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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

O, to be a Galapagos marine iguana on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is on top of a rock! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

a Galapagos marine iguana on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is in turn on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is, in turn, on top of a rock!

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🧪 probably a long shot, but: has anyone heard of a two-headed trout specimen named Cuthbert the Great? the specimen allegedly went to the AMNH in 1940 but the museum has no record of it. trying to track down Cuthbert. www.nytimes.com/1944/08/13/a...

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

okay also how is this gall wasp's gall SO Glossier ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall_wa...

Amphibolips nubilipennis gall from Pennsylvania, USA: it is a pale pink transluence orb sticking out from a leaf

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ok WAIT I just learned about this guy as well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euchrom...

a Euchromia polymena moth, which has vivid primary colors: a red and blue striped body and yellow and blue wings.

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

can you believe such a bug exists? and that he is a moth?? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euchrom...

a beautiful male Tiger moth (Euchromia creusa) moth with a bright red abdomen and iridescent blue body and black lacy wings

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's really fucking depressing that all the emails I get about my book are from AI scammers

a screenshot of a mailbox full of AI scammers emailing me about my book

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🧪 & entomology bluesky: I keep encountering this example of the longest-lived insect but can't find an original source (I know it's cited in Guinness World Records). Does anyone know more about this 1983 finding? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buprest...

On May 27, 1983, a golden jewel beetle emerged from a staircase in Essex, UK, after at least 47 years as a larva.[5]

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP to Annie Dillard, simply the greatest of all time, in whose inimitable style I try and fail to fashion myself, a beacon, a mystic, something like a god! PILGRIM has been on my nightstand as I write my new book (for which she is my epigraph). too many astonishing passages, but here is just one:

Parasitism: this itch, this gasp in the lung, this coiled worm in the gut, hatching eggs in the sinew, warble-hole in the hide—is a sort of rent, paid by all creatures who live in the real world with us now. It is not an extortionary rent: Woulnd't you pay it, don't you, a little blood from the throat and wrists for the taste of the air? Ask the turtle. True, for some creatures it is a slow death; for others, like the stylopsised bee, it is a strange, transfigured life. For most of us Western humans directly it is a pinprick or scabrous itch here and there from a world we learned early could pinch, and no surprise. Or it is the black burgeoning of disease, the dank baptismal lagoon into which we are dipped by blind chance many times over against our wishes, until one way or another we die. Chomp. It is the thorn in the flesh of the world, another sign, if any be needed, that the world is actual and fringed, pierced here and there, and through and through, with the toothed conditions of time and the mysterious, coiled spring of death.

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I mean who among us has not! zookeys.pensoft.net/article/2100...

screenshot of a scientific paper title: Losing legs to facilitate sex: Triramidesmus gen. nov., a new remarkable monospecific genus of the millipede family Polydesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from the Altai Mountains of northeastern Kazakhstan

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Mrs. Dalloway said she would kill the bushbuck herself! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

a screenshot of a photo of a female guinea baboon eating the bloody head of an ungulate, with the title "Female Guinea baboon with the prey she caught herself"

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

is it just me or does melon look like a mystic

a photo of a fluffy white and brown cat gazing upward like a saint!!!

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

this diagram of snake anatomy is making me lol. you may say those are different body regions, but to me that's all Tube. phys.org/news/2026-08...

a diagram breaking up a snake's body into: cervical, anterior thoracic, middle thoracic, posterior thoracic, and lumbar regions. but all look like tube.

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

just one of those perfect @davidjroth.bsky.social paragraphs 🤌 defector.com/who-was-the-...

You have to understand that these are powerful men. They are in charge of things like a regional Jeep dealership or the LSU football program, and as such they do not take kindly to the idea that the sun's harmful rays would have any sort of dominion over them. Better to appear on Hard Knocks saying "That guy's a stud on tape" while looking like a bearded Craisin than to live on your knees before the realities of what prolonged direct exposure to the sun does to human skin. To look like this sends a quiet but unmistakable message to other men who look like this. It is a curt and crispy nod exchanged between alphas that says "I am not afraid of the sun, either."

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

wishing I were a dentist so I could put this fellow on the wall of my waiting room,perhaps with a cheeky message... "Flossed yet?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchi...

a white-fronted capuchin monkey cleaning their teeth with a twig

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the darling face of a girl whose poops turn the air purifier on high every single time

a fluffy white and brown cat turns around sticks her tongue out next to an air purifier that is on red because she has such stinky shits

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

my beautiful and beloved plant of 4 years has MEALYBUGS 😭 does anyone have advice? I’ve heard the best thing to do is dunk the leaves in a bath of dawn + isopropyl alcohol

a beautiful hoya that cannot be scrubbed down

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

while writing up this story I came upon this paper describing how orcas tail-slapped a stingray so hard that she ejected two embyros—again, seemingly for fun (image credit to Jesús Erick Higuera-Rivas) www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/wp-content/u...

a grid of images showing two orcas slapping a pregnant stingray and then swimming by the two tiny embryos that were ejected by the slap :(

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

have just seen a monkey photo so haunting that I cannot be alone with it and therefore must share with you all news.mongabay.com/2024/06/came...

an uncanny valley ass monkey looking at a camera trap

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

does anyone know what these blue scales are on this horseshoe crab? they’re mostly 2D, very flat. and very beautiful!!

a horseshoe crab covered with a mosaic kf blue/periwinkle scales as well as some barnacles and ribbons of green sea lettuce

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

really great @maitreyiaa.bsky.social interview with @justinellis.bsky.social about his brilliant new book THE CRUELTY OF NICE FOLKS (which is out now, buy buy buy!) defector.com/justin-ellis...

This is also one of the pernicious ways that white supremacy works, right? The idea that just to survive is not exceptional, when in reality, because of the ways that structural racism impacts our lives—that it literally defines the neighborhoods that we live in, the opportunities our families can have—that's just not the case. Every family that is marginalized is a success, is a celebration. That was another part to me that rang out. Just because you didn't have someone that was the first of something, someone that ran for office, someone that founded a business—and there are a lot of those people in this book—you didn't have relationships with the powerful, you didn't suffer at the hands of the police, that doesn't make your story or your family any less important.

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I love that this flesh fly holotype looks like it has just made a terrible discovery that will alter the course of life as we know it! zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1828...