Carole Turek is on a quest to photograph every single hummingbird species. The photographs in this article are incredible, but it's the video of her feeders in Studio City that will blow your mind www.audubon.org/magazine/mee...

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

On the last official day of #COP30 climate talks, countries are divided on whether to commit to phasing out fossil fuels. Vanuatu's minister for climate change says big polluters like Saudi Arabia are obstructing action despite "scientific clarity" on the need to transition to clean energy.

Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...

As @doctorvive.bsky.social has pointed out a quadrillion times, it such a moment of significant and extreme alarm that fossi lfuel industry talking points are being shamelessly and bluntly repeated by people like this Very, very, very grim

New Wolf Snake Species Named After Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin - Lycodon irwini #conservation

New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social Tintin in Postcolonial Hot Water linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Plenary 3 of #AOC2025 was the iconic @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social talking about Orange-bellied Parrots. Science, insights and lessons from over a decade of research. Without captive breeding this species will become extinct in the wild.

Think I'll just park this here.

AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.

We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...

In early #Caturday news: Once-extinct wildcats to make a comeback in England www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks"

Deep in the Sumatran jungle today we found the extraordinary flowers of Rhizanthes pushing their fangs through the forest floor. A sap-sucking, leafless parasite, this is one of the world's weirdest plants.

Canberras superb parrots are SO cute 💚💚💚

'Dr Michelle Taylor, a University of Essex scientist who led the voyage, said: "If anything brushes up against them, they're doomed, unfortunately. Then to be absorbed slowly over time is a grim way of going." Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge share.google/pcKssFW9bX1E...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Today was Palestinian Independence Day. As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does. Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.

💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.

It really needs to emphasised as strongly as possible: Do not eat Tasmanian farmed salmon.

Exxon CEO Darren Woods at #COP30 #Belem trying to flog a new carbon emissions accounting framework—another gambit to make the rules Listen to this instead: @amywestervelt.bsky.social in conversation with @geoffdembicki.bsky.social, Kert Davies @climateintegrity.org & @krekberg.bsky.social

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

Harmful algal bloom (HAB) spread across 20,000 km2 & resulted in the deaths of millions of marine animals, from at least 550 species Scientists found a novel, significant brevotoxin-producing algal species, Karenia cristata, in the multispecies Karenia HAB—1st time brevetoxins have been found in 🇦🇺

Recent CSIRO research definitively places Tasmania's Lake St Clair at 163 metres deep, nearly twice the depth of Bass Strait.

There are things that shouldn't be in private control, and water is one of them. In East Maui, Hawaiʻi, a decision is pending on whether to grant a 30-year water license to a private Canadian company whose predecessors have a long history of devastating the ecosystem or give control to the county.

How Capitalism Works, Covid Edition, pt. 9743

It's Friday!

Have decided to start doing little videos each day on Instagram about whatever is worth commenting on - so follow if that is your thing. www.instagram.com/grogsgamut?i...

Priorities.

NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Offworld Colonies with Dr Alice Gorman and Rami Mandow” @drspacejunk.bsky.social @cosmicrami.com (1h05m35s) the9pmedict.com/edict/00255/ Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app. Like it? Tell people! Tips at the9pmedict.com/tip.

#COP30 Gilmar, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community near the lower reaches of the Tapajos River in Brazil: “We can’t eat money" “We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.” @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social & co for @aljazeera.com

A little bit of excitement from last night. The northern lights very rarely ever make it down into central California. Had to go out and see what I could capture. #aurora #photography #landscape #art #bluesky #california #canon

Pleiades: The “Seven Sisters” Just Found Thousands of Long-Lost Siblings 🔭🧪 uncnews.unc.edu/2025/11/12/t...

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

Whooooaaaa, this is extremely neat! And spectropolarimetry (which is the best, and what we used in my first paper too!) is at its core 💙 In a nutshell: astronomers used the polarization of light to study the shape of a supernova explosion before it interacted with surrounding material. 🔭🧪

I’ve got weekend plans and books to sell ✨📚 And if you can’t make it, I’ve got links on where to find any of my books here: www.jillianscudder.com/books

An extraordinary mapping of Big Food/Big Ag's influence at COP30, by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and co at @desmog.com.

1 million views: Virginia speaks about her abuse by Epstein/ Maxwell. youtu.be/LNLQmpT4oQ0?...

🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026. Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️ 🧵 Details 👇

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

I love my state. Furthermore, Minnesota is Canada.

Ms. Rachel wore a dress designed by Palestinian children in Gaza while being honored at this awards ceremony. "Rana made this beautiful drawing, she lost both of her sisters in the genocide." (AJ+)

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it. We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

Wheee! The joy of having dogs! 🐶 😂

This is my Chinese cave gecko. It caves less than the Democrats.

In Paris, you can get a monthly public transport pass for the city and its surroundings (Île-de-France) for less than 100€/month, and your employer has to reimburse at least half of it. www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/en/titres-et...