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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 4h
All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.
Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 3h
PUT ME IN COACH I’M READY
silly digital #SciArt sketch of a green mantis in a little red baseball cap holding a mantis sized baseball bat looking very determined, on a white background
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
An account of the gradual death of a 10 year old due to this disease. archive.is/8LydD
She was rapidly slipping away. The nurses tested her strength each day, and each day she was getting weaker. I remember giving her a bath. She said, "Mom, get in." So I did, and I brushed her hair. When she tried to get out, she fell. After that, we started using a wheelchair.
Renae would ask me, "What could it be?" I told her once the doctors figured it out, they could make her better. Her voice got weaker and she started sleeping more and more.
Within a couple of weeks, Renae had stopped talking and eating. Her last food was cotton candy and an Oreo doughnut, which she always loved. She was transferred to the intensive care unit and given a breathing tube. Though she couldn't speak to me, she still squeezed my hand when I talked to her. I worried she could overhear us talking about her condition, and wondered how scared and confused she must be.
We got the diagnosis when one of the tests of her spinal fluid had come back from London. Renae had subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a rare complication of measles. The doctors told me it was fatal, and there was nothing else they could do.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not mentioned about this unethical study is "why Guinea-Bissau"? The trial is not to test efficacy - we already know it's effective - it's to test non-specific effects. There is *zero* grounds to do that in a country with high risk of HepB - if UoSD is hell-bent on doing a study, do it in Denmark.
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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
hey why is the biological reality sticky why is it sticky what did you spill on your rhetorically invented biological reality
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is incredibly dangerous and willfully so. They’re choosing to put this person at great risk, and many of the people participating are contractors along side cops from both sides
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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mel has corralled a lot of valuable context here - conflicts of interest & inexperienced reviewers in particular - and not minced any words about this abominable scheme. I’m genuinely floored that they revived this dead-in-the-water atrocity and didn’t get shut down immediately!
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
CIDRAP: Hepatitis B vaccine study condemned as unethical wins approval from Danish university by Liz Szabo @cidrap.bsky.social @lizszabo.bsky.social bit.ly/4i9QSHf 💥
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
gadgetreview.com
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
USFS has announced a forest closure in southern Arizona in what is clearly a direct response to people attempting to protest the destruction of that forest land for the border wall. www.fs.usda.gov/r03/coronado...
fs.usda.gov
Coronado National Forest : Alert - Border Barrier Construction Closure
Going into or being upon the Described Area.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Sea Scøpe @seascope27.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Credit Carp
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
Now we need to know if this ICE flight headed for Ghana has third-country nationals onboard. If so, it needs to bring them back. The emergency ruling is binding immediately, which includes planes in the air. Any lawyers or anyone else with standing think they might know someone onboard? File!
An FR24 map showing N50JE heading for Accra over the middle of the Atlantic.
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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The third country removal policy is a fucking crime against humanity and so so many people should be put on trial for violations of international law for participating in it. I hope this block lasts.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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Shirley (Not the Horror Author) Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Me and who
A picture of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street standing inside a home, in the front of a window, and they've carved/made pumpkins of one another.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
in what unjust world is there Mops mops and Boops boops but no Blaps blaps? Get your act together, tenebrionid systematists
wikipedia's beloved photo of the fish species Boops boops. It is a startled-looking but otherwise unremarkable silver fish.wikipedia's photo for the tenebrionid genus Blaps, but NOT Blaps blaps because there is no Blaps blaps.... YET
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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Finally some good news
Photo of a marmot in the rocks. The headline reads: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Marmots Are Terrorizing California Hikers and Stealing Their Shoes
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026
Trump's third-country removal scheme may be suspended, but the cruelty of ICE flights continues. This is yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21. --72+ flights, nearly every adult onboard shackled --12 removal flights --A removal flight headed to Myanmar
An ADSBx map of the lower continental US plus Mexico and Central America down to Nicaragua. There are dozens of flight lines across the map, mostly converging on Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
all of this is exactly correct, and what i would add is: no person has ever spent 100 hours writing a scientific paper hoping, hoping with all their heart, that potential readers will skip that step to go straight to some mangled summary you didn't even write
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
6% of Republicans think climate change is a major problem, down from 13% in 2009 news.gallup.com/poll/708050/...
6% of Republicans think climate change is a major problem, down from 13% in 2009
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh my god, it's the guy in Faith's comic
ctvnews.ca
90-year-old celebrates birthday doing what he does every day—hiking the Grouse Grind
Roger Sauvain celebrated his 90th birthday by doing his usual daily routine—hiking up one of Metro Vancouver’s most challenging climbs.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
INBOX: Science retracted a news article this week after editors found that the author (likely an AI agent) impersonated the identity of an established science journalist, both with editors and sources in the story. Furthermore, two of the quotes provided were plagiarized: (h/t @wudan.bsky.social)
science.org
Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information
Frequently ignored bodily rhythms may be skewing neuroscience experiments
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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yeah the endgame here is very obviously the destruction of girls’ sports by making them sites of mandatory sexual abuse and it is really blackpilling how many people are going along with it out of fear of trans people or their hope for little Christleigh getting a track scholarship to Azusa state
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John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New story: a group of people deported from the US to Liberia and then Equatorial Guinea faced threats, guns, and have now gone silent. Latest for @lookoutnews.bsky.social www.lookoutnews.org/ice-sent-gay...
lookoutnews.org
ICE Sent a Gay Brazilian Man to Equatorial Guinea. Now He’s Gone Silent.
Pietro Graza was granted protection from deportation to Brazil because he feared torture due to his sexuality. He says he was shackled for 36 hours and taken to a hotel where he and other deportees re...
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Javier Guerrero🦉 @xaviergd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy HollowKnight Silksong Anniversary! #pixelartㅤㅤ been cooking this for a few months ✨
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
TAKE ME TO BURCH* *bug church
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🪲 jules z / just right !🌀 @juleshroom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
OPEN CALL FOR TRAILCAM ARTWORK Just Right Press is organizing its first group zine! The theme is illustrated interpretations of elusive & amusing creatures witnessed on trailcams. We would love to feature your artwork! Learn more @ juleszuckerberg.com/trailcam-studies and below!
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
simple and handy guide to the genders of the Very Normal Beetles
diagram of "genders" of twelve cartoon beetle characters in a human sense. There are six beetles under "boys", and an arrow pointing to one says "Clav is uncomfortable when not accompanied by an ant". There are five beetles under "girls". Clav's nurse ant is under "Diploid Worker Female". Finally, the last beetle is technically "Paedogenetic Female of Unknown Ovary Type" because she could be three of a possible five sexes (presented in a flowchart), but it's impossible to tell which for the purposes of the audience. This is because bugs can do whatever they want
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly
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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well, this ended up more of an experiment with media than anything else, but to be fair, that was what I intended when I started. I don't know how I feel about the finished result as a whole, but I like a lot of the textures, and I learned a little more about what works for me and what doesn't.
A watercolor and ink painting of a barn owl with starry patterning on its neck and down the center of its face. The owl sits nestled in a dead tree, looking directly at the viewer. Five other larger star designs are positioned around the owl and its tree.
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Shirley (Not the Horror Author) Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Cosmic Loneliness 🐋✨🪐✨ One of my pieces found in my solo show, PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY, at GR2 Gallery. This piece has sold but others are available via Giant Robot! Shop here: www.giantrobot.com/collections/... #art #pottery
A ceramic sculpture of a whale done with black underglaze and a variety of sgraffito details such as constellations and our solar system carved along the whale's back. She has a quiet, somber expression.
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alicia 🍳 @acorviart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
a murder [ #art ]
Illustration of a crow on a branch, surrounded by the old windows XP ghosting error screens, all duplicating the crow's face so it looks like there's a murder of crows.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
ICE deported a former child refugee to Vietnam last October for stealing from her employer — 25 years ago. Melissa Tran begged ICE to let her stay one more week so she could be by her young daughter’s bedside while she got surgery. They didn’t let her.
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"trans rage" found by chance in a Hamilton wood type specimen book from 1895
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
YIKES! A sea anemone on a bamboo coral stalk but uh.. kind of cool monster like appearance, 1373 m North Tutuila Flank, American Samoa #Okeanos
big orange anemone on bamboo coral stalk
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