Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialKYAA~wagata @kuwagata.bsky.social · 03/08/2026oh look a siphonophore or salp, the ctrl+c+ctrl+vvvvvvvv of the ocean 13716
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/08/2026maybe take it to the next level and say why do you want to take away my FREE vaccines. they're stealing one of the best treats available to us 557226
shelfunstable.bsky.social @shelfunstable.bsky.social · 03/08/2026a grant proposal is kind of like a romance novel because you have to come up with complementary but independent Specific Aims that are working toward the same goal but can also stand on their own. and then you make them kiss. 000
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialD. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 20/06/2026A ghost throwback for #WorldHorseshoeCrabDay …a perfect molt. These guys shed their old exoskeleton by crawling out the front rim like an engine block climbing out from under the hood of a Corvette. And they leave this ghost of their former selves, golden and translucent and astonishingly not alive. 427168
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialThat Iowa Ginger @thatiowaginger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Oh look! I found a photo of the bitties! It was a delight. 212313
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 02/06/2026I don't know why you would get a baby monitor JUST because you have a newborn infant, it makes no sense to me at all. Sure they start small too, but lizards grow very fast, and it will probably eat your child. 1432963
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialGailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026"These are not the opinions of the University of California Riverside however, they are the opinions of a highly volatile arachnologist" This was a hell of a fun readspiders.ucr.eduMyth of the Brown Recluse Fact, Fear, and LoathingMyth of the Brown Recluse: Fact, Fear, and Loathing Rick Vetter Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 0227
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialAinsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 01/06/2026furthermore, shout out to Science magazine's cover photographer (Andreas Teichmann) for this outstanding feat of bird portraiture 1489
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026If these changes go through, it will be impossible to do effective science in the United States. Logistically, labs will not be able to function under these constraints. Team science—vital to almost every discipline—will be impossible under the rules around international collaboration. 5434115
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says. 331657977
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialelizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...elizabethginexi.substack.comSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance RuleRussell Vought is going destroy American Science 1251397827
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialTracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I did this last year. Dreamed that Pret sold a cookie called Hairy Man. He had a solid choc chest of hair and choc sprinkle body hair. Woke up, drew it, then baked it. Him. 432108463
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Walk into an urgent care and you have to opt out of a GLP-1 conversation katemanne.substack.com/p/a-woman-wa...katemanne.substack.comA Woman Walks Into an Urgent CareAnd the one screening question is: would you like a GLP-1 with that? 1526148
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialRebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Life hack from a marine biologist: When your blue sea dragons need a little snack, remember that they never evolved to swim, so you have to drive the Portuguese man-o-war around and pick them up like a little bus 🎥 by me during field work :) 381478476
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialThe Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Sarah Gailey: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the river of teeth Gailey: it's about the most dangerous game of all Stephen King: is it man? Clive Barker: what kind of question is that, steve? of course it's man Barker: it's always man Mary Shelley: phht 942679
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialCherae @clclarkwrites.com · 13/05/2026Please go celebrate Lee’s birthday with Summer Sons or The Woods All Black or my personal favorite, fucked up wolf lesbians aka Feed Them Silence. 22210
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialCabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't. 991272886878
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialyee-qi.bsky.social @yee-qi.bsky.social · 10/05/2026My second piece for the POLAR LIGHTS zine! Parborlasia corrugata, the giant six-foot proboscis worm. Buy it here: polarlightszine.itch.io/polar-lights-4. Proceeds go to the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition! #sciart #art #artist #marinebiology #artistonbluesky #originalart 06915
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialBookPage @readbookpage.bsky.social · 09/05/2026HOW TO FAKE IT IN SOCIETY proves that KJ Charles is one of romance’s most brilliant and consistent writers, delivering stories that blend historical intrigue, passionate yearning and flawless comedic timing.bookpage.com 04311
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialDr. Elena Mikalsen @drelenamikalsen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Baby armadillo season 416722
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialGailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I got to do this VERY fun interview, in which I share the worst writing advice I've ever been given and put Literary Calvinism on noticethenerddaily.com 2356
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialHannah Comstock @hannahorca.bsky.social · 09/05/2026So close 😭 #PhotoFailFriday 511913
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialGet To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 08/05/2026“How do you keep track of all that neck?” (Red-winged Blackbird) #birds 🌿 620626
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 05/05/2026The cruelty is the point… www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/u...cnn.comSmith College: Department of Education opens investigation into all-women’s college for admitting trans women | CNNIn the Trump administration’s latest attack on trans rights, the Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s college in western Massachusetts, for ... 45212
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialHL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026This should be a bigger story. I didn't know Isaiah but almost everyone in my lab, my TA, and a few close colleagues knew him well. They all say he was a sweet guy who was just really into herps. This is a tragedy. 11975533
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026just overheard a 4th grader telling her friend, "if you ever need to distract some boys, literally just draw an X in the dirt. they'll stop to dig it up, they can't help it" which is the only gender metric I'll be using, moving forward 352699555
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialEle Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Pretty sure I’ve seen this X-files episodepopsci.comMysterious 'ship goo' contains new life formsNo one quite knows how the tar-like substance got on a Great Lakes research vessel. 35912236
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialKathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 28/04/2026I reckon I have two more days' worth of jellies, then I'm going to do insects for the final day... For day 5 of #invertefest then, a Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), made with watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper 🐡 🦑 04514
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Middlebrow media enjoyers rise up. We want art with complex stories and emotional nuance featuring characters with interiority and yes we also want them to solve a murder or be a spy or kill a vampire or something 621901232
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialYard Gone Wild @yardgonewild.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The Great Crested Flycatchers are still considering their options and really like this one… their only complaint is the road noise 2916
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter 10181432745
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialCraig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 23/04/2026We need to face the fact that Elon Musk is the most prolific child murderer in human history, and a staggering number of people refuse to face or consider that fact because they like posting on X. 192
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialYard Gone Wild @yardgonewild.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Flycatcher thinks this place is promising… and has a nice pole out front for perching😄 (sound on and listen to the end for their signature “reep, Reep, REEP” call) 2617
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialVeeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026This feels like an inspirational story of how something that people would widely consider as a "disability" turn out to provide an advantage for an individual 🧪 www.abc.net.au/news/science...abc.net.auDisabled NZ parrot uses broken beak to achieve alpha statusWithout a curvy upper beak to get in the way, Bruce the kea uses his lower beak to stab or joust at other birds in his social group. 44912
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialmagpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 21/04/2026They're just little guys. You can look at them for free and you can look at them up close if you pay for Bird Premium (binoculars or camera). They're just doing behaviors. They will never email you. 221246188
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 21/04/2026Massive shout-out here to everyone else unwillingly walking the "chronic problem--obvious solutions--yoga!" conversational treadmill. If you are the person recommending yoga, from the bottom of my heart, please stop it. Just stop. 181816
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.social🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Easter is a good day to bring up my gory splatter western about a woman in 1882 holing up with friends in a New Mexico tavern one night where they're beset by a saber-wielding demon and a mad pastor with a crucifix dagger. It's blasphemous and bloody and bi 👁️ bookshop.org/p/books/crue... 56816
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialCaitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 03/04/2026For the US folks, The Luminous Dead ebook is on sale for 1.99! 13812
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialGailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I will never write anything better than this and I am at peace with that 414323
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialCryote @tweedwolf.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Every day I think about this passage 91052429
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialCraig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 02/04/2026So is Artemis II going to sort out the whole question about the moon being haunted, or what? 3132
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 31/03/2026sorry i know it's supposed to be a scandal but there is literally nothing you could do that is more embarrassing than being married to that woman 517415
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialMike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Reposting this meme (with alt text) as a stand alone for any future usage needs where someone might prefer it not being already part of a thread: 182440750
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialPremee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 28/03/2026"Oh will it appeal to men" It will appeal to carnivorous fungus which I feel is practically the same thing 27711
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialmossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Video of a fairy shrimp gently investigating a snail. Larger thingy in the back is his cousin Triops 1018148
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialGet To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Brown Creeper doing the thing (creeping and also blending in) #birds 🌿 830937
shelfunstable.bsky.social @shelfunstable.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I finally read the Imperial Radch trilogy (and the related standalone novels) and I am OBSESSED. And the audiobook narration is gorgeous! 000
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 26/03/2026frustrating to have to re-up this again, but this essay has all the necessary facts to counteract today's news: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...juliaserano.medium.comTrans People and Sports: Everything You Need to KnowI have been writing about transgender people and issues for over twenty years now. For most of that time, I never felt the need to pen a… 4391190
Reposted by @shelfunstable.bsky.socialGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Everyone wants a turn holding the baby! 313841