WHAT A SPIDER!!! 🤯🤯 BEHOLD, one of the coolest arachnids in the world, the Long-horned Spiny Orb Spider (Macracantha arcuata)! 🕷😍 Found in the rainforests of SE Asia, these magnificent beasts are found usually at head-height in a web they’ve made to catch flying prey!🐞🕸️

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

New awareness campaign

Yesterday at lunch. Pine tree for scale🌲 #WhimsyWednesday #MushroomOfYesterday

buying an ice cream cone full to the end: hell yeah. hell fucking yeah. every ice cream should be this full. halfway through the cone: Lord Forgive Me For My Greed

Knice knobbly knees on this dead oak branch ^_^ #oak #quercus #deadwood #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

A phylogenetic tree of plasmodial slime molds & their common features

the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person

Not my own work this time but listen to this mushroom play you the song of its people. #fungifriends youtu.be/NbP2DgDp890?...

they’re doing their best, okay

It’s true for people too. We all started as a neural tube with a mouth and an asshole.

go outside and observe something. could be rocks, could be plants or herps. let the world be imbued with meaning as you continue to learn.

Mr Chalcoscirtus, peering 🖤 #EmotionalSupportSpood

They should invent sleep that feels restful

Underside of a bracket fungus. 🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Patting some mushrooms to survive the horrors.

Here’s some wolf’s milk for #SlimeMoldSunday

Ceratiomyxa fruiticulosa with emerging spores. Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #slimemoulds #slimemolds #śluzowce #Eumycetozoa #Amoebozoa

Remember kids, it's only violence if it's done by regular people. If the government does it's called authorised use of force ❤️

Another video of our feeding experiment using fluorescent beads and bryozoan colonies (Membraniopora sp.). 💫

for anyone who is wondering if i'm gonna stop posting about that AI "research" chatbot, as someone with a deep passion for research software I find this entire thing personally insulting and refuse to be normal about it

in the scienced journal. straight up "peer reviewing" it. and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My PNAS

Well, I’m not far from 40 and I also support this terminology.

hey what's up man sorry I can't hang tonight I've realized I don't actually like anything anymore

From a lecture I'm currently writing about the history of #Invertebrate taxonomy. Those myxozoans do be tricky 🧪

Alligator Alcatraz has been halted because of the Miccosukee Tribe. But look at how it's reported. Native people constantly fight for not only the land, but human rights -- and their contributions are consistently erased. And everyone does it. Erasing Native voices is the true American pastime.

Languishing, yearning (for snacks)

My little guy doodle from our lab whiteboard, I love him

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa. Note the fuzz (external spores with tiny stalks). Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #slimemoulds #slimemolds #śluzowce #slimefriends #Amoebozoa

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

Is this… 🦋… Marketing? Squidfacts.net (Sound on unfortunately)

This has become the most viral thing I’ve ever put on the internet and I think that rules

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

mrow

Man, I love uBlock Origin.

"Almost $7 billion in federal K–12 education funding, approved by Congress and scheduled for distribution on July 1, is now being withheld"

The September issue of Highlights magazine is out, so I can finally talk about my article about Sea Angels. They're sweet and pretty, quietly flapping through the sea... until they detect prey, their head splits open, and the tentacles come out.

Not seasonally appropriate (unless you're from the southern hemisphere ig)

Thank u Vanessa for this excellent photo of my proposed classification scheme for Coleoptera

now that we're in the age of chatbot relationships I'm like, what if the turkeys totally knew the sticks weren't really turkeys, it was just really satisfying to display at a stick that can't walk away

Finally got some time to film another process video! Enjoy making a Hercules friend with me! 💚

me at parties