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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're almost out of tickets for this show, so if you wanna go, you better get tickets ASAP (and you should wanna go, it's gonna be a hoot). biodiversitease.eventbrite.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today was incredible. The fight to save the academy of natural sciences is far from Over

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This logic is bananas. Does your auto insurance company kick you off for not filing an accident claim every year? Of course not. Some lucky people don't get sick so they don't file claims. Good grief.

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Robert Rosenthal @robertrosenthal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Doing work, listening to Phillies, periodically checking Eagles score on phone, with window a crack open. My neighbors let me know something very good happened.

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Robert Rosenthal @robertrosenthal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

4 whole runs! It's actually possible!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Attention Philadelphia! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum this weekend, Sept 25-27. Please sign up here if you can take a shift! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Help Save the Academy: Volunteer to talk with visitors and hand out flyers at the Academy.

Sign up for a shift outside the Academy of Natural Sciences during its last open days: Fridays to Sundays, Sept 18 to 20 and 25 to 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers will be on the ground outside the Ac...

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Robert Rosenthal @robertrosenthal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don't care for the brief but ineffectual version of Mayza

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Matt Albertson @mattalbertson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

September 3rd marked the 157th anniversary of a significant event in American History: the baseball game between the Pythian B.B.C. and the Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia. This was the first interracial game between two prominent clubs. 1/

Image from: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/61897

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Robert Rosenthal @robertrosenthal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Philly area folks: Yes, we CAN try to save the Academy of Natural Sciences. Rally Tuesday at 10:00 AM.

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Detroit and Baltimore had the fewest murders this summer (Jun to Aug) since 1964, New Orleans since 1961, and New York City since before 1960 when monthly reporting to the FBI began.

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Earlier this month, filings in a criminal case in Minnesota revealed that DHS had spied on Lutheran, Episcopal, Unitarian Universalist, and Baptist churches in the Twin Cities and at a Lutheran church in Michigan. And one of those churches was covered by a federal injunction.

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DHS Denies Violating Injunction, but Refuses to Give Evidence or Detail Extent of Church Spying

In new filings in federal courts in Minnesota and Massachusetts, the U.S.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You ready to make Philadelphia a more biodiverse city?? Join us for volunteer nights of prepping packets of native plant seeds for free distribution across the city! Together we can make Philadelphia a better place to be a bird or bug 🪲 RSVP at Lu.ma/dgs (that stands for do good shit).

A pigeon holds a plant in his little beak and struts down the street with seeds falling from the plant. The words say "Native Plant Prep Party Sulimay's October 5 & 19 Nov 2 & 16
6:30-9pm 632 E Girard Ave Philadelphia, PA

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ohio Immigrant Alliance’s updated “Worst of the Worst” report has identified more than 150 abusive federal immigration agents. "... 131 (86.2%) were charged with or convicted of sex offenses, and 85 (55.9%) were charged with or convicted of crimes against children” More from @tusk81.bsky.social ⤵️

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‘Worst of the Worst’ Part II: Updated Report Reveals Even More Abusive ICE and CBP Agents

“Officers who abuse women at home are not safe to carry guns in public,” as the report says. “Officers who prey on children are not safe to interact with communities.”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The politicization & illegal cancellation of federal research funding is an existential crisis for every research university in the country, especially flagship R1 publics. Again, you would think university presidents would speak up, loudly & collectively, about this. Alas. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

wheeeeeee!

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Have seen a couple of reactions to this effect. But no. In this case, our reporting shows that President Trump was aboard a plane with a nondescript call sign, "Reach 18." The legacy Air Force One flew from Turkey to Britain with the AF1 call sign ... and no president.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill

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🦅 Dan 🦅 @chase4hof.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🧵 I met Chase Utley once. I was working at a small restaurant in the West Village in 2009 and the Phillies were in town to play the Yankees. I was sitting at the bar around 10 having my shift beer and this very tall handsome man walks out of the bathroom and sits at a table behind me…

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

**Taps sign**

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Robert Rosenthal @robertrosenthal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Thread on the wildfires moving through, of all places, the peat bogs of Wales. Drought has turned plants into kindling and peat into fuel.

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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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Robert Rosenthal @robertrosenthal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@skwinnicki.bsky.social I was chatting with someone today who mentioned that his elementary school aged daughter is a huge birding fan - uses Merlin etc. Do you happen to know of birding resources for kids?

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 21/07/2026

This was the intent of HR1, the goal is to starve and kill Americans while there are endless funds for the war machine

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The one and only Odyssey take you need

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

*watching The Odyssey, becoming disappointed* Me: I was in Greece last year and there were lots of cats. There are no cats in this movie

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

So you’re telling me the ONLY safe foods are ice cream and ravioli?? That I have to *exclusively* eat ice cream and ravioli until this butt parasite is resolved? Well gosh that sure is terrible news. I hope they get to the bottom of this soon.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Car dependency was not a choice. It was and is the deprivation of choice.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Anne Schechinger @anneschech.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

One of very few articles about the Cyclospora outbreak that mentions how Taylor Farms was also the source of E. coli in McDonald's onions outbreak in 2024. When I read Taylor Farms was the Cyclospora source yesterday, their 2024 E. coli outbreak was my first thought. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/b...

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Taylor Farms to Remove Products After Lettuce Is Linked to Cyclospora Cases (Gift Article)

The Salinas, Calif., company grows produce in more than 12 states, and in Mexico and Canada. Some Taylor Farms lettuce suspected of causing sickness ended up at Taco Bell.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Liu Xiaobo was a writer, Nobel Peace laureate, former president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC), and #FreedomToWrite Awardee. Today marks 9 years since he died while in custody of the Chinese government. Liu was serving an 11-year prison sentence for his words. pen.org/press-releas...

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

why do so many presidential statements sound like intro to American politics essays from students that didn't come to class all semester?

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end a presidency.

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Robert Rosenthal @robertrosenthal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Derek Hill manufactures a run for the Phils!

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.

The Population Forecasts Are Grim. Theyre Still Too Optimistic.
By Lyman Stone

It's difficult to articulate the extent to which Somalian immigrants are a *unique* problem.
Other immigrant groups may not always have stellar outcomes, but there are almost none who as persistently have the absolute worst outcomes in every country they move to as Somalians.

FWIW I think attacking IVF really is a massively losing political position, and I say that as someone with serious moral concerns around
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I think if you must attack IVF, you would argue against discarding embryos as a form of Nazi eugenics, not on the basis of personhood.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Important statement from the New York Times

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 09/07/2026

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should be with his family today. Instead, he was killed by ICE — and his family learned of his murder by hearing his cries on social media, like Silverio Villegas González in Chicago. His family must hear the truth with a full, transparent investigation.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...