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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 15h

We can still create wonders

Amc theaters Instagram post showing the whalefall popcorn bucket which is a whale and a diver. You eat the pop corn out the back of the whale.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18h

There are just 6 spaces left on my bird illustration & mental health zoom w'shop this Sat I'll teach you how: 🪶to draw birds using my simple formula 🧠creative activity incl. drawing alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. Open to anyone anywhere: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...

My illustrations of 5 British birds: long tailed tit, coal tit, wren, redwing and blackcap

My illustration of a redwing on a hawthorn branch from my book Making Winter

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alison 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @bluishorange.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they sell professional cheese now

my hand holding a label for a bag of babybel cheeses that says “babybel PRO.” the cheese wrappers are an unappetizing bluish purple color.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates unique ceramic figures #womensart

Three ceramic human hybrid figures in white, the one to the centre with a hat shaped like a house, all have cylindrical straight bodiez

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Tim Varga @tvargs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Would like to see every judge who dodged the “Who won in 2020?” question removed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Michael Hickerson @hickerlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵 mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oakland: "You have to want to live here, you don’t just show up here." This is spectacular, sharp and true. Oakland and San Francisco have never felt more different than they do today. For every problem the East Bay has, it five times as much community and humanity. The vibes here are alive.

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“I find myself in the middle of translation, of overlapping colonial and anticolonial projects, as well as the learning of new/old languages. The Blind Man and the Loon illuminates the labors of language and the promise of story” A @sprucehen.bsky.social stunner placesjournal.org/article/blin...

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Blind Man and Loon

A tale shared by Native peoples across the circumpolar Arctic reveals the elusive nature of language, and has come to shape many Native connections to place.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As if I could ever vote for anything but Fun & Interesting to Lick. #Halite I luv u

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Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu · 27/09/2026

🧵New from the @cip.uw.edu election rumor research team. ⤵️⤵️⤵️ The conversations around two incidents in Utah and Texas follow well-worn patterns where false rumors and misleading narratives emerge alongside legitimate criticism of real issues involving election administration.

A cumulative graph of the total number of Bluesky posts mentioning keywords related to the Utah mail-dumping incident. The yellow line represents the total number of posts up until that point of time (shown in Eastern Daylight Time), and individual posts from accounts with at least 20,000 followers are rendered. The posts are sized by the number of reposts (not counting quote posts) that they received. Three prominent posts are individually highlighted. The post from altnps (Alt National Park Service) was by far the most engaged post in our data, and is highlighted in red because it catalyzed an increase in conspiratorial interpretations substantially different from the other major reactions to the press conference. URLs and media attachments are noted in angle brackets.

Figure 5: A cumulative graph of the total number of Bluesky posts mentioning keywords related to the Texas voter registration errors. The yellow line represents the total number of posts up until that point of time (shown in Eastern Daylight Time), and individual posts from accounts with at least 20,000 followers are rendered. These individually-rendered posts are sized by the number of reposts (not counting quote posts) that they received. Four prominent posts are individually highlighted. One of the four highlighted posts comes from an account with under 50,000 followers which does not represent a news outlet, so it was anonymized. URLs and media attachments are noted in angle brackets.

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚨We're hiring!🚨 Join us as a laboratory technician to work on acquired metabolism, from tree-fungal mutualisms to the evolution of protistan photosynthesis. Apply by Oct. 7 at careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMP...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'Landscape with a Geoglyph ll' by contemporary painter Sarah Lees #WomensArt

Painting of a stylised landscape with rolling hills with fields in browns and creams and bare trees

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Tim Varga @tvargs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seems like impeachable behavior from the chief executive

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Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) @stanfordjrbp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do mammals navigate human activity land management? Join us for the next JRBP Lecture featuring Stanford PhD candidate Rodrigo Béllo Carvalho: "Mammals in the Anthropocene: Insights from Long-Term Monitoring at Jasper Ridge." Oct 7, 3:30 PM. Free & open to all jrbp.stanford.edu/events/rodri...

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Rodrigo Béllo Carvalho - Mammals in the Anthropocene: Insights from Long-Term Monitoring at Jasper Ridge | Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

Rodrigo Béllo Carvalho, Ph.D. Candidate in Biology (Ecology & Evolution), Stanford UniversityMammals in the Anthropocene: Insights from Long-Term Monitoring at Jasper RidgeTalk DescriptionIn the Anthr...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The DOJ is intentionally drawing attention to this incident of mail dumping to sow distrust in mail-in voting, suppress votes, & motivate changes to the law to make it harder to vote. If you're amplifying and feeding that frame, even from the other side, you're a pawn in their information operation.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

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LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The USDA published a proposed rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule on August 20. Comment on the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule at ow.ly/RFV450ZOVxS before October 6. See more information at ow.ly/t84M50ZOVxR

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great job opening for Habitat Connectivity Biologist at WA Dept of Fish & Wildlife. The position will "identify priority areas for connectivity conservation and translate that science into practical tools...to help protect and restore wildlife movement and build climate-resilient habitat networks."

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 14/09/2026

The UN IPCC is looking for an entry-level designer to create charts and infographics. Interesting how they call it "graphic designer" but expect dataviz. 📊

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Graphic Designer in the IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit — IPCC

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

All I ask is for political journalists to get merely as angry about this as they did when Obama tried to move Fox News's seat to the second row in the WH briefing room.

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Tim Varga @tvargs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Have fun it is so so good!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706 – 1783), Bavarian painter and engraver known for her still lifes and flowers paintings #womensArt

Painting of a close-up of a thistle with spiked green leaves and two pink flowers with two butterflies, all against a black background

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Tim Varga @tvargs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Seems like a fair amount of high crimes and misdemeanors are being committed by the current fed’l administration every day, and I’d like Congress to do something abt it. If this Congress won’t, let’s vote in one that will in November.

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Laura Hollister @xenolith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

EARTH SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you're looking for how to crush the regime in battleground states and take back Congress, here's the messaging that works. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Democrats need to win. Here’s the message our research says works

Candidates must focus on two issues: affordability and accountability. They are not competing priorities

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Temperatures will soar across the Bay Area this week, with 90-degree readings possible in Oakland and even the hottest parts of San Francisco. But the real grueling part of this heat wave will be the overnight temperatures. Temperatures may not drop below 70 degrees Wednesday night. #CAwx

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Bay Area to see heat wave after major forecast shift. Here’s a timeline

San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose could see their hottest temperatures so far this year, and exceptionally warm nights will make the heat wave more extreme.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 06/09/2026

MIT's working group report on AI and education was an interesting read. Noting a few of my takeaways that I may incorporate into my courses. 1. I should be more clear with students about my AI policies for their work *and for my work*, and my reasoning behind these policies #AcademicSky

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Report – AI and Education

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Tim Varga @tvargs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yes this is true I am indeed from the PNW. I no longer call it "pop" but potato bug is still in my vernacular mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

Map of US showing user's dialect similarity map with most similar dialect near the Pacific Northwest in warm tones and least similar to the deep South and Northeast in cool colors

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Tim Varga @tvargs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New intro to microscopes lesson hook just dropped!

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Tim Varga @tvargs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Have wanted to follow up on this about the 28 mph some folks think is too fast: I disagree, being able to ride at the same speed of most cars (on city streets) made me feel safer as I could keep pace (and often pass). Took me a week to get used to the speed but it is very, very fun.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Eos @eos.org · 29/08/2026

When she’s not out in the field, climate artist and scientist Jill Pelto weaves glacier monitoring data into her paintings of the cryosphere. eos.org/features/jil... Read more in our career issue: eos.org/themes/caree...

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Jill Pelto: Glacier Monitoring as a Lifelong Muse - Eos

Jill Pelto turned her childhood fascination with glaciers into a busy life creating data-art.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Put simply -- either Democrats hold Republicans accountable for this mess when they retake Congress, or voters will blame Democrats for it down the line.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Last chance to join my botanical illustration & mental health workshop on zoom this Saturday & I’ll send you a free botanical drawing kit. Open to anyone anywhere, full recording available indefinitely afterwards ✒️🌿🧠

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Came across this photo of Marguerite Thomas Williams, the first African American woman to earn a PhD in geology (1947).

B/w photo with caption: Marguerite Thomas Williams, the first African American woman to earn a PhD in geology (Catholic University of America, 1947). Shows off her new doctoral gown on her family's back steps in Washington D.C.

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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The California Division of Water Rights at the State Water Resources Control Board is looking to hire two water resources modelers. Deadline to apply is Sept 1. calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

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Water Resource Control Engineer

Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Lucy Telles (c.1870-1956) master basket weaver of Yosemite Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute descent #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a woman holding up a large-scale woven basket

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