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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This dude starts smiling the *second* he realizes he’s about to get tackled LMAO nobody loves playing football as much as Josh Allen 😂

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 09/10/2026

time once again for my annual post: evacuating from hurricanes costs money and resources that a lot of people don’t have and the local governments often don’t adequately provide. evacuating is logistically difficult, sometimes impossible, and is hard to justify when the results are unpredictable.

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Waffle House Index letting everyone know just how serious this is

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I replayed the game just to get this ending! Thought it was such a good touch

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This makes me feel so much better about my toddler mess. Every few days it all gets put away and as soon as the little guy walks by he just grabs the toy buckets and starts dumping them

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you haven't already, share this with every Philadelphian you know. I want to raise enough hell that Drexel will have no choice but to continue supporting the museum.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Alright everybody, time to text the teachers in your life. The fall semester is open at SkypeAScientist and we are ready to match classrooms, scout troops, library groups, and more with scientists! Tell the educators in your life, and send them to SkypeAScientist.com

A frog uses its comically long tongue to catch a fleeing fly and the words say “send this to a teacher” pointing right. Then under the tongue it says “Skype a scientist matches classrooms with scientists for free Q&As” and there’s a little pond scene with lily pads and spatterdock flowers and a rock with a snail on it and a salamander with the words get a match at Skype scientist.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Marine biology fact: a seal with a satellite transmitter hat on its head is the funniest thing in the world.

Photo from a recent paper in marine biology progress series.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you’re not an expert and your uninformed personal opinion disagrees with expert consensus on a technical topic: Please consider that “the experts who’ve spent years studying this know something I don’t” is far more likely than “I alone discovered something that all the world’s experts missed.”

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Reminder

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yesterday’s warm weather called for a refreshing misting session! 💦🦉 Our two-month-old spectacled owlet cooled off with a gentle rain shower. Misting helps keep owls comfortable on warm days while also helping clean and condition their feathers. Safe to say this little one was a fan. 💙

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22/06/2026

Tai says it’s important to remember that some pets have poor self-regulation and you must tell them when it is too hot to play!

A little blonde dog with a white stripe on her chest stares hopefully up at the camera and asks you to throw the ball, please? Please?

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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Three other grad students in my program also got engaged during their studies. Being focused on your degree is important, but it doesn't need to be your only focus, despite what your PI or other PhDs might say.

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Also sometimes life doesn't pause even if you think it will! All three of these things happened to me while I was completing my PhD. I didn't expect it either, my plan was degree, job, find a partner, maybe have kids. It definitely didn't work out that way and I still got that degree!

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Look all I'm saying is that it would indeed be very effective weed and pest control

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A List of Things Eaten by Scientists 🧵

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Petition to have outside consultations before any new scientific discovery gets named.

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Yes I am specifically looking at you right now biology. Crazy ass scientists hyperfocused on their own work that the nomenclature makes me want to pull my hair out

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I go on this rant at least once a week. This goes for all fields.

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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Trying to collect animals at hydrothermal vents is pretty hilarious - here, we are using an underwater vacuum hose to suck up shrimp (small ones were easy, large ones always ran away!) #SnailsRising #NSFfunded

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Angelo Alcid 🇵🇭 🎮 ⚖️ @angeloalcid.com · 08/05/2026

I have watched this beginning to end like a dozen times now and it still brings me to tears every time

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

it’s hard to describe why, but this specific version of this specific song is how I feel maybe 90% of the time now

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KK Slider - Hotel California

YouTube video by Bone

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I got so annoyed with some of You People that I made a meme Science is not why you and your family are struggling, friends. President Trump and Congressional Republicans are the reason why you and your family are struggling.

"That foreigner wants your cookie" cartoon, but it's ICE with all the cookies, and US science agencies not immigrants.

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 07/04/2026

oh my god oh my god oh my god www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Please remember when you swim in the ocean: 200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it. This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]

A skinny big-eyed brown lanternfish. Image by Emma Kissling from wikimedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanternfish

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

One of them has claimed my toddler as part of his guardianship, if the lad is outside, he's following right behind

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My mother-in-law has Akbashes to watch over her sheep herds. They are spectacular dogs and holy moly are they intimidating when they go on alert to defend their herd

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I know of at least one lab that has *refused* to cite another lab for almost 20 years because two lab members got into a heated disagreement about fundamentals in our field

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I read the plan first and went "oh not what I'd plan, lot of boring driving" to "that is an insane plan for the time they have" immediately

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Phenylephrine and pseudophedrine (at least here in the States). Not safe during pregnancy and will definitely dry your milk up! Happened to my mom when I was 3mo and she got a cold, and the doctors didn't tell her it wasn't safe. They had to figure out how to get me to take a bottle real quick

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/03/2026

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

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Ellen Kushner @ellenkushner.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Design was approved in 2024. According to the WaPo the artist said it "represents the colonists before and during the American Revolution. He omitted the olive branch to show that the colonies had not yet reached peace, but a talon remained empty to show that they were waiting for it."

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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I think it’s cool that some people focus on curing disease and some people focus on understanding what animals are up to and some people think about our place in the universe and how things came to be the way they are. People are driven by curiosity and I promise you you don’t want it any other way

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Sorry I know you don't need validation for your opinions, I just hate the pressure some people put on child-free individuals

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I hate when people say "oh you'll change your mind" or "don't you feel differently now that you have kids of your own?" No! I'm even more pro-choice now if thats even possible. Everyone should live the life that makes them happy. And if kids aren't included in that life it's okay!

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

You absolutely do love children differently than pets and livestock. But after having a child of my own I've never been more supportive of people deciding kids aren't for them. This shit is hard!

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Rachel Snyder Garneau @rachelesnyder.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My dad calls this "the toddler magnification". It takes 2x as long to get 1/2 as much done. I love involving my 2 yr old when possible but jeeeesh does it make everything into an extreme sport

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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Look at this chart

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I wrote this about him and the new DoD almost a year ago "They want to invade — somewhere, anywhere — and blow shit up." www.jezebel.com/pentagon-pre...

This is only one of many examples. There is a style, cadence, and word choice to DoD press releases in this somehow-still-young administration that provide a fascinating, if largely uncomplicated glimpse at the type of limited, childish ghouls currently in charge of the world’s largest military. There are warriors and warfighters everywhere; there is lethality, and force, and strength; there is a sneering dismissiveness of anything else the sprawling military apparatus engages in besides pointing guns at people and shooting them. The releases are the way a Fox News Pentagon talks, what they assume Secretary of Defense John Wayne would sound like.

This isn’t, of course, purely an exercise in misdirected machismo in language. Mixed in with the president’s clear imperial and expansionist goals, the fact that the DoD brass talk like someone likely to pull a gun on anyone who knocks on the door is a huge “warfighting” alarm bell. They don’t want the US military to be some big peacekeeping force that builds dams and shakes hands with locals; they want to invade — somewhere, anywhere — and blow shit up.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Values I think we all should strive to share: Finding joy in each day Helping others find joy in each day Learning true things Unlearning false things Helping kids feel happy, healthy, and safe Celebrating with music, food, or spectacle It's okay to un-subscribe An edit button I'm out of characters

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

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