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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 2h

Lighthouses of the BC South Coast. Cool. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine living with the Bellini on your wall!

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 17h

Nominations are open for the Hugo Bellen and Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture—recognizing outstanding early career work in Drosophila neurogenetics. The award includes a cash prize and conference travel and registration for #Dros27. 🔗https://buff.ly/NUvMqTM

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 10h

Reddish Egret. This is a distinctive wading bird found in coastal saltwater habitats, known for its energetic, "dancing" Range: Primarily the Gulf Coast of the U.S. (Texas, Louisiana, Florida), Mexico, the Caribbean, and northern South America. 📸: @jennifersunglao_photography

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 12h

Cell Press giving a rather biased, pro-eugenics platform to self-proclaimed "Biotech Barbie", former a Thiel Fellow who briefly married He Jiankui, and fails to properly frame the debate on germline editing. Partly bonkers, partly important, check out this thread 🤯

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Mstreefrog @mstreefrog.bsky.social · 13h

#WaderWednesday A Wilson’s Snipe, quietly hanging out by the canal at Ridgefield NWR this week. Almost in Borb territory with that stocky little body. A snipe's eyes are set remarkably far back and high on the sides of its head, giving the bird a nearly 360-degree field of vision. 🪶📷

A plump stripey brown bird with a very long bill sits above a canal at Ridgefield NWR. It is a Wilson’s Snipe who was very obliging while being photographed.

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 16h

Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 13h

Re my moan about Kynaston ignoring science earlier today. He mentions Jodrell just once in all his books, in passing, re Sputnik. I dunno, it seems deserving of more attention - culturally, scientifically and technologically. Poor show, Dave!

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Oops𓅓 @vodkula.bsky.social · 15h

Bird's nest fungus

Little fungus cups filled white white "seeds"??

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 13h

Spandrels of San Marco. Strictly speaking ‘pendentives’ but spandrels seems to work much better.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 13h

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 14h

Why so many pilot whales? Well, based on yesterday’s night shift their favorite food is around in abundance! Squid! (Shoutout to @warren-lab.bsky.social for making sure I didn’t miss the squid party) 🦑🌿🐳

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 14h

The seas are getting fairer and we seeing a lot of life offshore. Lots to share, but to start… PILOT WHALES!!! 🦑🐳🌿 Breaches at ~14, 20, & 28 seconds. This was a huge group that joined us for a while alongside the vessel, & even now several hours later we can see them far off the back deck.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 14h

"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens" Poster spotted in York University in Toronto, Ontario

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Martin Stevens @wildlifevision.bsky.social · 14h

From underwater volcanic seascapes to pink squid, lionfish, spawning fireworms and more - new film about Patmos Island 🇬🇷 out now #marinelife #patmosisland #visitgreece #marinebiology youtu.be/cXLgiA17U9s?...

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow. Just wow. Did I say wow?

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 17h

🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 15h

Fascinating. The world is changing fast. OA, free - with funding constraints in the West, I bet in a few years, many papers that might have been sent to CSN, thereby incurring massive fees, will go to Vita.

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Chinese-owned science journal created to rival the best

Newly-launched Vita is part of a broader government plan to give China a bigger say in what counts as high quality science.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15h

'View from the Window.' (c1950) Margaret Green was a painter of narrative landscapes and figure compositions of subtle strength and quiet lives; she remained largely unknown to a wider public - a story familiar to many women artists of her generation.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15h

Possibly my least fav AI "enthusiast" is the speculative fiction writer or futurist who has created a brand of riding the next wave and who reflexively engages with AI so they can look like they're hip to the cool, so to speak.

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 16h

If it hasn’t been published it has effectively not been done - a Classic Prof Simon leather quote highlighting the value of communicating the science once it has been done A celebration at @harperadamsuni.bsky.social for the new building opened in hour of the great man @royentsoc.bsky.social

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 16h

Umm… How is it being transmitted please? Remember that in 2011 Ron Fouchier did something “really, really stupid” - he “mutated the hell” out of H5N1 so it was transmitted aerially between ferrets… This scared everyone witless. I presume this is not the case here, but it’s worrying.

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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 17h

Really big rays swimming past people at the beach near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. These Spotted Eagle Rays were about 30 feet from shore. #nature #florida #wildlife #animals #beach

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 20h

Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A little unexpected shake-up in Tacoma today! During today’s 4.2 magnitude earthquake, some of our aquarium animals were briefly startled, but everyone is safe and doing well. Most guests and staff didn’t feel the earthquake at all.

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Cathy Abbott @cathyabbott.bsky.social · 21h

Great reporting from @robinbisson.bsky.social on an absolutely dire funding situation…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18h

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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 18h

We are DELIGHTED to announce that Kit Chapman’s #TheAgeOfAlchemy has won the @royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize for 2026! Huge congratulations to Kit 💥 Judges described #TheAgeOfAlchemy as 'dazzling', 'beautiful' and a 'rollickingly ambitious piece of science writing'. #HistoryofScience

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 22h

30 September 1891 | A Pole, Franciszek Ziółkiewicz, was born in Balice. A lawyer. In #Auschwitz from 10 February 1942. No. 20750 He perished in the camp on 27 February 1942. --- A podcast about registration photos: youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 22h

These books are great but sadly, science is Kynaston’s blind spot - it doesn’t get mentioned in any of his books. Not even the 1962 award of 4 Nobels to Brits (and 1 to a USian who did the work in the U.K.).

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 23h

The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Jane Rushton @janerushtonart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Morning dip. Greeted by the rosy glow of dawn

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

30 September 1922 | Czech Jewish woman, Blanka Hoffmannová, was born in Pardubice. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

Vintage black and white portrait of a smiling woman wearing a button-up shirt, featuring an autograph across the bottom.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My gf got her eggs frozen last year and now we’re looking into freezing some embryos and if things keep going according to plan, fingers crossed, in a couple years we’ll freeze a whole baby

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026

Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts. Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Dave Brice @davebriceflies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Calling ecologists! Diptera backlog? Need ID work done before next season? Planning lots of diptera work next year? We can help! Please contact me for Diptera ID, full species lists and conservation status etc, see dipteraid.co.uk/projects/ Please share Conicera tibialis (Phoridae) for interest.

Conicera tibialis (Phoridae) tiny fly with huge pointed antenna

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Deadwood is not dead Or the squirrels have started wearing Sombreros

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Context: Sathi got called out for this in the Letters page of the following issue:

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