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Games, biology, art, writing, gay. That's pretty much what I'm about.

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Rei 🌌✨️ @reirakiyo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Sooo How's everyone enjoying the new expansion so far?👀 #gw2 #Guildwars2
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
On 18 June 1983, Sally Ride at 32 became the first American woman to go to space and the youngest American astronaut. Onboard the Challenger, she was the first woman to operate the robotics arm. She was the first known LGBT astronaut. Video from the National Women's History Museum. 🔭 🧪 #HistSci
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Who purchased them? Will they be available for research? Will they be collected into a single archive or dispersed? Will they be digitised for public access? Rather relevant questions to address, surely? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Saved Alan Turing papers sold at auction in Etwall for £465k
The collection, which included a copy of his PhD dissertation, were sold at auction on Tuesday.
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Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Happy Pride Month from all of us here at the Museum! Out of the approximately 1500 species of animal that have been identified as displaying some same-sex behaviour, the giraffe is one of the most studied, with same-sex mounting and necking occurring more frequently than male-female mounting.
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Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈 @sabiagini.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A new algorithm for inferring DNA methylation patterns from ancient specimens demonstrates how this approach can reveal evolutionary changes in non-skeletal tissues, providing insights into epigenetics in archaic humans. #EvoBio #aDNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Inferring DNA methylation in non-skeletal tissues of ancient specimens - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors show that DNA methylation patterns in one tissue can inform on those in another, under certain conditions, and devise an algorithm that allows identification of differential DNA methylatio...
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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Sharing again for #noVERMber Dreamed I saw more gossamer worms last night. They are such a delight. 🦑🐙🐡
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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Switching things up today, I sometimes moonlight in the area of animal genomics😱. Here are pictures from a 2021 Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition where we tested new technology to image, capture, and sample gelatinous zooplankton (or "gelata", or maybe "goops" 😅?). Ethereal, beautiful, exotic.
4 deep sea animals from a 2021 Schmidt Ocean Institute research cruise (https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/designing-the-future-2/). Clockwise from top left: Tomopterid, Marrus sp. siphonophore, Erenna sp. siphonophore, Pegea socia salp.
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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I've added ~60 new contributors to the Birds Feed today alone 🤯 welcome new folks! New members & old alike, post birb & introduce yourself 🪶 Hi 👋 I run the feed! I'm a hobby wildlife photographer & birder. Here's one of my favorite species, a Steller's sea eagle! bsky.app/profile/did:...
The side profile of a Steller's sea eagle photographed at Woodland Park Zoo.  It has a vibrant orange beak and brown feathers with a bit of white on the top of its head.
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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I like how these two guys are completely unrelated
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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 13/11/2024
Pete Hegseth über Krankheitserreger: "I can't see them, therefore they are not real." Das, meine Damen und Herren, ist der nächste Verteidigungsminister der USA. Kein Scherz. www.theguardian.com/media/2019/f...
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'Germs are not a real thing': Fox News host says he hasn't washed hands in 10 years
Pete Hegseth denies existence of germs, saying: ‘I can’t see them, therefore they’re not real’
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
I've been posting about how awesome sea ducks are but can we talk about how many varieties of #WorstBirdPic they generate? So many things to go wrong! Waves splashing, swells rolling, birds diving. Hilarity ensues #birds 🌿 🦑
the black and white butt of a duck sticks up out of wavy blue waterThe blurry black and white head of a duck is partially visible behind a swell of ocean waterblurry white water droplets spread across the photo with multiple sea ducks floating on the ocean are visible through the sprayA duck is in the middle of diving into smooth ocean water, its head and neck underwater already
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Dejan Vinković @dejanvinkovic.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Playing with drops of homemade concentrated carbon quantum dots under UV light. It is amazing that such tiny 3nm particles can be easily made in a kitchen microwave oven. 🧪🍎
Glowing blue droplets falling through water in a glass container.Glowing blue droplets falling through water in a glass container.Glowing blue droplets falling through water in a glass container.Glowing blue droplets falling through water in a glass container.
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Mark Horton @thatmacroguy.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
Cosy❤️ A very close couple of Parasol toadstools . #nature #fungifriends 📷🍄
A pair of Macrolepiota procera toadstools in Brookwood cemetery.
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 24/01/2024
Preparing slides for the event next week, I found this gorgeous gynandromorph bordered white moth in Charles G. Barrett's Lepidoptera of the British Isles (1901). 🦋 #histsci 🗃️ Ahead of the event, my article 'Mendel's Closet' has been made freely available: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Colour drawing of gynandromorph bordered white moth.
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Sacha Prins @sacha.prins.net · 22/01/2024
Turkey tail mushroom munching away on a decomposing log on the ground in the garden. 🍄📷
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Michael Tripoli @triloboii.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
Cenozoic Paleo 2023 day 21: Meet Tutcetus rayanensis! #paleoart #paleontology #sciart
Vector illustration of Tutcetus rayanensis, a small basilosaurid from Eocene Egypt. Text reads: Tutcetus rayanensis. Mohammed Antar, Abdullah Gohar, Heba El-Desouky et al. Diminutive new basilosaurid whale reveals the trajectory of the cetacean life histories during the Eocene. Commun. Biol. 6(1):707 Aug 10 2023
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 30/12/2023
Horseshoe crabs for #InverteFest. Wonderful creatures!
Drawing of three horseshoe crabs. One is turned on its back so the intricate structure of its underside and legs is exposed.
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Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
I got to see @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com read Christmas Carol and when he got to that line people started whooping and hollering like we we had just seen a goal
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
I enjoy the fan theory that this kid grows up to be Chris Pratt’s character in the mediocre sequels
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
For decades, scientists couldn't figure out why the measles vaccine didn't just lower death rates from measles, but from other diseases too. Now we know it's because measles causes immune amnesia. Measles resets the immune system. It forgets how to fight every single pathogen it's ever encountered.
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The race to understand 'immune amnesia'
Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the immune system – but the latest evidence suggests it's less of a mild tweaking, and more of a total reset.
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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/12/2023
Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato
Photo of Revy Photoshopped onto a transgender flag
She's pointing back and looking shocked
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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
M. niger is best known for its red photophore - actually a blue light organ behind a red fluorescent filter. Red sunlight is absent in the deep ocean, so most animals can't see it - and many are camo'd in red, so they were long thought to be searchlights #25DaysOfFishmas 🦑
M. niger bioluminescence - Herring, P.J. and Cope, C., 2005. Red bioluminescence in fishes: on the suborbital photophores of Malacosteus, Pachystomias and Aristostomias. Marine Biology, 148, pp.383-394.Gnathophausia zoea - DESCNA
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution @journalsysevo.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Join us as we celebrate our special focus issue, starting with "Grasses through space and time: An overview of the biogeographical and macroevolutionary history of Poaceae." #PlantScience #evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Time-calibrated grass phylogeny using chloroplast DNA sequences from nearly 90% of extant grass genera.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
And I'm outta here! The back end of a wedge-tailed eagle as it departs. Photo from near Woomera last year. 🪶 #birds
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Cats In Zero Gravity @catsinzerogravity.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
www.nature.com/immersive/d4... It's easy for news for focus on the negative, but remember that positive developments have happened over the year as well. I think the advancement of malaria vaccination has been undersold, I've barely seen it mentioned in mainstream news, but it is phenomenal news!
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Ten people (and one non-human) who helped shape science in 2023
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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
We're nearing the end of the black dragonfishes (Melanostomiinae) with todays fish - Thysanactis dentex, the broomfin dragonfish, the only member of its genus #25DaysOfFishmas 🦑
T. dentex - Yun-Chih Liao/Taiwan Fish Database
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Ruth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
#NewPaper providing a framework that YOU can use to estimate the amount of energy that any population of marine bird (e.g. #seabirds, ducks, & divers) uses day-to-day. It was a pleasure to co-lead this with my PhD pal Jamie Duckworth 🐦 Out now in JEB: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Journal of Experimental Biology, A framework to unlock marine bird energetics.
A myriad of BMR multipliers -> An easy-to-follow framework -> Exciting new energetic insights.
We compiled BMR multipliers for you to combine with your data, using our framework to calculate the energy expenditure of any bird.
In the background is a figure illustrating the different marine bird families, their ecological guilds, and whether BMR multiplier data are available. There's also an illustration of a great auk eating a fish.
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Cain Eyre @phazonharbinger.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Agalychnis lemur, the lemur leaf frog, turns much darker when active at night. #frogs #amphibians #endangered
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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
For Day 17 of #25DaysOfFishmas we've got a really charismatic little dragon - Pachystomias microdon, the only member of its species, with a name that translates to "fat mouth, small teeth". 🦑
P. microdon - Wyville-Thomson/WikiMedia
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16/12/2023
If libraries aren’t allowed to own digital books, we can’t preserve them either. You might not be able to access your favorite digital book next week, let alone share it with your grandkids one day 🕳️
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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Frogs 🐸 (Poison dart frog, Tree frog, Horned frog and tadpole)
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
This may look like a bath tub, but it’s actually a Minoan coffin found at Palaikastro in Crete. Like so much Minoan ware, it is decorated with sea life (though somewhat faded). If you zoom in, you’ll see a turtle on the right and an octopus in the middle 🕰️1400-1300BCE 🏛️BM 📷me 🏺 AncientBlueSky
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Karl @karlhannant.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Scythians used the skin of their dead enemies to manufacture leather trophy items, such as quiver covers🤷‍♂️😳🏺 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Human and animal skin identified by palaeoproteomics in Scythian leather objects from Ukraine
Leather was one of the most important materials of nomadic Scythians, used for clothing, shoes, and quivers, amongst other objects. However, our knowledge regarding the specific animal species used in...
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Matthew Sinton 🏳️‍🌈 @mcsinton.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
On 18th November 2024 we’re going to host the first in-person STEM Village Immunology Conference! We’ll showcase research from LGBTQ+ immunologists, but invite the whole immunology community to participate. Would super appreciate responses to our 30 second survey to gauge interest! #QueerInSTEM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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STEM Village Immunology Conference
For International Pride In STEM Day (18th November), we’re planning to host a 1 day immunology conference in Manchester UK. The aim is to showcase the work of LGBTQ+ immunologists to the wider immun...
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Anne Aulsebrook @anneaulsebrook.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Just arrived here. Hello! This should be fun. Here's a pectoral sandpiper. This guy has an inflatable throat sac that he uses to make deep, hooting calls at lady sandpipers. He will also sometimes bob around near a female and make gurgling noises. He thinks it's sexy.
A male pectoral sandpiper in breeding plumage. He has a puffy throat.
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution @journalsysevo.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Zhou et al. integrate data from organelle genomes, morphology, fossils, AND a practical method for reducing missing data from RAD-seq, to create a more robust #phylogeny for Torreya. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #evolution
Workflow of the six-step RAD-seq Allele Dropout Remedy Pipeline (RADADOR)
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sleepsonictitan.bsky.social @sleepsonictitan.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Some nice lichen to tide us over til spring gets the terrestrial mushies to wake up again. I bet some nice lichen-head could identify the red stuff for us! 😄 🍄📷
Lichen growing in the back of a very old abandoned pickup, it is tall for a lichen and tipped in red.
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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
#Paleontology
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This Japanese 'dragon' terrorized ancient seas
Researchers have described a Japanese mosasaur the size of a great white shark that terrorized Pacific seas 72 million years ago.
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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Leptostomias includes species like L. gladiator, and both L. macropogon & L. longibarba, which both translate to "big beard", in Greek and Latin respectively. It should not be confused with Leptostomia, which is a genus of prehistoric pterosaur! #25DaysOfFishmas 🦑
Leptostomias sp. - Harvard MCZLeptostomia sp. - Megan Jacobs/Wikimedia Commons
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
The Gemini meteor shower peaks between tonight and Thursday. You could see more than 100 meteors per hour during the moonless night of December 13-14. 🧪 www.sciencefriday.com/articles/gem...
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Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks On Wednesday And Thursday
You could see more than 100 meteors per hour during the moonless night of December 13-14.
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kc green @kcg.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
found the original layered file and this is what it looks like without my line-art or white spaces
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parker ⚣ @gh0stsh4rk.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
👻🦈 Filter feeder sharks, 2021 vs 2020—it’s a shame it’s been so long since I did sharktober but I’ve been so busy the past few years!! The basking shark is a cliche answer to “what’s your favorite shark?” But look at their faces 🥺🥺
Drawing of a basking shark with its mouth open and white hill rakes visibleDrawing of a basking shark with its mouth mostly closedDrawing of a basking shark with its mouth open, a megamouth shark directly underneath with its mouth closed, and a whale shark with an open mouth at the bottom.
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Diana Plasker @funkminister.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Hey Science bluesky - with @scifri.bsky.social, I’m hoping to coordinate a community/citizen science effort this summer to document the progress of Beech Leaf Disease, in partnership with an org/PI who can use that data for, well, SCIENCE! Any ideas on who I should reach out to? 🍁 🧪
Two side-by-side photos of someone holding up a beech leaf showing evidence of beech leaf disease including discolored and cupped or curling in bands between veins
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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Colorful birbs! Sounds like a party! 🤘😶‍🌫️ I'm saving my colorful duck for Day 11, but I would be happy to share some other color favs for those with the blues! 🫶 Spread the love! Share some color!! It's FREE!!! 🌈💙🪶🌿
A male western bluebird is not entirely blue...A juvenile male Anna's hummingbird displays a rainbow of color in his maturing crown and gorget feathersA male Summer TanagerA male Western Tanager
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Marsaline @marsaline.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Doodle I made of my FF character! I love him very very much
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Cats In Zero Gravity @catsinzerogravity.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science... #PaleoSky might be interested in this!
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Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs
Scientists marvel at the fossilised head of an underwater 'killing machine' from the Jurassic.
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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 08/12/2023
Some crustaceans from Koh Lanta, Thailand yesterday. #MarineLife Species details: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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