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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/10/2026

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe…

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

dreamt I started a trend among gen-z of referring to each other casually as "girlyopteryx." like archaeopteryx, but also, girl.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Apparently, it's #WorldLionDay! A magnificent lion head carved from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. Although small in size (H. 2.3 cm), it exhibits remarkable detail. Found at the Vogelherd Cave, located in the Swabian Jura region. On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

A carved lion’s head made from mammoth ivory, shown in close-up against a black background.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Carved head of a beast. From the #VikingAge Oseberg ship burial of two women. It is one of five unique carved animal heads from the womens’ richly-furnished ship grave. AD 834. Norway. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows an ornately carved wooden head of a beast-like animal with a long wooden neck. Excavated from the Viking Age Oseberg ship burial of two women. The creature has a rounded snout with flared nostrils, a wide open mouth, and large, bulging eyes that give it a fierce expression.

The surface of the head is covered with exceptionally fine carvings. The back of the head is covered with interlaced ribbons and animals, and the top of the snout is ornamented with a cross-hatched pattern.The decoration is so dense that almost every visible part of the head is textured. The features are stylized rather than natural, creating a powerful guardian-like figure that reflects a high level of Viking craftsmanship. The long neck is smooth wood except for a geometric band around the bottom, not seen in my photo.

The Oseberg Viking ship burial of two women contained five of these unique carved animal heads, the exact function of which is unclear. Each head was found with an iron rattle attached to a rope, and some of the ropes ran through the mouth of the beasts.

I saw this artefact in 2018 at the former Viking Ship Museum in Oslo which has now closed. It is being redeveloped and will open late 2027 as the Museum of the Viking Age

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Green fluorite that fluoresces so much it turns blue-purple in sunlight. #geology #minerals #crystals #Fluorite

Human hand holding a small green cubic fluorite crystal.

Human hand holding a small green cubic fluorite crystal that is turning blue at the top.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Dressed to impress 🎨 Joanne Hawthorn

Four illustrations of snazzily dressed woodland animals wearing flowers as hats.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/07/2026

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

A photo looking down on an unusual bee clinging to a green shirt. The bee is a stout bee called a carpenter bee, but what’s unusual is that it is both male and female, known as a gynandromorph. In this particular species (Xylocopa sonorina), females are jet black and males are fuzzy orange. This one has an abdomen that is divided into four perfect quadrants, like a checkerboard, alternating orange and black. The thorax is mostly black but with some orange.

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🧬 New paper in Cell! Analysis of 12 cave lion genomes shows that cave lions and modern lions may have diverged more than three times earlier than previously thought – as early as 1.7 million years ago! AND…they interbred when temperatures dropped! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/9

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Like this post and I will assign you a Roman name based on my current corpus (people with aliases/nicknames).

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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I’m in love with the Stargazer, from the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3000 BCE). She’s made of marble and is likely from western Anatolia, and now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The same statuette from above. She is looking up.

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Happy centenary Sir David! Are there one hundred things named after David Attenborough? Surely we should be able to compile a list… I will start: 1. Attenborosaurus a plesiosaur from the Jurassic Coast en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenbo... Let’s see if we can get to 100! /🧵

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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Alexandra Winteraven writes about the sacred feminine, the Earth, and the wildness of women, wherein beauty and terror inhabit one body. "a living earth includes rot, parasites, mothers eating their young. it includes storms that do not care about your nervous system." substack.com/@alexandrawi...

even inside matriarchy discourse, earth keeps getting turned into the Good Mother.

sigh

she provides, nourishes, heals, protects. she offers beauty, awe, medicine, food, air, water, life.

yes. and.

earth is not a tradwife with moss in her hair.

a living earth includes rot, parasites, mothers eating their young. it includes storms that do not care about your nervous system. it includes fungi digesting what died, tectonic plates grinding the world into a new shape, rivers taking whole houses because water follows force, not human sentiment.

it includes beauty and terror as one body.

when earth only gets named as mother, healer, nurturer, provider, we are still inside the same gendered assignment. feminine equals care. feminine equals nourishment. feminine equals endless giving.

that is still essentialism.

and it does to earth what it does to women: reduces an alive, unruly, dangerous, intelligent force into something useful, comforting, and morally clean.

earth is sacred.

earth is relational.

earth is also feral as fuck.

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European Medicines Agency @ema.europa.eu · 26/04/2026

🐾 Veterinarians help protect animal and #publichealth, and #foodsafety. EMA recommends maximum residue limits, while veterinarians ensure they're respected - helping keep the EU food chain safe. Read more 👇 www.ema.europa.eu/en/veterinar... #WorldVeterinaryDay #VeterinaryMedicines #OneHealth

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.

Assorted Haiku

Haiku #2511

Tourists wait in line
to enter Machu Picchu.
Oh, look! A high queue.

Haiku #564127

how dare you suggest
I have a short attention
spanish omelette

Limeraiku

There once was a young
limerick from Kew who turned
into a haiku.

The Constraints of Haiku

Tied up all night with
a haiku dominatrix
and her three-line whip.

Shakespearean Haiku

Shall I compare thee
To a summer’s day? Alright –
Thou art pretty hot.

How to Write a Haiku

The last line should flow
seamlessly from the first two –
hippopotamus.

Brian Bilston

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Somehow I never knew this.

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European Medicines Agency @ema.europa.eu · 08/04/2026

Veterinary Medicine Safety Day is here! 🐾 Check if parasite treatments work as they should and report any concerns. Keeping medicines effective protects animals, people and the environment. Find out more 👉 link.europa.eu/HXBkvk #VetMedSafetyDay

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Jordan @drsquizz.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Papers by Read cube is the best system I have found for keeping track of literature.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Ribbon eels are found in Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Known for their thin, ribbon-like body and vivid color changes, these fish are sequential hermaphrodites, maturing from black juveniles into blue males, and finally into yellow females.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 16/03/2026

Looms were one of mankind's first machines, but intact finds of the perishable wood constructions are extremely rare. In @antiquity.ac.uk, a Spanish team reports finding the remains of a Bronze Age weaving workshop, including one of the oldest looms ever recovered. @science.org

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Bronze Age loom weaves a tale of ancient textiles

A collapsed roof preserved wood from one of the world’s oldest weaving machines

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The current world chicken population is larger than the planet-wide non-chicken bird population not just today, but at any point in the history of earth.

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European Medicines Agency @ema.europa.eu · 06/03/2026

Last week we recommended the first combined mRNA #vaccine against COVID-19 and seasonal influenza for people over the age of 50. Find out more: www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/firs... #PublicHealth #COVID #MedSky 🧪

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Senator John Hickenlooper @hickenlooper.senate.gov · 04/03/2026

If you’re a Coloradan still stranded, please contact my office ASAP. Website: www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/help-with-fe... Office Phone: 202-224-5941

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Help with Federal Agencies | Senator John Hickenlooper

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Last night I was down a rabbit hole of why fish can't exist deeper than around 8000 meters and I realized that the deepest a fish has ever gone in the ocean and survived was in a submersible. The fish were people. All vertebrates are fish. I hope this helps with ~~the horrors~~

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

When you have an audience or a business you have to ensure that you always provide a lot more value to people than you extract from them. If you don't then, long term, it all breaks down. Young people I talk to today...they feel like the whole entire world has broken this contract with them.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18/02/2026

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Wonderful Ice Age art! Some 40,000 years ago, this tiny head of a cave lion was skilfully sculpted from mammoth ivory. It is one of the oldest known works of figurative art! 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/01/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

“Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that - “

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes -“

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Take a moment to reset your mind. Contemplate this portrait of a mouse. Each little creature has its own unique and special place in this world. We should care for every living thing and take great pleasure in its creation and individual beauty

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European Medicines Agency @ema.europa.eu · 19/01/2026

EMA recommended 30 veterinary medicines for marketing authorisation in 2025 - the highest number of recommendations ever in a year for a second consecutive year. For all the details check out the full report 👇 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/vete...

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Veterinary medicines in 2025 | European Medicines Agency (EMA)

30 new medicines recommended for approval; 13 with a new active substance

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European Food Safety Authority @efsa.europa.eu · 08/01/2026

Explore Europe’s zoonotic disease trends through data. Interactive storymaps & dashboards from the EU One Health 2024 Zoonoses Report make it easier to visualise foodborne outbreaks and 14 zoonotic pathogens across Europe. Dive into the data: 🔗 link.europa.eu/PNhVpV #OneHealth @ecdc.europa.eu

Illustration of a person clutching their stomach in discomfort, with blue-colored digital renderings of bacteria and viruses floating in the air, symbolizing foodborne illness or infection.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

There are astonishing things at the British Museum, but it's the 2000-year-old Roman muffin tin that speaks to me. Humans are humans, through time and across continents. A long time ago, somebody, somewhere undoubtedly got really pissed because she burned the dinner rolls.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I just saw @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social quoting someone's description of jellyfish as "organised water", so - a reminder: - no circulatory system - no skeleton - seem to “think” with their nerve-endings - 95% water, meaning any jellyfish you see almost entirely isn’t one. The ultimate rebel.

A photo by Mike Sowden of a Lion's Mane jellyfish stranded on the shore of South Ayrshire, looking like an explosion of muted colour, or maybe a model of a galaxy made of trifle. So weird-ass.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Someone remake “It’s a Wonderful Life” but Mr. Potter believes that hoarding is morally required so he can devote resources to delivering a far future with trillions of humans while George Bailey is like, “Gosh Darnit! What if taking care of people today is what takes care of people in the future?!”

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Oh my goodness, YES! Why don't more people write musical covers of their papers??!

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Dr Briana Pobiner @brianapobiner.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

My colleague Ryan McRae and I wrote our annual round up of top discoveries in human evolution from this year for the @plos.org Sci Comm blog - enjoy! scicomm.plos.org/2025/12/19/t...

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By Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner 2025 has been quite the wild year! With more exciting stories in human evolution than we…

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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Trail cameras capture the elusive Andean mountain cat and her kitten, one of the world's rarest felines.

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

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Ava Laugh… 🤭 @avalaugh.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

The perfect name for this little cute fur baby is…. Wolverine…. 🥰

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