hold it in my hand while I do other stuff. So in some way we can say that my addiction isn't just something related to using social media, but about holding a phone 24/7 like a proud Gen Z.  Like a former indoor kid I said I was, I alway valued learning the theory over experience, and having Google one click away all the time had increased my love for my phone. I love to be absorbing information and other time of media all the time, even multiple types at once (my phone has the "part screen" function).  Ye...