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just hanging out mostly repost things(with alt text): art, native plants, cool critters, books, etc. icon is Drosera capensis, banner is Drosera anglica both photos attributed to wikipedia user NoahElhardt

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 5h
I was lying down up wind about 20 feet from this pile of sea mess which had been baking in the sun all morning, attracting gnats or whatever. This western sandpiper began climbing to the top, so I slowed my shutter speed, set my camera to F/20 to increase the depth of field, stacked 50 shots, and:
A western sandpiper on top of a heap of sea something, with hundreds of little bugs around them. 🪶
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Drosera @drosera0sundew.bsky.social · 6h
Good 🐝 news for folks in Virginia #nativeplants #bees www.whro.org/environment/...
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Rare bee rediscovered in Virginia after more than a century
Habitat loss is likely behind the bees’ long absence. But they may have been here all along.
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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 7h
Double downward dog 💚🖤 Agapostemon and Exallonyx (I think), native bee and wasp, practicing their flow yoga on a late-season aster in the back yard
A brilliant green metallic bee with a black and white striped abdomen, face down in a flower, and right next to it, very tiny black wasp perched on a petal of that flower.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 13h
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beetle 5/11 - Tetraphyllus #Art #SciArt
illustration of a dark, round beetle with iridescence that makes its otherwise black body and wings appear in vivid rainbow colors like a soap bubble.
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HLK @hlkfotos.com · 19h
Early morning Anna's hummingbird. #BirdOfTheDay #WingsOpenNotFlying 📷🌿🪶
A photo of a young male Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) perched on a thin branch with its wings spread and its head tilted up. Its long black bill reaches toward a cluster of tiny pink flowers and green berries on a snowberry shrub (Symphoricarpos albus) as it feeds. It is a very small bird with a gray-green body and a speckled throat that shows a small patch of bright red gorget feathers just coming in. A few slender brown twigs frame the scene, and the background is a soft blur of tan and green.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.
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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Opodiphthera helena - Helena Gum Moth This has to be one of the most amazing moths to visit our moth light! The Helena Gum moth is one of the largest moths in southwest Western Australia. This one had a wingspan of around 13cm. Stunning! 😍 #teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Top view of a large moth that is pale orange brown and which has bright yellow eyespots lined in blue and black on the hindwings and very broad, feathery antennae
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
Today's Patreon post is another coloring page download for my lovely patrons on any of the paid tiers! Alternatively, you can follow me for free on Patreon to gain access to my monthly newsletter as well as public posts showing a glimpse behind the Whistberry scenes 💜 www.patreon.com/cw/whistberry
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Coloring Page: Octopus! | All Things Whistberry
Here's one of my favorite drawings: an exuberant octopus. I colored it in variations of the trans pride flag colors for prints and shirts I
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ve been inspired by @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social ‘s excellent spooky photos. So how about a spooky nature photo a day till Halloween? Please join me for #SpookyNature! First up is an intense looking Snapping Turtle. Or possibly Godzilla. Small creatures, beware! #herps #SpookyNature 🌿
Close up black and white photo of a large turtle’s head sticking up out of the water. It looks positively prehistoric.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy 3rd day of #Whistober wherein I draw a random thing every day! I was inspired by the monarchs that are currently swarming in our garden for this one. Suggestions for other subjects always welcome! I'm not so good at drawing people, but anything else is fair game! #art #inverts #SciArt
Digital sketch of a monarch butterfly. The butterfly has orange and black wings with a scattering of white dots along the edges. It is posed against a stark black background, making the orange and white pop out at the viewer.
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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026
*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)
Professional photograph of a squirrel leaping down from a branch at a very startled-looking owl. The owl’s yellow eyes are wide as it looks over its shoulder up at the squirrel who clearly has zero regard for his own life, his mouth open as if shouting WITNESS ME, or potentially some sort of justification for this surprise attack, Inigo Montoya style. Whatever the Owl has to say in return is definitely in all caps. 

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California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The marsh was full of coots yesterday. Always fun to watch them running on the water. Taken from the kayak.
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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning friends! Last night was not the most diverse night of #BugLight observations, but I did find this gorgeous Wolf Spider (Hogna lenta I think) hanging out in our sandy yard (it's not called the SC Sand Hills for nothing 😂) #Arachtober #MacroPhotography #Nature #Awe and #Wonder
A photo of a large tan and black wolf spider from above as it rests on the sand of my yard.  The spider's legs are tan and have slender black spine-like hairs.  the prosoma, the forebody, is tan in the middle with black around the sides.  The opisthosoma is mostly tan with some darker mottling around the front part.
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Agates from Mexico @agatesfrommexico.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Blue-gray concentric banding wraps a pentagon-shaped white core — that geometry is textbook Laguna. Tight, even layers with a blue chalcedony rind. Clean cut, good polish. 🪨
Frozen Blue
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Drosera @drosera0sundew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beautiful fossilized coral aka Petoskey stone. Anyone in Michigan want a rad piece of jewelry made with your state stone?
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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This little shrimp has mastered the art of disappearing in the deep 😶‍🌫️⁠ ⁠ Physetocaris microphthalma can hide in plain sight. A transparent body with splashes of red is clever camouflage—red wavelengths disappear in these black waters, leaving this shrimp nearly invisible to predators.⁠
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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) has one of the #BestBeaks. Also beautiful in breeding colors. #BirdoftheDay #birds #Florida #pink
A dark vertical frame with a stunning Roseate Spoonbill in breeding colors, perched in nice light on a branch in the bottom left half. The wading bird has long pink legs, a long white/light pink neck and a long blue/gray bill with a large spatulate spoon shape at the end of it. Accents of bright deep yellow are around the bird's red eye and where the wing meets the shoulder/neck. The wings are pink blending into brilliant red at the top. The background is dark with greenery and a large gray and brown tree trunk running diagonally from right to upper left over the bird's head.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bringing a bright note to Friday & an #1840s dress that is pink in more ways than one. Not only is it a brilliant rosy shade, it also has pinked edges, cut with special shears to create additional forms. Some self coloured satin stitch embroidery is the final touch #HistDeerfield #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Side view of a deep pink ballgown from the 1840s. It has a slop shouldered, horizontally pleated short sleeved bodice and then a layered bell shaped long skirt. Each layer has scalloped edges created with pinking shears and the layers are embroidered with floral satin stitch embroideryA detail of the floral satin stitch embroidery that decorates the pinked flounces of the 1840s pink ballgown
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some prehistoric bling for #FindsFriday 3 stone and 5 decorated glass beads found with the burial of a young Iron Age woman at Langton Herring now in #DorsetMuseum They may originally have been worn individually as amulets or together as a necklace (as shown here) 😍 📷 Sept 2026 #Durotriges
Eight circular beads of different size, 3 of stone and 5 of glass, threaded together for display in a museum case
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This type of brooch was a fashionable status piece amongst wealthy Anglo-Saxon women in the AD 600s. It was excavated by AOC Archaeology in 2000. The grave also contained glass beads and silver rings. Here’s a link to London Museum’s online record: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ornate Saxon copper disc brooch decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670. It must have been a treasured possession! From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London. Museum of London 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows a circular Saxon brooch made of copper, the front of which is ornately embellished with gold and garnets. There are five raised, circular, gold bosses which are outlined with inlaid garnet slabs, and each set with a central, round garnet. Four of the gold bosses are arranged around a fifth, larger, gold boss in the centre of the brooch. The central boss sits within a star-like, four-pointed geometric shape composed of a mosaic of inlaid garnet slabs. The outer edge of the brooch is decorated with two rows of tiny inlaid polished garnets. The eight gold sections at either side of the four smaller bosses are decorated with raised gold filigree which looks like looped, braided cord. Parts of the brooch are worn, with some chipped edges, and missing garnet stones. The brooch measures approximately 7 cm in diameter. It is displayed on a clear glass surface. It was excavated from a woman's grave by AOC Archaeology in 2000 ahead of development construction works. This type of brooch was a fashionable status piece amongst wealthy aristocratic Anglo-Saxon women in the AD 600s. The woman's grave also contained glass beads and silver rings.
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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Four years ago today 🌿 Halogeton glomeratus, the nonnative Saltlover, blooming near Pueblo. As its name says it doesn't mind salt-poisoned soils. Just about the last plant to start blooming in Colorado.
Weird translucent flowers with dark magenta centers
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Victorian Charm" Hummingbird hand embroidery on wallpaper artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p46/vi... #SmallBirdSaturday #WildlifeArt #Embroidery
A square shaped artwork.
A cream wallpaper with a mid golden brown floral pattern. On top are nine incomplete hummingbirds. A ©EmilyTull logo is on the mid right side.
This artwork is about the Victorian era fascination with hummingbirds, as live specimens, jewellery and taxidermy. It decimated the bird numbers, hence the birds are incomplete, fading into the background.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026
Lackluster afternoon at the park, but last sunset until after the heatwave, so i'm giving much love to this yellow rumped warbler who scooped up a couple pieces of dinner just outside my frame. 🪶
Three stills of a yellow rumped warbler in flight, the background has contrast increased to help the birds pop
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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please remember to check your voter registration this week if you live in the US vote.gov/register
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Register to vote in U.S. elections | Vote.gov
Get the information you need to register to vote, check your registration, or update registration information in your state or territory.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Moth mural is happening now!! So excited to see this project come to life oh. my. GOD.
a cercropia moth has been painted in, the luna moth not yet, on a park building in a city park
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 30 vs October 1
Digital painting of a beautiful light green luna moth with white furry body, yellow feathery antenna, and burgundy eyes and stripe decorating the wings. It is perched on a pink peony blossom.Digital drawing in white ink against a black background of a cryptid with luna moth wings, tentacles for legs, deer hooves for hands, antlers, feathery moth antennae, a bird skull head with glowing red eyes.
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Drosera @drosera0sundew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
gorgeous book plate! Was curious if this structure was still around and I found this modern photo of a similar style. more pictures at snippetsofparis.com/chateau-blois/
modern photo of a similar staircase in the historical engraving of the quoted post. less ornate
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SpellFire @spellfire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Houuuurs of work, but this French Cavalier is complete. 🥹💖💎
Front of a French cavalier hat in powder pink with lots of pastel embellishments Side and front angle of hatSide of hatBack of hat
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Drosera @drosera0sundew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I finally have enough goldenrod blooming to try making tea! Will also do syrup if that goes well. Of course, I left more than enough intact for the pollinators 🐝🦋
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 01/10/2026
I'll never forget how, in the first summer of lockdown, the city stopped mowing. The fields & walkways were full of clover - bees & butterflies were everywhere. Then they mowed it. And they were mostly all gone.
A large section of green space next to a path. tall grass in the back and clover in the front. Section of green space by a path that has been mowed with heavy grass clippings
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As with comedy, harvesting milkweed seed is all about timing! Learn how to pick the right time and method, and turn one milkweed plant into many ⤵️ xerces.org/blog/how-to-...
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How to Collect Seeds From Milkweed: A Pod and a Plan
Harvesting local milkweed seed for later planting is a great way to increase monarch breeding habitat. We'll teach you how to harvest and separate the fluff from the good stuff.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 30/09/2026
Amazing and evocative longread, with images, on what happens when the rain goes away.
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The Driest Days in Hundreds of Years
In West Texas, the creeks dried up, cattle production struggled, and small towns like Candelaria slowly emptied out.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’d very much like you to read and share this
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Has your school connected with a scientist yet this year? Skype a Scientist offers free connections with scientists for virtual Q&As with classrooms, libraries, clubs, and more! Sign up for a match at www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html 🖼️ by @hanfranstudio.bsky.social
A goofy school of fish in a science class swim while dropping green liquid that says let’s talk science in school
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that you can mute words and phrases, temporarily or forever. Go to Settings, then Moderation and Content Filters, and then Muted Words and Tags.
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Nick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An Ericad a Day, 6/n Monotropa uniflora, ghost pipes. Quoddy Head State Park, Maine, July 2018. 🌱 The plant lacks chlorophyll and is parasitic on mycorrhizal fungi such as Russula and Lactarius.
Delicate pale pink stems, each curved like a shepherd's crook with white vestigial leaves and a single-downward facing white flower at the tip, are emerging from dense moss.  They look tobacco pipes planted stem-down in the moss.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 30/09/2026
Here's a small thing you can do for the future: 🌐 Find a webpage you care about. 💾 Save it. ✔️ That's it. One saved page becomes part of the web's shared memory. Try it today 👉 web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse
Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine page, with the "Save Page Now" options circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30/09/2026
Crane posting. 🪶
A sandhill crane dances in a field below the sun as two others watch on
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Liliturra @liliturra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bibi is doing great work making things for the disabled. So much that is sold to the disabled is ugly, industrial or looks like it would be used by your great grandmother. Her stuff is cute, cool and functional. Check her out!
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Scott Harris 好辣斯科特 @scohar70.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I did this last year, by which I mean, I did nothing. No raking. No mowing. And guess what? My lawn was fine! And we had lightning bugs and butterflies galore this summer! I am very happy to give up this one tedious chore and never do it again.
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join us to learn the many ways we can support the amazing invertebrates within homeowners association communities, with tips, tricks, and new resources for creating and maintaining habitat that is “HOA-ready.” 🏘️🦋 🗓️ Oct 6 at 12am PT / 2pm ET 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
“Allies in Conservation: Making Your HOA a Haven for Pollinators. October 6” A house on a suburban street, with native plants along the front lawn and sidewalk.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 30/09/2026
We got an AMAZING Ask @theflytrapmedia.com advice question this week: What do you do when people insist on calling your cats goofy nicknames you don't like?
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Ask the Flytrap: Feeling Catty
Must I suffer my friends' horrible nicknames for my cats in silence?
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Walking around in the bush with my head down again this morning. I’m absolutely in love with the gills on this mushroom. I think it might be a type of oysterling. 🍄🌿
Looking at the underside of a frilly oyster mushroom. The different lobes overlap, each other kind of like a nudibranch, it’s tan gills form, beautiful, ripping patterns.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The graded shading that radiates outwards from the hip has created the impression of a firework launched into the night sky in a starburst of silver. You can almost hear the crackle of the sparks as they fade. Early #1920s #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A flapper style 1920s evening dress of black chiffon decorated almost entirely with silver beadwork in a firework design. It centres over one hip and then burst outwards in shaded silver lines
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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This painting was featured by the Chicago Ornithological Society in the fall issue of their quarterly magazine, The Chicago Birder The org does great work with restoring and maintaining local habitats and advocating for protections for our local and migratory birds! www.chicagobirder.org
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨🚨Emergency protest🚨🚨 The Drexel board will be at the constitution center in Old City (525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106) from 5-6. We're asking Drexel to disaffiliate from the Academy of Nat Sci to allow them to negotiate what's best for them w/o Drexel interference. Be there.
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Amy Gann @amygann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A great egret picks up a feather that was floating in the water. A simple moment made more dramatic by the light of sunrise. For the #birdoftheday theme of #EFG #birds #egret #heron #protectnature #EastCoastKin
A great egret in silhouette.   The sun is rising behind it so the sky and water reflect an orange hue.
The reflection of the bird is clear as it picks up a feather from the water.  It quickly dropped it.
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