#spidereggsac2026 CW: Black widow spider ....and it's time to go in! The egg sac is lovingly taken back inside to be tucked away for a while. When will it come back out? Who knows? Not me, but I will be ready and filming when it does happen. Temp 73F humidity 54% at time of retrieval.

Ist es jetzt auch hierzulande heiss und trocken genug, mit katastrophalen Konsequenzen für Umwelt, Gesundheit und Wirtschaft, dass man endlich anfängt sich zu fragen, was die Kosten davon sind, KEINEN effektiven Klimaschutz zu betreiben?

A few days ago, we completed the first 2026 camera survey, building on our 2021 baseline, to track distribution dynamics of native and non-native plant species along Swiss national roads using AI. Stay tuned! #Biodiversity #Monitoring #InvasiveSpecies #AI GPS tracks from first 2026 camera survey👇

How much longer will we be able to see the front of #Rhone Glacier from our webcam? The glacier front has retreated dramatically over the past years, while the proglacial lake has continued to expand. The change is striking to observe, from a fixed camera perspective.

Imagine a vaccine capable of stopping a major cancer before it even starts. ✨ New data in The Lancet link high HPV vaccine uptake to a historic milestone: zero cervical cancer deaths among women aged 20–24 in England 5 years. Dig into the data: bit.ly/4xKbfRg

Die tägliche Gewalt gegen Frauen

Wild About Images (Paul Bunyard) captures 2 Kestrel fledglings watching their sibling miss the nest entrance: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Dank an @beatehausbichler.bsky.social für diesen Artikel. Sie ist bislang eine der Wenigen, wenn nicht die Einzige, die Nuhrs Beschämung und Verlachung ermordeter Frauen medial thematisierte. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

HPV vaccine means young women are no longer dying from cervical cancer in England www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... via @gavi.org

Evolution wird oft als eine Entwicklung zu höherer Komplexität missverstanden, aber sie geht oft auch in eine ganz andere Richtung - manchmal bis zu einer extremen Vereinfachung von Lebewesen! Wie extrem? Manche Tiere sind wieder Einzeller geworden und das in gewisser Weise nicht nur einmal! > 🧵

👻 #mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱 „#Holzheizungen sind klimaneutral“. Hach, dieses romantische Knistern im Kamin, schööööön. Ein tolles Motiv für Werbestrategen. Wer mit #Holz heizt, macht sich von einem #Brennstoff abhängig, der politisch als #klimafreundlich#Frühstückdeklariert wurde. Darin stecken gleich […]

A dog wants to play with the small rodent, who is determined not to be distracted from its work.

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

Ein Schwangerschaftsabbruch kostet in Österreich durchschnittlich 629,66 €. Für viele Menschen ist das eine unüberwindbare Hürde. Deshalb spende ich 7.000 € an CHANGES for women – und finanziere damit 8–12 Schwangerschaftsabbrüche in Österreich.

The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran (ABC) has documented at least 806 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2026.

Four years after Dobbs, two things are true: there are more abortions in the US than ever, and there are more pregnancy-associated deaths, too. https://bit.ly/4eF7UKn

After SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, we didn't back down — we fought back. As AG, I launched the state's first confidential abortion legal hotline, co-sponsored the Shield Law to protect providers, fought to defend mifepristone & birth control, and sued Trump for trying to defund Planned Parenthood.

#WildlifeWednesday To capture a hummingbird hawk-moth is always a special challenge. They're so incredibly fast. 🦋 #HummingbirdHawkMoth #Taubenschwänzchen #Schwärmer #Photography #MacroglossumStellatarum #ECK #Nature #Wildlife #Insect

I was just laughing out loudly looking at a title page formatting guideline: the list of authors publish on behalf of the Bunny Genome Sequencing Consortium, with affiliations including the Devision of Rabbit Health, the National Contemporary Bunny Museum, ... (1/2)

Ockenden references a pursuit of "normal birth" at Nottingham Hospitals that she said caused severe harm and deaths with mothers not listened to repeatedly

New echidna paper There are 5 subspecies of short-beaked echidnas. They look different but some of the differences between them, like reproductive behaviour, are so dramatic that I thought they may be different species. But previous genetic studies suggested that the subspecies were not real.

The reality of the lives of many women in Afghanistan. Being female is not something they can identify out of. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Yes, Perfect. Time to post on the refrigerator door. This one is IDEAL. Hey, White House: can you make a coloring book of this and explain it to Heir Leader? I am betting it would help. And if you do that, keep the catsup away from the desk.

That's Fellow of the @royalsociety.org Elon Musk to you, and suing elected officials for citing results published in a scientific journal is 100% in line with their code of conduct by the way.

‘I don’t know how to save my daughter from her husband’: the brutal reality of the Taliban’s new marriage law

When looking at the full global picture it becomes obvious that we are now living in a much changed climate. In summer 1976, north-west Europe was a lonely hot spot in a sea of cooler temperatures. In summer 2025, the world is bright red. The climate is unrecognisable compared to 50 years ago.

I saw this spider egg sac, what I know about spiders will fit on the back of a postage stamp. I quickly built a macro setup for my timelapse camera and will see what happens here. First timelapse is set for 12hrs - hope something happens during that time, I'd like to see the actual spider.

"Most of those death sentences have been carried out in the past three months, as the authorities have hurried to send a message to a restless population: The regime is still firmly in charge, and dissent won't be tolerated." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Good evening from the least tern factory! Not my normal turf because theres a giant fence to protect the birds, so it makes photography impossible with my lens, but I heard word of some freshies. AND THEY ARE COTTON BALL TIER! Behold!!! 🪶 🐣

🧵Solstice BloomStrolling from yesterday’s hike bonus scenic views of Lake Tahoe #BloomStrolling (1/8)

In a significant opportunity to raise awareness of the injustices of Hague Convention proceedings, Reem Alsalem @unsrvaw.bsky.social invited @filiahaguemums.bsky.social to nominate a speaker for this event & Revibra's Janaina Albuquerque Gomes, from FHM's Human Rights group, will represent us.

Sall's rejected op-ed (I hope I've got it in order...)

Some Danish guy has published a lengthy SubStack where he seems to be VERY cross with me… He is defending the utterly awful Neil Z Miller paper (which was removed, not just retracted but REMOVED) and one thing that made me laugh is this: 1/

“Hello. I am your new cat. Do not be concerned that I look weird. It is purely because I am a very rare and special breed.”

#Australien: Behörden melden ersten Fall der Vogelgrippe #H5N1 auf dem Festland www.deutschlandfunk.de/behoerden-me...

Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight musicians and production team members have been sentenced to 74 lashes each, a two-year travel ban and a two-year ban on artistic activity. Her crime: performing without a hijab and with the participation of male musicians.

HYDRATION BREAK 🐣 🪶

Who could have predicted this? 🤷🏻‍♂️

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖 #hitze ist ein leiser #Killer! Die #Erderwärmung wird in #Städte​n im Sommer zur Dauerbelastung für den Körper. Selbst #Bäume halten den Temperaturen und der #trockenheit#Erderwärmung#Städte#Bäumecht mehr stand. Zahlen enthüllen, warum man die gesundheitlichen Folgen nicht länger […]

A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.

The extent to which male wishes are prioritised over the safety of women, both female inmates and guards, is breathtaking. So much attention is paid to the wishes of individual males, while brushing aside the effects on all the female inmates and their individual stories, which often ...(1/3)

There are these strange coincidences. Reading the book by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social, I learned for the first time what XL Bullies are. Today, when I saw the headline "Scots mum mauled by XL Bully", I found myself wondering what I would have thought an XL Bully was if I hadn't read that book.

Mona Khalil, ‘guardian of the turtles’ of Mansouri, succumbs to injuries after Israeli strike on her home The founder of the Orange House Project had refused to leave despite the war. today.lorientlejour.com/article/1538...

Today is Internat'l Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. "I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine." ~Nadia Murad, survivor & recipient, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war & armed conflict. #endVAWG

"Just over 200 years after Elizabeth Fry won rights for women in prison, we have established that the Scottish Government's cruel policy of incarcerating women with violent male prisoners was never lawful. We are thrilled with the result, but it should never have come to this." For Women Scotland.

The recent outbreak of a rare Andes hantavirus on a cruise ship highlighted a sobering reality: there is currently no licensed vaccine or treatment for the virus. A new study published in The Lancet reports promising results from an experimental vaccine undergoing animal testing: bit.ly/3SxP9kK

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(1/4) The European Union has been training researchers for 30 years 🧪 This is also a story about Nobel Prize scientist Marie Skłodowska-Curie: link.europa.eu/CmWVpd Curious to know more? Curiosity was her main trait 👇