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Marine Scientist. At the moment fascinated with bats of all kind.Wildlife carer in North QLD. I love drawing, and I'm trying to improve my painting skills. My opinions are my own. #marine #coral #bat #wildlife

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 20h
The Fifth of #FatBatWeek 2026: Western Big-eared bat and Cranberry Cheesecake. Shout out to @albertabats.bsky.social, @wildlifeacoustics.com, @azbatrescue.bsky.social, @honkifurhoary.bsky.social who suggested the bat species. Half way through the week already!
A long eared bat with a simple but lumpy nose sits on top of a square slice of layered pink cheese cake with generouse thick bands of cranberry jam and a garnish of fresh berries.
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bat Fact! 🦇 Big Brown Bats love beetles, including agricultural pests. One study estimated that a colony of 150 could eat about 600,000 cucumber beetles in a season. That’s a lot of free pest control! Whitaker 1995
Close-up photo of a Big Brown Bat in flight with one dark wing extended toward the camera. The bat has golden-brown fur, dark ears and muzzle, and its mouth is open, showing its small teeth. White text reads: “A farmer’s friend. Big Brown Bats love beetles.” Alberta Community Bat Program logo at bottom right. Photo: Cory Olson.
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I must have been 7 or 8 and flicking through tv landed on a showing of award winning short films. The first one I saw was ok, so I kept watching. The next was Harpiya by Raoul Srevais. That scared me for life. The bird/woman is terrifying
Image of a man eating at a table and a bird with the head of a bald woman sitting on the table opposite the man on a black background
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What? Bluesky wants pictures of vampires? YOU CAN'T STOP US! WE LOVE VAMPIRES! (Vampire bats that is)...here are two baby White-winged Vampires. 🦇🦇 #vampires #BatsNeedFriends (especially vampire bats)
Close-up photo of two baby white-winged vampire bats lying side by side on a white towel. The young bats have grey-brown fur, large dark eyes, prominent rounded ears and wrinkled noses. One faces the camera while the other rests partly behind it. Photo: Dan Riskin.
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
FAT BAT WEEK! (do we need to say more?)
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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Second of #FatBatWeek 2026: A Trident-nosed bat and a Mubuyu* Mousse. These species are found across several South Eastern African countries. Tagging @batswborders.bsky.social @africanbatcon.bsky.social, and @irorotanshi.bsky.social in particular for people to follow their great conservation work.
a  pompom of a bat with a complex leaf-nose three little cones along the top. It rests by feet and wing thumbs on a martini glass with a creamy dessert garnished with little crumbles of white baobab fruit. At the foot of the glass is a white baobab blossom, also a pompom of golden stamens with big white petals remeniscent of a dog rose.
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be a friend to bats! 🦇 Little Brown Myotis are endangered in Canada and are the bats Albertans are most likely to find in buildings and bat houses. You can be bat-friendly, even when a colony needs managing. 👉 albertabats.ca #FriendsForBats #BatMonth
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TODAY! In one hour! Lisa Wilkinson with AEP is giving a talk on the probiotic project we have been leading in Alberta. The Alberta Chapter of the Wildlife Society is hosting the online webinar - you can register for free here www.actws.ca/webinars/
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Webinars | ACTWS | Alberta Chapter of The Wildlife Society
Welcome to Alberta’s Wildlife Spotlight Webinar Series, where we explore key conservation and species management efforts across the province. Each webinar focuses on a different species…
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Tallulah Cunningham @papertigress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You' know I'm going to reflit from my other account every day of #fatbatweek - you have been warned/invited to delight along with me.
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fantastic artwork!
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
Foxes are native animals?! Quolls are an invasive species? When did that happen? | First Dog on the Moon
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Foxes are native animals?! Quolls are an invasive species? When did that happen? | First Dog on the Moon
Many Australians are uninformed about our adorable native creatures. How could this be? I’ve been banging on about them for years! * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
October belongs to the bats. 🦇🍂 They migrate, hibernate, navigate with sound and live surprisingly long lives. And there's still so much we don't know about them. It's Bat Month! All October we'll be sharing the science, stories and mysteries of bats. Come hang out with us. 🦇
A Little Brown Myotis rests on grey tree bark with a dark background. Text reads October is Bat Month! Come Hang With Us! Logos of both WCS Western Bat Program and the Alberta Community Bat Program. PHoto by Jason Headley.
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How beautiful and delicate
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🦇Rare in Alberta, Eastern Red Bats are long-distance migrants that roost alone in tree foliage, camouflaged like dead leaves or pine cones. Females may raise up to four pups (which is wild!). And borealis means “northern”... so is “Eastern” really the best name? #HappyBaturday #NorthernRedBat
Two photographs of a Red Bat. At top, a reddish-brown bat hangs upside down among green leaves, camouflaged against the foliage. Below, a golden-red bat flies against a black background with its wings extended. Text reads: “Red Bat, Lasiurus borealis. Rare in Alberta. Long-distance migrator.” An orange label says “COSEWIC endangered.” WCS Canada Western Bat Program and Alberta Community Bat Program logos appear at the bottom.
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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OTD in 1962, Silent Spring was published. “Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.” ― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Rachel CarsonThe front cover of Silent Spring.
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is that time of the year folks where anatomically incorrect sculptures start to pop up everywhere 🙄 Yesterday I saw the skeleton of an octopus... an octopus!!!!! #Halloween #decorations
Halloween ornaments: dogs
 and cat skeletons with ears... sighHalloween ornaments: duck, teddy bear and hedgehog skeletons with wing feathers, ears and spines respectively
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I want you to think about the kids in your life. Maybe those kids are 8. Maybe they are 32. Do they know enough about snails? Hard to imagine anyone truly knowing *enough* about snails. Help those kids learn snailhood. Get them a Snail Facts advent calendar. SquidFacts.net.
An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail
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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
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Climate change is making it easier for invasive species to succeed
More common extreme weather events can create opportunities for invasive species to spread.
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TERN Australia @tern-aus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📡 We're happy to share that Dr Peter Isaac will be presenting the upcoming "What the Flux? A Personal View" TERN-OzFlux seminar on Thursday 24 September! Register here: buff.ly/9CAASow
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I heard that Jossie and the Pussy-cat considered it but ultimately also declined
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Melody Valentine Josie And The Pussycats
Alt: Melody Valentine Josie And The Pussycatsa cartoon of a blonde girl playing drums in a cat suit
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There are citizen Scientist projects happening everywhere these days. Join one doing something you like. Best way to learn about science is hands-on. And believe me, if it is a reputable project guided by a research institute or university, you will be doing science and learning a lot
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is neat. Normal microscopes are limited by the size of light waves. Electron microscopes get around that by using tiny-wavelength electrons. This new microscope does something different: it uses clever physics to "cheat" the limits of visible light and see things once thought impossible.
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Researchers hope powerful new microscope will reveal ‘root cause’ of incurable bowel disease
No run-of-the-mill tech, ‘Curie’ operates at 10 times the resolution of conventional microscopy and could spur discoveries leading to new treatment
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TERN Australia @tern-aus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🌱 Dave Rowlings & Elaine Mitchell (QUT) with colleagues from CSIRO, ANU & more, spoke at the Soil Carbon #Masterclass to 1,000+ participants, covering #soilcarbon basics—how it forms and what drives its dynamics—to guide on‑farm decisions. Watch it here! buff.ly/3hSlrvD
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The Science of Soil Carbon: A Masterclass for Trainers and Advisers
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Powerful Owlet stretching its wings. Even its sibling seems surprised. #brisbane #birds #wildoz
Floofy Powerful Owlet stretching its wings wide as its startled sibling looks on
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The world has gone mad! Folks getting arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for holding a sign that said "I oppose genocide" 🇬🇧 That is fucked up! The majority of those arrested have been pension aged women, often with disabilities. Do these folks look like terrorists? Shame on you England. #Free 🇵🇸
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@weratedogs.com i miss you guys...
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Helena Bonham Carter reading Rumi's poem "The Guest House," at Belcombe Court, England. This is part of a project for Allie Esiri's poetry book, 'A Poem for Every Autumn Day.' The poem compares human life to a guest house, encouraging people to accept emotions and thoughts as visitors. #poetry
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Australian BioCommons @ausbiocommons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We'll be hosting @bobpmleung.bsky.social, ARC DECRA Fellow & Group Leader at Monash University, at our next #Microbiome Community Meeting. Talk title: 'Bark microbiota modulate climate-active fluxes in Australian forests'. 📆 Tue 22 Sept, 1pm AEST. 🔗 Agenda & join link 👇
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MEETING: Microbiome analysis community — Australian BioCommons
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss microbiome analysis research More information
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@weratedogs.com what is going on? Where are you guys? I'm starting to get worried about you
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
To the music of "A chorus line"
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🦇Bats live long lives and they also appear resistant to diseases, including cancer! New research explores this relationship by examining genomes of Myotis bats. What can we learn from bats? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Insights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes - Nature
Comparative and functional analyses of Myotis bats uncover unique patterns of adaptation in virus-interacting proteins and longevity-associated pathways, linking two hallmarks of bat biology.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
An Indian Flying Fox carrying her pup Original post
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I woukd not even attempt something like this in a video game, let alone real life
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Diego Poncelet, two-time downhill skateboarding world champion reaching over 100 km/h. IG: @diego_poncelet
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Six students spent their Saturday in detention writing an essay about what brought them there
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Sometimes the universe is twisted enough that makes you smile #ICE #Yiannopoulos www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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British far-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by ICE
Milo Yiannopoulos, who has called for ICE checkpoints at supermarkets in the US, is likely to be deported by immigration officials who described him as "an illegal alien from the United Kingdom".
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Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Have you ever wanted to visually compare the size of your favorite extinct animals? Now you can, as I'm launching an interactive size comparison tool on my website. Give it a try and let me know what you think: www.skeletaldrawing.com/compare/
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🦇International Bat Night is August 29–30! Alberta’s bats are on the move: long-distance migrants may travel 2,000 km or more, while some resident bats move over 500 km to winter sites within the province. Watch at sunset—and imagine their journeys across our night skies! #BatsNeedFriends
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tools of a Bat Biologist: Bat Detectors 🦇 Bats navigate and hunt using ultrasonic calls—sounds too high for us to hear. Bat detectors bring those calls into our hearing range and allow biologists to record and examine them. What can we learn by listening to bats? A thread… 1/2
Image of a Little Brown Myotis in flight with a radio-tag on its back and a numbered split ring band on its wing. Image has bat with mouth open and there are lines indicating that it is echolocating. Text reads tools of a bat biologist: bat detectors. How do scientists listen to the night? Logo WCS Canada Western Bat Program. Photo by Charles FrancisImage of Dr Cori Lausen, our director of bat research, setting up a bat detector for long-term monitoring at the edge of a wetland in a remote setting (grasslands and wet vegetation are seen in the background along with low mountains). Text reads Bat detectors - used by our Western Bat Team to record migrating bats and to determine the composition of bat communities. Deployed for months at a time. Logo WCS Canada Western Bat Program. Photo of a red car with a roof-mounted microphone on top and cables leading to the car interior. Text reads roof-mounted microphones - used by our Western Bat Team as part of the North American Bat Monitoring Program - mobile transects. Logo WCS Canada Western Bat Program. Dimly lit photo of a masked bat biologist holding a bat bag in one hand and a detector in the other. Labels read "Bat in bag" pointing at bag (shown with lines indicating an echolocating bat inside vocalizing) and the labels Yuma? Little Brown? around the detector. Text reads Hand-held detectors- Used by our Western Bat Team along with morphological measurements to distinguish Little Brown Myotis from Yuma Myotis Photo by Jordi Segers
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Monstro ElisaShawn @shaaawndangooo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I bought books today, it’s what Dolly would have wanted 📚🫶🏻 #books #BookSky #bookhaul
A picture of four books:

‘Curiosities’ by Anne Fleming
‘Wildwood’ by Colin Meloy
‘The Grip of It’ by Jac Jemc
‘Ring’ by Koji Suzuki (translated by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley)
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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals  i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Who would have thought that if you treat everybody with kindness, you will get kindness in return. Dolly was adored by literally everyone #DollyParton #literacy #hero
Numbers from a poll conducted by the University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Public Opinion in partnership with the market research firm YouGov earlier this year asking people to rate their views on public figures (favorabke, unfavorabke, neutral, never heard of them). There are many numbers in  the survey but the most important thing is that among all levels Dolly was viewed favourably, regardless of race, income, education level, gender, or political opinion
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John Alexander Aguon Jr. @johnaguonjr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
youtube.com/shorts/_asn1...
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Dolly Parton defends the LGBTQ+ community: "We should be more loving. We are who we are."
YouTube video by Don Lemon
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm starting to get worried about @weratedogs.com they have not posted anything in a while. Anyone knows what's going on?
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING! Early admissions deadline round 1 is Sept. 15 for the MBL’s Semester in Biological Discovery. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/SBD
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 22/08/2026
Two brand-new jobs at the lab! 👇 🌊 Research and Impact Services Officer Salary: £25,878-£36,104 Deadline to apply: 28th August 2026 🌊Head of Strategic Partnerships and Funding Salary: £61k – £65k Deadline to apply: 15th September 2026 Apply: pml.ac.uk/working-with...
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🇻🇪 K-le 🇦🇺 @klesita.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Porque tres no son suficientes? Que leches son? Porque a mi se me acabaron las de vaca a menos que empecemos con la de soya, almendra coco...
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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
en esta economía??????
nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020
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