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Former museum professional, current librarian. Interested in pretty much anything!

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 51m
The geese always seem have the expression of someone about to write a strongly worded email. 🪶
A bar-headed goose staring directly at the viewer and one giving side-eye
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 3h
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a substantial, growing and largely unregulated threat to biodiversity worldwide. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity examines the state of knowledge regarding the measurement, impacts and mitigation of ALAN. go.nature.com/4yglFr2 🌎🧪
This is figure 2, which shows biodiversity responses to ALAN across levels of biological organization.
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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 17h
Neanderthal woodworking 🏺🧪
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Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals
Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives
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No Such Thing as a Seagull @nosuchseagull.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not having a stomach means you're always hungry... 🦑🌍 🧠 Learn more from @projectseahorse.bsky.social: projectseahorse.org/saving-seaho...
A northern seahorse, coloured bright red, on the sandy seafloor.
Photo by: Pauline Walsh Jacobson (CC BY 4.0), iNaturalist
Text: Seahorses only have a simple tube-like gut without a stomach. Food passes through their digestive system very quickly. Because of this, they need to eat almost constantly — up to 3000 tiny crustaceans a day.
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here’s another revolver flower: Oxalis acetosella (📷: sabine-g CCBYNC4). The nectar is in the tiny pores at the base of each petal. The pollinator must move around the flower to get it, and in doing so contacts the anthers & stigmas. #Oxalidaceae #pollination #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up photo of a single 5-petaled flower. Each petal is white with a fine network of purple veins. The base of each petal, near the center of the flower, is yellow, and bears a small opening, which leads to the nectar.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you'll want to see THIS: the dyed (red) diesel order sounds big, but most drivers won't benefit. states still enforce their own rules, it's not truly tax-free, and it doesn't add a single gallon of supply. I broke down why in my latest article (link below)
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SciGrl @jyrscigrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I actually remember this album. (I may still have it!)
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This thing was doing Michael Jordan numbers
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026
Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)
Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oct. 1, 1847, Nantucket (MA). That evening, 29-year-old #MariaMitchell went to the roof of their home above the Pacific Bank. With a small 2-inch telescope she spotted a fuzzy object 5° above Polaris, the North Star. It wasn't on the charts. It was moving. A telescopic #comet. 🔭🧪⚛️ #HistSci
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Ocean Census @oceancensus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
57 new species discovered by scientists from the Ocean Census Science Network, in partnership with @schmidtocean.bsky.social, CONICET Dialoga and Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. Read the press release: oceancensus.org/press-releas...
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57 new marine species discovered in Argentina’s submarine canyons
Ocean Census and Schmidt Ocean Institute fast-track South Atlantic discoveries in Buenos Aires, as a viral deep-sea expedition leads to new species breakthroughs.
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 01/10/2026
A crash course on planet-shattering collisions, from Webb 🌏💥 A Mars-sized world called Theia once smashed into Earth, leading to the creation of our Moon. Now, Webb has examined a class of young stellar systems that show signs of similar upheavals 👉 esawebb.org/news/weic2618/ 🔭 🧪
Artist’s concept of a star and its debris disc against the black background of space. The star is in the background, right of center, and depicted as a small, luminous sphere. The debris disc is a large blue ring that encircles the star. The debris disc is angled toward the viewer, so that the portion nearest to the viewer extends beyond the bottom frame of the illustration. Many dark, rocky fragments are scattered throughout the debris disc. In the foreground, toward the left, is a small planetary embryo colliding into the left side of a larger spherical object. The impact site glows bright yellow and orange and has a mottled appearance, as though chunks of both colliding bodies are breaking up and being destroyed. Orange-yellow streams of vapor extend outward from the collision area. Behind the debris disc and its star are many small stars in the background. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI)
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The smallest bat in North America is the canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus), also called the western pipistrelle or American parastrelle. They weigh about 3–6 grams, the weight of a US penny, sheet of paper, or teaspoon of sugar. In flight, they're sometimes confused for moths or butterflies.
A tiny smoke-grey furry bat with darker face, ears and wings.  The big story is the tiny size.  The entire bat fits on a portion of a human's thumb, a tee-weeny tiny little guy.

This is a viral photo that's circulated for years, but I found it on r/BatFacts posted by u/Pardusco.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
look at this
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The utter brilliance of Chee Chee’s minimalism: ‘When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)
The utter brilliance of Chee Chee’s minimalism: ‘When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)

Swallows in flight | Photo of Chee Chee © Ernie BiesThe utter brilliance of Chee Chee’s minimalism: ‘When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)

Swallows in flight | Photo of Chee Chee © Ernie Bies
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
i have had many genuinely delightful experiences with trying to rescue baby tokay geckos from dangerous places while said tiny little baby tokay gecko tries to rip off my face while screaming in satanic tongues I have never identified with an animal more
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
1/x Have you heard of the SS Richard Montgomery, often dubbed the "Doomsday Wreck"? This shipwreck is considered one of the most dangerous in the world, resting in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness, Kent, just a mere 30 miles (48 km) from the outskirts of London. A small🧵
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sperm whales blow bubbles to stay afloat while resting, research shows 🧪🌎🦑
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Sperm whales blow bubbles to stay afloat while resting, research shows
Sperm whales are the only whales known to rest vertically, floating steadily just below the ocean’s surface. Scientists have hypothesized that the whales release air bubbles to help them stay…
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 22/09/2026
reminder to turn off exterior lights and draw curtains and blinds to block interior light! the children of the sky need to be able to see the stars to navigate safely :)
birdcast forecasting 336 million birds on the move tonight
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From the Fort Worth Zoo: Raani the Indian gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) admires her baby, newly hatched. The Fort Worth Zoo had 8 (!) babies hatch this season. The population of these critically endangered crocs is less than 1000 globally, so every hatchling matters. (📷: Fort Worth Zoo)
From a 2023 Facebook post by the Fort Worth Zoo:
"HISTORY IS MADE🚨
The Zoo is thrilled to announce this monumental conservation success - the hatchings of four critically endangered gharial crocodiles. The Fort Worth Zoo is the only institution in the United States to have produced multiple offspring of this critically endangered species. (To date, only one other institution has produced a single offspring in 2016.) In the wild, it is estimated that only about 200 reproducing adults remain. We are so proud of our ectotherms team for this historic achievement!"
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 25/09/2026
NEW How large were ancient ports? New methods reveal the true sizes of Mediterranean harbours, finding their capacities were much greater than we imagined and uncovering the reality of extensive maritime trade in the past. A seaworthy #AntiquityThread 1/11 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology
Vehicle with treads on the seashore. A coring device on its front takes a sediment core from the sand at the water's edge.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Todd Braje @tbraje.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"On October 12, 1492, a stranger landed on the sandy shores of an island in the Bahamas. And the world changed." That's the first line of my new book. But it isn't about that day. It's about what came before. Out January 5th. Preorder here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H58VLS3...
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Mammoths and Empires: A History of Indigenous Discovery, Civilization, and Adaptation in the Americas: Braje, Todd J.: 9798897102556: Amazon.com: Books
Mammoths and Empires: A History of Indigenous Discovery, Civilization, and Adaptation in the Americas [Braje, Todd J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Mammoths and Empires: A Hist...
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Montreal Protocol was signed on this date in 1987. The greatest environmental treaty in history. With the current intense polar vortex, 25 years ago we would be observing one of the largest ozone holes on record. Today, a sizable ozone hole, and a sign of slow healing. ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov
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WhinterQueen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JFC. the hand soap was distributed to NC, MS, ND, NE, NC, MD, SC, WI, GA, PA, CA, IL, IA, NY, TX, & WA
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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/09/2026
$5000 midterm bribe for 330M Americans costs $1.6 Trillion GOP:¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Meanwhile: •Insulin for diabetics: $40B •Universal Pre-K: $60B •Universal 4-yr-college: $70B •SNAP for 40M Americans: $80B •Cancel all medical debt: $150B •$1.2T REMAINS GOP: HoW wE gOnNa AfForD iT? SOCIALISM COMMUNISM NOO!
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This broke my heart because it gets to the part of this moment that is hardest to confront. The danger was never just the con man. It was the hunger for what he was selling, and the willingness to sacrifice compassion, decency and other people’s humanity to get it. Read this.
You know what truly breaks my heart?
It's not that America fell for a brilliant con-man. He isn't. And they weren't fooled.
What I find devastating is how many people were absolutely desperate to believe the lies.
How many ached for permission to dress their cruelty in patriotism. How many clung to racist. Homophobic. Transphobic.
Ethnocentric stereotypes. Because they thought the lies were promising them a shortcut to power. A way to profit.
Personally and politically. From the suffering of millions of absolutely innocent people.
The tragedy isn't the con. It's the hunger for it.
The willingness to trade compassion for the cheap thrill of feeling superior. The way hate sells because too many people show up already desperate to buy. —KALEN DION
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Matt Albertson @mattalbertson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
September 3rd marked the 157th anniversary of a significant event in American History: the baseball game between the Pythian B.B.C. and the Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia. This was the first interracial game between two prominent clubs. 1/
Image from: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/61897
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“The weather satellite GOES-19 detected 3,487 lightning flashes centered within 20 miles of downtown DC between 11 pm Thursday and 1 am Friday. At the storm’s peak, the satellite detected 1,024 flashes in 15 minutes—more than one per second—helping explain reports of virtually nonstop lightning.”🤯
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
i have another fun evolution fact. canidae/canines originated in north america, but all domestic dogs are descended from caninae that traveled into asia and became wolves. some wolves then returned, but a wolf is more closely related to a chihuahua than to a dire wolf that never left the americas
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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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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Animation by James Baxter* | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 02/09/2026
Cacao DNA found on pottery from the Etowah site in Georgia shows that this chocolate ingredient was part of Mississippian life, just as it was at Chaco Canyon and Cahokia, pointing to far-reaching cacao trade networks across pre-Columbian North America! 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
An artist’s conception of Etowah, a Mississippian culture site located on the banks of the Etowah River in Bartow County, Georgia.

Credit: Herb RoeA map depicting three archaeological sites in the United States where evidence of cacao has been discovered.  The most recent site is Etowah, in Georgia.  Other sites include Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and Cahokia in Missouri.
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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 30/08/2026
My first encounter with GNIS was trying to figure out why a ditch was called "Hot Water Ditch" when there was no industry nearby that discharged into the ditch. Turned out there had been a cotton seed mill there decades ago. All kinds of actually fun and interesting names are buried in there, too.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/08/2026
Dolly Parton meanwhile represented a fantastic model for an individual doing meaningful direct charitable work with a community focus
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was an uncredited producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When she learned the only female producer was making less than her male counterparts, Dolly cut her a check for the difference, on the spot.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Crescents - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/cxhNCL
Cassini WAC RGB view taken 2011-09-13 11:31 UTC.

Distance to Enceladus: 277 000 km
Distance to Tethys: 213 000 km
Phase angle: 135 deg
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
567-million-year-old fossils rewrite the dawn of animal life www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🧪🌎🦑
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567-million-year-old fossils rewrite the dawn of animal life
A spectacular fossil site in Canada contains 567-million-year-old creatures that may represent some of the earliest animals to move, reproduce sexually, and develop recognizable body plans. The…
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
it probably steals your data or something but filling maps is too much fun to resist! here's the link to the states one, but the website has a bunch of maps to choose from and when you choose a map there's a list of questions below it to choose whereidlive.com/t/us-states-...
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Visited states map: United States
How much time have you spent in each state? Color all 51 states and share the map.
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MTH @megt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Genetically engineered cyanobacteria remove over 90% of microplastic particles from wastewater within 1 hour while simultaneously cleaning nitrates, ammonia and phosphates. WW treatment plants could for the first time retain particles under 500 micrometers. 🌎🧪 denkstrom.org/en/goodnews/...
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Engineered Algae Removes 90 Percent of Microplastics from Wastewater | Good News
Researchers at Texas A&M University have engineered cyanobacteria to remove over 90 percent of microplastic particles from wastewater while simultaneously binding nitrates and phosphates. The results ...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Look, bear with me: I'm going to use Kacey Musgraves to explain how rivers sometimes carve their way through mountain ranges. I'll start with the "Gates of Lodore", the entrance to the Canyon of Lodore, where the Green River carves through the Uinta Mountains in NW Colorado.
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SciGrl @jyrscigrl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is pretty incredible, both because the fossil was preserved, but also because it was kept safe in a museum collection that was started in 1995 by 'by university professors, students, and passionate paleontology enthusiasts' (Radio Canada). Inspiring! fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%...
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Musée de paléontologie et de l'évolution — Wikipédia
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