A 13-year search for one of the world's rarest flowers in Indonesia ends in a 'magical experience' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Cast your mind back a few presidents and remind yourself how INSANE this question is.

Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE. Here’s how to use them:

One thing among many I love about the South is getting so many unexpected chances to collect pecans! Oh, and to glimpse lizards, even on this chilly day. #lizards #pecans #southerncharm

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

A day late on this, but I'm so proud of my little town for going all blue. Municipal elections matter!

“This is not just an opportunity for museums to be on the right side of history,” says George Fatheree, the lawyer representing Drake’s descendants. “It’s an opportunity for museums to rewrite history and think not just about ownership and stewardship, but think about stewardship and justice.”

Mrs A often complains the poetry I read/write/share is serious, gloomy, & downright depressing... She may have a point, but to prove I'm not a one trick pony... Just back from a forest walk, kicking through drifts of leaves - reminded of this by Brian Bilston #poetry #poemoftheday #autumn #fall

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

8 km of retreat in just 2 months...! 😱 The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Via Etienne Berthier

Finally an email I'm excited to open I feel like there should be a law mandating all school photos have laser cats

Animals and the history of natural history, or, what would natural history look like had Charles Darwin been a cat person? With @professorbopeep.bsky.social and Anya Zilberstein @animalhistory.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...

Just saw a pangolin described as a land carp in a late 18th–century tract and I can't unsee this

Importance of fallen leaves in garden ecosystems - autumn leaves are part of the natural cycle that increases soil nutrition, wildlife habitat and drought resistance www.wildway.info/p/importance...

What a cruel indulgence (not to mention flippant destruction of history) when so many are suffering

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life. If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution. Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

"Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer." That's who ICE arrested and disappeared as part of Donald Trump's immigration policy. It's outrageous. I've been pressing for answers and I'll keep pushing for accountability.

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...

"You are a little soul, carrying around a corpse," my cat, Epictetus, whispers in my ear

as a physician, I'll note that if you have a fetus in your placenta then something has gone quite wrong indeed

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

The most important political thread of our time.

Vultures as museum curators—of slingshots, crossbow bolts, and shoes? What can't they do? They're already one of my favorite birds for keeping disease at bay and being fabulous queens of thrift. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

Oo there’s about to be a big piece of ambergris somewhere in the world!

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

It’s critical that we support the arts…🏆

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

In Tylenol's new FAQ, they are already anticipating something I hadn't considered. That parents might not give acetaminophen to their children when feverish. Just a reminder: do NOT give your child aspirin as a substitute. www.tylenol.com/frequently-a...

Have a long walk or drive planned for this weekend? Tune in to hear me chat about snake PR problems, menacing corals, book writing, and more with Dr. Chris Jenkins of the @oriannesociety.bsky.social on his Snake Talk podcast!

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

I've been managing BHL's #Bluesky account for 4 months now. It's an honour to share such beautiful & significant content, particularly at this critical time. BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Follow along @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition

🧵Two US military veterans were arrested for interrupting a Senate committee hearing. "Off to jail," Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Risch said. As the hearing reconvened, Risch quipped to one of the nominees: "Be glad you're not going where they're going." He then grinned.

Uhhhhh...

Well this CAPTCHA is not exactly orca proof

If Google Lens can't even find me Christopher Marlowe's jacket for sale, what is it even good for

I just adore how this paper bucks the tradition of referring to animals in a scientific study by number and calls this parrotfish Ramón. Also, poor Ramón.

“Exposure affected body shape and the function of many hundreds of genes many years and at least two generations later,” Whitehead said. “That’s a pretty durable impact.”

For #InvertFest, I submit my favorite #InvertBook ever: Robert Hooke's 1665 Micrographia, full of larger-than-life foldout figures. The flea, fly, and louse are legendary. I also appreciate his eye for house homies like the book-eating silverfish and itty bitty pseudoscorpion ("Land-Crabs" to him).

This could be the only New York Times headline I've enjoyed in an entire year! Woohoo!

​Why does he write like an 18th-century broadside? And in case you need a reminder of how bad slavery was, here's an 18th-century broadside.

The closures at UConn seem to encompass Environmental Studies and Environmental Science. Hard to understand the mindset of the university administrator who at this moment of climate crisis thinks of those fields as expendable luxuries for our students.

"Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" is now out! It's open-access via Lever Press. Please check it out here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Know...

Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.