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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 2h

For #WindowsonWednesday, here is the fabulous House of 7 Gables in Salem, Massachusetts. Great museum, lovely grounds. #museum #Houseof7Gables #SalemMA

The grey-colored gables house has many, and many-paned, windows. In front is a colorful flower garden under a blue sky.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 6h

On chimpanzee + bonobo mothers carrying dead infants, by @tpuschel.bsky.social + Reece Hammond. Length of time "depends on how strong their bond was, [mom's] life experience, the physical risks of holding onto the body and how quickly it naturally breaks down." #primates #deathstudies #anthropology

theconversation.com

Why do some chimpanzee mothers carry their dead infants for months?

New research looks for patterns in this sad phenomenon.

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Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading Alan Sepinwall's biography of Rod Serling is s-l-o-w g-o-i-n-g. Because it is boring? No, absolutely not. Because it gets me jazzed up to rewatch old episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and next thing you know it is 1am.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I believe 'our' groundhog has now achieved proper pre-winter plumpness. #animals #nature #autumn

A robust brown groundhog makes their way through green grass.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Such a loss, for all animals, the planet..."The US no longer leads the world in vegan-friendly cities. That honor goes to #London and #Berlin. LA has clawed its way back to 3rd place after it was bumped out by Barcelona. But no one’s bringing out the confetti." #food #plantbased #vegan #reducetarian

vegnews.com

The Hard Truth About Why the Vegan Restaurants We Love Keep Closing

Headline after headline. Goodbye post after goodbye post. News of shuttered plant-based restaurants doesn’t seem to end. But while the crisis is real, so is the determination. We spoke to six vegan re...

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh Anthropic. Get real. "Anthropic said Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago." #Anthropic #Claude #LLM #science #AI #noAI

nytimes.com

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

nytimes.com

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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John @birdingjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Since today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds (any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background), I'm posting another photo of this black-and-white warbler! 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #backyardbirds #BlueskyMonday

Side view of a black-and-white warbler perched on a bare branch in front of blurred green foliage.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For now, she imagined the song that everything sang, for as long as it could: I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive. -- Chloe Benjamin, from her amazing, immersive new novel of love, grief, and alternative universes, Under Story. #SundaySentence #Booksky

The cover features two partial circles that touch, with blue clouds and sky as inverse images in each and with UNDER right side up, STORY upside down.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For those of us w/ bird feeders, something to wrestle with, by Lia Leendertz: "We have been helping birds to survive harsh winters, but in the process, we may have exported wild bird decline to our own woodlands, farmlands + to countries that supply our vast appetite for bird seed." #birds #nature

nytimes.com

Opinion | Maybe We Should Leave Birds Alone (Gift Article)

One of Britain’s favorite national pastimes is hurting as well as helping.

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Canitb? @canitb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shadow cat has her freaking out!! Happy #caturday #catsofbluesky

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Leg position is everything! Caroline, age 13. #Caturday #cats

A larger calico cat rivets her gaze outside through glass doors. She is sitting but in the middle of grooming and one leg is held in the air straight out some inches from the ground.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For fans of catios--and of fresh air for our cats without allowing them to hunt or become prey themselves: "Covered enclosures designed to allow felines to safely spend time outdoors, catios, or cat patios, were valued as a $1.12 billion industry globally in 2024." #cats #pets #nature

nytimes.com

Indoor Cats Are Getting Outside, Thanks to ‘Catios’ (Gift Article)

The global “catio” industry could grow by roughly $1 billion in the next decade.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"More than 450,000 people are projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super El Niño by February." Nigeria, Indonesia, Sudan top list of countries affected. Please, let us think in terms of families, of real living individuals, at risk. #climate #climatescience #ElNino #extremeheat

theguardian.com

Huge El Niño projected to cause more than 450,000 deaths by February

New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ignore photo, here is a BBC interview on behavior of the wild humpback whale mother coping with a stillbirth. Good to discuss (starts 37m30s at link) w/ colleagues Olaf Meynecke + Jennifer Vonk. (Spoiler: Yes I think it's likely maternal grief.) #anthropology #whales #grief #nature #podcast #BBC

bbc.com

BBC Audio | Outside Source | US TV networks suspend White House pooled coverage of Trump

We explain what is behind the boycott by major US television networks

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

bbc.com

BBC Audio | Outside Source | US TV networks suspend White House pooled coverage of Trump

We explain what is behind the boycott by major US television networks

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here is my backyard northern cardinal male and his mate, for the #redheads theme, #birdoftheday. #birds #nature

A bright-red (with black mask on face) northern cardinal male sits just inches above a lighter-colored female in a green bush.

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Mike DiCuccio @dicuccio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's a pileated woodpecker, skipping up an angled tree trunk, for #RedHeads / #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #photography

A pileated woodpecker with a bright, flaming red crest skips up a sloped tree trunk. Its feet are blurred with motion and not contacting the trunk; its head is seen in sharp focus.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On ancient Roman board games: "Researchers used high-resolution 3D scans that mapped microscopic imperfections on the limestone board, revealing telltale grooves. 'Those line indicated the most heavily played routes, Dr. Crist said." #archaeology #boardgames #gaming

nytimes.com

Archaeologists Decode Rules of an Ancient Roman Board Game (Gift Article)

They scanned the pattern of microscopic imperfections on an ancient limestone slab, and used A.I. to figure out how a game might have been played.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The interactive map provided by @michael-hoerger.bsky.social at pmc19.com is invaluable for planning travel during a #COVID wave. I'm #immunocompromised and just canceled a getaway to a 'very high' county in North Carolina. I'll go another time. #publichealth #COVIDcautious

pmc19.com

Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative - COVID-19 Data Dashboard

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My #SundaySentence this week comes from @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social 's memoir What I Made for Dinner: Beginning testosterone at twenty-eight was less an act of defiance than one of conformity. #memoir #queerlit

The cover features the title in large light blue letters and the author's name in red. Photo images of food are: macaroni pasta, green leaves of some sort, red tomato, carrot rounds, and onion.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gentle play is Caroline's style! And that took months of equally gentle inviting and coaxing. Happy #Caturday!

A large calico cat stands on her current-favorite flat cardboard, holding a yellow catnip banana in her mouth.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"An extremely well-preserved bird feather from the age of dinosaurs has been found inside a fossilized piece of dinosaur poop — revealing how some bird species may have escaped extinction." Research by Jingmai O'Connor et al, scicomm by @krcallaway.bsky.social #birds #paleontology #fossil #nature

nytimes.com

A Feather Found in Dinosaur Poop Might Explain How Birds Beat Extinction (Gift Article)

It’s the only example of a dinosaur-era feather found within rock that wasn’t completely flattened through the centuries.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Remembering our summer visit to the Shaker Museum in Enfield, NH, US, on this #WindowsonWednesday. Fascinating architecture and stories of Shakers who lived and worked on site from 1793-1923. #photography #architecture #Shakers

The picture shows part of a long two-story building painted a slightly dark yellow color, with a turquoise colored door and many-paned uncurtained windows.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Comparative thanatology is a breeding ground of ideas": great to hear @fieryangelsfell.bsky.social speak on day 2 @evothan.bsky.social conference. Cool focus on ways to tease out experimentally what various #animals may grasp of #death. #deathstudies #biology #anthropology #nature

The slide shows a chimpanzee image with the talk title: Understanding Death in the Animal World: Conceptual, Aconceptual or Something In Between?

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Another high flight night underway, well before sunset has cleared the mainland states. Saw a lot of warblers this evening feeding ravenously before sunset. #birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds

BirdCast map showing 348.5 million birds in flight at 8:50pm EDT on September 14, 2026. The Sun is still setting to the west and migration is concentrated from the east coast to the eastern Ohio Valley.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Northern mockingbird, launching! Love the wing flashes. #birds #birding #nature

The bird is taking off from a brush pile in our back yard. The body is gray and a big white patch sits on the darker wings.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now hearing Jennifer Vonk speak online @evothan.bsky.social conference, documenting, e.g., "grief-like" behaviors of cats following death of cat or dog in same home. #cats #grief #deathstudies #evolutionarythanatology #anthrozoology #multispecies

A PowerPoint slide shows the talk title, The tail-end of life: How animals respond to loss

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Delighted to be virtually watching/ hearing @leanneproops.bsky.social speak on human perspectives on grief by animals at the @evothan.bsky.social conference #grief #death #deathstudies #animals #evolution

A PowerPoint slide shows the talk title Human Perspectives on Animal Grief and Loss

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

American barbarism has come for every living thing on this planet and now it comes for You. -- #SundaySentence by Claire Vaye Watkins in her fierce and fabulous novel of the desert, Yellow Pine. #books

The book cover is light purple with title and author in large yellow block letters over an image of a spiky desert plant.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sometimes, self-care is reading books, eating pastries, and petting cats.

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ニライ🌸カナイ @erpprincess.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy #caturday from under the kotatsu!

A cinnamon tabby kitten sleeping on a cushion underneath a kotatsu Japanese table.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When your supershy cat, after nearly two years with you following 17 months in a shelter and an unknown past history, still won't jump onto the couch with you ....but wants to be close! We love her. #Caturday #cats

A chubby calico cat curls on her side, exposing belly and looking up, as she lays on a tile floor right near a blue couch.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 10/09/2026

Yeah, I *will* die on this hill, because this hill will literally kill us. I will fight for my kids & yours. I will fight for folks who can get pregnant to have access to all medical care they need. I will fight for trans kids to have access to anything their doctor thinks will help.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Five baby orangutans found in forest in India. Of course wildlife trafficking should be the investigative focus, but we can spare thoughts too for how disorienting and scary this must have been for 5 young apes. #orangutan #primates #wildlifetrafficking #primatology #anthropology

theguardian.com

Baby orangutans found in forest in India spark trafficking investigation

Native only to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the rare apes were found thousands of kilometres away in Odisha state

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

theguardian.com

Baby orangutans found in forest in India spark trafficking investigation

Native only to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the rare apes were found thousands of kilometres away in Odisha state

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endeavour07.bsky.social @endeavour07.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Decoration in front of a shop window in the #Dutch Quarter of #Potsdam. The houses in the quarter, built in the Dutch style, are an architectural highlight (see my earlier posts). #WindowsOnWednesday #windowswednesday #urbangaze #photography #windows #ECK #photo

On the outside of a white wooden window, three small turquoise tealight holders, apparently handmade from clay, stand on a narrow white windowsill. In the lower left, the red bricks of the house wall into which the window is set can be seen.

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Nfknanna @nfknanna.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ornate church of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Remedies in Lamego, Portugal #WallsonWednesday #WindowsonWednesday #photography #dailyphoto #churches #architecture #travel #Portugal

The ornate white-painted facade of a Portuguese church. The windows are decorated with intricate stonework with two pillars set into the walls on either side of the entrance and a statue in a niche above the arched doorway. The building is topped with two bell towers and stone statues between.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Pining for my whip-smart, funny, sweet dear cat companion Marie on the 6th-month anniversary of her death. To all who grieve for a beloved other-than-human family member, I'm with you. #cats #tuxedocats #animals #grief #multispecies

Close up of the face and front of the body of a tuxedo cat laying on a multicolored blanket. She has green eyes, one slightly cocked ear, and one slightly judgmental expression.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/09/2026

Just want to check in - how are we navigating the increasing food recalls? Are we turning to canning? Are we checking lists before every shopping trip? Heavy yard gardening push this fall?

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