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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I love this projection. Does it preserve size or relative position? No. Does it convey useful information for navigating? No. But does it meaningfully represent relationships between place? Also no.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think it's fun to point out that evolution is not about making things harder better faster stronger, but just Good Enough. Here is a beetle with five typical sexes, only three of which actually work, and all of this does literally nothing to assist their overall goal of eating wood

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Staring into the abyss (but does it stare back) @junobee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'm not the first or last to observe this, but losing a parent sucks. I wish I had more time.

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Child: Look, it's a red Mazda 3 like ours! But it has a roof rack. Me: That's sexual dimorphism. Child: Mom. Me: The rack is for carrying their young; I just don't remember which sex has it. Child: MOM STOP

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things". And right now it would happen if you thought there was a thing called a father, and a thing called a mother, and a thing called a daughter, and a thing called a cottage, and told yourself that if you put them all together you had a thing called a happy family.

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, as a child. Off panel, someone says to her, “Enjoy your youth!”
The second panel shows child Sarah again, now frowning. The person off panel continues, saying “After you’re 30 you’ll be old and your life will basically be over.”
Before the last two panels there is text that reads “LIFE AFTER I TURNED 30.”
The third panel shows adult Sarah opening a door.
The fourth panel shows the door opens to a beautiful field with flowers, a rainbow, and a pond. Sarah says “Wait what.”

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is fun to listen to and will very much get you thinking.

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Brielle 💖 @briellebear.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I really hate the “I don’t owe anyone anything” mentality because we actually owe each other and this planet a lot. You don’t have to be selfless all the time or burn yourself out but you should be kind and helpful and compassionate to the best of your ability. We need to care about each other more

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My favorite way to put this, as someone who studied Classical History in actual college (not just on Twitter): If you told an ancient Roman or Athenian that his culture had "more in common" with a German or Briton than with an Egyptian or Ethiopian, he'd punch you in the throat.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 13/07/2026

"They took him to an alleyway and beat him until he lost consciousness." When I read about the horrifying abuses at the hands of ICE agents, I'm reminded of this quote from our reporting in ON COURAGE, from the human rights statistician Patrick Ball. They will not be anonymous. We will find them.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It sounds like everyone is trying to explode every single firework in the state of Pennsylvania before the rain hits.

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Here it is! 4.2 billion years in the making - Evolution. I had the privilege to be part of an incredible team who brought these stories to life. And of course, I got to look after a whole new host of delightful creatures - can't wait for you to meet them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG8s...

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Evolution: Official Trailer | BBC Earth Science

YouTube video by BBC Earth Science

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 01/07/2026

We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine

a beige computer from the 90s with a CRT displaying the disability pride flag

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

These are likely the first living photos of the isopod Nesodillo medius! According to iNaturalist community member and isopod identifier Grant Wang (ponerinecat), these photos could be the first record of the species in about 80 years.

A gray isopod with an oval-shaped, segmented body rests on some dirt.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“Transgender Americans are patriots, family members, volunteers, historians, and descendants of Revolutionary War ancestors just like anyone else. Excluding or targeting people because of their gender identity contradicts the values of respect, service, and sisterhood that the DAR claims to uphold.”

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!! today we sketched Palaeoloxodon (i drew P. falconeri), Palaeosaniwa, Rhomaleosaurus, and Utaurora

"Beach Day w/ Mum" a lone mother Palaeoloxodon falconeri and her calf are seen walking away from a beach, the mum's legs are still wet, as is the lower half of her calf's body. yellow-legged gulls are seen by the shore, one is perched ontop of the mother's back, she seems unbothered by it. Mount Etna is seen in the very back shrouded in fog.

Palaeoloxodon falconeri is a dwarf species of Palaeoloxodon from Middle Pleistocene Sicily and Malta when they were connected by a land bridge. it looked pretty much like extant elephants, just with a slightly wider head and being only around a metre tall at the hip

a Palaeosaniwa tastes the air with its tongue while raising its head from the ground with its front limbs, three very large fern fronds are behind it.

Palaeosaniwa is a relative of gila monsters and monitor lizards from Late Cretaceous of Canada and the USA. It is only reliably known from jaw material and isolated vertebrae. here i have reconstructed it with a similar integument to gila monsters, with a more gracile skull and general build like a monitor lizard

a Parapsicephalus jumps away from a Rhomaleosaurus which has ambushed it at the surface of the water

Parasicephalus is a rhamphorhynchid pterosaur (flying reptiles like long interlocking teeth, and long tails with flat fleshy structures at the end) known from Early Jurassic Yorkshire, England. it's only reliably known from a skull, however, a more complete specimen may become available in the coming years

Rhomaleosaurus is a plesiosaur (marine reptiles with interlocking teeth and four large flippers) that is famous for being found by the pioneer palaeontologist Mary Anning. it had a long neck, long flippers, and a crocodile-like head (although its skin would've been smooth)

in the deep sea, an ROV comes across an Utaurora foraging the organic mud for food, it waves its lateral flaps to move water over its gills while it uses its legs to traverse the organic sediment. fine organic particulate is kicked up by the ROV and the foraging of the small invertebrate

Utaurora is an opabiniid (non-arthropod invertebrates that had a claws at the end of a long proboscis that was used like a hand, legs, and a row of lateral flaps used to swim on either side of their bodies) from the middle Cambrian of Utah, USA. it wouldve appeared like a very small velvet worm with a trunk at the front, large flaps on its sides, and either an eye or a sclerite at its very front (this is debated)

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 15/06/2026

As is the annual tradition, we hope many of you will take the opportunity to use the Climate Stripes this week to start important conversations about the risks from, and solutions to, climate change. Officially, #ShowYourStripes for 2026 is on Sat 20th June. www.ShowYourStripes.info

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

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Tyler Nordgren @spaceart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Organ Pipe Cactus commissioned me to design this poster to celebrate their new dark sky status. www.spacearttravelbureau.com #art #spaceart #astronomy

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I started this common milkweed patch from seeds in 2021. Look at them now 🥹 It’s just one pot, but in terms of caterpillar food and nectar for other life stages, it’s not nothing!

A burgeoning patch of milkweed in a.big blue pot

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 28/05/2026

PSA

cartoon black cat in a variety of amusing poses captioned

don't forget to be a little weirdo today

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

These are the darkest days in American science in the seventy-year history of publicly funded science. But I tell myself every day that what is broken can be mended; what is demolished can be rebuilt. Our job is to fight for the chance. I hope to see you on the front lines.

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Looking good, Hubble Space Telescope! Keep on keeping on.....

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Sarah Sweet @sarahsweet.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

If you're interested in viruses — you kinda gotta be, if you're following me — this podcast may appeal. Deep dive into how viruses work, hosted by Florian Krammer, one of my go-to experts for flu. Lotsa detail, but the episodes are a manageable length. Enjoy! virological.podigee.io/episodes

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viroLOGICAL

Florian Krammer is a virologist and vaccine developer. In his podcast viroLOGICAL he will talk about viruses on a weekly basis – from historical pandemics to current developments. A Podcastwerkstatt O...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

View of the spacecraft (bright, on the left), a dark thin crescent of Moon, and a very small, bright thin crescent of Earth next to it

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026

#Artemis crew to Mission Control, after seeing and attempting to describe the eclipse: "And if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary tomorrow, that'll help my vocabulary out a bit. Thank you."

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Tetraethyl @tetraethyl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

What a fucking shot holy shit

Screenshot from the NASA Artemis II launch livestream showing the core stage separation from a camera on the rocket.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/04/2026

"Humanity's next great voyage begins" #Artemis

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Abi Stevens MCM Ldn R-12 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Crabby crab crab crab

A digital illustration of a red crab with one claw bigger than the other. It has stylised eyes all over it's shell on body and larger claw, outlined in teal. It is framed by a coral patterened blue background and a yellow border with a repeating pattern of the same style eyes, and three circular vignettes featuring a smaller yellow crab, a green starfish, and a yellow brain coral, all with additional eyes.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/03/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.

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barleybap but she's dressed as a skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of 'The National Dog'," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit

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Luther Wells @ultraluther.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Fezouata Formation. Felt like drawing an Aegirocassis, accidentally drew a bunch of other stuff too. #paleoart #sciart #art

A digitally painted scene from the Fezouata Formation featuring Aegirocassis, Sagenograptus, Falcisicaris, Bathmoceras, Rhopalocystis, Plumalina, Brachyaglaspis, Choia, Megistaspis, Eoconularia, Plasiacystis, Plumulites, Ampyx, Pirania, and a non-specific Conodont

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 08/03/2026

Also while I was fighting despair by sorting laundry and watering plants I want to say Happy International Women's Day to the women and especially the women who are in the closet about that It's your day! Even if it's a secret

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TabbyBat @tabbybat.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A reminder in stream chat etiquette that foreshadowing is also spoilers. Someone last night said “get tissues” and it instantly gave away what was about to happen taking away the surprise and emotion from the moment. Please have self control and let people experience things 😑

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tine @tine5.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Theme: The #Weirdness of Cambrian life #pixelart #pixel_dailies #paleoart @pixeldailies.bsky.social

Pixel art of a scene under the Cambrian sea showing strange alien-like creatures of the Cambrian Period including Vauxia in the foreground, a pinkish-purple Anomalocaris, deep blue Opabinia, violet Nectocaris, bright green Pectocaris, blue-grey Banffia, and Wiwaxia on the rocks in the background.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/02/2026

free note to everyone: you can just say we shouldn’t be bombing Iran rather than pretending this would be fine if Trump explained himself better

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/02/2026

"African American history is American history, and we stand and continue to fight to make sure that Donald Trump will not whitewash the history here in the city of Philadelphia."

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Trump wants you to forget that George Washington owned slaves

But Philadelphians are standing up for history

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MS-DOS Games, Programs, Pixels, Grog @scumm-bar.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Imagine huffing dino farts when you could literally ride the lightning. These weirdos are losers. And they will lose.

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