… you can see the Identify interface scroll past your eyes as you fall asleep … your mind insists on labeling everything you see as that one species you’ve been looking at for the last three hours. that’s a cat, not a plant… … or as some species name that just stuck in your mind for no reason. Eup…

[image] marina_gorbunova: …when on iNat you do the same thing you id your whole life, but now it’s has meaning and purpose. I did this sort of thing (in a lab, under a dissecting microscope) for a student job in college and got paid $6 an hour for it. But because I started having chronic heal…

[image] lappelbaum: But then had to quit that because I got worse. That’s when I really got into citizen science. It gives me meaning and purpose. Helps with depression. I’m going through much the same.

[image] astra_the_dragon: if it’s a name already in use, please add the common name to the taxon page. we want iNat to support people from all places, including the names they are used to using. I only learned I could do this last week. Now I can look up “golden colicroot” instead of trying t…

… when all the things you posted in the “You know you’re seriously into iNat when…” thread were already about identifying. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/you-know-youre-seriously-into-inat-when/1992/161 … when you accidentally end up as the global top identifier for several families, just from id…

hehehe that was my Iridaceae post! that’s what I get for being so skeptic… now, as it turns out, H. huilense should be the Hesperoxiphion with the largest distribution! Also this thread is extremely relatable. I can’t believe how much

…you realize that the the only observations of a genus you can’t ID are undescribed species

… you intend to do 5 IDs for new users (from the bingo card) but end up doing ~40 instead. I was going to watch TV, but I spent an hour doing IDs instead and now it’s time for bed.

… you ID at 1 am in the night, because you can’t find sleep for whatever reason. (And recognise a well known fellow IDer also being active when it must be 2 pm in their timezone - hi, there!)

Absolutely. I have frequent insomnia, nothing more chill than some easy IDs at 2 or 3 or 4am. If anyone spots me awake at that hour (Eastern time / New York) feel free to say hi :)

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