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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 15, 2025 Tangerine furry-legs moth Acraga moorei Lepidoptera: Dalceridae By Tom Myers, Kentucky, USA #arthropodPOTW

Close-up image of a bright orange, fuzzy moth with feathery antennae and black eyes perched on the edge of a green leaf. Black background.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Today (date), the Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct. The first bird extinction on mainland Europe in 500 years — on our watch. Extinction is final. No going back. Think about that.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 13/10/2025

#ScienceSky, tell your colleagues to leave X, delete those x buttons on your lab page and replace with a butterfly. I declare #Bluesky the official social network for science and by scientists (you and your network of colleagues operate as your own algorithm determining what you see here). 🩺 🧪

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/10/2025

every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues (of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

At a time when queer existence in universities is treated as an “ideology,” I’m proud to be on display at work being unapologetically gay.

Man takes selfie in front of a poster of them in drag.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES. And there will be others within our lifetime. That's biodiversity loss. We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794

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XC398794 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)

Awful wind noise in the original! See sonogram and notes of the recording circumstances on p12 of Gretton A. (1991) The ecology and conservation of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). ...

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/10/2025

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air. That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

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London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'

A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🥹 #PhDSky #AcademicSky

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Bat Research Team @bat-cesco.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

[NEW PAPER OUT] 🦇 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 ! A deep dive into optimal foraging theory and social foraging through this bat study: flight speed, tolerance to conspecifics, and adjustments in the presence of heterospecifics revealed via 3D tracking.

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Foraging flight strategy varies with species identity of co-occurring individuals in bats

The presence of individuals from a different species induces a change in bat's flight strategy, that probably reflects an increase in competitiveness. Inde

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Such a sad story, but good that it can be told in full in museums now. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 08/10/2025

I might be biased but I think my lesbian enamel pin designs are some of my best. Happy #InternationalLesbianDay! canopyrobin.etsy.com

three enamel pins in lesbian colours: a frog, a circle that says "It's Dr, actually", and a rectangular lesbian flag with a trans inclusive chevron on the left.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 08/10/2025

Monitoring changes in UK temperature To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...

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Monitoring changes in UK temperature

Multiple sources of data agree on long-term observed trends

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Clown wrasses, like all wrasses and parrotfish, start their lives biologically female and transition through a series of color phases before ending as a male in their ‘terminal phase’. Here we see a male terminal phase clown wrasse chasing a female initial phase #coralcitycamera #miami #coralcity

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Vocal learning in wild birds! Today I spoke about our collaborative studies of Savannah Sparrows. Followed by great talks by Alex Kirschel, David Wheatcroft, Julie Elie, and Frédéric Theunissen. An information-rich day in Ste. Etienne. Thank you @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I haven't seen as many Castianeira this year as I usually do, but this magnificent lass showed up at the end of my walk today and made me happy. Red lightning in the sand. ♥️ (still unclear which species this is, 4+ years after my first sighting)

Bright red ant mimic sac spider with stripy black and white and red legs and a white stripe down her carapace. She's chilling in my hand, grooming a foot

Face of the gorgeous creature, chilling in my hand.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 10/09/2025

Thanks to UK leadership, a global 30x30 target was adopted at COP15 in 2022 as part of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. But last year, the Government appeared to be sleepwalking with only 3% of land in England effectively protected. Today, we are moonwalking at just 2.8%. 🧪🌎

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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

[opposing devastating cuts to welfare] You can no longer be a Labour MP [sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction] Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 10/09/2025

BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Banksy is a pillar of British culture. He’s been daubing walls for three decades. As soon as he satirises peaceful protesters being dragged through the courts for holding placards opposing Israel’s genocide, he faces being unmasked and prosecuted.

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Banksy could be unmasked as police probe 'criminal damage' over Royal Courts of Justice artwork | LBC

Police have launched an investigation into a new Banksy artwork depicting a judge attacking a protestor with a gavel.

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Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A picture of my former hummingbird tree for #NationalHummingbirdDay 🪶

Nine Anna's hummingbirds hanging around the tree that they perch on while waiting to visit the feeders. Half are perched and half are flying.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Linehan’s court case making it very clear indeed exactly how wacky this stuff always was, and that people like him have always been about incoherent hatred. e.g. the Harry Potter lady and those ex-Guardian colonists aren’t more reasonable than this: they are *more careful about public perception*.

Linehan making himself look positively unhinged on the stand with his conspiratorial nonsense.
Linehan adde: 'You're trying to make out I'm a bigot because I believe in women's rights and oppose men trying to intimidate and bully women.
He said Ms Brooks has been involved in trans activism since 2013.
Prosecutor Julia Faure Walker said Ms
Brooks would have been six years old at that time.
'So he says,' Linehan replied.
Ms Faure Walker said that Ms Brooks' driving licence proves she is 18.
'If you can lie about your name and sex you can lie about anything,' Linehan replied.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2025

Acting like they played no role in his rise, like they were just innocent bystanders reporting and not vehicles used to platform him, like they haven't legitimised many of his talking points despite knowing they were lies. You said just last week people are right to be concerned ffs.

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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Climate crisis will increase frequency of lightning-sparked wildfires, study finds. These wildfires tend to burn in more remote areas and grow larger faster, posing a higher risk to public safety and health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Climate crisis will increase frequency of lightning-sparked wildfires, study finds

These wildfires tend to burn in more remote areas and grow larger faster, posing a higher risk to public safety and health

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 06/09/2025

Surely they will have to admit this is untenable. Solidarity with everyone standing up against our authoritarian, genocide-enabling government.

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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

just updating my friends on the latest glinner situation and i just presented these two accounts side my side. i'm howling [1) glinner's blog, tw: transphobia obviously; 2) the met's comments]

Glinner's account of his interrogation after his arrest (tw transphobia of course).
"He [the police officer] mentioned "trans people". I asked him what he meant by the phrase. "People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth." I said
"Assigned at birth? Our sex isn't assigned." He called it semantics, I told him he was using activist language. The damage Stonewall has done to the UK police force will take years to mend.
Eventually, a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure was over 200-stroke territory.
The stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life! So I was escorted to A&E, where I write this now after spending about eight hours under observation.
The doctors suggested the high blood pressure was stress-related, combined with long-haul travel and lack of movement. I feel it may also have been a contributing factor that I have now spent eight years being targeted by trans activists working in tandem with police in a dedicated, perseistent harassment campaign because I refuse to believe that lesbians have cocks."

screenshot from an independent article. "The Metropolitan Police confirmed that a man in his fifties was arrested at Heathrow on Monday at 1pm on suspicion of inciting violence relating to posts on social media platform X (Twitter), as he arrived on an inbound American Airlines flight.
They did not confirm the identity of the figure, but added that after being taken into police custody, officers became concerned for his health and he was taken to hospital."

the following section is highlighted:
"His condition was neither life-threatening nor life-changing, and he has now been bailed pending further investigation"

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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Kate Wong @katewong.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Behold the gloriously weird Spotted Ratfish. It has teeth on its forehead for sex. The teeth line a cartilaginous appendage called a tenaculum that in males can be erected and used to grasp a female during mating 🧪

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Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It's been a great week for weird biology: ants defying the species concept, fluorescing birds of paradise and now forehead teeth in ratfish

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Netpol @netpol.org · 05/09/2025

"Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children’s lives,"Officer A continued. "It makes me question why I’m even in this career anymore." Then leave. Nobody is forcing you to stay novaramedia.com/2025/09/04/p...

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Police Officers Admit They Feel ‘Ashamed’ Enforcing ‘Mad’ Palestine Action Ban | Novara Media

Exclusive: An officer described feeling ‘sick’ when they arrested a disabled man for holding a cardboard sign, as the Police Federation issues a stark warning of burnout among cops enforcing the Pales...

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Good insight here from NERF about why these so-called 'partnerships' to tackle the illegal killing of birds of prey repeatedly fail in the UK (spoiler alert - don't include reps from the industry responsible for doing the killing). #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/04/s...

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Statement from Northern England Raptor Forum on collapse of Yorkshire Dales Bird of Prey ‘partnership’

Last month I welcomed the decision by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority to terminate the so-called ‘Bird of Prey Partnership’, after its abject failure over five years to tack…

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Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Dusky Brocade (Apamea remissa), Carms 2020. Welsh name Brithyn Llwydolau - meaning dusky speckled one. #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

Dusky Brocade (Apamea remissa) resting on a person’s fingers. The forewings are dark brownish-grey with mottled markings.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

“We're seeing more people trapped in severe and sustained poverty, turning to food banks because they have nowhere else to go" @helenbarnard.bsky.social 📝 The cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission report is out today. It would lift 4.2 million people out of poverty. 1/2

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Scrap two-child benefit cap to help lift 4m people out of poverty, government urged

Exclusive: Cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission says abolishing limit would be part of its ‘once in a generation’ plan

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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

i also visited the museum to see our welsh deino and was very happy to see a whole section about the brymbo fossil forest - a 300 million year old fossilised forest near where i'm from, on the site of the steelworks my granddad used to work on!

display about a new welsh dinosaur, which was discovered in penarth near cardiff in 2014. the dinosaur was a distant cousin of the t rex, although it lived much earlier. the discovery was of a juvenile and, although not all of the bones were discovered, researchers have been able to reconstruct the skeleton and model what the living individual would have looked like (next photo)

a model of the welsh dinosaur discovered in 2014, named dracoraptor. it is fairly small (think a similar size to the raptors in jurassic world) and is covered in orange-brown and cream feathers

board describing the brymbo fossil forest, showing a picture of the old steelworks in 1860 and pictures of the excavations to uncover the fossil forest. the board has in both welsh and english: "the brymbo fossil swamp is near a historical iron works. local volunteers are working with the brymbo heritage trust to preserve the important fossil site. see www.brymboheritage.co.uk for more"

another board about the brymbo fossil forest including more pictures of excavations and the title "world-class welsh fossils". the board reads: "Brymbo is a village in north-east Wales, near Wrexham. Workers found fossil trunks there when digging out a coal seam in 2004. It's now known as a world-class site for plant fossils. The Brymbo site is special because 300 million years ago a river flooded, dumping mud onto living plants. Now trapped in mud that has turned to stone, these fossils show us exactly how the plants grew. Many fossils remain at the Brymbo site. Those displayed here were once at risk of being destroyed by frost and rain. They've been rescued so we can study them and show them to you."

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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

had a brilliant couple of days in cardiff/caerdydd (my first visit to the city!) starting my internship with the welsh government. the city is a beautiful display of welsh history, culture, and community

doors of the welsh government offices. the doorway is old, with dark wooden doors and a stone crest above the doorway

statue of aneurin bevan, founder of the national health service

entrance to cardiff market showing the welsh flags flying on lampposts near the entrance

a memorial wall to all of the homeless people who have unfortunately lost their lives on the streets of cardiff. the memorial wall includes a black cross with the words "our fallen homeless" on it next to a white plaque which reads "in loving memory to all the homeless who have passed away on our streets of cardiff. surrounding the memorial plaque are wooden crosses on which people have written the names of those they wish to remember

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Te Pūnaha Matatini @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, a group of scientists and researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand dropped everything they were doing and rolled up their sleeves to help the response. This response ultimately saved around 20,000 lives 🧪 🧵

A group photo of the researchers and scientists involved in New Zealand's covid response.

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