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Faith Borak @borak-faith.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Getting more native plants into the yard! Can’t wait until they fill out a bit more and start blooming

Faith Borak @borak-faith.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Cacti, cacti and more cacti! Spending a week in New Mexico and the Texas panhandle was a plant nerd’s dream; deserts harbor some of the coolest plants!

A massive hedgehog cactus on a cliff, dwarfing the prickly pears growing just below it

Small super spiny cacti with unopened pink flowers

A bright red and yellow flower blooming on a black spined prickly pear

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A remarkable comb jelly from Okeanos Ridge in the Gulf of Mexico #okeanos spied in 2017! #ctenophoreday

small translucent ball with red stuff inside and 2 very long fluffy trailing tentacles

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

NEW US electricity data ⚡️🇺🇸 In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 05/04/2026

I can't get enough of these photos from Artemis II. That's home. That's us. Taken earlier today by one of the crew. Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew

A thin sliver of sunlight-illuminated Earth seen against the black of space, framed by part of one of the Orion Capsule window frames.

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

what people sound like when they say i asked claude

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thank you black mold. thats a wonderful idea black mold

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is one of a series of prints of Opabinia, 🧪🐡 an extinct prehistoric creatures which lived during the Cambrian geological time period, carved by hand in linoleum, printed onto lovely white paper with bark inclusions and collaged with Japanese papers in different colours and patterns, 🧵

As described this is my linocut print in blue in on white speckled washi paper of the segmented prehistoric animal Opabinia, with its claw-like proboscis and five eyes on stalks, each segment on a different colourful collaged paper.

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#NewSpecies! New isopod from #brazil just came in: Brasilana spelaea Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587F8-... Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Zootaxa #BrasilanaSpelaea #FAIRdata #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #arthropods #crustacea #isopods

Brasilana spelaea, an ovigerous adult female.

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Peter Girguis @pgirguis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Folks, more good news! Our latest paper on oyster microbiomes out in @pnas.org. Led by the inestimable Dr. Andrea Unzueta-Martinez and with great support from the Wang lab @whoi.edu we explore the how a persistent community of microbes in calcifying fluid could shape shell deposition. Enjoy!

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Coexpression among eastern oyster host and microbiome genes suggests coordinated regulation of calcifying fluid chemistry

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Dave Rudkin @art-h-ropod.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

#SpongeThursday: 3 nice examples of Archaeoscyphia conicula - a Late #Silurian (~424 MYA) conical, annulate lithistid demosponge from Somerset Is., #Nunavut, Canada 🇨🇦; sectioned specimens show the large sediment-filled spongocoel & thick body wall. #fossils

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Faith Borak @borak-faith.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

A sleepy floof on a cozy bed of even more floof 💛

A sleeping fuzzy bumblebee nestled in some flowers with fluffy, dandelion-like seeds.

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Faith Borak @borak-faith.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Such sweet little creatures. It’s always a treat seeing them 🤎

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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

BREAKING: The USFWS today proposed to protect the monarch butterfly as "threatened" under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. The decision came in response to a scientific petition and lawsuit by @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social and Center for Food Safety.

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Faith Borak @borak-faith.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Over Thanksgiving weekend, I was introduced to ghost plants by the lovely @apsciencebydan.bsky.social (whose birthday may or may not be today 👀)! They certainly live up to their name with their ghostly white appearance

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Dakota McCoy, PhD @reallymccoy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

New paper out! We show that heart cockles use bundled fiber optic cables to transmit light through "skylights" in their shell for their photosynthetic algae. The skylights filter out harmful UV radiation. These coral analogues are cool critters!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications

Some bivalves have evolved photosynthetic symbioses. Here, the authors show that heart cockles transmit light through their upper shell to internal photosynthetic symbionts, using mineral fiber optic ...

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Moths can hear the clicking wails of a sad, dry, injured plant. And they run the other way to lay their eggs. Totally wild to think how many things around us are communicating in ways we cannot even comprehend! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

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When They Hear Plants Crying, Moths Make a Decision (Gift Article)

A new study suggests that the insects rely on the sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide important reproductive choices.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

ICYMI, my latest for American Scientist magazine is about the new national ocean biodiversity strategy, the latest example of the Biden-Harris administration making great science policy buff.ly/4eXvlNM