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See, I WAS going to make fun of this, but as @trufelman.bsky.social has pointed out, major militaries didn't figure out layering until the 1940s... so maybe it's not intuitive after all? articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/gear-chapt...

Ain't nothing better than a large number of birds

such giddy joy about trucks shearing themselves in half. this is pure hater energy. @reportermatt.bsky.social

Sorry, Eric Carlisle. #humpDayHumor

this owl has just about had it with the bullshit and me too

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

In East London, tagging gangs are organised around allegiances to academic publication repositories. Know your turf

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 17,1951

Having my organs removed and preserved in my collection of Dunkin' Canopic Jars.

Proposed rule revisions of federal grant guidelines by the OMB will limit transparency and the communication of scientific findings. Learn more: www.nasw.org/article... Honor America's 250th by letting your voice be heard. Log your opposition by July 13: www.regulations.gov/...

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

A dinosaur zoo. I'll be commissioning the finest hyperrealistic animatronics and puppets money can buy. Real paleontologists will give lectures every night, and a walking triceratops will give free rides on the Mall. I want a Crystal Palace for the 21st century.

For anyone tracking Amtrak delays across the Northeastern Corridor, trains appear to be running again at Old Saybrook. The 66 iust left the station. No official word on how badly delayed subsequent trains will be.

a little tiny microscopic dragon, rotifers passing by. I've spent a lot of time peering down a microscope in the last few years, enjoyed taking inspiration from the real tiny organisms to make one of my own.

Pop Quiz! How would you describe our new Cape buffalo calf? A) So silly B) So cute C) So good at having bottom teeth D) The embodiment of "you got any games on your phone?" E) All of the above 📸: Lead Animal Care Specialist Kim D. and Megan G. and Animal Care Specialist Laura W.

oh to be a creature splish splashing in the mud

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar. The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue. The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

Listening for Worm-eating Warblers’ insect-like trill but the ivy-covered slopes be like:

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

"he's so friend shaped" OKAY, PHRENOLOGIST

Michaelangelo's Creation Of Rat

Last night, I dreamed that the hottest new accessory for college kids was a "bar nautilus," a cephalopod that had been specifically bred to breathe air and enjoy going on pub crawls. People carried them in slings, let them try the beer, and cheered when the nautilus approved.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

“You must persevere,” said Bill Bien, a lymphoma survivor. “It means so much to so many people you’ll never meet. It will save their lives.” My report on No Kings: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

WAIT A SEC R U TELLING ME THE DROPKICK MURPHYS R *REAL*?

Always a treat to see; a lovely Ruby-tailed Wasp in our #Staffs garden yesterday. #wasp #CuckooWasp #SolitaryWasp

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

DOCTOR EMILIO BLIZZARDO SEZ LAFFA WHILE-A U CAN.

TIL: EB White wrote to Vladimir Nabokov for spider facts while writing Charlotte’s Web

don't cry ok... tardigrade

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄 image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social

Alan Solem, renowned snail expert & curator at the Field Museum was describing a new snail from the rural province of Ba in Fiji. It required a new genus, so he used 'Ba'. That was too tempting for him to resist, so allow me to introduce the Ba humbugi snail.

my friend @aquamarinemirage.bsky.social made this chart and i think its important for everyone to see it

This Rat Meme Monday, we're flipping over the couch and extracting the little buggers manually because we're running late.

When this teaser for Predator: Badlands first came out, I thought it was a bit silly that The Hu were singing "Wolf Totem" in the background. It's not set in Mongolia! Having watched the movie, I now see that this was brilliant musical foreshadowing. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Njx...

Should I ask him for a kayak? 🪶🌿

An adorable throwback to Tilli the aardvark using her incredible sniffer, putting her powerful sense of smell to the test! She inspected keeper Brynn’s 53-pound homegrown Cinderella pumpkin, filled with yogurt for a fun and enriching treat. 🎃 #HappyHalloween 📷: Keeper Alex

I found a capybara pebble🤎

I’m so angry about this—killing these gorgeous bats for trinkets. Learn some f*cking felting skills if you want your own fuzzy creature and leave nature alone!

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