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Not sleeping enough, one day at a time. I study 200 million year old volcanoes. She/her

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cassiopeia A, always getting her picture taken, stunning in green and orange or purple and gold #sciart
Tea set featuring Cassiopeia A, JWST's MIRI image on the teapot and the Hubble image on the mug. Two cats with helmets float on the teapot. Tea set featuring Cassiopeia A, JWST's MIRI image on the teapot and the Hubble image on the mug. Two cats with helmets float on the teapot. Top of teapot.Tea set featuring Cassiopeia A, JWST's MIRI image on the teapot and the Hubble image on the mug. Two cats with helmets float on the teapot. Mug detail.Tea set featuring Cassiopeia A, JWST's MIRI image on the teapot and the Hubble image on the mug. Two cats with helmets float on the teapot. Cat detail.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anybody who would decide to close this museum does not have Philadelphia’s best interests at heart.
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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's #FossilFriday, and indeed the final scheduled Friday that the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia is open to the public, potentially forever. So it's finally time to, once again, talk about Haddy — and bring it all full circle. Strap in, it's a big one.
A heavily retouched photograph (c. 1870?) of the mounted skeleton of Hadrosaurus foulkii inside the Academy's old building at the corner of Broad & Sansom Sts (in fact, the only known photograph of this building's interior). A man stands under the skeleton, identity unknown
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They claim the perfect mixing vessel doesn't exist...
Gargoyle cat that drains from the nostril mouth
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026
I love this @xkcd.com comic. So accurate.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This nor’easter is a great moment to remind everyone of the importance of dunes for the mitigation of major destruction on barrier islands. youtu.be/lbM4MfWYMFY?...
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Visiting a Barrier Island | This Old House
YouTube video by This Old House
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please take some time to watch this video about the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. I learned so much about a museum I’ve visited dozens of times youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...
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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
share.inquirer.com/5yh6s2
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
if you ever struggle with names when worldbuilding just remember there's a whole massive mountain range called The Rockies
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Free Shakespeare behind the church near my house - this takes me back to outdoor performances when I was in high school. Guerrilla spaces, shoestring budgets, and lots of passion. I’ve missed this. And it’s The Tempest!
A stage on a brick patio, with a white sheet set up as a background. A small group of musicians sit under a tent on the right side of the stage.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...
popsci.com
The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever
Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As I work on a paper for my 200 Ma samples and struggle with EndNote, this is very appealing.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s not ok to be reminded “hey, I used to love his music, I should put it back into my rotation” because the artist dies. Thank you for everything you brought the world. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
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Singer-songwriter and Broadway composer Duncan Sheik dies at 56
The “Spring Awakening” composer had been receiving medical care for an ailment that left him in “critical but stable” condition, his family said.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Putting this out there in the hopes I can bypass Etsy - anyone do crochet commissions or know someone who does? I’m looking to get an orange tabby displacer beast made for a friend’s baby. Their orange tabby doesn’t have a lot of time left and they want her to have something to remember him.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As a professional punter, I’m in absolute awe at the masterclass put on by this Congress. Just punt after punt after punt, it’s like rewatching the 0-16 Lions.
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Bill Rulon-Miller @reptiledude.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
People should seriously visit the Academy of Natural Sciences while they can. If you are in or near Philly and have time, see it before it’s gone. Also if you think it would be beneficial for it to remain open write Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social, Mayor @cherelleparker.bsky.social & Drexel BoS
The skull of Herrarasaurus, a very early theropod from the Late Triassic
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Vote for the chocolate mineral.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I love football season — in my attempt to avoid being in the same room as my spouse while he yells at people who cannot hear him I get so much done. Today I switched out 3 builders’-basic shower heads with much nicer ones. I’ve been meaning to do that for most of a decade.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sad I missed BalletX’s Four Seasons Reimagined at the Mann earlier this year, but it’s very tool to see it at a more intimate venue. Now I have to add “see more shows at Villanova” to my list.
A wood paneled theatre with a golden curtain. The logo for BalletX is projected on the curtain. In the foreground is the light and sound console for the theatre.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 10/09/2026
Goddammit I’m never going to not think of this now www.tumblr.com/dungeonmaste...
Tumblr post from user dungeonmastersconsortium: dungeonmasterscons...

Saw a comment that Elizabeth Holmes looks like a mouse wished to be able to commit wire fraud and now I can't unsee it

With a still of Elizabeth Holmes from the documentary
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 10/09/2026
I think I speak for us all when I say that had I died tragically in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I would be honored that the opening game of the NFL 2026/27 season had a moment of silence for me followed by a guy from Pearl Jam shredding the National Anthem
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today I got to eat radioactive eggs and sit around a hospital for 5 hours just to find out that my stomach empties just fine 🙃
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026
GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
To quote @lostsubways.com, “this kind of ‘I AM THE WORLD EXPERT IN THIS’” stuff on Bluesky is great
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Roaring 20s are back baby, everyone is still mentally ill from a plague and a war, importing Canadian booze is illegal, James Carville is alive
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Incredibly disappointed that Rupert Grint is joining Cursed Child’s cast.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Due to a profound and well-earned mistrust of the GOP, I check my voter registration relatively often. I just did and I'm OK. You can check yours; just search on "check voter registration status [your state]".
Screenshot of my voter status, listed as "Active"
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Justice for #TeamQuartz
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Vote for #Orpiment for illuminated manuscripts! I'd like to invite the medievalists to spare 30 seconds of their time to vote in our yearly battle of the minerals to ensure this important pigment through the centuries doesn't lose out in the first round! #MinCup26 #artHist #medieval #scicomm
The Pabenham-Clifford Hours

England,
c. 1315-1320
MS 242

"Folio 2 v
Annunciation with John de Pabenham and Joan Clifford kneeling in the lower margin (Hours of the Virgin)

Underdrawing for the draperies is visible in the infrared image, as well as through the semi-transparent paint used in the Virgin’s pink mantle. This garment was painted with a mixture of an insect-based red dye, lead white and gypsum (hotspot 1), while Gabriel’s dark pink tunic contains a red dye mixed with chalk (hotspot 2). Gabriel’s blue-grey wings contain azurite blue and small quantities of an organic red, as can be seen under magnification (hotspot 4). The tooled gold leaf in the background was additionally decorated by painting a pattern of spirals with an arsenic sulphide yellow pigment, likely orpiment (hotspot 5)."

Via Orpiment Illuminated by the FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge

https://qi.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/illuminated/lab/overview-of-artists-materials/orpiment/type/material
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J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#MinCup26 Orpiment is a terrible name, but a deep-sea worm builds toxic armor of orpiment AND there’s an art connection! Team biology, team poison, team art … let’s do this! Vote #Orpiment!!!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings
Paralvinella hessleri is the first known animal to create orpiment, which was used by artists for centuries.
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julierey.bsky.social @julierey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Vote for #oripment, because it’s orange and fuzzy! #MinCup26
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Flyers Gritty
Alt: Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers mascot, gazes at you from the penalty box. He wears a Flyers jersey and is covered in orange hair. He has boggle eyes.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For a sensational experience, read this in Werner Herzog's voice
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s a 4-vote margin with 45 minutes left on the clock. Only one vote per person, but that doesn’t mean you can’t run around ambushing strangers or pestering your group chat to GO VOTE. Campaigning and recruiting is absolutely key to matches this close!
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
Doug Jones as the Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The crowd for @lostsubways.com’s talk in Philadelphia (that doesn’t start for another couple of minutes). The Free Library underestimated interest in SEPTA’s history.
A conference room in a library filled to capacity, with many people standing in the back.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is absolutely devastating.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is such a massive blow for Philadelphia. You could tell the museum was struggling in recent years, and it's a shame they couldn't figure out how to fix it.
inquirer.com
The Academy of Natural Sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries
The closure does not affect the rest of the institution, which builds and maintains the collections and conducts research through departments such as the Patrick Center for Environmental Research.
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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
NYC/Northeast USA- 2 kitties looking for a home after losing their human! See thread for more info
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Looking forward to this one
Foreground: the playbill for Rachmaninoff and the Tsar by Hershey Felder. Background: the backs of the audience’s heads and the set for the show: a grand piano in a garden.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We’re about 15 minutes away from somebody uploading tonight’s Rocky Horror Show curtain call….
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month
Tim Curry saying “you’ll receive the order of Lenin for this, Captain!Sam Neill saying “I would have liked to have seen Montana”
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Protect the 80 year old gay icons at all costs.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There are so many amazing clips of Tim Curry, but this is one of my favorites. youtu.be/jWzqcele1tY?...
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Tim Curry as The Pirate King - 'The Pirates of Penzance -1982 - Royal Variety Performance
YouTube video by Tim Curry
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/08/2026
Accretionary Arc xkcd.com/3285/
4-panel comic. (1) [Two people running] PERSON 1: They’re right behind us! PERSON 2 with ponytail: It’s OK! I have a plan. (2) [zoomed out view of group with weapons chasing first two people as they reach a small object on the ground] PERSON 2: This part of the continent used to be an island arc before it collided with North America. (3) [Person 1 looking behind as Person 2 hits buttons on small pillar sticking out of the Earth that makes a “beep beep” sound] PERSON 2: Just gotta access the control panel… Yes! It still works! Okay, full reverse! (4) [zoomed out view of map of east coast of North America. There is a jagged edge on the northeast, and an island with a jagged edge has separated from it.] FROM CONTINENT: *No!* FROM ISLAND: *HAH!*
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m making big batches of casseroles I can freeze for friends who are having a baby next month. First up is a tamale pie courtesy of ATK — 3 are currently chilling in the fridge before freezing but I had to test the 4th.
A red and beige casserole dish filled with cornbread on top of chili.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’m so lucky to have been DMing the same group of fools for the last 5 years. IDK what I’ll do when this campaign is over
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Michael Ingles @mickingles.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Image macro of Oscar Issac from Star Wars 9.  Text reads: somehow the Sea Peoples returned
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/08/2026
Geology Building xkcd.com/3284/
Comic. [A college building labeled “Department of Geology” with a diagonal slash through center making it look uneven.] [caption] The administration regretted giving the geology department free rein to design their new building.
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Karlee @karlee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Today’s chapter in “Can I See Loud Concerts Without Losing My Hearing?”
The Foo Fighters on stage with a large projected image of Dave Grohl behind them
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