Cryptoctober Day 9: Fisher pig Old documents in Hungary once referred to a strange type of pig that would catch fish and crabs in the rivers instead of grazing on vegetation. The species allegedly went extinct at the end of the 19th century and no depictions are known to survive

It's #NautilusNight!⁣ The common name "paper nautilus" for the genus Argonauta comes from the Greek ναυτίλος nautílos, meaning "sailor". People once believed these octopuses used two of their arms as sails, as seen in this #SciArt from "Zoography" (1807) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54312693 🧪

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

EXTREMELY COOL BAT STUFF: A study out in Science today found that the greater noctule bat, Europe's largest, hunts and catches *migrating birds* while in flight. In at least one case, a bat climbed to more than 1200 feet, then chased a robin downward FAST until it caught it near the ground.

Seamounts of Cabo Verde: A review of their ecological and economic significance, anthropogenic impacts, and conservation needs #openaccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌊 🦑

Super easy to use the mapgl package and @oldinsurancemaps.net to compare 1886 Richmond, VA to today in #rstats. The site of Gallego Mills, the ruins of which became an iconic photo after the fall of Richmond in the American Civil War, is now an office building and freeway.

This delightful new book by Cara Giaimo and Artist Vlad Stankovic includes a few familiar animals. Do you recognize any of these advice-givers from our ROV dives and videos? orionmagazine.org/article/dear...

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

This is #BookyMcBookface sailing back from Rousay this afternoon. 💨🌊 #Orkney

in which a cop fails to understand the concept of “magnets” during a deeply stupid mistargeted raid, and loses his loaded rifle to the uncaring maw of a MRI www.dailynews.com/2024/09/28/l...

My grandfather once told me when I was a little boy that singing the Blues is all about a good man or woman feeling sad. This clip reminded me of me & grandpa's convo. Look at these three legends. Should I do a thread on the origin of the blues? 🤔 Serious question, fam. youtu.be/8PSOgmmqqvo?...

The #LittleShell Tribe is sponsoring #IndigenousPeoplesDay festivities in Great Falls, Montana, this weekend. The celebration starts this Friday, October 10. Hope to see you there! #Indigenous #NativeSky #IndigiSky

Practicing taking out the team for a memorial service for a dear friend who lost her battle with cancer. Her family wants to spread some of her ashes on the trail she loved so much.

Free webinar TOMORROW to explore how to establish a centralized system to store, visualize, and analyze seafloor data for an offshore wind project. cc @seabed2030.bsky.social 🌊 🦑 ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏 #GISchat www.esri.com/en-us/webina...

My new article is out in Nineteenth-Century Music Review! ‘Hearing London’s Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire’ explores how 19th-century sailors’ songs reflect the noisy, lively, often precarious world of London’s docklands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #MaritimeHistory #Musicology #SeaShanties

Some of the #Veteran Art featured from the Central #Iowa VA system at the VA medical center in Des Moines.

#MusicChallenge This is just for fun! No rules. I will post a pic often for your music association… 🎧 #LookAndSee (Day 218) 🎶 Not sure if this one was already used or not. But I just loved the guys in suits going nuts clapping along in the audience! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_x...

We are as hands-off as possible with our species in order to preserve their natural instincts. For black-footed cats, this instinct is immediate suspicion of humans, as demonstrated by their greeting hisses 😼

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842 In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

1/3 According to a Flemish folktale, bokkenrijders or buckriders, who were said to be thieves, ghosts, or sometimes even witches, and rode through the sky on the backs of goats in Flanders and the Netherlands, had stolen the Queen's laundry. #WyrdWednesday

On his stunt horse!

Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑 "It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless." Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Pumpkins are a harvest symbol and part of our nostalgia for a simpler time. But while the word "pumpkin" has been around for centuries, the plant dates back thousands of years.

On ocean exploration, Black excellence, and the power of nerdiness ... New "Black Nerds Matter" podcast #Blacksky 🌊 🦑 ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏 #geosky #GISchat #geogchat www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-6... or open.spotify.com/episode/1Pwg...

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We're going a bit batty in celebration of #BatAppreciationMonth. Archibald Thorburn's "British Mammals" (1920-1921) contains some of our favorite bat #SciArt in #BHLib. Check it out thanks to #FieldMuseum ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48418555 #BatMonth 🦇 🧪

The Newfoundland and Labrador public libraries continue to make the absolute best free pins that you can just have if you go to borrow a book

For #NationalBadgerDay : Lloyd Kakepetum (Keewaywin First Nation, b.1958) #Badger, 1979 Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm) #FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt #WoodlandsArt www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

youtu.be/o8MWHFHGhDQ Smoke was rising from the cover of the ditch. I thought someone might have dropped a cigarette in there, but then I saw dry ice floating a little further ahead.

Writhing scene of grotesque heads (ca. 1520) by Daniel Hopfer, a German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking. One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/grotesque-decoration-with-animal-heads/

See this is why nobody writes a song called "Fuck the Fire Department".

"Tartölt", before 1578 One of a set of double-reed instruments with bodies shaped like animals. The Ambras Castle inventory of 1596 describes them as follows: “In one case 5 tardöld, shaped like dragons”.

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Wawaditła Mungo Martin Long house Victoria, BC April 30, 2025 @githayetsk #githayetsk #githayetskdancers #mikedangeli #miqueldangeli #dance #firstnations #firstnationsdance

The world was an easier place to live in because of Guy Clark. youtu.be/0bIeJUxl_RE?...

Today I got up an hour before sunrise to look for a rare bird. Only-a-handful-that-look-like-this-in-the-world-now rare. All the reports made it seem like a simple walk in the park. Literally. They all said it's in a parking lot 5hrs and 4.5 miles walking later, I captured 12 seconds of footage. 🪶

A zoom into my reconstruction of the "sea-rex," a Jurassic pliosaur. This piece was commissioned by The Etches Collection, which is where the spectacular skull is exhibited. Also pictured is a smaller "sea-rex" #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaur #Pliosaurus #SeaRex #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

@themerl.bsky.social This is a desert unit

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Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 12 - Bayonet. 1937

“These nests are authentic natural museums,” study co-author Antoni Margalida told Live Science. 🧪🏺

US photographer Dorothea Lange documented female shipyard workers- Kaiser shipyard, California, WW2, 1943 #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth

It doesn't make Trump's actions less illegal to say this isn't quite true. The Army Center for Military History has a three volume history of this exact thing, and the last one came out in 1992, so it doesn't even have the LA riots. history.army.mil/Publications...

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵