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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3h

Moth mural in Port Richmond Philadelphia going up *right now* let’s go. Bug mural season is upon us

A Moth mural featuring a cercropia Moth and Luna Moth in progress, getting painted onto a shed in a public park

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SHIRT BY dashare.zone "TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR" - GET AT dashare.zone WEB SIGHT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

BLACK TSHRIT BY dashare.zone admin - "TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR" I AM AMERICAN , I DONT HAVE A DOCTOR WHEN I GET SICK OR HURT I GO TO A BUILDING THAT USED TO SELL FAST FOOD
DESIGN BY DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN -DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Are you interested in Mothboxing? Using it in the field? Building it? Please sign up for our mailing list to stay up to date with the latest features! Email our rag-tag crew at INFO [ a t ] mothbox.org with subject “Mothbox Mail.”

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The Mothbox is a low cost DIY insect monitor

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Are ya'll getting ready to get Slopped?? We're approaching October and we are getting excited!!!

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javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Exactly this: bsky.app/profile/inte...

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's SOO nice that now in the Panama Airport they have some gorgeous photos of some of our friends i helped take care of at the Panama Nature Center Animal rescue! Here's pics of me with the two celebrities, Salome the Anteater and Pino the Tree Porcupine!

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨 Submissions close Wed 30 Sep for the Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2027. ✅ Short talks ✅ Posters ✅ Monitoring technology exhibitors Aimed at organisations/practitioners/researchers interested in landscape-scale projects More: www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org/rlas-symposi... 🧪

Grassy dunes and sea in the background plus headline Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2027

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Jessica Foley @jessicafoley14.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

come join us at the Promislow lab, I promise we are all very nice! 🪰

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Peter Marting @aztecacecropia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hives Alive INFO (3/4): This structure represents a honeybee nest based on data from an actual colony in the experiment. Each globe represents a wax cell, each curtain represents a comb, and the shape of the structure follows how the bees built it.

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Peter Marting @aztecacecropia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The HIVES ALIVE exhibit is up! Opening night was a dream, thanks to all that came out. This is definitely the biggest installation I've put together and a real highlight of my career. #sciart #dataviz #scicomm #honeybees #hivesalive

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 15/10/2025

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have so much experience breaking Raspberry Pi's and seeing and fixing their various LED error codes, but when I see the 4 long, 5 short, "Abort" or "Fatal" error, i get the same rush that birders probably do when seeing a "lifer"

chart of pi error codes with 4 5 circled

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Monthly reminder that I make nature and science inspired jewelry and puzzles which you can buy on my website: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/

4 agate puzzles on a black background. each is unique like slice of rock

the eclipse puzzle can be assembled in different stages (it's double sided)

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certified limpet enjoyer @illecta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

MOTH MERCH ALERT! check out so-noted.com for handmade notebooks and cards featuring moth illustrations by me >:)

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Sloppening approaches.... and we've still have lots of spots open if you wanna show off some work! Use this form to let us know you wanna join: forms.gle/DTwdy938NEM4...

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This year for Open Hardware Month OSHWA is looking to run a 24 hour virtual membership drive that will have people and organizations in our community showing off their work and workspaces to show ever...

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also someone should make a lizard clock like this

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

>someone donates $5k to local homeless shelter >inefficient >could have funded 0.0000000000003% of an AI governance researcher >think of all the simulated people you just killed

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is going around as essential reading and for very good reason. Honestly the most incisive and full summary of the longtermism/x-risk pathology I have seen. Every stanza is a gem, and the closing is genius, but my personal favorite, because I have had this exact conversation almost verbatim:

[nitter.app post excerpt from banteg]

>someone asks where the one-in-a-million number came from
> expert judgement
>which expert
>us
>how calibrated
> extremely thoughtfully

›reduce estimate to one in ten million to be conservative
›still beats curing cancer by 38 orders of magnitude
›epistemic robustness achieved

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

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LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you want to make and sell mothboxes, YOU CAN! You can even sign up here to be a vendor on the open science shop and we will direct folks towards you! airtable.com/appwWdC3CVBI...

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Airtable | Everyone's app platform

Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Things like this are one of the (zillions of) things that point out how important open science tools are for science. Tech can make so processing so much quicker, but if we don't know about all the little assumptions going on in black-boxed tools, our science can get steered HORRIBLY WRONG!

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Automated insect monitoring is pretty cool in that it is so alien that it keeps poking holes in normal machine learning stuff. In one pic we got lots of stuff computer vision doesn't often deal with:

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you want to experience a REALLY amazing community of folks, do what you can to make it to their next conference! titag.org/iecc-confere...

titag.org

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A month ago, I was lucky enough to get to give the Keynote talk at the incredible Insects in Education and Conservation Conference about our work building tools for field biologists and making open source insect monitors!

slide with me talking about evil mine in panama

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HCI profs, please don't let all of your sighted students create project after project of "putting an arduino on a cane" cmon, i have been seeing this same project "rediscovered" for the past 15 years.

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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the many Plume moths that has visited our Perth Hills garden this week. This one looks like it’s playing an invisible trombone 🪊 #teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist

Side view of a moth either just landing or just taking off from a pale surface so the moth appears to be stood upright. The moths wings are partially open and show feathering

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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another story of mine that just went online for @newscientist.com. The first completely new species of cat to be named in a century - the tilcayo, a type of tiger cat from Bolivia. Isn't it lovely? #cats 🧪 🐈🦊 🐅 www.newscientist.com/article/2589...

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Beautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century | New Scientist

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat species to five

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

EA is similar to the pro-life freaks, in that they invent voiceless entities they can pretend to help so, as they kill people, they can still feel good about themselves.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's cute how they rebranded white supremacy with the word "altruist" in it to make it seem less murderous.

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Did you know that all our of documentation for the Mothbox is all totally #opensource and editable too! Each page has a little "edit this page" button, where if you spot typos, or maybe you want to give your own tip, you can edit it right there, and it turns into a pull-request! mothbox.org

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

trot with me if you want to pound

scene from TERMINATOR 2. top panel is giant truck chasing a young buckaroo through the la river. truck is labeled 'AI GENERATED BIZARRO EROTICA SLOP.' middle panel is chuck tingle showing up on his motorcycle. bottom panel is chuck aiming shotgun with label 'SINCERE, HUMAN-CRAFTED STORIES ABOUT BISEXUAL MOTHMAN THREESOMES'

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Watch the otter family adorably play with bubbles for enrichment behind the scenes! 🫧 Baby Bao is now 10 months old and weighs 8 pounds. 📹: Assistant curator Erin

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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please help us spread the word: Princeton University’s Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor! I ❤️ this collegial and collaborative department full of inspiring people: eeb.princeton.edu/people Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193474

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

yay! we just got our final backlogged mothbox payment! At one point this summer we had about 20k dangling that different organizations owed us for parts we sent them, but after lots of bureaucracy and a bit of creativity, we got it all back!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The group B people get identified by community members as people who know how to do things, and as a result, they’re repeatedly asked to do more stuff. I know lots of those people. Over the last few years those people have gone from tired to beyond exhausted. This is a cry for help from group b lol

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I know there are a lot of people who want to make the world better but don’t know where to start so just…don’t. I also know every group I work with that is making the world better is kept afloat by exhausted people who desperately need help. If you’re in group A, please find an org to help group B

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A moth with the most perfect waves Genus Megalopyge #moth 🌿🌱

A very furry moth, mostly dark yellow with white highlights. The edges of the wings and legs are gray. The furry texture is arranged in very neat waves along the edge of the wings. They form a perfect sine wave.

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Kevin Keegan @mothpotato.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Chaos on iNat

An iNat curator discusses the confusion surrounding Polenta, which is both a moth genus AND delicious Italian dish.

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Man i could get so many more jobs and paid so much better if I just bullshitted about things one could do (or pretended like i was doing), with tech+nature, rather than just spending all my time like an idiot just trying to actually do things :(

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Please join me for a virtual visit to the NJ Butterfly Club! This Tuesday, I will talk about how insects affect human culture... and have throughout our history as a species. Can register through njbutterflies.org us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.

An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You can now just order Mothboxes in the UK and Europe from the fancy folks at @labcrafter.co.uk

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The upgrade to kicad 10 accidentally dropped some holes in our latest Mothbeams we had made. But I whipped up a lil jig to add em back!

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