Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 23/12/2025I just offered chatgpt a chocolate cookie if it performed better than it had on a previous task. It agreed and massively outperformed itself. "Homies Without Chromosomeope" 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Off ... the ... fucking ... rails ... www.wsj.com/world/pavel-...wsj.comA Russian Billionaire Fights Global Infertility—With 100 of His Own ChildrenTelegram founder Pavel Durov will cover IVF costs for women who want to use his donated sperm, and has promised his offspring a share of his fortune. 010
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Today's unremarkable insight: Mars has a carrying capacity of zero. 010
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 22/11/2025This just appeared out of nowhere in the corner of a slide in a PowerPoint presentation I'm completing. What does it mean? 010
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I've got legs! I've got legs! www.wsj.com/real-estate/...wsj.comBefore Building Their Retirement Home, They Had to Relocate 174 Legless LizardsA pair of retirees needed to remove protected slow worms from the property before they could break ground on their $3.2 million home in the English countryside. 000
Reposted by Planet's wondersVicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025What appears to be a single Borg-like #perovskite crystal is an intergrowth of repetitively “twinned” crystals that have formed striations and very complex faces. How? See comment. Photo from Mindat-link in ALT. Vote perovskite below #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐 22810
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 07/09/2025don't remember, don't know how that even is. all the better! 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 04/09/2025There actually is a Harvard in Florida (Harvard Florida 32619) but no one lives there😂 000
Reposted by Planet's wondersMarkus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have published their Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, setting a great example for other academic societies. 🌏🧪🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comATBC Code of ConductClick on the article title to read more. 0359
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Oh god, that cat is cited more than I am! www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgHow easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Funny how times have changed. Just watch movies from any decade you like until 2000. 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Definitely in my top 5 planets and famed by a Paul McC & Wings song 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 31/08/2025I picked strawberries to make some extra cash when I was young, but wrecked my back. No one ever thanked me 🥲 010
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 31/08/2025PreFucCool. They do do a job on my fennel. Smart adult females finding the right plants. 010
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 31/08/2025wow - not taking away from the immensity of the gas ball, but I get a round array of b&w polymers when I leave my electric razor shavings in toilet water for several hours. Try it. NB. I'm a bit autistic, so forgive me. 010
Reposted by Planet's wondersDavid Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Have I told you today that I love Jupiter? (Image from the incredible JunoCam) 🧪 814837
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Good thing that a pterodactyl did not swoop down and yank out the big one 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 14/08/2025This is a flying spaghetti monster (seriously), but you can call it Bathyphysa conifera. Apparently they are about as smart as a stupid dog (or cat), which places them neck and neck with some humans I know. It's Thursday people! I digress. 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 14/08/2025This is a black and rufous elephant shrew Rhynchocyon petersi. Very cute and they don't (can't) bite. So very okay for the nervous and thin skinned. 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 14/08/2025that's what freezers are for. I've got two of em (freezers that is) 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Just occurred to me that I'm more often than not, a species of one. énough for my deep insights. 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 14/08/2025nice, and in a different realm, the photo might apply to the Portuguese-man-o'-war too 😁 100
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Scary www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...wsj.comInside Silicon Valley’s Growing Obsession With Having Smarter BabiesTech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. “They want to raise high-performing children.” 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Are those really real cats? Doubt it since the mom should have swollen nipples from the kitten feeding. A dad cat would not have the patience, unless it has smoked a lot of catnip 😁 010
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 12/08/2025no doubt, though climate change requires new mitigation measures, and letting fuel (wood) accumulate needs to shift the blame towards human management of the problem and not the source of climate change only. Non-mitigation = denial. Dealing with climate change goes beyond the focal problem. 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 12/08/2025A distant cousin of mine. That is, from the thorax down. 010
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 07/08/2025I find fascinating, accidents that only prove to be remarkable years or decades later. Here's one. Song "Talk talk" by The Music Machine. Recorded in 1966, but sounds like 76 or 86. Now viewed as proto punk garage music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttds...youtube.comNEW * Talk Talk - The Music Machine {Stereo} 1966YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine 010
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 30/07/2025This is a hammer-headed fruit bat, Hypsignathus monstrosus, Well adapted to its lifestyle and not embarrassed to show it. I think that Harrison Allen, who named this species, was a person of his time in tagging this darling species as monstrous en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriso... 100
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I like frogs, but embarrassed to say that I have been known to eat their legs. 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 18/07/2025"True friends stab you in the front". Oscar Wilde 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 22/06/2025For a second I though this was a bunched up mink stole. Whew 000
Reposted by Planet's wondersOBDsity - Bunnies in a Bun Dance @obdsity.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Cookie decided it's too warm to maintain solid form and he has now transformed onto a liquid 🫠 57447402
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Marvel at the Stubby squid: Rossia pacifica 000
Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Tried running marathons. Failed. Tried playing electric guitar. Failed. Tried getting bonus miles for a platinum card. Failed. You name it - I tried it - I failed it. So decided to dedicate my life to eating chocolate. 000
