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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anybody who would decide to close this museum does not have Philadelphia’s best interests at heart.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i accidentally deleted that "a thought on coltrane" post, so here it is again --

Coltrane was known for relentlessly practicing for hours and hours every day, even during gigs while his bandmates were soloing. What was he trying to do?

Iyer: We have to understand him as a composer.

He was working on ideas. He wasn’t just trying to sound cleaner and faster than the next guy. He was just like any composer who lives into their 100s and keeps creating. There’s always this “What’s the next idea?” And then also, “How do I put that idea into practice as a player?” It was processing ideas and trying to develop them.

We use the word practicing, but what do we mean?

It’s the word we use in classical music to say I’m trying to polish this rendition of this piece. But that’s not what most of us in creative music are doing. We’re trying to refine the process of creating. He knows that there’s more than what he knows, and he knows there’s a way to access it. That is already here.

So, it’s about trying to open that door. It’s not about refining anything. It’s about those doors that you’re trying to open. That’s why any of us play. That’s why any of us are artists. Because we’re interested in channeling something from beyond ourselves and being that conduit so that we can bring that healing property and that magic to others.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

reposting for the evening crowd, because despite its deceptive simplicity, I worked a lot harder on this one than usual

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bolivian Murder Kitten just dropped...

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Tenants Together @tenantstogether.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CA is in an affordable housing crisis yet funding for homes through the state’s climate program has been nearly wiped out, potentially impacting 177 projects statewide. Our public dollars should fund homes and communities, not corporate giveaways. capitolweekly.net/california-l...

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

andyobrien.substack.com/p/susan-coll... I expected a few Republican hacks to get exposed in this article but the list is actually quite long and impressive.

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Susan Collins’ Astroturfed Campaign Tries to Pass Off Party Hacks as Regular Mainers

Republicans profusely thank Susan Collins

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is a critical collaboration that helps protect us all from infectious disease. They are also the body that in November will declare that the U.S. has lost its measles elimination status. Trump has now decided it’s “corrupt” and he wants to defund it.

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US Proposal To Eliminate PAHO Funding Raises Alarm Over Health Security In Americas - Health Policy Watch

The oldest multilateral health organization in the world, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), is fighting many of the same health threats it did at

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 30/08/2026

MANUSCRIPT SUBMITTED! I'm very excited about this one. Years of work. My first 'gen. et sp. nov' @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social @brucelf.bsky.social @justinandell.bsky.social

Skye in the Lauer Foundation laboratory carefully holding a slab of limestone with a fossil in it. The fossil is blurred and has the words 'new pterosaur species' over it. Skye is a woman with blue and brown hair, glasses, and is wearing a vertically striped denim jumpsuit. Even though she looks completely dead inside, she is actually very excited although slightly concerned about holding a fossil for a publicity photo.

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I mentioned a couple of days ago that there was a pod of Dolphins in the loch. Yesterday, they came back, and I managed to get some footage. The largest of them was huge. Best guess; 4 metres long.

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

RIP San Francisco Democratic Party. The DCCC members installed by tech oligarchs just voted against affordable housing (Prop I) and against taxing billionaires (Prop 40). The local SF Dem party is now Blue-MAGA and it’s endorsements should be ignored by anyone who cares about our city.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

action shot!

A small black rabbit jumps up on shelves

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Tool to display the use of a taxonomic name over time based on @biodivlibrary.bsky.social data is online at iphylo.org/bhl-name-tim..., the screenshot shows results for Physeter catodon versus Physeter macrocephalus (names for the sperm whale). This will be part of @tdwg.org workshop on BHL in Oslo.

Occurrences of scientific names across the Biodiversity Heritage Library, over time for Physeter catodon and Physeter macrocephalus

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is very cool - essentially a version of Google Ngrams, but searching for scientific names in Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. I must play with this! I must not play with it so much I get nothing else done!

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 10/08/2026

scratchpaper shrews

i drew these all on my many smoke breaks behind the kitchen during my workcation cooking for a folk music camp last week

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VNC Lottery @vnclotto.misentropic.com · 09/08/2026

ASN: AS812 Rogers Communications Canada Inc. Country: CA City: Willowdale State: Ontario Scanned: 2025-05-06T22:54:13 computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse… #vnc #infosec

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Trump administration has now canceled the contract that provided legal services for unaccompanied immigrant kids. That means thousands of children across the country, including hundreds being held in detention, are losing access to government-provided legal representation. (1/5)

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I FUCKING KNEW IT.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My daughter has just sent me this lovely photo where you get an even better view of the puffin.

A man (me) in a blue coat and grey woolen hat, seen from behind. A puffin is sitting on his head, looking straight at the camera. In the background a grassy slope, then grey sea and sky.

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 17/07/2026

The alpine plants episode of @leafittouspod.bsky.social reminded me of a recent hike at Niwot Ridge where I came across a research plot where they’d evidently needed to keep track of tiny plants. They had chosen little plastic flamingos as markers. leafittouspod.podbean.com/e/s2-episode...

Hillside above treeline with scrubby alpine plants, a few flowering. Some sheer slopes and a little snow in the background - it’s a crystal blue Colorado day

Closeup of the square research plot from the previous photo, where it’s clear the border is made of string and landscaping stakes, and that the plot is intricately scattered with various colors of tiny plastic flamingo

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In a similar vein, by the marvellous @mooseallain.bsky.social

A drawing of a pheasant wearing a style of hat named after a city in Morocco. Then the same pheasant without the hat. In the first image, it’s labelled ‘Fez’, in the second, ‘Fezn’t’

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Because life is rough and because crap-maggots are running our country, here are some coyotes playing with balls in our yard to brighten your day. #mammals #nature #dogs #love #trailcam #Seattle #wildanimals #goodnight #PNW #animals #nokings #coyote

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dang they really got a category for everything

THR
The Hollywood Reporter *
@THR
Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i had no idea this would become so literal

tweet https://x.com/patdubois/status/1590006089541914624?lang=en
from @patdubois
reads "as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days"
along with an image reading 50.1% "Everyone Gets A Puppy" vs 49.9% "Diarrhea Forever"

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

'(...) we calculated how much of their body fat reserves elephants, horses, and men would have consumed during the crossing. Accordingly, when crossing the Col de la Traversette, elephants would have lost 4% of their body fat reserves, horses 11%, and men 19%.' www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Energy costs of Hannibal’s alpine crossing | PNAS

Hannibal crossed the Alps with a large army containing 37 war elephants in 218 BC. Details of his route have scholars regularly debate historical r...

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wow. Published in May in The Lancet. Look at those numbers of fabricated references per 10,000 articles in PubMed. The urge to publish is overcoming the urge to, I dunno, discover and learn things? #AI #medsky 🧪 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers

Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to non-exi...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/07/2026

My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.

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Operational biological sex definitions applied to hummingbirds (Bleiweiss 1992; Bleiweiss 1999; Bleiweiss 2001; Diamant et al. 2021; Falk et al. 2022; Falk et al. 2021) where sex is operationally defined by binary plumage phenotypes in the field. Each row depicts a wild individual hummingbird with morphological traits (beak length, plumage coloration), behavioural traits (territoriality) and their unobserved gamete type. This example illustrates how the same individual can be operationally defined as one sex in the field (based on external phenotypes) but classified as a different sex based on their gametes (which cannot be easily observed in the field), highlighting how definitional choices shape scientific reporting of sex.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 09/07/2026

Illustrated summary of the fourteen California Propositions on this year's ballot, which cover topics such as housing, elections, taxes, education, and healthcare! Individual slides at tinyurl.com/2026caprops and in the thread! 1/ 🧵✅

2026 California Propositions, Personified. Art & Summary by Alfred Twu. Election Day: November 3, 2026. Share this at tinyurl.com/2026caprops

Cartoons numbered 1-5 and 37-45.

1 is person with a few residential buildings
2 has bear with umbrella over state capitol and piggy bank
3 has chalkboard, teacher, apple, and book
4 has people next to a ballot box refusing a big bag of cash
5 has someone voting, and a 2nd person walking to an empty chair
37 has a construction worker in front of a house
38 is scientist with beaker, person holding heart and person holding a pill
39 is elephant with red hat stomping on ballots and intimidating a voter
40 is person standing behind school and hospital, holding hand out to a guy sitting on a bag labeled $1 Billion
41 is a guy carrying a huge bag of cash and holding up a red paper
42 is a person sitting on a huge bag of cash holding a weird looking puppet
43 is a person sitting on cash pile behind a roadblock, two people blocked hold a house and a bus
44 is a pie chart behind a patient and doctor
45 is a construction worker with shovel in front of a sign with a bridge, wind turbine, house, and train

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AnneA @annenc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A dessert for your holiday menu: Reflecting Pool Jello. 🇺🇸 💚

Green jello in a clear glass Pyrex dish with white cutouts of the Lincoln and Washington memorials on the ends. Photographer unknown but cheers to them!

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Harley Prowler @halcyonheartbeat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Thank you Mr Yelnats

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There's been activity at the Anchor Brewery which means that it's time for the Anchor Union to rise again. Hit the QR code

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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

You can criticize Eisenhower for a lot of things but he was right on this.

A quote from Dwight Eisenhower's 'The Chance for Peace' speech, text: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/06/2026

I don’t understand how now, in a time where the material suffering around us is harder to ignore than in most of our lifetimes & the reasons why are as clear as they have ever been, we still have so many for whom the very easy position of ‘we can & should help people unconditionally’ is unfathomable

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 20/06/2026

The thing about solar geoengineering is that there is zero evidence that humankind is currently capable of the sort of global governance needed to deploy it responsibly and ethically, and if it were capable, it probably would not be needed.

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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Just received a lovely email from the journal #AnnalsOfBotany to say our article "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" is amongst the most-read of their recent articles. I'm quite proud of this! doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #Wikidata #Botany

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Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data

AbstractBackground. Wikidata is a multilingual linked open knowledge base to which anyone can contribute that contains multitudes of botany-related informa

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

St Peter-on-the-Wall, Bradwell, Essex. Built c. AD 654 by St Cedd, this is one of England’s oldest churches. Raised within the Roman fort of Othona using reused Roman stone, it later became a barn before restoration in 1920. Still active today. #Essex #History #Aerial

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

After the tarp went up to try and stop the “Berlin Wall” moment, Cliff Owen of the AP got the iconic 📸 shot. 🇺🇸

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I love doing public education- in this case, educating San Francisco’s Pier 39 sea lions about their place on the food chain by reading my book to them. @hopkinspress.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🦈

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard. The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.

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Whale graveyard discovered 7km under the sea

YouTube video by nature video

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