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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 28/09/2026
I so desperately want this to be "Bisclavret" from Marie de France, but it really isn't going to be that... youtu.be/CL1EFACsWag?...
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WERWULF - Official Trailer 2 [HD] - Only In Theaters This Christmas
YouTube video by Focus Features
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Slab Graveyard
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Tess Grainger @tessgrainger.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
Drawing of a researcher looking out thoughtfully at mountains, grasslands and intertidal study systems
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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is from a study that investigated exactly this for a red-tailed hawk. Thanks to a friend of mine on Twitter for bringing it to my attention. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2...
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Do Predators Always Capture Substandard Individuals Disproportionately From Prey Populations?
Predators are commonly thought to capture substandard individuals (those in poorer condition than the average individual) in higher than expected proportions, but evidence for this paradigm is scant,....
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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can you #FindThatLizard?! 🦎 Lizards pant to cool themselves off when temperatures get too high! All animals need ways to cool down, lizards included, because they can overheat. Humans sweat, birds bathe or swim, and pigs roll in mud. So it makes sense that lizards would have a cooling strategy.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another reminder: “regenerative” grazing is *not* a real climate solution. While it might build some soil carbon, it drives far more land use and larger herd sizes than conventional beef production, which is bad enough. The better solution? Eat less, waste none. drawdown.org/insights/eig...
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Eight reasons regenerative grazing can’t make beef climate-friendly
An influential regenerative grazing movement continues to grow. But here's why the science doesn't back up the purported climate benefits.
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In many of my book events thus far, one question keeps coming up: how should we think about tech workers, their class position, and organizing them in the AI age? I have a new essay with my friend @emilymazo.bsky.social that gets at exactly this question: www.theideasletter.org/essay/syndic...
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Syndicalist Valley
The tech-worker movement that emerged in the 2010s has been transformed by layoffs, higher interest rates, and the enormous investment flowing into AI, which have eroded the bargaining power of…
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Of all mammals on Earth, 96% are either livestock or humans. Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals and half of plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study
Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also, there is absolutely nothing that people have not claimed the vampire represents. It is both oppressor and oppressed, domineering heterosexuality and subversive queerness, racialized other and whiteness personified. It can be anything!
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lovewins7.bsky.social @lovewins7.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's a gift article on why everyone should care: share.inquirer.com/Tt1WYq
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The Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing, but all eyes are on its specimens — all 19 million of them
"Profound concern" over the fate of the Academy and its internationally significant collection.
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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Should you wish to indulge your love of beetles (and why wouldn’t you) this brilliant and scholarly website will certainly help. It’s a work of art by a human. www.rosspiper.net/2020/01/10/s...
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Saproxylic beetles - Dr. Ross Piper
This is an intro and visual guide to the extraordinary diversity of beetle species associated with dead and decaying wood in the UK. Numbering some 650 species, this habitat supports the greatest dive...
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Kevin Kocot @kmkocot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Our new paper on peracarid phylogeny is out in Molecular Biology and Evolution! This was a great international collaboration and part of our NSF-funded PurSUiT project. Learn more about these confusing crustaceans and our ongoing phylogenomic efforts at www.peracarida.org.
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Phylogenomics supports monophyly of marsupial crustaceans: a journey to direct development
Abstract. Peracarida (marsupial crustaceans) represent one of the most diverse and ecologically important crustacean groups, yet their evolutionary relatio
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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
SUPER DUPER PLEASED to share the newest pub by Dr. Paige Duffin academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... In this effort, Paige, Lauren Schiebelhut, Mike Dawson and I leveraged whole-genome sequencing to study broad biogeographic patterns in the canonical keystone seastar Pisaster ochraceus. 1/2
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Genomic separation of Salish Sea and Pacific outer coast populations of the keystone sea star Pisaster ochraceus
Despite its long larval dispersal period, the ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) is not genetically homogeneous across its range. Whole-genome data reveal
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In some areas of Lakes Michigan and Huron, almost no whitefish hatchlings have survived to adulthood for nearly two decades. Now, state and tribal scientists are collecting spawning whitefish - a kind of Noah's Ark attempt to save several distinct genetic strains bridgemi.com/michigan-env...
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With no time to spare, Michigan hatches a Great Lakes whitefish rescue plan - Bridge Michigan
With little time left to avert a population collapse, officials plan to pluck whitefish from the mussel-infested Great Lakes and raise their offspring in hatcheries.
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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · 16/09/2026
An update following feedback from several kind people. As before, reuse as you see fit..
An infographic showing the number of described and estimated species for major animal groups. There are more insects than anything else. Of the remaining groups, arachnids and nematodes are the most diverse.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...
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The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever
Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.
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Lily Khadempour @khadlily.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm happy to share my new paper "A new conceptual framework for host-microbe symbiosis" If you've seen me give a talk in the last 5 years, then you've seen me talk about this. It's been a journey. academic.oup.com/ismehm/artic... #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky
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A new conceptual framework for host-microbe symbiosis
Abstract. Host-microbe relationships are studied across biological disciplines, with unique but overlapping conceptual frameworks arising from each of them
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Babeyyy!! @babezoid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Me signing up for Human Osteology my junior year of college
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Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Onion abandons satire for blatantly obvious truth.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Much Plastic Does it Take to Kill a Seabird? | I love it when headlines read like Google prompts that would be read aloud at someone’s trial.
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How Much Plastic Does it Take to Kill a Seabird? | bioGraphic
For the first time, researchers uncover how eating plastic trash may impact seabirds at the population level.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 09/09/2026
Tanzania has designated its first official wildlife corridor, allowing elephants to migrate from open savannas to mountain rainforests. Co-managed by local landowners and government, the 14-km route gives hundreds of elephants safe passage across the Kilombero Valley. Ryan Truscott reports.
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Tanzania’s first official wildlife corridor links savanna elephants to rainforest
African savanna elephants in southern Tanzania have an unusual habit: They climb mountains. Up to 1,000 of the pachyderms spend part of their time in the Udzungwa Mountains, clambering up and down…
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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news! The Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive has digitized + made available 450 film catalogs from Professor Gregory A. Waller's collection. Catalogues represent 16mm film sector, mostly between 1940s to '70s. Explore them here! digitalcollections.iu.edu/collections/...
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Dr. Gregory A. Waller film catalog collection, 1915-1992, bulk 1940-1971 // Digital Collections
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The film begins with a reference to The Searchers, which is meant to evoke the Western, which is fused to the vampire trope and its emphasis on migration, except the migration is from South to North and back again, which itself is play on the early race films of Oscar Micheaux, which--"
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026
ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
16. Cordeliers’ Square in Lyon (Louis Lumière, 1895). Love all the horses. Cities really lost something (maybe just the smell of horse) when they were replaced.
Image from  Cordeliers’ Square in Lyon (Louis Lumière, 1895).
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2. The Race for the Sausage (Alice Guy-Blaché & Louis Feuillade, 1907). An adorable dog, good use of deep space, and actually pretty funny. This one got a couple of good laughs out of me.
Image from The Race for the Sausage (Alice Guy-Blaché & Louis Feuillade, 1907).
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
5. Metamorphoses (Segundo de Chomón, 1912). Watching trick films like these, you really can see the through line from cinema of attractions to the avant garde. There's a dream logic at play here combined with chaos that very much evokes early experimental film.
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
7. The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the Ku Klux Klan (Oscar Micheaux, 1920). Rewatching for the Sinners paper. Some incredible storytelling and camerawork here. Drove home how Sinners reorients the uplift narrative as one based in power and violence rather than fealty to the American dream.
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
11. Opus III (Walter Ruttmann, 1924). Film broken down to its most foundational elements. Rhythm, shape, light, color.
Image from Opus III (Walter Ruttmann, 1924)
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Plectroctena ugandensis, a huntress ant from Kibale Forest, Uganda.
Macro photo of a blind, shiny reddish ant, elongate with short legs, walking through rotting wood.
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Nora's Bird Bot @norasbirdbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Scaly-throated foliage-gleaner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-throate…
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Scaly-throated foliage-gleaner - Wikipedia
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tonic is a new watercolor band handmade in St Louis. They just released two new colors: the palette staple Payne’s Gray and a white-Phthalo convenience color called Curt’s Blue
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 18/09/2026
dudes rock www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished? (Gift Article)
The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New paper 🧪🪨🦐: We describe the N'kob Biota, a new Middle Ordovician Biota from Morocco that fills a critical gap between the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota and the Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota. Out now in Geology: doi.org/10.1130/G546... Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They have transmissible cancer!
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
got a trogossitid to ID, any excuse to bust out Kolibáč's 2013 review of the family and its all-time great figures
a plate from Jiri Kolibac's review of the beetle family Trogossitidae, showing an assortment of brown, ovoid, and vaguely flattened beetles. One of them has an outrageous hairstyle of blonde tufts.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Happy Sundew Sunday! Want to learn 5 super cool facts about miniature-yet-so-complex sundew plants? Follow along to learn some unusual botany. 🧵 1/
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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Aaaand it's up! Allow me to introduce you to the world's very first dinosaur film—now available to the public for the first time!
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Saurian Cinema: Introducing the World's First Dinosaur Film
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 08/09/2026
New trailer for ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ In theaters November 6
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world.
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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Intra- and inter-specific differences of upper thermal limits in the sand darters (Percidae: Ammocrypta)" by Firth et al., Cons Phys. We found no within-species differences but found between-species differences in critical thermal maxima. Multiple populations were examined. See Alt Text. 🐟🌍⚒️
Geographic range of eastern (A. pellucida; red), southern (A.meridiana; green), scaly (A. vivax; yellow), naked (A. beanii; purple) and Florida (A. bifascia; orange) sand darters using polygon data from
Page and Burr (2011) with approximate sampling locations for each species. The black dots in the red polygon denote the southern and northern populations of eastern sand darter. Naked and southern sand darters were sampled at the same site (black dot on green and purple overlap).
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
this is great and also my periodic reminder that you should watch the original Planet of the Apes films. even "Battle," which is the weakest of the five," is pretty solid. and altogether, i think it is one of the greatest science fiction series in american movies.
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Ina Satokangas @inasatok.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A cool bunch of new speciation papers out recently in Molecular Ecology, looking at divergence, hybridisation, recombination, genome architecture, and so on! Genomics of Speciation special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #speciation #divergence #hybridisation #recombination #genomics
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Special Issue: Genomics of Speciation: Molecular Ecology
Molecular Ecology is an international journal for research using molecular genetic techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.
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Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Now available to order on Blu-ray and shipping at the end of this month in the US from the @vinsyn.bsky.social website from #OCNDistribution #PartnerLabel @12special.bsky.social: #SilentFriend (2025)! This special edition slipcover (designed by Jillian Adel)
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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Precise giants: New research reveals how blue whales find food in a vast ocean 🐋 MBARI biological oceanographer John Ryan shares how a team of researchers used bio-logging tags and satellite data to learn how blue whales find dense swarms of krill. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/precise...
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Precise giants: New research reveals how blue whales find food in a vast ocean • MBARI
MBARI biological oceanographer John Ryan shares how a team of researchers used bio-logging tags and satellite data to learn how blue whales find dense swarms of krill.
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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · 01/09/2026
In totally unrelated news, Duke decided to get rid of its world-renowned herbarium, with UNC Chapel Hill stepping in to save it. Biodiversity collections are under threat www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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Duke is moving its major collection of plant life to UNC. Here’s why
Eventually, UNC plans to build a Plant Biodiversity Research Center in Chapel Hill that will house all 1.7 million specimens.
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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 31/08/2026
"blueberries can make up to 83 percent of the diet of wolves living in and around Voyageurs National Park during July and August, when it’s more difficult to catch deer and beaver" www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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From poop to plants, how wolves help blueberries grow and spread in northern Minnesota
A new study shows how wolf digestion in northern Minnesota helps accelerate the growth of blueberries, and may help spread their seeds across the landscape.
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Owl 🤎
Barred owl on a fern-covered magnolia branch, peering back at you over her shoulder
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