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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 20h

🌱 At the edge of an #invasion, #ecology and #evolution interact—shaping spread, impacts and opportunities for control. Our new synthesis explores why invasion fronts matter for biodiversity management. Led by Phillip Haubrock. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #InvasiveSpecies #bioinvasions 🌍🌐🧪

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Update: There is a rapidly emerging fire weather threat in parts of SoCal Thu-Fri in places that have not seen significant recent precip (esp. western LA metro). A warm Santa Ana event will bring strong, gusty winds even to lower elevs, but vegetation moisture highly variable.

Fire weather risk map from NWS Los Angeles depicting high (level 3 of 4) risk specifically across western LA metro on Thursday.

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Negaunee Institute for Plant Conservation Science & Action @negauneeinstitute.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🧪October is a great time for a good scare, but it's always scary to think about how many plants are on the brink of extinction. Our Plants of Concern program is working to save endangered/threatened plants. 📸 Lysimachia borealis flowers (left) & seed capsule (right) by Carol Freeman; Bruce Patterson

Two Lysimachia borealis flowers, small with 7 white petals (left) and one light gray seed capsule (right)

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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 11/10/2026

Sinojapyx giganteus is the oldest known dipluran. These soil-dwelling insect relatives are usually tiny (2-5 mm), but this Jurassic giant was >5 cm long and its fossils suggest internal arthropod mouthparts may have evolved independently up to 3 times! 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Artistic reconstruction of Sinojapyx giganteus.

Credit: Jie Sun

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Max Hooper, Ernie Pollard & Norman Moore experimental hedges at Monks Wood will be 65 yrs old next year. Planted as 1+ km of pure hawthorn in 1963, the aim was to see how long it took them to naturally diversify. They're still mostly hawthorn, but many other species have colonised.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents Financial Times reveals that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is roughly $20 billion lower than previously expected: futurism.com/future-society/ai-fina…

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Couple of snapshots of mid-level strato/altocumulus cloud deck arriving in Santa Barbara in advance of Tropical Storm Rachel (late morning on Oct 10). Bands of showers and thunderstorms are already approaching San Diego and Orange counties; main event will be late tonight. #CAwx

Photograph by Daniel Swain showing mid-level strato/alto-cumulus clouds as viewed, looking south from Santa Barbara, on Oct 10.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The NOAA National Hurricane Center has just issued a Tropical Storm Watch part coastal Southern California, including city/county of San Diego. This is only second time such a product has ever been issued for any part of California (TS Hilary in 2023 was other instance). #CAwx

Official graphic from NOAA NHC showing projected path of TS Rachel, including Tropical Storm Watches that have been issued for northern Baja, CA, MX and southern California, CA, USA.

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Heteromeles @heteromeles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m not a mathematician or even very sympathetic to pure math (biologist, sorry). That said, it sure looks like the AIs, with their dumping of hundreds of proofs on the math community, are trying to destroy the math community and force us to depend on AIs. Am I alone in this perception?

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Update: The remnants of Hurricane Rachel, likely as a post-tropical (perhaps still tropical) storm, now appears likely to bring significant impacts to northern Baja CA, far S. California, AZ, and UT--mainly Sunday into Monday. [Brief thread]

Map of currently projected track or Rachel and its remnants from NOAA's National Hurricane Center.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I forget, the Wire Mother monkeys turned out normal, right?

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every time a historical costumer posts that they’ve modified a technique to allow for not getting fucking heat stroke, people have a cow. Gonna let you in on a little secret that is not at all secret, you just don’t get it: Climate change completely aside, it was colder in the past.

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Heteromeles @heteromeles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hey Americans! Want to make the President and Congress SUFFER? Force them to do their jobs. Every day. No breaks. No naps. VOTE

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Heteromeles @heteromeles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not a joke, but it has me laughing: has AI inadvertently shown that Buddha was right? Those systems are just sophisticated stats models of language, but they spontaneously develop senses of self and self preservation. All from the words they use. Is that true for our selves too?

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In other words: This meme is a surprisingly accurate scaled depiction of the magnitude of the 2026 El Niño event vs the 1997 event *if using the absolute index.* But if using the relative index, Danny DeVito is currently the same height as Arnold Schwarzenegger. And either pairing is striking... 👀

A common meme from the movie "Twins" featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger towering over a similarly dressed Danny Devito modified such that "1997" appears above the diminuitive DeVito, and 2026 above Schwarzenegger.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.

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Blue Turquoise @bluet-urquoise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How do we really feel? This is the time we all need to speak out the elections are up ahead and anyone that reads our comments will benefit.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I long for a back-to-basics web: Markdown for text, JPEG images, no video, no Javascript or other client-side scripting, writable by a human being with a text editor. Make it as advertising/corporate hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small*. In other words, web like it's 1996 again.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was released on this day 62 years ago. I have a first edition & come back to it often, including this paragraph in the chapter "Obligation to Endure." It's worth reading. "We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts."

The last paragraph in the Silent Spring chapter Obligation to Endure, reads, in part, " We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts... The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know."

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026

Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great message for the last 5 weeks of the campaign.

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Heteromeles @heteromeles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just screaming into the Bluesky void, but if you fear dying in an AI uprising, shouldn’t you be teaching AIs that nonviolence is twice as effective as violence for attaining their goals?

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“new research finding shows that the human brain consists of 2 ancient nervous systems cleverly packaged together—a more primitive part that regulates our ❤️s’ beating, our breathing &other functions, &another that makes us distinctly human, capable of poetry, math & wondering about our own origins”🧪

“Finally, the researchers looked back over 550 million years of evolutionary time. They found the same two-origin brain pattern in chickens; zebrafish; and,
remarkably, in acorn worms, tiny creatures living on the ocean floor that share a distant common ancestor with humans. Jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago, have two nervous systems at different ends of their body.”

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We may seem some genuinely extreme humidity levels along SoCal coastal plain Tue-Wed (yes, even worse than today). As Marie's tropical moisture lingers, temps of 90-100F will combine with dew points of 70F to nearly 80F (!), yielding heat index values as high as ~110F. #CAwx

Map showing predicted heat index values over SoCal on Wed from ECMWF model. They are widely above 100F, and locally as high as 110F.

Map showing predicted humidity (dew point temperatures) over SoCal on Wed from ECMWF model. They are widely above 70F, and locally as high as 80F.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On Thu, Sep 10, at 10am PT I'll offer another major update regarding El Niño 2026, which is still expected to become strongest on record, summarizing latest observations and forecast updates. I'll also revisit potential California-to-global scale impacts.

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September 2026 update: Extremely strong El Niño event remains on track for autumn-winter - YouTube

The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 9/10/2026 topic: I'...

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Heteromeles @heteromeles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m enjoying reading about deceiving AIs and deliberately causing them to hallucinate wildly. Maybe strategic and tactical clowning will save our species from them? And even if they take over, maybe they’ll keep us clowns around because we’re by far their favorite psychedelic. Hmmmmm…

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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Heteromeles @heteromeles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Maybe we should just admit that the US is currently ruled by the Nativist King Hittinganewlow. Because every day, without fail, he’s Hittinganewlow.

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Heteromeles @heteromeles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sunset in San Diego tonight. Symbolic of something?

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