🎶 you know the day destroys the night night divides the day tried to run tried to hide BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE

I have a little time before the baby’s head outgrows this octopus but then what will I do I’ll need a bigger octopus

Freehand knitting a silly duck hat for my baby but she’s too wiggly to try on (especially with four aluminum needles poking out of it) so this friendly octopus with a convenient-sized head is standing in.

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

"Without the infrastructure to support this care economy, the system as a whole will fail. We cannot expect women to leave the workforce en masse and provide the care needed for our aging and ill family members. We cannot expect families with children with disabilities to survive on GoFundMe."

Ted Cruz is the #1 lifetime recipient of fossil fuel money in the entire U.S. senate, receiving over $1 million from the oil and gas industry in the 2024 cycle alone Now he's proposed a bill to give the fossil fuel industry lifetime legal immunity from climate lawsuits

Are there any UK bug experts on bluesky? Spotted a few of these flying around this afternoon #insects #buglife #nature #ukwildlife

Everyone should read this description of how the Roberts Court abused the Supreme Courts own rules and traditions to turn the previously rarely used "shadow docket" into a tool for legislating a right wing agenda from the bench. These "interim rulings" aren't interim; they are policy. Gift article.

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

For anyone interested in science, activism, and inside-outside strategizing, I strongly recommend "Let the Record Show" by Sarah Schulman, which talks about Dr. Long and her incredible work.

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

I'm bringing back #FollowFriday with this absolute banger of a double-header: @laminda.bsky.social and @bittelmethis.bsky.social. Two incredibly talented writers who happen to write about science and animals and weird sh*t AND are also just absolutely delightful human beings.

All the plants in the garden are native to some part of California, so it made sense I'd see so many lizards. Visiting botanic gardens like the California Botanic Garden is a great way to explore native plants for your own garden, so you can create lizard friendly habitat in your yard.

Can you #FindThatLizard? Tonight you're looking for a western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis. I saw this individual while I was visiting the California Botanic Garden in Claremont. It is one of the most beautiful gardens I've ever visited, and it was teeming with lizards.

Two older ladies run into each other in my local Trader Joe’s produce section 1: oh my god you look great! What have you been up to lately? 2: nothing new, just marching in No Kings protests, you? 1: of course, every weekend, and (I assume kid’s name) had a new baby so we’ve been visiting

Hello, Bluesky! We, the staff of Scientific American, are pleased to announce we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, we are the powerhouse of the publication, and we’re excited to have a new way to contribute to its success.

Oh no I am a robot??

Ok hi stuff is bad in general but also the astronauts are coming back from visiting the gosh dang heckin MOON AND it’s hula kahiko night at Merrie Monarch which is my fave So today is a rollercoaster

Saw a nice bug today

"The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Jay Bhattacharya) has delayed publication of a CDC report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half." !!! 🎁

Saw a nice bug today

Change your focus, change your life. ~•~ Male Globemallow Bee (Diadasia diminuta) in Apricot Globemallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua). 🌿 #Invertebrates

Operation big bugs is underway here in Kensington. Support this project here!! givebutter.com/KenzoMural

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

Ahh a new Mood Bird for 2026. Can’t wait to deploy this attitude when called for (as I’m sure it soon will be)

We are very lucky to live on the same planet as frogs (Wood Frog) #herps 🌿

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

For more about this book, here's an interview with the author in @highcountrynews.org. I love the parting question: what does it mean to embrace the ephemeral? #lakes #ecology #womeninstem www.hcn.org/issues/58-3/...

This exactly. Probably a half dozen times in the past year, when someone learns I’m a journalist, they’ve said, “Oh! Do you use a lot of AI to help you write?” Each time I looked at them w bafflement & incredulity & replied, “Never. AI can’t come close to what I do.” And it’s true—it really can’t.

A few people have replied to my Artemis posts with links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon." Here's a story from Space.com about Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, currently en route to fly around the Moon, and his connection to that piece. www.space.com/space-explor...

every one of these guys would be the hugest loser you've ever met if there wasn't a massive makework program for men willing to act on their most sadistic impulses in this country

Ooh, earthquake app told me about this one before I felt it! Neat!

The playlist on Artemis rn:

This one is a no brainer for me

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Happy trans day of visibility, here is a wrasse design I made awhile ago because all wrasses change sexes as they age.

Attention Science Communicators! Our survey on the state of scicomm closes this Friday! Please get your responses in ASAP and nudge your colleagues! umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... This is a collaboration between myself, @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and @drjuliawester.bsky.social!

Journalists produce reliable information like bees produce honey - and our current age of AI is smashing the hive, killing the bees, and setting us up for total information collapse in the near future. Great piece from @mattdpearce.com :

The staff would join the Biology Department, but would replace the biologists there, and start educating and graduating virologists instead of biologists. These virologists would enter the other departments and repeat the process.

Nobody believes this is addictive. With that settled, I'm off to refresh my notifications page repeatedly to see how much people agree with me.

Like, not only does it not remotely match anything we know about how and why the authors wrote what they did, it requires believing that this extremely salient point of an extremely salient document went entirely unnoticed by actual experts for decades, only to be unearthed by total gadflies

I’m a white female college grad and I think that I am as legitimately and importantly American as a white male who flunked out of trade school and listens to podcasts at the gym.

It’s FINISHED! I ended up reworking two shark knitting patterns plus learning three new kinds of decreases/increases because I wanted my shark’s head to be symmetrical, but I got there eventually. I love her. #whaleshark #marinebiology #knitting #sciart

It’s FINISHED! I ended up reworking two shark knitting patterns plus learning three new kinds of decreases/increases because I wanted my shark’s head to be symmetrical, but I got there eventually. I love her. #whaleshark #marinebiology #knitting #sciart

Listen I don’t need more t-shirts but I do need to show up to my next little old lady plant event in this specific tshirt (They’ll love it) squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/plan...

The only reason I’m ever awake these days anywhere near when Wendy posts these is because my daughter has woken me up, wailing for food (she hasn’t eaten in a whole three entire hours and that is deeply unacceptable). So these haunted little eyes really speak to me at the moment

Who else out here making #fanart

Love this but also my David has a literal chest of drawers for his cable hoard and they are very neatly organized. He can always find them, recently he needed (and immediately located) a USB-B to USB-A connector. Yes we are a very normal household why do you ask

Is this the opposite of Studio Ghibli-ing yourself with AI (Hand-printed hand-carved stamped patches for mending secondhand clothes)

Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA. #birds #ants