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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 13h

hmmm, where could the @beetlemoses.bsky.social book possibly be at... oh well might do some work while I wait ah yes knowledge

ma doing the overlapping books meme, in front is a book on Evolutionary Genetics with a powdery white black spotted moth and a corvid flying in a blue sky, behind it is a hot pink fresh off the porch beetle moses comic book, you can see the review of "BANGER AFTER BANGER, NOT A DUD IN SIGHT" and it has the full name HARRIS FISHMAN

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We saw Resident Evil last night, and Indeed send me THIS job rec out of the blue this morning.

Screenshot of a job recommendation email from Indeed, text reads “Laboratory Courier - $21.76 - $33.11 an hour.”

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Going through photos, this one felt extremely auspicious

Back view of a Black Toyota Corolla full of vivid shrimp and arthropod stickers, with a “SHRAMP” personalized license plate

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 28/09/2026

Making my own GLP-1’s by licking all these Gila monsters.

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Dan Falk @danfalk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Writer and illustrator H.A. Rey -- co-creator of Curious George 🐵 with Margret Rey -- was born #OTD in 1898. He also made an enormous contribution to amateur astronomy, bringing the joy of the night sky to countless readers, as I wrote for @nautil.us a while back: nautil.us/readers-love...

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Readers Love Curious George. I Fell in Love with the Author’s Astronomy Books. - Nautilus

H.A. Rey recreated star maps with wit, grace, and accuracy.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My coworkers pruned an oak today and it was the gift that kept on giving. Exhibit A: observe, how much ducks LOVE acorns. What started with one curious dawdling mallard became ~ 20

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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Have you lived till you’ve watched Nobel prizewinners dressed as mushrooms perform an opera about fungi? NO

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For the last day of #InverteFest I give you one of my favorite #spiders! I love seeing Sierra Dome Spiders, the woods in the old site of Never Never Land at Point Defiance Park were full of them. I love their intricate and unique individual markings, and how the threads of their sheet webs glitter.

Back view of a Sierra Dome Spider in her web, the shape of the dome curving unevenly across upper half of the image with the spider sitting at the top.
Filtered sunlight shines bright on evergreen huckleberry bushes in the background.

A top down view of a Sierra Dome Spider as she sits in her web, the smooth curve of the web’s shape visible against a backdrop of sword ferns.

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

late to #invertefest but just wanted to show off that our yard is blessed with multiple generations of native Banded Alder Borer Beetles! They arrived en masse after we kept log sections of a problem tree that had to be cut down, and their offspring have been slowly pupating and emerging ever since.

Closeup view from the front facing a Banded Alder Borer Beetle, looking down as it crawls up a door frame.

Full body view of a Banded Alder Borer Beetle, with its long black and white striped antenna and large black and white spotted markings clearly visible, climbing up a brown door frame.

Banded Alder Borer Beetle perched on a branch, with a yellow dormant grass lawn and cars parked along the road in the background.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When I worked at USPS it was always a joy to see what lovely new Imagination Library books were going out. Thank you for being the change you wanted to see Dolly!

tribute.imaginationlibrary.com

Give in Dolly's Honor

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The groundskeepers always spare this big clump of daisies in the lawn of one of the campus gardens. May its power grow ever stronger!

A grassy green lawn with a tall clump of little pink and white daisies standing taller than the turf grass, with boulders and landscaped trees in the background.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The rebellions continue! The publisher Springer put pressure on a journal's editors to accept more papers, just to make more money. The editors resigned and started their own journal, which is peer reviewed and 'diamond open access'. That means FREE to publish in and FREE to read! (1/n)

openlibhums.org

New Open Access Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from Natural Language Semantics

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …

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Cincinnati Children’s Research @cincyresearch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A two-part Women’s Health series highlighted Evie’s experience with hantavirus and the Cincinnati Children's care team involved in her recovery. #Hantavirus infections are rare, but cases like Evie’s show how early recognition and specialized critical care matter. Original case study:

scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org

Case Study: How Evie Survived Hantavirus - Research Horizons

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Our 50% Off Sale starts now! 🎉 Enjoy 50% off books (including ebooks and audiobooks) sitewide, with code SPRING50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu Some exclusions apply. What's first on your #TBR list? 📚

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Apparently it’s World Robberfly Day. Happy World Robberfly Day to those who practice!

A cartoony robber fly, a type of predatory fly with long legs and a shaggy hairy body. It is drawn with cartoon googly eyes.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

He finally understands who the bed is for.

A large long-haired Siamese mix cat reclines in a cozy cat bed next to a window, a slice of sunny treetops are visible behind the curtains.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Oh gosh yes. It would be so nice to open up my old animation files again. Also tons of educational and and sci-comm are made with Flash/Adobe Animate, this is great news for helping assure that their hard work is still technically accessible no matter what happpens to the official software!

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A kind soul left us some homemade #Piday cookies in the study room!

A tin tray with layers of pi-themed pink frosted sugar cookies inside.
Some are round with piped with the pi symbol, pi r-squared, and 3.14, some are cut in the shape of the character pi.

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I wasn't brave enough to buy one. Apparently features navy beans. #PiDay #pies #beans

Stacks of plastic-wrapped pies with "bean pie" on the labels.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 08/03/2026

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

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Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · 20/02/2026

Sampling of dead foxes on San Juan by Kwiaht and Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed that two of them were infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza. www.sanjuancountywa.gov/m/NewsFlash/...

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Red Foxes on San Juan Island Test Positive for Avian Influenza • San Juan County, WA

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Nobody Nursery @nobodynursery.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A hibernaculum is a comfy place for animals to hibernate, and here at Nobody Nursery I’ve built one for reptiles and amphibians, with a rock garden on top of it. . . .

Step-by-step collage titled "Construction of a hibernaculum at Nobody Nursery"

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Correction: they went *looting* for dinosaur bones.

Screenshot from the linked Daily Beast article, text reads: “The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.”

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Donated an Anna’s Hummingbird to the Natural History Museum at University of Puget Sound yesterday! Poor guy hit one of the big ground floor windows of the science building. Now he can help their collection of knowledge.

A dead adult male Anna’s Hummingbird, lying on a crumpled brown napkin, beak facing left with wings against his side. His coloration is mostly dark iridescent green and black, with some rumpled gray of the downy edges that stick out between his wing and neck.
The iridescent purple of his gorget is slightly visible from this angle.

A front facing view of the male Anna’s hummingbird, still on the brown napkin, but showing a brighter angle of the iridescent purple feathers of his gorget.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owlet standing in the shade and winking. He is holding his wings away from his body to cool off.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

To the “or just use Waterfox” crowd: lots of necessity sites (employment/education/payroll/etc) aren’t compatible or optimized for many alternative browsers, so this fix is still awesome if you need to use Chrome sometimes.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Spouse and I visited my childhood beach hangout today to take pictures for @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s lighthouse photo submission call! So nice to see it after all the renovations, the tide was in but the weather was perfect for just sitting and enjoying the view.

Wide shot of the water at the Browns Point Lighthouse Park. The lighthouse is a tall, angular, white building with windows just below the lamp, surrounded by a metal fence at the base, and to the right of it in the foreground is a figure (my spouse) standing on the divider between the beach and the sidewalk running towards the lighthouse.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

School barely started and already losing our heads

My fingers holding a tiny skull bead, colored black with bright pink eye/nose/teeth

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

What a thing to wake up to at 4 am.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I worked on New Year’s Day, and people jumping in the icy water for our annual polar plunge filled the morning litter picking run with curses and screams. Seemed appropriate! Happy New Year 🐴

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My best photographs of 2025, a short thread. A tobacco hornworm on one of its favorite foods, a garden tomato plant (Texas, May 2025). This one makes the cut because it is more aesthetically pleasing than I was aiming for, somehow.

In middle of a graceful, fibonacci-curved spring tomato leaf sits a large green caterpillar in side view, its front curled as if in prayer, in an ethereal soft light, slightly backlit.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Was about to get up from a nap and the cat asks to snuggle under the covers. Can’t get up. Now he’s purring. Send help.

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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

@invam.bsky.social collection, prairies, and AMF all featured in the awesome article Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing

These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · 26/12/2025

📢 Attention undergrads & first-year med students! Apply now for Fred Hutch’s 8-week Summer Internship on Infectious Diseases in the Imunocompromised Host! Hands-on research + expert mentorship in state-of-the-art labs. 🦠 Apply by Jan. 30, 2026: bit.ly/48K89SV

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Heads up to anyone who still have images or artwork on Twitter/X. Apparently Glaze and Nightshade don’t prevent this either.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Found a kakuna at work the other day!

A large Lepidoptera chrysalis held in my hand, mostly bright green with black bands and spotted markings. It has two points on its “head” and a tapered end.

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

We’re lucky to be on high ground too. I’d kiss the dirt if it weren’t so full of lead.

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Virtual Conference For Women Archaeo and Paleo @women-archeopal.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

🎨 Paleoart deadline extended! 🎉 We’re happy to announce that the paleoart submission deadline is extended to January 14! 🖌️ You can submit up to 3 artworks (they don’t have to be original or unpublished). Come share your work with the VCWAP community!

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Z. elegans @atzimmer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As awful as the news is about Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, I appreciate the majority of news being shared focuses on their accomplishments and the good they did in the world.

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