there's an ant inside my computer monitor! 😳 I've heard stories of this happening with tropical fieldwork computers and actually have a friend who ended up with ants in her laptop after a summer visiting family in Korea and Thailand. Never expected it to happen inside my apartment!

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

hammocks are apparently 'against community guidelines' at my apt complex now, so anybody have a foldable lounge chair they love?

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

Today is a good day to follow and support news outlets that avoid generative AI slop: bsky.app/profile/alex...

Tell me five classes you took in college: The Jews of Germany Intro to Latin American Studies Invertebrate Paleontology History of Rock Art of the Western World (Renaissance to 20th Century)

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

bought a new ink cartridge for my work printer and the printer won't recognize it so now I get to waste at least an hour dealing with HP support to get them to replace the defective cartridge, yay 😑

Hey cuties. Everything sucks ass. Get some valentines and send them to your friends. I'm sad. You're sad. They're probably sad. Send them a valentine. It keeps Skype a Scientist running, which hey, is very good too. squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/deep...

Projects for tonight include making soup and bringing all my plants inside for the next ~week, southeast FL isn't supposed to get this cold! 🥶 (these will be the coldest temps south FL has seen since 2010! www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/s...)

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

I went for a run in a neighborhood park this morning and passed a woman hand-feeding a little blue heron with lizards from a sandwich baggie. 😳 I knew feeding the squirrels was popular at this park, but this was a new one for me!

For those who can, here are links to donate directly to local efforts on the ground resisting ICE's terrorizing of Minneapolis. Let me know what you donated to where, and I'll match it until I get a panicked call from my bank! linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

A man was murdered today for filming the American Gestapo. There's no other way to put that. I watched the footage, it is horrifying. The only reason ICE initiated violence was because he was standing in place filming their lawless actions.

How to get into nature.

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

NOOOO!!!! Teen Vogue’s political reporting was one of the last holdouts of actual political journalism left as mainstream outlets caved to fascism… this does not bode well.

359/1000 🫶🏾

Please share, only 4 hours left: the giving circle has a special dose of hope: one of the families is expecting a baby very soon (🧿) !!! With lack of food, shelter, medicine, we MUST step up for this malnourished mom. Anything helps. 8 hours left ⚠️ 769/1000

I'm 100% with Ryan on this (and not just because I was on the same trip)!! Anthropomorphizing can of course go too far, but I've seen over and over again in my outreach work that a little bit can really help people connect to nature more!

I have a lot of complicated feelings about the Catholic Church after growing up in it, but they do get some things right.

For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

it's time I finally step up my shorebird ID skills (I live by the beach afterall!) so I was looking at guides but oof I didn't realize the weight of shorebird knowledge 😅

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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

best cellphone photo I’ve ever taken of a Florida scrub-jay and it's sitting on my truck 🙃

Let that sink in "Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

13 hours left on our first day 🚨 please share! We’re matching the next £3,000/$4,000 🫡 We have four days to make this goal, which will help the final two giving circle families stranded in Gaza City flee in order to SURVIVE. Every minute is death… Give and be doubled. 545/7000 by Tuesday night.

bird friend up north: if you're wondering where the ovenbirds went, they seem to all be down here in FL at the moment!

OK, this is amazing. www.bbc.com/news/article...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

yikes, my "require alt text before posting" setting had been turned off too! check on yours if you haven't lately. it's under Settings / Accessibility.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

Today is the last day to help make your voice heard for protection of our wilderness, places where we need to get away from the trauma of being human. Places of solitude. Please speak up for roadless rule. It’s easy and it only takes a few minutes at this link. earthjustice.org/action/prote...

If you even *think* you might be interested, you should sign up! I haven't taken the class but I just got back from the BtB retreat, which was an absolutely magical stretch of ~6 days in Columbia with other like-minded nature nerds!

Insurance trade group says COVID, flu vaccines covered through 2026 AHIP's statement says all ACIP-recommended immunizations as of September 1, 2025 will be covered. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c... Photo: govonortomwolf/ Flickr cc

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

Author friends, if AI developers have stolen your work as they have mine, this thread details what you can do about it - regardless of where you live. ✒️📖

Plus: An AI chatbot system is linked to a widespread hack, details emerge of a US plan to plant a spy device in North Korea, your job’s security training isn’t working, and more. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

“To take care of yourself and others, you should do the opposite of what RFK Jr. is suggesting and get a COVID vaccine if you can. This advice is might be a good rule of thumb for your broader personal health: If RFK Jr. thinks something is bad for you, it's probably good, and vice versa.”

PBS has this up on YouTube already and yes, it is so good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRSq...

Florida is a center of international tourism and has one of the top 3 populations of retirees. Ending childhood vaccine requirements for school entry there is so dangerous I don’t even know where to start. Ground zero for massive unchecked outbreaks of vaccine preventable disease.