FINtastic #GARtwork by Tim Tomkinson for story by Lindsey Liles on our Alligator Gar conservation and floodplain restoration work with @nfwfnews.bsky.social @nature.org and USFWS! In print in the latest issue of GARden & Gun magazine, online article here: gardenandgun.com/feature/in-p...

Conversely, juvenile Lake Sturgeon emote differently 😅

If you need a little microbiology in your fabrics you can find my radiolarians in the minouette Spoonflower shop in a few different colourways. I love their shapes! 🧪🐡 Radiolarians (or radiolaria) are a type of tiny creature -amoeboid protozoa - which produce mineral skeletons. 🧵

#stableisotopeanalysis #Jellyfish hunting and eating #polychaete worms was not on my bingo card. "Here, we present the first field evidence that benthic nereid polychaetes are preyed upon by gelatinous zooplankton...in the inner reaches of a Danish fjord..." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

American combat deaths in World War I: 54,000. American soldiers killed by flu in World War I: 45,000. They would have given anything for a flu vaccine.

going to be an African century — we're just not ready for it yet

how to brew beer (Sumerian, c. 3100 BCE)

This week's new article is out! Honestly, I can't gush about these fossils enough. Three protomammal embryos, all from a species that survived one of the worst mass extinctions of all time? It's amazing.

LOL she finally bothered to meet a trans person

#invertefest is my favorite time of year!!

my contribution the art heist discourse on here today is that everybody should seek out and watch Mati Diop’s Dahomey (a beautiful documentary told like a poem and like a ghost story about the centuries-later repatriation of stolen artifacts previously held in the Louvre)

The good news was that we had so much liquid nitrogen left over from Latvia that, when we got back to Germany, we made ice cream! Yes, that's @helenczerski.bsky.social.

World’s Largest Chest of Drawers is *for saaaaaale* (175k) www.wfmynews2.com/article/news...

What can science fiction tell us about sex-change and the transsexual experience? gender.stanford.edu/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54 has an absolutely stacked cast—Luke Evans! Stephanie Hsu! Juliette Lewis! Amber Motherfuckin Gray!—but it's hard to beat Rachel Dratch dealing with an over-participatory crowd, like, I've been doing improv for 40 years, you think you motherfuckers can throw me?

The Malawi government suspended the license of 'Coal & Minerals' after finding evidence of contamination of two critical rivers, affecting domestic & agricultural water supplies. The suspension highlights the growing push for mining accountability in the region. Charles Mpaka reports for #Mongabay.

New clinical trial data from vaccine makers show that their Lyme disease vaccine reduced cases by about 70%. www.sciencenews.org/article/lyme...

#BirdOfTheDay is Mr. Brewer's Blackbird with a Salmonfly (Pteronarcys californica) (AKA Giant Stonefy) NOM! I can't find a pic right now, but sometimes the Brewer's will roll the salmonfly in birdseed for extra cronch! #birds #becurious

WINNERS 🏆💜 We couldn’t be prouder of our incredible team for winning University Challenge! This win marks a special milestone. With five victories, we’re the most successful university in the history of the competition, joint with Imperial College London. Well done team 👏🏆

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Medical students in Gaza restore one of the oldest libraries after it was bombed by the Israeli occupation.

Finally caught the brilliant Noah Davis exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this past weekend. I appreciated this bit of wisdom he left behind:

A Pennsylvania court on Monday said that the state's constitution guarantees a right to abortion while striking down a decades-long law banning the use of state Medicaid funds to cover abortion costs. https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/pennsylvania-abortion-medicaid-coverage/ 

Meet Bear, he loves people and would like a forever home where another dog can teach him the ropes. Bear is playful and would love to meet your family! Head to the Philadelphia PSPCA today! www.pspca.org #AdoptDontShop 🐾

People were loving the comments by Philly's sherrif Rochelle Bilal last week, but here's a gift link to an article that lays out that it's still going to have to be the people who make us safe. share.inquirer.com/sRwdjx

So the ‘smoke’ was always for us and never for ICE and she put the entire city at risk to talking nonsense to make it seem like she was actually good at her job.

No ICE Philly protesters staged a sit-in at the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office and demanded that Sheriff Rochelle Bilal act to stop ICE arrests at the Criminal Justice Center. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Analilia Mejia is sworn in! Let's goooooo!

RIGHT NOW -- Veterans are being arrested in #washingtondc after peacefully demanding an end to the War on Iran. @vetsaboutface

SCOOP: McGill University's on-campus doctors are now refusing to prescribe hormones to trans youth and adults under age 19... if they're U.S. citizens. They claim liability issues, but this isn't the first time U.S. EOs have interfered with Canadian doctors. My report: celeste.lgbt/en/2026/04/d...

New filing: "Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Anthropic (Book publisher sues AI labs over training)" Doc #39: Stipulation and Proposed Order Download PDF | View Full Case #CL72505713

JUNCOS: 1 CALLE MUNOZ RIVERA, JUNCOS PR 00777-9998

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

I AM OK #art #ceramics #vase #pottery

What Forest Service R&D site is closing in Ansonia, Connecticut? If it’s the USDA Forest Service Quarantine Lab — that seems like important work? Where would this work be done instead? Will it be done at all? The Forest Service owes the public answers.

Melalui Koperasi Kompos di Jakarta Timur, sekelompok perempuan berhasil mengolah 1,5 ton sampah rumah tangga per bulan menjadi pupuk untuk berkebun, menciptakan solusi mandiri atas krisis sampah di ibu kota. mongabay.co.id/2026/04/20/a...

Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙

Lesson here for the techbro eugenicists who are worried about population decline.

Esta viñeta de @atxe.bsky.social siempre es de actualidad #cambioclimático @andreuescriva.bsky.social

The crescent moon at sunset. #astronomy #astrophotography

Swedish researchers are desperately looking for Johnson's Baby Oil Gel with Chamomile in order to continue their research into biting midges - the product has been discontinued and so will the research unless fresh bottles (new and opened!) are found. I can't help them - can you?

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899), Italian aristocrat & pioneering figure in the early history of photography #WomensArt

The Cave of Crystals is nestled nearly 1,000 feet underground below a mountain near Naica, Mexico. Luminous beams of selenite bigger than telephone poles extend out in all directions. r/ScienceNcoolThings en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of...

Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 13-16. Added color this week. We’ll see how it goes. #sundayfishsketch

Part 163 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd 300 year old leather star map by the Skidi, one of the four bands of the Pawnee tribe. The Skidi Pawnee historically lived on the Central Plains of Nebraska and Kansas.

Part 164 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg A historical house in the heart of Isfahan, Iran, dating back to the Safavid Empire (1501–1736).

Raincoat, late Edo Period, 1790–1800

Three soft and fuzzies, coming up. 🧵 🪶 🐣