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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today’s rally to save the academy of natural sciences was incredible. Hundreds of people turned out. This is only the beginning. Follow along with save-the-academy.org

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Protest sign time Join us for the rally in support of the academy of natural sciences Deets and RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Mughal artist Ustād Manṣūr, produced in the 1620s what is probably the most lively painting of a dodo. In fact, It is possible that he used live individuals as models, since two dodos where transported to the Mughal court in the early 17tn c

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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today’s Italy update: we went in a church and there was a big inflatable bug

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...

A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Two robins (American robin, European robin)

There are two birds that look friendly. On the left is an American robin, and on the right is a European robin. A soft and intimate atmosphere.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I know the fault of the closing of the Academy of Natural Sciences lies with Drexel University but I called to complain to the Mayor anyway. If I learn of something more useful to do I'll let you know. Her office number is (215) 686-2181 Saving the museum would be great PR for her (she needs it).

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It appears that the oldest natural history institute in the United States - the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia - is closing. A real shame and not something I fully understand or can comprehend. #naturalhistory #museums drexel.edu/news/archive...

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Preserving the Academy of Natural Sciences' Legacy and Collections for the Future

As part of this broader effort and following careful consideration, grounded in deep respect for the Academy’s extraordinary legacy, Academy and Drexel leadership have made the difficult decision to c...

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The modern stained glass on Holy Island goes HARD.

A stained glass window with the sacred heart of Jesus, seals, a puffin, the tidal causeway and rescue refuges, birds, st Cuthbert's cross, and a deer

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ivyteas @ivyteas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

requiem for vanished birdsong

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Folks! It's so good to see this back. If you are any flavour of queer doing any flavour of science, tech, engineering, or maths - come along! It's free and a lovely time, I promise. Their taste in plenary speakers is also impeccable...

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🚨 #MUSEUMJOBS KLAXON🚨 We're looking for a Senior Digitiser and two Digitisers to work across @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camplantsci.bsky.social to help create biodiversity data for the researchers who need it, through #DiSSCoUK. 1. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-... 2. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/digitis...

A pinned moth is positioned within a light box, with a camera positioned above

A museum drawer containing tens of pinned tiger and emerald moths lined up in rows

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NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If "Mosquito embebbed in paper on page 215" isn't a copy-specific note, we don't know what is. #SpecialCollections #Cataloguing #BlueSkyBooks #Insects

Title page of 1790 book title Delectus Opusculorum Botanicorum.

Close-up photograph of a book page showing a mosquito embedded into paper during paper-making process.

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Jar of Moles (Grant Zoology Museum, London)
crittery dozened things each pink snout snootling
formaldehyde up it's bamboozler which poor fuck
had to collect them out in the dirt with a shovel
here moley moley BONK . I’m only gonna
put you in a jar and let tourists go eww at you
for the next two hundred years god look at me
for two hundred years I’d do anything look
mummy, one of them’s licking the glass—
honey it's dead velvety sweet sardined hope
their ghosts are friends teeming in a molish
afterlife dark and circular everything worm-
flavoured tasty buggy snackerels what if
you smashed the mole jar? vinegared
moles spilling out flaccid & swimming
everyone screaming someone saying Freddy
you gotta get us a new jar of moles—
—goddammit boss I never asked for any of this

A jar of wet preserved moles, the jar is very full and all the little hands, feet and snoots mark it as both upsetting and fascinating

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

... Is it though? Nearly everywhere we look we find non-hetero relations. Absence of anything queer would be the unexpected outcome!

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur… beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Screenshot of part of the LEGO Ideas website, showing a side view of a diorama featuring both creatures

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Nuz. | নুজহাত (She/Her) @thensheappears.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Are you... - From a racially marginalised background? - Interested in studies or careers in Earth, environmental, or ecological sciences? Book your FREE ticket to the Explorers Conference 2024! When: Thursday 28th November Where: NHM, London www.eventbrite.com/e/explorers-...

A group of people from Black, Asian, Arab and other racially marginalised background gathered together, smiling and posing for the camera, in a foyer with blue walls

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I LOVE THESE. Let me add this adorable orange tip that was digitized during the iCollections project. Here they are! And here's "A History of Shropshire" which features a snippet about this exact specimen. Famous!

Screenshotted text that reads: "ab. androgyna, Newnham. On 23 May, 1888, I caught a splendid ab. of this species, in which the right wings are those of the female, while the left ones offer the coloration of the male. The larva is very common about Church Stretton in July on various wild cruciferae, such as Cardamines pratensis, Hesperia matronalis, but especially on Sisymbrium officinale so common along our hedges, and the yellowish pyramidal ova are often met with on the underside of the calyx in June."

Bilateral gynandromorphic orange tip with labels that read "Crabtree Sale" "Church Stretton, Taken by F.B. Newnham, 23-v-1888." The specimen is a bit yellowed and dusty, but exceedingly lovely.

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 25/11/2024

I've updated this starter pack for all interested! Now bursting with over 100 natural history museum related accounts 🎉🌱🦆🙌 go.bsky.app/NtdUnyF

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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

to be loved is to be changed

Fishtopher, a brown and black striped tabby cat. He lays in the shelter next to a chrome bowl. His large head is hung low to the floor of the kennel, as he looks up with sad green eyes and very large, round cheeks. His ears are slightly down and his mouth looks small and almost like a frown. He protects his body with his round tail in a very sad, closed off manner.

Fishtopher, a brown and black striped tabby cat, now in his forever home. He stands up and leans against the couch but the lower half of his body is blocked by the camera person's leg. He looks slightly upward with large, sparkling green eyes. His ears are pointed up and forward and his mouth is almost in a wide smile. His pink nose is a much brighter pink now, and his large cheeks are still large, but smaller in comparison.

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 18/11/2024

well, here it is lads after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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The slender-billed curlew is declared extinct

This is the first mainland European bird declared extinct in 500 years.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Y’ALL! Scientists at Schmidt Ocean just captured this rare video of an open-ocean squid caring for its young. That pearl-packed black bag between its tentacles is a brood pouch, each pearl is a developing baby squid (you can see a few hatch out at the end). Nature is so cool. 🧵 🪼🦑🐙🌿🧪

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

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Noah Patrick Hearne @nph.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

So many touching details in Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery, London. I can’t recommend enough to go and see Vincent’s butterflies and dandelions and trees and sky! 🌥️

Detail of Long Grass with Butterflies, 1890 by Vincent Van Gogh.

Detail of Tree Trunks in the Grass, 1890 by Vincent Van Gogh.

Detail of Olive Trees, 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh.

Detail from Landscape from Saint-Rémy (Wheatfield behind Saint-Paul Hospital), 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh.

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

shallow waters

a stylized 3d render of an ocean filled with water pokemon, including mantine, remoarid, luvdisc, milotic, and feebas. a girl with a tube and a psyduck float on top of the surface.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

in my hypothetical worm field guide im not sure if it would be funnier to have a color index like in bird field guides but “pink” and “brown” contains 95% of the species, or to have highly specific color names that have people squinting at a worm trying to decide if it is rose or peach blossom pink

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A few more angles on LA’s fighting dinosaurs for all of us born too late to see them in their original glory. Now, who’s going to see Gnatalie, the museum’s new greeter dinosaur, when she debuts tomorrow? Share pics!

Two medium sized dinosaur skeletons on a platform in a museum lobby. Ornate light fixtures hang overhead.

Closer look at same. Camptosaurus is standing tall with its head twisted down behind it.

Closer look at the Allosaurus, with a swooping, semi-dragging tail and low crouching posture

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Okay, so I'm writing something for my staff intranet for Trans Awareness week and made up this image to go along with it, using images from our digitised collections. I discovered a strange little story in my hunt for pink lepidoptera...🧵 #digitalcollections #lepidoptera #naturalhistory

Trans flag made from images of butterflies and moths including cinnabar, Holly blue, and cabbage white

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Noah Patrick Hearne @nph.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

In honour of this insane Homotherium cub news, here’s a lovely H. latidens canine we have at NHM London, one of the first discovered in England and among those used by Richard Owen to describe the species in 1846. Happy #FossilFriday!

A photo of NHM London’s specimen PV OR 14954, an upper left canine of Homotherium latidens.

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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Saber-toothed toe beans. Saber-toothed toe beans

Close-up of the paw of a mummified Homotherium cub. It has toe beans. From Lopatin et al. 2024

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is not a drill, a mummified sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. It's too young to have enlarged upper canines. Paper is OA ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... cont...

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Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

aurora dragon

a stylized 3d render of an aurora shaped like a dragon flying over a lake at night.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This is amazing, and only recently archived: hand-drawn concept art and miniature dioramas (!) from the planning of the Los Angles Natural History Museum's 80s and 90s dinosaur galleries. Sketchup is great and all, but man I wish I was around for this era of exhibit design.

Scans of illustrations that might be a mix of collage, colored pencil and watercolor. White dinosaur bones in forest diorama scenes within a museum hall with various visitors.

Another collage-y/colored pencil drawing. This one is a marine diorama with plesiosaur and sea turtle skeletons and a hanging pterosaur model being viewed from a mezzanine overhead.

Adorable shoebox-style diorama of a woodland diorama area in the corner of a museum hall. White wire/pipe cleaner dinosaur skeletons are placed within among tall trees and dirt. There's a little model of a touchable dinosaur bone on the rail.

Camera placed inside the diorama's doorway to show visitor eye view past standing turtle skeleton and toward dinosaur tableau.

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Cambrian explosion

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

The Cretaceous corner at the Peabody Museum, before and after the renovation that opened earlier this year. The Edmontosaurus relief mount and Zallinger mural remain, but the design is brighter and there is a “less is more” ethos to the new version. #FossilFriday

Corner of dim, brown museum gallery. Hadrosaur skeleton in relief on the wall with mostly ceratopsians skulls in front of it. Around the corner a moa skeleton in a case, and lush 1940s fresco of Cretaceous dinosaurs above.

Slightly closer angle of same area with same hadrosaur skeleton. Setting is brighter and white. Smaller number of skulls on platform.

Angle slightly to the right of previous. Same mural over a green-backgrounded case. Path and doorway opened up in the corner.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

New paper alert! We extended the known range of coconut crabs by >600 km further east in Polynesia! 🦀🧪

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

look at this absolute unit

The absolute unit sheep; an Exmoor Horn ram

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Nadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Hello new followers! Here's a specimen which combies mineralogy and biology! Petrified wood forms when mineral-rich water flows through the remains of a tree and gradually replaces its organic material with #minerals. This fossilisation process preserves the original texture of the wood! #fossils

A cut and polished slice of petrified wood. It's a light beige colour with concentric rings and radial patterns with a black centre. It looks a bit like a less evil version of the Eye of Sauron.

Label text: Wood opal, polished slice of fossil oak tree. Clover Creek, Idaho.

On display in the Natural History Museum, London.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

There are a lot of new arrivals lately, so here is my naturalists starter pack if you're looking to add more nature to your timeline! And if you're a non-scientist naturalist, I'm happy to add you as well! There are no requirements, if you post about nature, you're in. go.bsky.app/5MZYVyN

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

We proudly present: The Art of #InverteFest – a digital art book showcasing the work of 66 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the human artists of bluesky who contributed to our first art book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1WYvI...

Book cover showing a nudibranch, a crab, and a sea star. The text says "the art of InverteFest August 2024"

inside spread showing two paintings of fossil invertebrates, the wormlike Kerygmachela kierkegaardi by Rebecca Gelernter and a golden trilobite by Glendon Mellow

inside spread showing a comic about an ant and a grasshopper by Rosemary Mosco and a black and white drawing of a beetle by Rinaldo Hartanto

inside spread showing a pair of 3D-printed beetles by Blue Appaloosa and a pencil drawing of several ants attacking a spider by Martin Gregorič-Quiñones (Age 8)

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 10/11/2024

ok ok I have tried to pull together a list of all the natural history museums and people who work at them! Unsurprisingly this is very NHM London biased, so if you work at or know of other natural history museums on here then let me know! 👇 go.bsky.app/NtdUnyF

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Platydesmus is a wonderfully-shaped genus of fungus-feeding millipedesnl from the Neotropics. although I found these wandering solo, they can form dense aggregations where, I believe, the males provide care to their eggs and young.

a long tan millipede with extremely flat, long, and slender segments. overall it looks rather like a fine-toothed comb

a similar but shorter millipede, along the back every six segments or so get progressively darker and this pattern repeats

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

I have a cancelled meeting and I was moving my photo stores last week so you all are gonna get an old-fashioned photo history of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's fossil halls (my happy place/obsession). This is from memory so dates may be off by a year or three. 🧪📜🦖🦕🦣🐡

Circa 1915. Three-story, open hall with assorted mounted skeletons on wood platforms under skylight.

Circa 1963. Same space rearranged with dinosaurs on single central platform, with relief mounted skeletons along right (south) wall.

Ca. 1982. Same space, but much more crowded, with added mezzanine with more exhibits and some relief mounts 30 feet up the wall.

2019. Space restored to original open, well-lit design. Mounted skeletons among colorful graphics, including cut-outs of trees.

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Nadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

This was hanging up in an office at work. For some reason I thought it was about how to defend yourself against swans (it's actually about male swans fighting each other) #nature

A beige coloured booklet pinned to a notice board. Its title is, "Fighting Swans" by W. D. Lang SC.D., M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Vol. 71, pages 166-169, 1949.

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Noah Patrick Hearne @nph.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

More preservation of defunct displays, please!

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 22/12/2023

Have a jolly weekend, everyone!🎄 DYK, Rudolph is queer! Same-sex sexual behaviour is well documented for reindeer, male and female. Read about it in Bruce Bagemihl's Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (1999) from which this image by John Megahan is taken. #QueerInSTEM

Drawing of two male reindeer standing side by side, one of which is courting the other by 'vacuum licking,' or slurping, by which the animal flicks or smacks its tongue against the upper palate while approaching the other male with its head outstretched. The image, one of many, was created by John Megahan especially for Bagemihl's 'Biological Exuberance.'

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BeaknikPoetry 🐦 @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

This year's definitive nature highlight for me: spontaneous encounter with the world's bravest Blue Tit...and a Great Grey Owl. 🪶🦉🇫🇮 Merry Xmas & Happy New Year!

A Great Grey Owl on a Birch tree gazing up. A tiny Blue Tit perched right next to the owl's head. Finland.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

We begin on MONDAY. I'll be mostly offline except for #InverteFest stuff. Don't forget to join the iNaturalist project to participate in community science! www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

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