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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know this isn't elden ring specifically but important question would yarrow do the ranni questline

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I cannot stress enough how important natural history collections are to my biodiversity research.

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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Eschire Cat-tle, MSc @escherbug.art · 03/10/2026

Alie is so right about caterpillars. Read her alt text

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Nearly every medical procedure used in transgender healthcare was originally invented for cisgender people. Estrogen treats menopause. Mastectomy treats breast cancer and gynecomastia. Vaginoplasty treats injuries from childbirth. Puberty blockers stop kids from menstruating before high school.

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It should be illegal to have more than a billion dollars in assets and I am so fucking serious

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Northern stargazer!! I once got to see one in the wild at the Jersey shore. All the best qualities of an angler fish and an electric eel. 😊

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hemolymph (insect blood). They're little vampires. Leaves their hosts pretty sluggish for a while

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The theory goes that some of these wasp parents started entombing their hosts in hardened mud, then some of those wasps started actively hunting, and then whole wasp societies started working together to raise their young communally. Add a few million years, and bingo, hornets.

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I found a cricket leech after work today! :0 Cricket leeches are the larval form of solitary wasps in the family Rhopalosomatidae, which is the ancestral branch of all paper and potter wasps.

A photo of a dark bean-like entity stuck to the side of a cricket between its body and left hind leg. The cricket's posture looks like if a basketball player was trying to hide the fact that they got bit by a tick the size of a poodle, carrying it casually under one arm. The wasp may not directly kill its host, but the loss of so much hemolymph will likely reduce the cricket's lifespan.

A photo of the same unfortunate pair from further away, so you can see the scale of the parasite. The cricket is gravid and will likely lay her eggs soon, parasitic wasp be damned. #girlpower

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Rhi, drawer of Things @idrawsdinosaurs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A profusion of sketchy #chelicerates! I've become very fond of these this year thanks to @trigonotarbida.bsky.social, all of them are so charming and adorable in their own way!

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Raven Amos (Spoopy Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm probably going to get muted or blocked for this, but as a fellow science communicator, using AI-generated imagery/text is really a bad look all around. It not only steals from your fellow scientists because it's all trained on stolen data, it also makes up fake science.

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I suppose! I haven't tried it. I feel like plumbing has fewer opportunities for instant death, for better or worse.

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is like the fourth consecutive night of waking up from dreams about industrial electrical wiring... I'm sure you can guess what we're doing at work this month. -w-

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please do not use firearms on wasps. There are much safer and more effective means of pest control.

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Princeton finally handed off some advance copies for the 2nd Edition of my wasp book, and they look phenomenal! Thank you everyone for your exceptional patience! Go order it right now!! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

A photo of me (a white woman with long brownish hair wearing glasses and a dark blue shirt) holding an advance copy of my book "The Social Wasps of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean: Second Edition" in front of an old wooden railing and some lush sassafras leaves. There is a big illustration of a bald-faced hornet on the cover.

This photo is slightly misleading, since it was taken by my mom a year ago in 2025, immediately before we noticed the major printing errors in the plate series that required us to completely redo the printing from scratch. My joy is nonetheless real, and I feel justified in using this photo since I never posted it the first time around. It's all good now!

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The Wind" Painting created in 1988 By Pang Maokun

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Does this event have a rain date (maybe for next weekend)? The forecast is for a nor'easter this weekend, which could make travel dicey. 😥

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Attention Philly Families! It is critical that we show Drexel and city government that our enthusiasm for the Academy of Natural Sciences is going strong! Bring your kids, friends, & neighbors down to the parkway on Saturday from 2-6pm. It's a kid-friendly rally to support the academy!

dinosaurs and bugs happily party together at the Save the Academy family rally. Saturday September 26, 2-6pm 1900 ben Franklin parkway, come dressed as your favorite dinosaur, insect, animal, or just yourself! There's a duck billed dino, a triceratops, a brachiosaurus, a pterodactyl, a millipede, dragonfly, and beetle!

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melts @meltsmelts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#deltarune Heh, you know we got this

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.

a slide that says 6 days until the doors close -- 6 reasons we can keep them open, save-the-academy.org @savetheacademy

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