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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 15h

When a loved one comes out to you, your positive reaction becomes the story they tell for the rest of their life about the moment they knew they were safe. Make it a story worth telling.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I finished listening to Damsel today, written by Elana K Arnold & narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden. A prince rescues a damsel from a dragon - but she's got no memories of her life before, & no family concerned about her fate. The damsels never do. 💙📚 📚🪐

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Step up, and share this around to encourage others to do the same. I'll probably be gone less than a year from now, and I want to be able to leave secure in the knowledge that my work will continue apace.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ok gonna get Sincere(TM) here for a second There's a lot of doomerism about how "We're all cooked" because "The GOP is trying to steal our votes." So here's the true story of how the GOP tried to steal our votes here in NC and FAILED. TWICE. Ballot fraud isn't final. It gets stopped all the time.

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Check if you're registered to vote at http://voterresource.org/saraht

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We need more wildlife #crossings! And bills in the US House & Senate would fund them: the Wildlife Road Crossings Program Reauthorization Act of 2025 provides long-term funding for wildlife crossings. Both House & Senate bills have bipartisan support, so there's a chance of getting them passed.

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Clare Hawkins @clawkins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Take part in Tasmania's annual population tracking of noisy but elusive species... Choose your survey square (anywhere in the state, there's one <6 km from you) & book your recorder. Help discover who's calling where—& over time, how their populations are going! naturetrackers.au/projects/cal...

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The book group selection for September is Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice. It's an apocalypse story set in a remote reservation up in Canada. We never find out the cause, we just see how the community handles things (or not). & it's not sci fi or fantasy... 💙📚

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Finished listening to Eric Garcia's book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation (read by the author). Lots of firsthand accounts & interviews, from the beginning of autism in the DSM to about 2020. It was very interesting & will be useful. 💙📚

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle. (There's even a Matchbox banana car!) (This is a picture from the Detroit Free Press. I didn't see it this summer, but it's always a crapshoot on where it's going to be.)

A ginormous 4-seater banana car pulled over by a Michigan State Police SUV.

There's no hood on the banana, just a wind screen, so it's not even a convertible.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Watching a 19 year old Keanu Reeves covering a 1984 teddy bear convention for Canadian kids show "Going Great" probably won't cure what ails you, but it might help you forget about it for 90 seconds or so.

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Amazing video of KEANU REEVES with CBC covering Teddy Bear convention in 1984...#keanureeves

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My attempt to feed the ravens has been interrupted By an INTRUDER.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Do NOT come down hard on federal government agencies that change Lake Ontario to Lake America. Trump can order them to do so. DO come down hard on any company, state government, or other group that makes that change. Trump's order has NO legal power over them.

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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'd like to remind people that today's "clanker" discourse started with a video by a prosthetics user saying that people were using the term "clanker" at her, because of the prosthetics. However you feel about AI, please remember that some people are using that term to refer to prosthetics users.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 24/08/2026

I think that I finally understand the root of the malaise in U.S. society. There are no social sanctions for being an asshole. People can be absolutely horrible to one another, but provided they are affluent and white, there is no social penalty. We need to stigmatize assholes.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Listened to The Wolf & the Woodsman, written by Ava Reid & narrated by Saskia Maarleveld. The write-up said it was a fantasy based on Hungarian history & Jewish folklore - which means now I need to read *those* things. It's enemies-to-lovers with magic & religion & court intrigue. 💙📚 📚🪐

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Elinor Lichtenberg @dremlichtenberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Another PhD opportunity in my lab! Interdisciplinary NSF-funded project developing a new framework and tools for understanding and valuing ecosystem services, with a focus on crop #pollination. Details: cos.unt.edu/biology/lich... 🌐🌎👩🏿‍🔬

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Interested in joining the Lichtenberg Lab? See below. The Lichtenberg lab is committed to providing an inclusive and supportive environment to trainees from diverse backgrounds.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This month's book club pick was Freezing Point, written by Anders Bodelsen & translated from the Danish by Joan Tate. A fiction editor in 1973, diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, becomes one of the first people to be "frozen down". He's awakened in 1995 & 2022, & each time things are worse.

A head with spiky hair is poking up out of a file box, with conspicuous tears. The title is angled around the image, with the author's name on the side of the box. Icicles are hanging off of everything.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hope is a thing that fights in the dark.

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is why it's important to remind everyone not to placate the intolerant.

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Yet even now, when weather records are being broken, when climate change is demonstrably here, not in the future, we seem frozen."

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Heatwaves expose the great human gift for ignoring catastrophe

We need to stop waiting for someone else to break the spell

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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

⏰ Travel support applications are still open, but only until the 15th of August! ⏰ 🌊 Atlantic Plastics 2026 📍 Harpa, Reykjavík, Iceland 📆 20–22 October 2026 Apply now and join the conversation shaping science-informed action on marine plastic pollution. 🔗 atlanticplastics.is/travel-support

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Before the semester begins, can you look at your schedule and find 30m a day to take a break? Ideally it's lunch or dinner (depending on when you work) - time to fuel up on more than mini Snickers bars and string cheese (I speak from experience). But rest your brain. Walk. Stare at a wall.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If there is one piece of advice I can give to expectant parents it is this: do not buy baby furniture new. Cribs, playpens, high chairs, toddler towers, they’re all over Marketplace and Buy Nothing groups. Also, thrift stores have tons of baby clothes and toys in great condition

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fine, have a cat. Fancy is napping in a short cat tree by a window. Looks uncomfortable, but what do I know? She's the cuddliest cat I've ever known. Not a bad inheritance. 😸

A tortoiseshell cat napping in the brown shag-carpet-covered "cup" of a cat tree, with her chin propped on the edge. Out thru the window you can see a bit of the deck & the railing for the stairs.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So I started a science teacher Instagram (it's a Meta app, I know 😑) & today I figured out how to put multiple pictures in one post. Yay?

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Sean McCann @ibycter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So, @cataranea.bsky.social and I went to Guyana over the past week (ish) to attend #BugShot, in the Rupununi Savannah, at Karanambu Lodge. You wanna see some pictures of what we saw?

A short haired woman with salt and pepper hair and red glasses, knitting, with headphones on, she has a spider-web t-shirt on, and a blue glass pendant. She is lovely.

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Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Thread, and yes to all of it.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Finished up The Trouble with Poetry & Other Poems by Billy Collins, for the poetry slot in the Booksweet challenge. Plain language, funny, & profound. (Also short.) Poetry is better when it doesn't rhyme? At least for me. How do you get chosen to be a poet laureate anyways? 💙📚

The cover is a head-&-shoulders portrait of a black bear, against an orangish background. (Look at those ears! This is an easy one in #KnockKnockWhosBear.) The author's name is in the bottom quarter, in dark orangish letters on a white background.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We listened to The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner & Other Stories by Terry Pratchett, performed by Julian Rhind-Tutt (complete with sound effects). Over a dozen short stories, written when Sir Terry was a junior reporter (age 17). He fixed 'em up a little bit, according to the introduction. 💙📚 📚🪐

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I bought a signed copy of T Kingfisher's Wolf Worm. A scientific illustrator is hired to help an entomologist with his book on parasitic insects in the post-Reconstruction South. Only, what happened to the previous illustrator? & why is the wildlife acting so weird? 💙📚 📚🪐 @tkingfisher.com

This is a beautiful cover! I very pretty plant is wound into the words of the title - only on second glance, it's unsettling. The roots are blood red, the curved stem has pupae & flies hanging down instead of flowers, & the 2 red flowers have pollen-bearing stamens that look like jaws full of teeth. Also, there's hornworm caterpillar clinging to the stem that has a dozen or more parasitic wasp eggs attached to it.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So I finished up my teacher-created resource for HHMI Biointeractive & submitted it today. Teacher peeps, they do good work. It's worth the time to join one of their programs. Scientist peeps, have you considered how a teacher can help with "broader impact"? #EduSky 🧪

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I finished listening to Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, written by Sabrina Strings & read by Allyson Johnson. This was my last category in the library's summer challenge - a body positive message. 🤷‍♀️ Definitely an academic book, & it made me want to throw things. 💙📚

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Listened to The Science of Science Fiction: The Influence of Film & Fiction on the Science & Culture of Our Times by Mark Brake, read by Matt Godfrey. It fit the Booksweet challenge "26 letters in the title" (I didn't count the subtitle) & was fun on the way to doctor visits. 💙📚 📚🪐

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📢 New thing I learned: As part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), a new Food Traceability Rule was supposed to go into effect last January that would have made tracing the produce potentially implicated in pathogen outbreaks much faster & easier. But... 🧵1/3 www.fda.gov/food/food-sa...

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FSMA Final Rule on Requirements for Additional Traceability Records

The final rule is a key component of FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint and implements Section 204(d) of the FSMA.

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Elinor Lichtenberg @dremlichtenberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New grad student opportunity in my lab (PhD or MS)! Part of a USDA grant determining impacts of ranch management on #pollinators, plants, and soil microbes. Details: cos.unt.edu/biology/lich... 🌎👩🏿‍🔬🌐

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 21/07/2026

The U.S. Secretary of Defense just stated that—so far—the war with Iran has cost $37.5 billion dollars. That's since February. That same amount is how much the United States spent on planetary science from FY2013 through FY2026 inclusive. Thirteen years of planetary science or five months of war.

The Curiosity rover on Mars. At about $2.6 billion, it buys you about ten days of Iran war.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I forgot about this book! Tempests & Slaughter by Tamora Pierce. This is a Tortall book, which is why I picked it up. Ozorne, who later grows up to be Emperor Mage of Carthak, is one of 3 young prodigies at the imperial University - bound by fate, fated for trouble. But it's not his story.

The title is in fancy gold letters. The background picture is a single white feather, the bottom of which was dipped in gold. There's a puddle of gold that had dropped off the feather. Some of the letters look like they're dripping too.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My husband had cataract surgery so we listened to this month's book group choice, mostly while driving to doctor visits: The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K LeGuin & narrated by John Skelley. How many ways are there, to be human? To be inhuman? 💙📚 📚🪐

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I read Lucy Foley's The Guest List for my "destination wedding" category. (Thanks to the person at Booksweet for the recommendation!) The destination? Murder. OK, the destination is actually a tiny island off the coast of Ireland. But it's a murder mystery, not a romance. 💙📚

"Lucy Foley - The Guest List" is written in large yellow letters, along with a built-in circle showing that this is a Reese's Book Club pick. The tag line, in hard-to-read aqua is "You'd kill to be on it". The picture behind the title is a craggy grey island with a grey stone almost-castle rising up out of a grey sea, with grey storm clouds filling the space behind the words. You're in a boat, with a smidge of railing visible & rain rolling down the "windshield", heading towards this foreboding grey island.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So I've been a biology teacher for a dozen years now. Before that, I worked at a nature center that had a bird banding program for two decades. I just finished rough drafts of supplemental materials for HHMI's "Mapping Migrations: The Bird Genoscape Project" & I am behind the times!

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So many sandwich facts! You will not be disappointed. 🥪

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Beautiful Mastcam imagery captured yesterday by Curiosity #Mars July 11, 2026 - Sol 4951 🧪🔭 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

An ochre toned image capturing the Yardang geological unit uphill of the rover.

An ochre toned image capturing a ridge or butte nearby the rover.

An ochre toned image capturing the foot of a ridge or butte nearby the rover.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Finished up The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin this week (it fits the "nonlinear" category in my library's summer reading challenge) & o. my. gosh. The prologue introduces us to the end of the world (some guy just causes a giant rift in the continent!) & a mother finding her murdered child. 💙📚 📚🪐

The cover shows a close up of an ornate detail on a grey-ish stone wall, with patches of orange-ish lichen. The title & author's name take up the top half of the cover. An orange circle in the bottom right says " winner of the Hugo award 2016”.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Finished listening to Creation Stories of the Ancient World, a set of 12 Great Courses lectures by Joseph Lam. & when he says ancient, he means it - We start with a Sumerian story. So, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Hurro-Hittites, Greece, & the "Hebrew Bible". So many connections! 💙📚

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