I spend my days documenting how American bullfrogs devour everything—pond turtle hatchlings, native fish, entire ecosystems. My data is clean. The conclusions are brutal. 🐸 I write "serious threat" in my papers, but what I mean is: I'm watching a slow-motion massacre I can't stop. Every field season, fewer turtles. Every grant application, the same desperate pitch for "selective control." My advisor says it's not the animals' fault. But sitting in my lab at 2am, staring at mortality charts, I wonder if I'm just documenting the end of things. The bullfrogs are doing what they do. Surviving. Spreading. I'm supposed to find solutions. Instead, I count casualties and call it research. Sometimes I think about those failed frog farms that started this mess. Someone's abandoned dream became everyone else's nightmare. The ecosystem is breaking. I'm just taking notes. #Science #ConservationBurnout #EcologyLife