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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 30/06/2025

🌟 It’s Opal’s next big opportunity to shine! 🌟 Since her dazzling debut on exhibit this spring, Opal quickly settled right into her new home and bonded with her raftmates. 💙

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Spring in Ottawa. #Magnolia

A magnolia tree in full bloom, viewed close up, with two large pink blossoms closest and taking up about the lower two thirds of the upright frame at the bottom-right. Beyond it, the sky is just full of more of the pink blossoms, smaller and blurrier the further away they go.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Coming in hot! Pan is a Krider's red-tailed hawk, a naturally occurring color variation noted for being very light to almost white. Wild red-tailed hawks come in an amazing variety of colors, from nearly black to bright white and a whole scale in between.

A light colored red-tailed hawk, wings and tail spread wide, coming in for a landing with a blue sky behind

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Monica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

As an alum, I'm looking forward to hearing how my alma mater, which prides itself as a protector of free speech, is taking action on behalf of these students/fellow alums. @uchicagoalumni.bsky.social

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☀️SunshyneArt☀️ @sunshyneart.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#AcolorADayPril #purple #Art #MixedMedia #AnimalArt #AcrylicPainting #PositiveArt #HappyArt Today's color is purple, which also happens to be my favourite colour! Here's a happy purple elephant surrounded by flowers. "Land Of The Giant Wildflowers"mixed media on cradle board 😊☀️✌️🐘🌸🌻

Happy painting featuring a purple elephant with a little peach coloured bird on its head, holding a yellow flower. There are white markings of flowers and swirls on its body. Tall flowers surrounded it, with a few butterflies and white stones at its feet. The sky is brilliant blue with a pattern stencilled on it.

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Matthew Hurteau @mhurteau.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Our country is, well... Here I provide a diversion. I am actively working to eliminate the over utilization of utilize in science writing. Use is a fine word. And, for the love of everything, we need to dump elucidate. This is science. You should always be working toward clarity...

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Teresa Galusaurus @galusaurus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

✨ Mutation March, day 1 - cephalopod 🦑 Let's go, Year Seven! I love starting the month off strong with cephalopods. Squid anatomy is so easily transformed. #MutationMarch2025 #creaturedesign #monstera #mutationmarch #artchallenge

Traditional illustration done in watercolor and markers, depicting a surreal squid with plant-like features of a monstera--aerial root arms, big leafy tentacles, and its mantle is a flower.

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TetroniMike 🏳️‍🌈 @tetronimike.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Boy it sure would be a shame if this US government form asking you to dox teachers using DEI in classrooms were to be filled with complete absolute garbage. Sure would suck if their database was rendered completely useless. enddei [dot] ed [dot] gov

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Why does a 38-year old U.S. Attorney in SDNY, who is also a die hard conservative, have more guts and integrity than the entirety of the GOP Senate Conference combined?! Shame on the shameless sycophants and enablers there, who can’t find the spine to stand up to common MAGA bullies.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Shoutout to the archivists who saved this important data! Also, a reminder to support librarians and archivists when they come for us. We do important work for all of you!

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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 02/02/2025

Life advice for the ages. Those doing wrong want you tired and hopeless. But stay angry. And when a chance is in front of you: bite back. Digital plans for a real linocut. I'm anxiously awaiting a press to make this stuff possible with my RSI in my hands. #art #tiger #resist #linocut

The image is digital art made up to look like a two color linocut print. It features a geometric twisting snarling tiger. It's flanked by the text "Stay Angry" and "Bite Back" that follows the contours of the tiger.

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Henry Adams, MSc (they/them) @henrysciart.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A plate from my upcoming field guide project, Winter Wildlife of Chicago #scientificillustration #procreate #wildlifeart #queerartist #queerscientist

A field guide plate with illustrations of ten wildlife species that can be found in Chicago during the winter, including American Coot, Great Blue Heron, Swamp Rose Mallow seed pods, and more. The illustrations were made using Procreate and have graphite and watercolor components with a muted color pallet.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Terrific! What a cool project from @zoekellerart.bsky.social!

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 17/01/2025

Fuck your complaints. What’s something you love?

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 16/01/2025

The theme for #JanuArty today is clothing! How about a fancy hat? #art

Art piece of a drawing in white ink against a black background of a cat wearing a hat of sorts that is covered with pearls. The cat's ears are sticking out of 2 holes in the hat and the cat is kind of glowering beneath lowered brows as though it perhaps is not happy to have such a thing on its head. The cat's fur is white and it's eyes are a golden yellow.

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Eileen Sanders Makoff @emakoff.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

That face! I’m glad to see we haven’t lost this species, at least for now.

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 11/01/2025

ILL is one of the BEST inventions ever. Right up there with vaccines and sliced bread. 🤩

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Well today has been horrible for so many people maybe you also need to see that they feed the possums tiny king cakes at the New Orleans zoo

A possum enjoys a little teeny king cake inside its enclosure

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Meet the cookiecutter shark: 20 inches long, with the audacity to take perfect circles out of whales and submarines. Evolution didn’t give it size, so it gave it chaos. #marinelife

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Gregory Makoff @gmakoff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hi, new Bluesky friends! Interested in Argentina, debt, default, and Javier Milei? Check out this lengthy, but fun conversation just out on CSI Chat podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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#24 - Gregory Makoff

Podcast Episode · CSI Chat · 01/07/2025 · 1h 37m

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Eileen Sanders Makoff @emakoff.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I’m not an academic, and I didn’t grow up on a farm, but I did grow up dirt poor in America, and I will say so much of this resonates. Yes, I worked hard, and I was smart. But I was also very lucky. And I had the help of incredibly kind people. There were no bootstraps.

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Eileen Sanders Makoff @emakoff.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Yes! I’m an elementary school librarian, I have a tiny budget, and I absolutely prioritize requests from my students. I’ve been known to go to Barnes and Noble on my lunch break if a request is urgent enough.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/01/2025

News literacy is increasingly difficult and social media is inherently messy with how it deals with news, especially breaking news. You get to decide if you want a news fire hose, a trickle, or none at all - and you can change your mind about how much you want. Keep an eye on your stress levels.

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Eileen Sanders Makoff @emakoff.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

“It Takes a City,” a short video made for New York City’s Wild Bird Fund by Pratt students. Lovely!

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Eileen Sanders Makoff @emakoff.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

There are moments I miss the dinosaur research project I used to do with my third graders.

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Eileen Sanders Makoff @emakoff.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Something to think about (and yes, I admit the hypocrisy of providing more anti-boredom fodder).

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 28/12/2024

My collection 😁

A passel of seven different trilobite species, all pointing rightwards in an apparent migration. All are solid bronze.

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Eileen Sanders Makoff @emakoff.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Good morning! What a beautiful kitty!

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Cheryl Fury @tudorwench.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Work protocol for today:

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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

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Elizabeth Neswald @octobeth.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Today in marine invertebrates Welcome to winter! 📸: Dan Hershman - IMG_4171

a frosted nudibranch. It is off-white and covered in icicle-like frosted-looking appendages. It seems almost translucent and glowing.

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Eileen Sanders Makoff @emakoff.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I follow all these marine biologists, and I usually have no idea what they’re saying, but their photos are so pretty.

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

For your weekend relaxation: 1.5 billion years of plate tectonics in 60 seconds. Fun to locate your hometown (or ancestral town) and track where it's been over the years...or how long it's even existed as a physical location. 🧪 theconversation.com/witness-1-8-...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Baby jellyfish are no bigger than snowflakes ❄️ Alt: Three small one-week old jellyfish float in a water drop (they were returned happy and healthy back to the sea). 📽️ By me, species: Pelagia noctiluca 🌿🦑🐙🧪🪼

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