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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/08/2026

Whoever recommended Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher to me, I hope you have many, many happy days ahead of you

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 07/08/2026

Once again, I HANDED IN WOLF WORM IN 2023 IT WASN’T A THING YET

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C. B. Saidwords @cbsaidwords.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Overlooked this zucchini long enough for it to go vampire. Bread box for scale. 🥒🧛🍞

A zucchini on a counter next to a bread box. The zucchini is roughly 12 inches long and 16 inches around at the widest point. It is a deep green with dark green stripes. No sign of the yellowing you'd expect of an overgrown zucchini.

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C. B. Saidwords @cbsaidwords.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

A three-legged deer is eating my day lilies. She's so close to my front door, I worry that if I get out of the car, she'll spook and hurt herself. #Trapped #UrbanWildlife

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C. B. Saidwords @cbsaidwords.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

In The Inevitable, Kevin Kelly likens AI to electricity—the great leaps of utility and profit that came from adding it to preexisting products. I can't help but think about how we once tried the same thing with radium.

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C. B. Saidwords @cbsaidwords.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The screwworm fly has traditionally been *the* classic example of how important "silly-sounding" science funding can be. Researchers were able to eliminate them all the way to Panama, saving the cattle industry literal $$ billions. www.goldengooseaward.org/01awardees/s...

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2016: The Sex Life of the Screwworm Fly — The Golden Goose Award

AWARDEES: Edward F. Knipling and Raymond C. Bushland SCIENCE: Sterile Insect Technique FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCY: U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service

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C. B. Saidwords @cbsaidwords.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

If you put mushrooms in direct sunlight, they develop vitamin D … just like human skin.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

In honor of DC, I want to give a shout-out to one of their great municipal services — the DC Public Library, where I spent a lot of time during my spring fellowship in this not-at-all-scary-even-for-a-solo-lady-traveling-alone city. A thread celebrating the MLK Library 👇

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎

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“Why Are We Funding This?”

Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Avery and I got an exceedingly helpful hashtag correction on the previous post so we’ve deleted and are reposting, and edited on Instagram as well. Sharing again for anyone who wants to spread these far and wide on socials! Current tally is over 3500 🎉

a call to action:
NOT IN OUR NAME
CISGENDER WOMEN AGAINST TRANS BATHROOM BANS
quick, easy, & urgent!
bit.ly/4eOWXUY

The Congressional GOP has proposed the "Protecting Women's Private Spaces" Act, a bill that threatens the safety and rights of trans and nonbinary people by restricting bathroom access in all federal buildings based on biological sex.

It would force trans people to use bathrooms designated for a gender with which they don't identify, and which they may not present as, which dramatically increases their risk of harassment and violence.

This legislation not only endangers trans and nonbinary individuals, but also sets a dangerous precedent for the erosion of rights and increased violence/harassment towards all women and queer people.

Proponents of these bans-who had no issue supporting or electing rapists and sexual predators into our highest political offices-continually insist that they are vital for the protection of cisgender women and girls.

This makes it incredibly important for cisgender women/girls to loudly stand up and refuse to be used as a shield for this bigotry.
Signing and sharing this petition will go a long way. We need cis women to be mobilizing not only for our own rights but for the rights of all women and nonbinary people, and to refuse to be weaponized in attacks against some of our most at-risk community members.
Learn more, sign, share, & find next steps here!
bit.ly/4eOWXUY

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Current calendar count for those of you playing at home? 2499. Which means whoever buys a calendar next will be calendar #2500, our halfway to funding 2025 point. JUUUUUUUST saying. 👀 Squidfacts.net

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C. B. Saidwords @cbsaidwords.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"When people pull out these examples of inefficiency, mocking the seemingly silly 'wastes' of government funding, what they are really showing is their ignorance." 🔥🔥🔥 🤜 🫳 🎤

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C. B. Saidwords @cbsaidwords.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Here we go! Happy #Halloween! 🐦‍⬛🎃👻🎃🐈‍⬛ 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇 Candy with a side of #SciComm courtesy of @skypeascientist.bsky.social & @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Bags of Halloween candy, little empty goody bags and cards that say "Bat facts" with illustrations of bats and moths and a qr code on the back.

A neat row of the Bat Facts cards, each with a fun size bag of Skittles, M&Ms, Snickers, and starbursts on top

Inside one assembled goodie bag, including the four candies from the previous picture and a bat fact card. This goody bag has a cartoon skeleton on the front.

A display in front of a porch. 15 goodie bags with different Halloween-themed cartoons on them over a sign that says "Happy Halloween. Please take one" accompanied by clip art of bats and a spider web.

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C. B. Saidwords @cbsaidwords.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Let us all take a moment to appreciate this incredibly helpful sentence I just read on Wikipedia: "Peptide hormones are hormones whose molecules are peptides."

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