What an incredible photo of the scorekeeper for the Durham Bulls.

TIL: Tallinn was one of the last pagan strongholds in Europe, leading to the Papal-sanctioned "Northern Crusades" to defeat the "Baltic heathens" from c.1200 - 1225. The Livonian Crusade ended with Danish Christian control of Estonia, but German Teutonic knights left strongholds. Lovely photos!

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 6/6: Male giraffes mostly have sex with each other. bi.org/en/resource/...

"Pronoun police"? Please. The proper term is the gendermes.

I’m writing a book! It’s a cookbook and a Cook book, and you can’t read it until 2028, when I will probably be dead from dairy poisoning. But this has been a long time coming, and I’m excited to share. Can’t imagine a better partner in all things than @jedportman.bsky.social.

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

Nobody: what is a tree, anyway? Us:  authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... (Review out today, in which we ask whether xylem disconnection arising early in wood anatomy is convergent with disconnection seen across tall plants and whether tree evolution requires disconnection given periodic drought.)

Here are some nice mushrooms

Trump walks off NBC interview President Donald Trump abruptly ended an NBC "Meet the Press" interview with Kristen Welker, walking off when she challenged his unproven claim that the 2020 election was "rigged." With replies by 🎓Taras Kuzio, 🎓Joe R. Feagin, 🎓Michael McFaul +42 more scholars.

FYI avoid Springer Nature as much as possible. It's pioneering new avenues for slop, such as this book, translated with AI: link.springer.com/book/10.1007.... Complete with an AI cover, which of course is nonsense. Also includes a 4 page chapter on millipedes which includes a misidentified photo.

Sprinter Tommie Smith was born June 6, 1944

Craig Newmark tells us about his star turn alongside Sesame Street's the Count. “I take [scams] personally," Newmark says. "It pisses me off.”

#Chicory (Chicorium intybus) shot Tuesday off 20th Street. #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #Flowers #UrbanFlora

À Carpentras le maire Rassemblement National Hervé de Lépinau supprime les subventions au Planning Familial. L’extrême droite s’attaque à nouveau aux droits des femmes, des minorités sexuelles, des enfants ainsi qu’à la santé et la prévention.

SCREAMY BABEY SEASON!!!! Peregrine falcon edition. 🪶 🐣

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

The distinctive tower of Church of St Mary the Virgin at Oxenhope has been described as surprisingly "chunky." Rising only 44 feet, its broad, square proportions give it a solid, almost fortress-like appearance. Built in 1849 by Durham architects Ignatius Bonomi and

Love you and miss you, Martha!! youtu.be/0I7lzn13bJU?...

Today, I lived Rachael Carson’s “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?” On Ring Mountain in Marin County, CA, you might find a wildflower growing nowhere else on Earth, except on this thin rocky outcrop. Tiburon Mariposa Lily (Calochortus tiburonensis) 🌿

A friend discovered this fungus in her garden today! She thinks it’s a ‘Dryads saddle fungus?’ What an incredible thing. Looks like a ceramic teapot! #Fungi #Nature #Norwich #Fungus

Today's frog is the El Zorro rain frog.

Trans Minors Sue to Stop Justice Department Access to Medical Records www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

when will ötzi the iceman earn a page on wikifeet dot com ! www.sciencenews.org/article/otzi...

I am looking for Haitian historical fiction books. Recs please?!

unfortunately having a hot girl kafka summer so far

I agree with @cdelawalla.bsky.social and @standupforscience.net. @aaup.org & @aft.org will join this fight to protect our grants!!!!!

We can do this/it is possible.

A small scarab soaked in waterfall mist. The metallic green on the beetle is not pigment, but structural color (a result of micro-structures that reflect only certain wavelengths). If you look closely within the droplets, the green is refracted into other hues. (Dichelonyx sp.; Montana) #Bugsky 🌿🐙📷

Beleef de Lente - Steenuil Interior 2 #Steenuil #LittleOwl

It's Primary Day, New Jersey! Polls open until 8pm. Get out there and vote 🗳️

Open Streets in Philly on Walnut Street on Tuesdays in June from 4pm - 9 or 10 pm.

Lemme start a thread here, asking a question for trans and queer folks: How would you like the cis/hetero allies you know to support you or stand up for you, this Pride? No wrong answers ... I’m just gathering responses and I’ll maybe write something for WHT … You also can email (link in bio).

Philadelphia lost one of its best entertainers and people last night, Dito Von Reigersberg/Martha Graham Cracker. A very sad way to open Pride Month. Thanks for making us all happy with your wit and wonderful personality. Rest well Martha, and we'll raise a glass to you.

Not to slipstream or anything, but one week from today A Pox on Fools comes out in the US. It traces the history of the ”reliable” mis- and disinformation that anti-vaxxers use to justify their campaign of what one Victorian pro-vaccine doctor called, accurately, “omissional infanticide.”

Wow, do I like this new channel. Jackdaw breaks down some of the most popular lies in paleoanthropology: Might Makes Right, Hierarchy is Inherent, Patriarchy Is Natural, and Man Hunt, Woman Gather. On par with miniminuteman re: debunking mid-century sexist biases. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHUB...

Why are humans so weird????? Really sad for those people who put birds in captivity and then "punish" them for doing normal bird things

RVC needs a Lecturer in Anatomy (Maternity Cover) to join our department for 12 months (very well could include joining Structure & Motion Lab)! jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Deadline 22 June

And to everyone who is wondering, “how could humans be causing more than 100% of the warming?” — it’s because, according to natural factors, the earth should be cooling right now. So our emissions are offsetting that cooling AND causing all of the observed warming. For more, watch:

❌ Say NO to toilet police Let people pee in peace

Have a slot to present at the big giant conference in my academic field in July and I have mostly been really hoping, throughout the year, to get enough work to pay for it. This has not happened. If you do have the disposable funds to help I would be very grateful.

I think we all deserve some peacock silliness, enjoy. Behold these lovable idiots.

ICE arrested and detained Erasmo Zavala, even though he had a pending protection from deportation for cooperating with law enforcement. https://www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/05/ice-deportation-u-visa-berks-grandfather-detention-release-judge-justice-system/

APATOSAURUS over the decades ⌛ #sauropod #prehistoricanimals #paleoart #paleontology #history

Closeup on the fine structure of Euplectella! A glass sponge!

"It is literally so boring for me, a gorgeous genius, to keep having to yap on about how horribly I am treated because of my body" is such a banging quote www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SNAILS! A cool essay about their study and evolution by Melissa Betters! A Peter Buck postdoctoral fellow at @invertebratesdc.bsky.social !! #molluscmonday #nationalsnailday www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...