Ice hockey 🏒 explained!! www.facebook.com/share/v/18F3... Ping @ngoziu.com @theotherdibbler.bsky.social

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Three new Australian rock goannas! Varanus umbra⁣ Varanus phosphorus ⁣ Varanus iridis⁣ doi.org/10.1093/zool...

How Fear Came by Rudyard Kipling The stream is shrunk—the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I; With fevered jowl and dusty flank Each jostling each along the bank; And by one drouthy fear made still, Forgoing thought of quest or kill…

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

If I can't see Monday, it can't see me. #MondayMotivation 📷 Carl Bovis

Vale Jon. Legend.

Cartoonist Jon Kudelka has passed away, his wife Margaret has confirmed. www.facebook.com/margaret.kud...

Copia el Look: Puerto Rican Owl 🏈🦉 This weekend is SuperB OWL Sunday! Line up: a classic pava, a coquito, & style inspired by Bad Bunny — because we might be here for the game, but we’ll be dancing for the halftime show! Learn more: bit.ly/4rvUzZL #SuperbOWL

Jean Brusselmans. Les mouettes, 1949

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I AM IN THE FUCKING EPSTEIN FILES Specifically, my essay "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting" is referenced in a 2013 Rachel Sklar article about Muriel Siebert. Why is it in the Epstein files at all? You got me. What a wild fucking discovery. I am literally agog.

🔴 Steal the Look: Cherry-throated Tanager 🏡 Working from home? Time to get cozy and stay productive. Wrapped in a heated blanket and perched in an EGGonomic office chair, I've never been more ready to math. Learn more: bit.ly/4qN7oPa

🟡🌱 Steal the Look: Painted Bunting Snow might be on the ground, but seed packets are on my mind. My lime-green thumbs might be ready to propagate, but… the rake is in timeout. 🍂🐛 Those leftover leaves are where insects overwinter so I will stick to dreaming of spring. Learn more: bit.ly/3LDlhRb

@tonifish.bsky.social sentinel spiders!!! academic.oup.com/etc/article-...

Taxonomy and phylogeny are two sides of the same coin, but that doesn't mean they are always in agreement. I wrote a blog post on why the new Phylogeny Explorer in @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social is such a big deal in that regard, and what's in store next for us. eliotmiller.weebly.com/blog/birds-o...

#LostScience US science after a year of Trump www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Thank goodness, the Lab of O has provided an antidote to the psychic damage inflicted by that mammal poster

So I’ve taken Disapproving Rabbits out of retirement as part of the resistance. Proceeds will go to The Bond Between who are taking in pets after people are disappeared by ICE. www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Di...

Common loon #RebelBird for Minnesota by Caitlin Cahill

Cactus wren #RebelBird for Arizona by IG tattoo artist jason.pedersen.art

The idea that the administration unexpectedly went somewhere other than where it always said it wanted to go is really hard to square with widely reported facts www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Nothing is safe… #AproposOfNothing atwoodmagazine.com/clp-clipping...

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers …

Managed to sneak in one paper before the New Year with coauthors @flyliceresearch.bsky.social and Daniel Gustafsson (not on Bsky)! Introducing 2 new species of bird-infesting lice that, despite having no wings, appear to be adept at jumping across bird hosts and continents! doi.org/10.1111/mve....

I love everything about this. Coffee ✅ Whole bean ✅ Unicorn ✅ Hazelnut ✅ Rainbows ✅ Sparkles ✅ My friend in Seattle sent the picture to me and says, “I immediately thought of you 🌈 🦄” mythic.coffee/search?q=Far...

Oh Emma! I will miss you 🐠 @dremmaljohnston.bsky.social (@DrEmmaLJohnson from the dead bird site) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Darmok And Salad At Tanagra

Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists: If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community

“For those unfamiliar with the tradition, each Discworld Year is given a name, and here on Roundworld, we have adopted the same habit. The Roundworld Year of 2026 will be that of the Curious Squid, the terminally curious cephalopods!” terrypratchett.com/discworld/20...

bibliophile AMERICAN [bib-lee-uh-fahyl, -fil] / ˈbɪb li əˌfaɪl, -fɪl / NOUN a person who loves or collects books, especially as examples of fine or unusual printing, binding, or the like. BRITISH / ˈbɪblɪəˌfaɪl, ˈbɪblɪəfɪl, ˌbɪblɪˈɒfəˌlɪzəm / NOUN a person who collects or is fond of books

Steal the Look: Lewis’s Woodpecker Leave my house after 6pm? The audacity. 🌙 With Daylight Savings & dropping temps, I’m taking my self-care cues straight from the Lewis’s Woodpecker. 🔥 Tonight is going to be gloriously forgettable. Learn more: bit.ly/4r1UXjq

🔴❄️ Steal the Look: Northern Female Cardinal It’s that time of year! The LL Beak catalogue has arrived in the mail and we are feeling warm and toasty. 🔥 Speaking of warm and toasty... Are those S'mores ingredients!? ☕ Don’t mind if I do. Learn more: bit.ly/3KXONjU

✨ Steal the Look: Resplendent Quetzal 🔴 Holiday party incoming, and the party doesn't start ‘til I fly in. 🎄 Happy Holidaying from the ABC team! Learn more in our bird library: bit.ly/44z4Yen

Christmas cookie cutter shark by Tim Andraka. 🎄

Currently

The jig is up, Professor!!! 🎅

Who says academia is broken?

Oh no not Gary!!?? #TheAshes #Cricket 🏏

Christmas quantum leaps from CSIRO!! www.csiro.au/en/news/All/... 🎅

Christmas time bah humbug side eye from Pepper…

Time for another #GreatBirdCrapPhoto with a classic capture by @terngirl.bsky.social . A rare bird around these parts—Ground Cuckoo-shrike. Neither a cuckoo, nor a shrike, and this one is perched in a tree!

Which little nutcase are you today? I’m Silently Spiralling FTW!!!

Full moon tonight, too!

Yes please

#ESA2025 #EcologicalFashion

#EcologicalFashion #ESA2025

For those of you celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow and need a conversation starter, turkey parasites are always a hit topic. Talk about Gapeworms, and turkey feather lice with weird heads. Your family will love you. #parasites #turkey #birds #Thanksgiving #lice #worm

Let’s get serious about a TCZ! @judydunlop.bsky.social presents a unique plan to prevent cane toads from reaching the Pilbara at #ESA2025. theconversation.com/cane-toads-a...

#EcologicalFashion #ESA2025