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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

AI stans and their huckster daddys are bad for everyone. You lazy dipshits are rubes and your computer girlfriend is ruining the country for the rest of us, you selfish dicks

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𝕲𝖆𝖝 @gaxix.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hello and welcome to those who follow me for a long time and those who joined today. I'm working on a little monster compendium. Pdf available soon on my k0f3 support page .. .. I'm working on it so yeah ... here's a preview :p . Have a good day ✌️

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i hate to say it but working in the lab on a weekend is kind of awesome

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Batfeula @batfeula.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

gengar

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/10/2026

World’s Largest Dinosaur Shoe Print Discovered In Australia theonion.com/world-s-largest-dinosa…

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks @teamdiptera.bsky.social for busting me into the entomology archives... beefly from 1965

A wood panel painting of a beefly pictured next to a small pinned beefly specimen. The painting features the fly sipping a margarita next to birthday balloons on a patio.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Snowfall trend over the last 75 years. It's as if something has changed. 🤔

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Bird 🌲 @birdwarde.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Great Horned Owl in an Oak 🍂🌟

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2024

Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!

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Ann T. Tate @annttate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Please RT: Do you use math to address interesting biological problems? Join us at Vanderbilt BioSci! We are conducting an open-rank TT search in Theoretical Biology: apply.interfolio.com/194619. We are a friendly and collaborative department with interests spanning a range of biological disciplines!

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Pravrutha Raman @pravrutharaman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Now that we have moved coasts, I am thrilled to share that the ChromEvo (Raman) lab is officially open at UMass Boston 🎉 We ask how CHROMatin EVOlution leads to functional innovation and we are hiring at multiple levels. Read on and share with folks who maybe interested chromevoramanlab.github.io

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Throwback to when I made a Simpsons take on Skinamarink by editing backgrounds from the show

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(grabbing different mushrooms off the forest floor and eating them) no you don’t have to identify them that’s a myth

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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fort Wayne News And Sentinel August 6,1914

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

today's department speaker is the guy who cowrote a paper about a cool endemic beetle i read recently so that's super fun

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New Merch Alert!! Fish. The ocean's full of 'em. And protecting the ocean is a global job, so we better learn the word for fish in as many languages as we can fit on a tote bag. Support @skypeascientist.bsky.social by getting a *sturdy* tote bag with a zipper (with a zipper!!!) at SquidFacts.net

4 freak-ass fish illustrated on a tote bag. We got a barreleye, a mola mola, a gulper eel, and a viperfish

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Carlos Ruiz @kairuiz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some swords from this #swordtember

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paper beetles OUT NOW! @sneepsnorp3d.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

inside you there are two Weevils

Low poly, toon-shaded acorn weevil. An arrow points to the weevil with text that reads, "Has never heard of Excel."

Low poly acorn weevil wearing a tie. Text above the weevil reads, "Weevil who knows Excel."

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hurricane Isaias is putting on a lightning show tonight. Sheesh.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is obscene. Destroying something so precious for shitty memes? Just sickening.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 08/10/2026

NEW BEETLE FAMILY DROPPED

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Haley Mortensen @hmortensenart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Day 7 of #Peachtober! Today’s prompt is #bubble, so I wanted to draw some deep sea guys. Here we have an oarfish, barreleye, flapjack octopus, deep sea angler, and silky jelly! #peachtober26 #peachtober26bubble

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ok i just learned that when thomas the tank engine became cgi it didn't use 100% cgi right away, they initially kept using all the sets and models but mocap'd the faces. so it was these horrifying eldritch fractal abominations

photo of blue model trains with black and white triangles and squares on the front

vhs screenshot of one of the same trains

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"gradually accumulating novelty collectibles over time" guilty as charged i love the contrast between "likes cute toys" and "constantly building custom pc's" just because i look up monster hunter plushies occasionally and bought parts to replace the fans on my laptop one time

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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Funding opportunity!

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Its now been confirmed that Mason and some others at FHSU decided to talk to a london based middle east antiquities dealer that Mason heard on a podcast. So instead of talking to someone in-house or even in the US about ethical deaccessioning, she does this. www.hdnews.net/2026/10/07/b...

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BREAKING NEWS - Salomon Aaron Identified as FHSU’s Outside Museum Adviser; Sternberg Fundraising Goal Raised to $1 Million - Hays Daily News

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Recruiting students to your Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD program? Make sure your stipend information is up-to-date in the Biology PhD Stipend database: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...

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Biology PhD Stipends

Biology Ph.D. stipend database with live summaries from the shared Google Sheet.

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James Lamsdell, PhD @fossildetective.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Has a museum with staff whose whole job is to understand the legal and ethical treatment of fossil collections. "wE HeARd a DuDe oN a PoDCaSt"

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

MASSIVE TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual assault She heard him mumble something like, "-ic bitch, not a very good fuck," which her mind filled in as "Democratic bitch," she recalled. Men have no idea how angry we are. I hope she’s elected in a landslide. 👇

It was just after 2 a.m. on a pitch-black Friday morning when Bernadette Greene-Placentia's life changed. The Democratic candidate for
Congressional District 8 strolled across a parking lot to repair a damaged campaign sign. It was a routine she'd followed all summer. This time, she only made it a few yards.
An attacker smashed her over the head. She blacked out. She woke up to find a strange man on top of her.

Greene-Placentia struggled to open her eyes. She felt a sharp pain below her waist. The attacker was pulling his penis out of her.
She heard him mumble something like,
"-ic bitch, not a very good fuck," which her mind filled in as "Democratic bitch," she recalled. She wasn't sure that was exactly what he said.

She believes she could have suffered a concussion during the altercation, which would have been her third one, although she didn't seek medical attention. "I just wanted to forget it," she said. Her body was covered with bruises from the assault, including dime-sized ones from fingers and more on the back of her arms and above her butt.

When Placentia called, she was in the bath multiple times and was "being nauseous on the phone," he said.
According to the police report, Greene-Placentia vaginally bled for three days after the assault.

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Aide Macias-Muñoz @aidemm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please share! My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in evolutionary development. For more details feel free to email me.

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Lunalopex @lunalopex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

not to be confused with the common white-rumped greg

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are you an undergrad, graduate student, or Post-doc in STEM? Want to switch to science writing? The AAAS Mass Media Fellowship places students in working newsrooms nationwide for 10 weeks in summer. It's PAID! 📝https://massmedia.secure-platform.com/a/page/About

AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship. Deadline January 4 2027. Images are a man writing and a woman holding a microphone.

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Thomas CK Hall @baeussupremacy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Insects? In MY garden?? It may be more likely than you think... Please help us complete this study on gardening in the GTA!! And pls share :) DM me for more information or send an email to this address: bugslabutoronto@gmail.com #Toronto #UrbanGardening #UrbanFarming #GreaterTorontoArea #Ecology

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When FHSU talks about closing down the Sternberg, they are saying that the people of western Kansas don't deserve the same opportunities to be citizens of our society as, say, New Yorkers. It is literally the same thing as shutting down a library...you are saying those people do not deserve literacy

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So when the ANSP talks about closing down their exhibit space, what they're actually saying is that the people of the city of Philadelphia, which encompasses 1.5m people within city limits and 6.3m people in extended metro area, do not deserve the tools necessary to be good citizens of our society

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Supporting scientific research is part of what museums do, but it is not what museums ARE. What museums ARE is part of a wide range of institutions that promote good citizenship by giving people a window into a world outside their personal experiences and day to day grind.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I posted this last week without comment, but I'm going to comment now. The people who established the system of museums in the West had a very specific reason for doing so: they thought that having an appreciation for the wonders of the world was absolutely necessary for being a good citizen.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WDQS in May.

Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The spooky season has arrived, and that means Creepy Biology is upon us. It's time to talk origins. It's time to talk gore. It's time to talk about BLOOD. Specifically, YOUR blood 🩸 [a thread]

A blood splatter by Luis Moraga 17, from wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EFECTOS_(SANGRE)_(93).png

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of my students was like "i have a present for youuu" and handed me a button pin facedown and i was like aw so sweet a bug pin IT WAS JUST MY PI'S FACE WITH THUMBS UP CLIPART?

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

over the years I swear I've had 10+ people ask my permission to get this pic as a tattoo, but not a single person has followed up with the actual tattoo photo surely one of you is out there? you actually did it, yeah? not just a bluff?

painting of two squid, one in bottom left corner, one in top right corner, touching appendages in the middle, a parody of the creation of adam

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My cover to Here & Now. A comic featuring true stories about dementia in Wales and Japan. My cover features Mr & Mrs Sato (whose story is detailed inside) and incorporates a painting by legendary manga artist Yoshikazu Ebisu. The book is available in English, Welsh and Japanese from re-live.org.uk

A copy of Here And Now in English, Japanese and Welsh editions.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🗺️ The California Geological Survey is hiring 2 positions in our GIS and Publications Unit - a GIS and Publications Supervisor and a GIS Specialist! Spread the world!

A picture of a man and woman sitting in a computer. The words on top say we’re hiring.

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