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Kirk Hamilton @kirkhamilton.com · 29/08/2026

I keep thinking about the effortless way Dolly Parton could switch between speaking and singing, so I wrote a little about it:

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When Dolly Spoke, She Sang

and we couldn't help but listen

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Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Voters in those races are looking for electability, and voting to get more moderate candidates. In race where it’s not expected to be close (NJ-11, the race to succeed Coleman), primary voters are picking more progressive candidates like Mejia or Hamawy.

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Adam Feldman @feldmanadam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

NEWLY UPDATED: To help ramp up for the Tonys on Sunday, here are videos of the 40 greatest Tony performances of all time. Enjoy and share widely! The youngs must know! www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/05/2026

I’m sorry but if you aren’t sure of a citation, whether what it means or that it exists… why are you citing it. why are you referring to something you haven’t read or don’t understand? that defeats the entire bloody point

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Yesterday I taught a class and American Meadows came up. A guy rather directly asked "Why do you hate American Meadows? They're great" and I was able to *literally* pull up a spreadsheet breaking down how their mixes are misleading, consistently non-native, and reliably contain invasive spp.

A snippet of a spreadsheet documenting species in an American Meadows Midwest mix, showing recorded incidences of species in the area, documentation on invasive qualities, how often its found outside gardens, and a qualitative judgement on if its "safe" or not

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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Humans. Turn off your yard lights this week and help the birds pass through the watershed 🌊🌊

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Marie @mariekung.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Celebrating David Attenborough's 100 by sharing some backyard wildlife. The baby rabbits nesting in the compost area have opened their eyes. Estimating at about 13 days old. I think there are at least three but they are quite squirmy right now.

Close up of a rabbit nest established in a compost pile. One rabbit head is identifiable, with brown fur and one eye, one ear showing. Two other rabbits are only curled up plump bodies along side.

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Tiny bees of early spring! I'm slowly getting better at Tiny Bee ID & did a little rundown of the genera of bees you're likely to see. Dime, bumble, & honeybee for scale. granted, this species range is for March/April & it is now May so I'm running behind, but bit by bit, I'm building up resources!

Types of native spring bees of eastern north America - TO SCALE!
In the background is a time, and faded out silhouettes of bumblebee and honeybee for scale

Smallest to largest
Ceratina - shiny, metallic, low to the ground, and a blue-ish color. Minimal visible hair
Lasioglossum - shiny and metallic, silvery-gray with some hair, especially in bands on abdomen
Osmia - ROTUND, round with a pollen belly. This one happens to be hairy and gray, but there's a wide variety out there
Colletes - black bug with a fuzzy fur coat and abdominal banding. Heart-shaped face
Andrena - black bug with a fuzzy fur coat and minimal abdominal banding. Square-rectangular face
Nomada - earthtone tiny "wasp" sometimes REALLY tiny

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Speaking as a historian, just wanna add that we are almost certainly going to receive an Era Name that none of us wants or expects

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Texas Science @texasscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Iceland was the only Arctic country w/o mosquitoes. Now, thanks to human activities, they’ve made the leap. In a new editorial in Science, UT Austin biologist Amanda Koltz warns of more changes to come and calls for more Arctic research. doi.org/10.1126/scie... @texas-ib.bsky.social

The Arctic sky is thick with flying mosquitoes. Photo credit: Jesse Krause.

A mosquito rests on the fabric of a scientist's shirt. Photo credit: Jeff Kerby.

Mosquitoes land on the face of a stoic-looking bird. Photo credit: Jeff Kerby.

The pant leg of a scientist is covered in mosquitoes. Photo credit: Jesse Krause.

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

when i see queens, i have a habit of singing Queen to them, specifically "mama, oooo-OOO-ooooohh" from Bohemian Rhapsody i was caught by random hikers today. oops

a miss lady queen bumblebee at the foot of a bluebell

a bombus maculatum queen enjoying a willow flower

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🌑 🌍 ☀️ - lunar eclipse 🌍 🌑 ☀️- solar eclipse 🌑 ☀️ 🌎 - apocalypse 🌑 🚀 🌏 ☀️- Artemis

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic.

The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please.

You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

the whole AI thing is a good reminder to beware of geeks bearing grifts

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 20/02/2026

Is my mental health is worryingly dependent on @darthbluesky.bsky.social's spring return? Who's to say?

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/02/2026

It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 14/02/2026

It just happens that back in 2014 I made a bunch of Winter Olympic Lolcats. Let's have a look!

kitten lying on back on bed
Luge cat practices in its sleep

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Paper and Ink @paperandink.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

#librarytalk My goal in 2026 is for everyone to reset the algorithm for books that are rich in literary value so they aren't on the weed list. Go to the library and check out your favorite child book The Borrowers, Little House on the Prairie, The Diary of Anne Frank, Narnia.. our algorithms matter.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Reminder: You only need to see a new account once!

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Marie @mariekung.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Visual representation of the smart, extremely-capable girl helping the Chosen One boy achieve his destiny.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 15/01/2026

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 15/01/2026

Nature valentines. This comic is now available as a set of 6 Valentines cards: topatoco.com/collections/...

A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "Our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."

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Marie @mariekung.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

30 minutes of not boring content on dishwasher optimization? Yes!

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Quince Mountain @quincemountain.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

So, we weren’t going to have a calendar this year. But I got to thinking about Pepé and I was like “How can I honor TWELVE YEARS of this majestic dog???” and then I decided she deserves HER VERY OWN 12 month calendar. I hope it’s not too late. #uglydogs www.createphotocalendars.com/Store/A+Doze...

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A Dozen Years of Pepé

Custom Photo Calendars for Sale A Dozen Years of Pepé

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

At the outset of the year, I am restarting a project I started and then stopped last year. Among my notes from last year, a list of reasons not to start counterbalanced by reasons to do it. It's January again, and again the ayes have it. Sharing in case the list is helpful to you. Happy 2026!

Perhaps the world doesn’t need another book about plants, just about plants, about how they work and where they live, what they do, who they are. Perhaps the world doesn’t need a book about the forest and its inhabitants, a book about fungi and mosses and lichens, butterflies and devouring caterpillars, slime molds, mites and ticks and spiders. Or perhaps I’m just not the person to write it.
The great risk is that I’ll spend hours on this thing that I could have spent doing some other good in the world. It could be that this is not the good I am here to do. How great a risk is that?
What won’t I get done in writing this? I will spend time not working on the house; but I am not good at that and would not be likely to spend the extra time doing that anyways.
There might be letters unwritten. But writing seems to beget writing, so maybe I won’t fall any farther behind by starting another book than I would by not starting another book.
There will be hours not spent exploring the woods, which I dearly love. But I will be writing about the hours I spent doing so, and invariably I’ll have questions that pull me back out there. Especially if I cue this to the seasons over the coming year, I may be able to make this book work in my favor, helping me to see more clearly and more precisely.
I will see less of my family. I’ll be less available during some of the interstitial times, when meals are going on the table, and there are chores to do or things to chat about. This will be both because of the writing itself and because of the headspace occupied by the writing. But I think not that much, and my family don’t need me as much as they did when the boys were younger. And this is part of what Rachel and I connect about.
I may write fewer articles and grant proposals. This stuff spills into my home life, and so time spent on this book will be at least some time spent not on those things.
But I will wake up every day with a project I care about. I will go into the day...

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Marie @mariekung.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy Public Domain Day! (with a simultaneous boo to the AI that is making so many things, including this celebration, worse) web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

The back of a green Muppeturgy podcast t-shirt laying on a brown background. The all lowercase white text says: "shoutout to the public domain"

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Quince Mountain @quincemountain.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Hi #uglydogs here for our following pleasure is the intrepid reporter Alyssa Choiniere. I hear she’s working on a fantastic and important book, too.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 16/12/2025

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE, it's New Bird Day!!

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If I was a responsible academic, I'd hide this until I publish on this, but WHO CARES Spring bee visits to flowers Mar/Apr/May in MN IA WI IL IN MI What flowers are early season bees, including bumblebee queens, actually visiting? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Pollinator Plant Observations in Mar/Apr/May in MN IA WI IL IN MI

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It didn't occur to me that one of the problems with getting older is witnessing the culture debate and process the same things over and over. Like, as a historian it's fascinating and useful to analyze these continuities. As a human it's exhausting.

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Max Chafkin @chafkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Went into this story thinking it was a profile of two brilliant pranksters—Connor Gaydos and Peter McIndoe of Birds Aren’t Real fame. They started Enron as a satire of greed and corporate buffoonery. But those things aren’t as easy to defeat as you might imagine. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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How an Enron Parody Turned Into a Financial Mess of Its Own

Some performance artists bought the name for peanuts and concocted an elaborate caricature of corporate excess. It didn’t go as they planned.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again tell me what u are doing be proud of what u do and share it here

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 31/08/2025

Doggust 30: Coton de Tulear. New painting. 🪵 #doggust #doggust2025

A small white fluffy dog with a pencil behind their floppy ear is looking down at a messy sketchbook. They're in a messy painting studio. In the background is a blank white canvas on a brown easel. There's a drawing horse stand being used as a bench in front of it. There's brushes and water in jars nearby. Many sketches of sticks on newsprint are taped to the wall behind it. Everything in the studio is covered in colorful pawprints including a cup of coffee and jar of sticks. The dog has big splotches of paint staining their pristine white fur as well. Their studio window is open, safety first!

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 17/08/2025

Shocked and sad and amazed to see my first live spotted lanternfly in our own backyard (Chicago). Gorgeous animal—I wasn’t prepared for how beautiful it was. 🥲 Squashed and reported on @inaturalist.bsky.social

A large black bug with black-spotted brown wings held in my fingers

Closeup of the underside of the bug showing its legs and mouthparts

Closeup of the underside of the bug showing its black legs and mouthparts, a full ventral shot

The squashed bug showing beautiful brown forewings with intricate patterns, and striking red inner hindwings.

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Marie @mariekung.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Light bulb moment that I can try talking about vaccines as practicing before game day. Going straight into a game without reviewing tape, scrimmaging, drilling plays is just bad prep and a fast way to lose. We play how we practice.

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Samantha @samanthakm.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Right #UglyDogs, this is a call to arms for your joy. I know I usually post the weird animal joy, but today I need what you've got. Dogs, pets, zoos, trail cams, flowers - please can I have some joy and distraction. Thank you 💚

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Pro-tip. If you print your book all the way to the edges of the page, you will never make money. There's no margin.

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Marie @mariekung.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

One bison, corner of Lowden and Stone #Nachusa

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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Not only is this an almost impossible time to be an historian, structurally, it’s also a hugely morally distressing one. Our work is manipulated, defunded, and then ignored, and we sit here watching humanity do the same dumb shit over and over again. Thanks, I hate it.

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Sarah Chorn @sarahchorn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I don't know if my ~1000 square foot pollinator garden actually helps native pollinators or if it just makes me feel good, but my neighbor told me that he's seen more bees in his yard this year & he attributes it to my garden attracting them to the area. And that makes me feel good. #bloomscrolling

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Marie @mariekung.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Happy early Festivus to those who celebrate

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