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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

I’ll just repost this piece for no reason at all, and mention once again that if I walked away from an account with a half million followers I’m betting you can too. kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/so-long-an...

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Yes, I know the social media saying. “This isn’t an airport. You don’t need to announce your departure.” And yet, I’m announcing my departure — from Twitter. And since a lot of you got to know me and ...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

We can focus on all the people doing wrong but let’s also celebrate the people doing right, even when it makes them an outcast

Rashida Tlaib holding up a sign during the Netanyahu speech saying guilty of genocide

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Misty Bentz @astronomisty.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

I just managed to snap a photo of this swallowtail butterfly on a zinnia before it fluttered away! 🌱

Yellow and black swallowtail butterfly perched on a pink zinnia blossom at the top of a green stalk with leaves. Green foliage is in the background.

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Vic @victorita.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

The C-value paradox: The Japanese canopy plant (Paris japonica) has a genome 50 TIMES LARGER than a human (150 billion base pairs to our 3.3 billion base pairs). If all DNA is functional, why does a plant in Japan's alpine region need 50 times more of it than you? (📷:alpsdake, wikimedia)

English: 1＝Kinugasa japonica (Paris japonica), in Mount Haku, Shirakawa, Gifu prefecture, Japan.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

The giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) is native to the forests of Madagascar. They show a strong sexual dimorphism: males (left) have elongated necks compared to females (right). This long neck is used in mating displays and challenging other males.

Giraffe-necked weevils (Trachelophorus giraffae) are almost invariably found on the leaves of Dichaetanthera cordifolia, on which they feed. The male's long 'neck' is adapted for rolling a leaf to make an egg case in which the female (which has a shorter neck) lays a single egg.

CREDIT: Frank Vassen - Flickr: Giraffe Weevil, Andasibe, Madagascar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe_weevil#/media/File:Giraffe_Weevil,_Andasibe,_Madagascar.jpg

CREDIT: "I, Axel Strauß"

"Trachelophorus giraffa, female, Ranomafana, Madagascar"

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

If you weren't alive in the 80s, it is hard to explain just what a massively earthshattering moment this is, now I know what it felt like to hear that,smallpox was preventable in real-time

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

Bats are angels to mice. 🦇 (🧑‍🎨: Pleumier)

3 panel comic:
A bat flies across the screen. Text bubble "Look!"
Two mice in a field talking, raptly watching the sky
back of the heads of the two mice, speech bubble: "angels" as bats fly in the distance.

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

I wrote a little essay about what birding has done for me in the very short time since I became a birder. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/o...

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Opinion | When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place

To find the birds, you have to know them.

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 30/03/2024

Reading about how, when the European countries where Jews lived forced them to adopt formal surnames, it was fashionable to take names combining pretty words like “roses” and “green” and “gold” with nature terms like “leaf” and “flower”and “field”: hence Rosenbaum, Rosenberg, Greenstein, Greenfeld

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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 26/03/2024

It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it web.archive.org/web/20240122...

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wrong. But the same paper had given them another result that they liked much better. The team was going all in on yogurt. With a growing reputation as a boon for microbiomes, yogurt was the anti-ice-cream-the healthy person's dairy treat.
"Higher intake of yogurt is associated with a reduced risk" of type 2 diabetes, "whereas other dairy foods and consumption of total dairy are not," the 2014 paper said. "The conclusions weren't exactly accurately written," acknowledged Dariush Mozaffarian, the dean of policy at Tufts's nutrition school and a co-author of the paper, when he revisited the data with me in an interview. "Saying no foods were associated-_ice cream was associated."

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Very funny, Linda, now open the damn window. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

Black and white photo taken from inside a home, looking out of a window. Perched on the sill outside is a shorthaired tabby cat, looking peevishly inside as if waiting to be let in.

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Wenyi Shang @wenyishang.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

"Disentangling Semantic and Prosodic Features of English Poetry," authored by @tedunderwood.me and me, is available as an open-access publication in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: doi.org/10.1093/llc/.... We classified 30k+ English poems to study the distinction between genre and form. (1/6)

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Disentangling semantic and prosodic features of English poetry

Abstract. The distinction between genre and form is still contested in literary studies. While scholars associated with the New Formalism are criticized for per

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 01/03/2024

I'm visiting Vienna's astronomy department for a few days this week. Their observatory is SO pretty! (I forgot to take a picture of the outside but will. It's a gorgeous building!) 🔭

A long staircase in the large main foyer of the Vienna observatory. There are Greek-style pillars in the room and a statue overlooking the staircase. Everything is made of white marble.

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Historical Pics @historicalpics.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

In 1960, David Latimer planted a garden inside of a bottle and sealed it shut. He opened the bottle and watered the plant in 1972 and sealed it for good. It has been a self sustaining ecosystem for 60 years.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Nacreous clouds from this morning. 24th December 2023. 🧪

Rainbow clouds above trees and a rooftop.

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Vic @victorita.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Vote for Gentle Giants Elephant Stay Home Project mygivingcircle.org/gentle-giant...

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Historical Pics @historicalpics.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

The Natural History Museum, London, established in 1881.

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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Northern lights lit up the flight home from #AGU23 last week. Amazing display for about an hour of the flight over northern Canada

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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Female House Finch Some berries are just worth getting... 🪶

A brown and white female House Finch is upside down while eating a red berry in a tree. There are three berries, some branches, and vivid blue sky in the background.

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

“Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.” ~ E. O. Wilson Even dinosaurs. #ArtAdventCalendar Day 18: Turkey Vulture 🪶🌿🐡 📷 Cathartes aura, which apparently means "cleansing breeze." Even the bird looks dubious of that.

Turkey Vultures appear black from a distance but up close are dark brown with a featherless red head and pale bill. While most of their body and forewing are dark, the undersides of the flight feathers (along the trailing edge and wingtips) are paler, giving a two-toned appearance. The vulture pictured poses in the shade under the pine canopy while eyeing the photographer warily since he should not be up here with freaking vultures.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

A Sanderling running from the waves on that same beautiful December trip to the beach #birds 🌿

A small white and beige shorebird runs from a small wave.

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

#ArtAdventCalendar 2023 Dec. 16 Rose-breasted grosbeaks are stunning birds that prefer woodlands and forest edges, so we don’t see them often in the city. This male was foraging deep in the branches but eventually moved to a small gap for a better look!🪶

A male rose-breasted grosbeak perches in a spruce tree. His rose breast contrasts with his white stomach and black head. He is surrounded by green spruce tree branches.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

shel silverstein foretold this day

A sign at the end of a sidewalk that says sidewalk ends

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Carol Pope Gordon @carolpopegordon.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

OMG is it Monday already? 🪶

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

The Northern Sea Nettle is the dominant jellyfish in the Bering Sea where it impacts fisheries by eating the babies and prey of the commercially important pollocks. They can be so numerous, that people call the jelly-dense region "Slime Bank". 🎨 🧪 🐡 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A disc with radial stripe patterns and frills coming from the bottom in the middle. thin filaments sprout from the edges of the disc

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

My raspberry plant gave me its first raspberry today!!!

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Pelicans at the Berkeley Marina a few weeks ago ... The lighting was perfect on 11/16 in the AM when I stopped by the Berkeley Marina. Pelicans are really quite spectacular birds.

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Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

#ArtAdventCalendar day 16 another one if my favorite female birds, the red winged blackbird. Such a beauty!! 🪶

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Great blue heron 🪶 📷 Arrowhead Marsh

A tall, blue-grey bird standing amid yellow grasses.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

A very small, 1" square reindeer from September 2019. Part of a set of thirty animals, one for each day of the month, all 1" square. Pencil on marker paper. #ArtAdventCalendar

Pencil drawing of a reindeer's head, facing right.

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Literal News @literal.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

A Utah couple was arrested after a poor kitten was found in a sandwich container covered in feces and testing positive for methamphetamine. 🧵 Tap to read more…

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Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

In new study led by Frances Welsh, we map how mutations to influenza affect neutralization by antibodies from humans of various ages We find differences in mutation effects among age groups Virus seems to evolve especially to escape antibodies of teenagers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Age-dependent heterogeneity in the antigenic effects of mutations to influenza hemagglutinin

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Unexpected find- Loggerhead Shrike 🪶☀️🌵

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Bobtail squids are always so spectacular...

A Southern Bobtail Squid (Euprymna tasmanica) swimming above the sea bed. It is night time, and the bobtail squid is illuminated by the photographers light. A shadow is clearly visible under the bobtail squid and darkness can be seen in the backgound. The bobtail squid is holding is limbs down and is flapping its translucent blue fins. The bobtail squid is iridescent blue and green and covered in dark brown chromatophores

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Going up the mountain to see my bird frens this morning, here's an I'iwi on 'ohia in the rain, for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 17. :) BBL! 🦉🌿📷

I'iwi on 'ohia in the rain. A small red-orange honeycreeper with a long curved beak sits atop a red 'ohia blossom, both covered in raindrops

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Forgot to add: “sounds like a great solution, however Supplementary Table S86 mentions it will require a billion hectares of additional land”

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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

🧪 BACK TO THE DARK AGES “For the 1st time in >40 yrs, Mississippi began granting religious exemptions from the requirement that every child receive 5 vaccines — diphtheria, tetanus & pertussis; polio; HepB; measles, mumps, rubella & chickenpox — before attending day care or public/private school”

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

It's #SymphylanSunday! Symphyla are tiny (5 mm), distant relatives of centipedes. My favourite fact about them: To reproduce, females will collect male spermatophores and store them in their cheek pouches... They then lick sperm onto their eggs to fertilise them. And they say romance is dead! 🧪

A photograph of a near-transparent white invertebrate, with lots of long body segments and two 'string of beads' type antennae.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

New image of the galaxy cluster MCS-J1149.5+2223 has been received from Webb. This image was taken by JWST today. jwstfeed.com/PostView/Fee... 🔭 🧪

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Smol nudibranch friend almost looks... pleased with itself? And so it should, very beautiful, would admire again. 🧪🦑🐙#MarineLife #Invertebrates

Close-up with a tiny white and black nudibranch. The nudibranch is front-on, both rhinophores in view (its bunny ears). The nudibranch is exploring a rocky shelf covered in light brown algae.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Day 16 of my 2023 favorites: Undescribed Maevia Lad! One of the creatures I was hoping to find (for science) on my trip to North Carolina this summer were (currently) undescribed high altitude Maevia, so I was overjoyed when this fancy boy appeared on a hike above 3k ft! I love him. 💛🌿🕷️🧪

Black salticid with black and yellow palps and a bright orange head, with pale legs, paused on a leaf

The lad on my fingernail. The rest of his body is black.

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