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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 28/09/2026

One of my good friends is unusually Irate at my non-interest (I found the first three hours of the audiobook really annoying) and keeps pitching more and more of the story to me. It’s… approximately the same experience as listening to the audiobook, so far

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If anyone knows any leaders of Drexel Student groups, please have them contact me as soon as possible.

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Dean Napolitano @dinonapolitano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Thousands of the salmon were recorded passing a former dam site in 2024 and 2025, researchers say, and have reoccupied nearly the full extent of their known historical range.” By Rebecca Dzombak

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Salmon Are Thriving After Klamath Dam Removals, Study Finds (Gift Article)

The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.

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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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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text:

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 22/09/2026

What it really really means is that with the power of this Allen wrench and a flathead screwdriver, I can teach my baby to hover ominously *above* her crib as she grows from starfish to homunculus

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 22/09/2026

According to ikea my baby is currently transforming from the goober on the left to the goober on the right It’s not *inaccurate* I suppose. Just a little haunted

Photo of an ikea flat pack furniture installation guide. On the left, a cartoon baby, complete with starfish-like arms and legs and one curl of hair hovers ominously over a crib with the mattress support installed about halfway down the crib wall. On the right, a larger cartoon baby with five curls of hair and somewhat defined stubby feet hovers over a crib with the mattress support installed down at the bottom of the crib walls. (This baby can ostensibly at this point try to climb out of the crib)

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Quite emotional to report that we've just found our amazing survivor Marsh Tit, still here in his ancient woodland kingdom. He's now 11 yrs 4 months old, survived the 2026 heatwaves/drought and smelt the wildfires of nearby Holme Fen. I ringed him in my 30s and I'm now in my 50s.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 20/09/2026

Ah I just took a starry-sky painting class! Convenient!

Photo of a notebook page with a starry night watercolor painting and notes in sepia ink on night sky paintings, including a mini painting of a moon in a dark sky

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl stepping into the weekend.

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 16/09/2026

Sometimes people just really nail a common name, you know?

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We're back from our hiatus with a new logo, newsletter, website, and even a new color palette! AND a fresh story by fearless editor @judeisabella.bsky.social! We hope you'll check us out, share with your friends, and consider supporting independent journalism about biodiversity & conservation 🧪

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 15/09/2026

Yeah there are a lot of circulars that crop up in a local craft reuse store near me, so I’ve been surfing different brands to figure out what I like! I do see why people love their chiaogoos

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 14/09/2026

Because everyone explains it slightly differently, and one explanation or another finally stuck! But kudos for playing with it for four hours, that’s great persistence in the face of frustration. You’ll nail it soon I am confident Have you used DPNs before?

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 14/09/2026

Can you say what wasn’t working about it? I think my major problems were getting tension right in between the two needles, and of course the original issue of just kinda wrapping my head around what’s happening. I found it helpful to watch a bunch of different YouTube videos of people doing it

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 14/09/2026

These were knit on 40” size 0 needles, which are *not* the cheap interchangeables. Such a better knitting experience, woof! But I’m new enough at knitting I haven’t invested in needles I’ll regularly need — just secondhand stuff from the reuse store, and this one set of interchangeables, and those!

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 14/09/2026

I think I tend to ladder a bit worse with magic loop but I’m using cheap interchangeable circulars for this sweater and they may not be quite long enough to do magic loop properly anyway, so it could be a tool problem rather than a technique problem, not sure

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 14/09/2026

I was pulling from both outside and inside of each ball of yarn, which did not help The Tangles, of which there were many. I don’t mind DPNs like I thought I would, though. I’ve switched to using them for baby sweater sleeves despite instructions calling for magic loop

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 14/09/2026

I did them two-at-a-time on a super long circular! I recommend this if you are, like me, very unlikely to do an identical second sock. I do not recommend this if you, like me, have accidentally wound your yarn into an unconscionable tangle while trying out a new ball winder

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 14/09/2026

There was not *zero* swearing at the heels, but the top section actually gave me the most trouble — my tension was too tight and I had to redo about four inches of each sock 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 14/09/2026

I knitted these! It took me ages! Please clap!!

Photo of a pair of hand-knitted socks with black bats on an orange background, with black heels and toes, resting in a wooden floor.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 10/09/2026

Always lay your baby down to sleep on their back in a product designed for safe sleep.

A baby sitting in a catapult in a suburban backyard. The baby seems surprised to be there. The text reads: Is this a safe sleep environment for your baby? No! This is a catapult! Put your baby to sleep flat on their back in a crib, bassinet, play yard, bedside sleeper or other product designed for safe sleep. If your baby falls asleep in a car seat or other product not designed for sleep, move them to a safe sleep space.

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Kris Gates @krismgates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#Bird of the Day: American Bittern (AMBI) It’s a good day when I spot a bittern, as they are notorious for posing motionless among the brown reeds & grasses, throat stretched upward & its brown-striped neck pattern blending with the vertical growth of the vegetation. This bird, however, chose poorly

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

alt text: a side-by-side of a pork roast and RFK Jr. one is weirdly wrinkly and doesn't look safe to eat. the other appears to be carnitas. (for actual alt text purposes: RFK Jr is on the left, and boy did they find a "it's the same picture"-worthy shot of him)

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 08/09/2026

Some species are parthenogenetic?? Some are super asymmetrical in the junk department??? The moms pack their eggs with pre-digested dirt so the babies have immediate access to microbial symbionts that help them digest their foods (honestly so practical why don’t we do that)

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 08/09/2026

Also Franz one of our side-quests yesterday was looking for a specific kind of stick insect that lives in Douglass fir trees and while we did not find any (yet) they are Delightfully and Extremely Weird www.bugguide.net/node/view/50...

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Genus Timema

An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 08/09/2026

Lung lichen veins, at their dryest but ready to swell back to life next time the marine layer reaches them

Photo of branching lichens on a tree trunk, each covered in somewhat creepy looking veiny texture

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 08/09/2026

A teenier tinier forest of Cladonia sp. lichens

Fingers of gray-green lichen erupt from flatter lichen encrusting a dirt bank

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 08/09/2026

The light shining through and around these Douglass fir trunks

Curving tree trunks frame the flare of the sun. The sun highlights the edges of the trees and the wiggles in their growth as they reach for the sky

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 08/09/2026

This endemic chaparral pea still doggedly blooming into September

Photo of two fuchsia pink pea flowers with their banner, wings, and keel shining in bright sunlight with small spring green leaves and stems supporting the flowers, against a brown-gray-green background

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 08/09/2026

The secret gold undersides of these chinquapin leaves

Photo of a plant with dark green feather-shaped leaves, which are angled so that you can just see the bright mustard-yellow bottoms of the leaves peeking out

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel) @vicky.science · 08/09/2026

Other good woods things from yesterday: the twizzliness of these manzanita stems

Photo of many stems of red manzanita wood twisting and turning on its way to the sun, dripping with yellow-green lichens

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Really nice coverage in the inquirer of our rally to keep the academy of natural sciences open. Br sure to read the part where 10 year ago old Ryan Sumner-Lee is quoted. share.inquirer.com/ZP7zHY