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Some of you gave some really sassy quotes for this piece, but my favorite...well perhaps I shouldn't say which one is my favorite 💅

Meet the king of the Weird Little Guys, the Butternut Woollyworm (Eriocampa juglandis), native to North America. They're the larval form for a wasp-like sawfly & they secrete tufts of wooly substance from epidermal glands to aid in camouflage. All hail the king! (📷: Robert Gromotka)

“The sea was cold, the night was black, and if I’d had any sense, I’d have wished myself elsewhere, but there is something in a boy that takes the mundanely difficult and unpleasant and turns it into a personal challenge and an adventure.“ — Fitz 🪐📚💙 #booksky app.thestorygraph.com/books/016b6b...

Looks like Ohiowans were visited by a bolide this morning. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03...

Follow the official Brain Awareness Week Instagram to stay looped into the global campaign. See pictures from events worldwide and learn about educational resources for all ages. Use #BrainAwarenessWeek and #BrainWeek if you share your own posts! ➡️ www.instagram.com/brainawarene...

BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out. The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco. The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB. www.science.org/content/arti...

i'm sorry this is so funny. great stuff www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-...

thinking about the medieval cat door in Exeter cathedral again

this is a very bold thing to say -- women can't do this -- about a technology that requires the ability to issue detailed natural language instructions to an immensely powerful but childlike simpleton

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Morning Bluesky.

Read @sjjphd.bsky.social's brilliant book A Second Sight this weekend. With Sinners leading the Oscars with historic noms, she offers a crucial framework & context: Black mediamakers as visionaries at the vanguard of telling the true American story, pushing the nation toward its purported values.

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

Right? That lede was buried more than the cylinder.

Max loves you and wants you to charge your phone away from your bed.

What a wonderful country this would be... Wales looks set to become the first country in the world to make it a crime for politicians to lie during election campaigns, under legislation now moving through the Welsh Parliament — known as the Senedd. www.courthousenews.com/wales-moves-...

This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It's about 1 km tall. If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

When you're actually right about an association being causal, but you're way off mark about the mechanism.

I just discovered that at one time there was a Xena branded cereal with a flavour called “a taste of honey.” Xena, where even breakfast is telling you to come out of the closet.

UMd campus, College Park @capitalweather.bsky.social

UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Oh look, the 🇺🇸 military concludes over 40% of COVID infections lead to Long COVID, among a population sample that is all adults, & on average in better physical condition & younger than the national/global population. www.amjmedsci.org/article/S000...

Artist ShouXin brilliantly captures the range of personalities of cats with his energetic pencil drawings. trib.al/R9wjsog

So delighted to announce we have a release date now! Very very very very excited to share the Sound/Silence issue of Saros SF with the world and immensely grateful to each and every one of these wildly talented writers for trusting me with their work. These are *such* good stories.

Hahaha! @labelleepoque.bsky.social will love this one.

As we approach two weeks of this conflict it’s a good time to check in with your progressive outlets and see if they’ve taken the time to talk to anyone from Iran or the diaspora yet or if they’re just running opinion pieces from Americans who only understand solidarity when it’s with a state.

The system works as the system is designed.

Extraordinary and yet another example why archives are so important: “Nick Davis, a 23-year-old master’s student at Cambridge University” discovered the overlooked letters while conducting research in the archives.

“we took the sensor out of the chamber, and we were like, ‘Screw it. We’re going to try to measure a fart.’” So Hall stuck the device down his own pants and let rip. “And the signal was enormous.” www.sciencenews.org/article/smar...

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"By July 2025, more than 300,000 Black women had exited the workforce, and that number scaled to 600,000 in November."

Child, out of nowhere: "Oh dammit, I'm having trouble writing my book."

Happy Women's Day from the New York Times 😒

WOW! NoKings 3.0 is scheduled for 20 days from today and this map of events is already impressive 🤩 Go to www.nokings.org to learn more.

We can do amazing things After nearly a decade of working on Rubin software, it is a real operating telescope, and I got to tour during the day and stay over last night This thing is a behemoth, and it goes "pssshhhhhhh" every few minutes 24/7 because of huge chillers that keep the camera cool 🔭

Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙 Please preorder it! 🧵

Update: They are up over 50,000 videos now, and besides the decade-by-decade playlists, they have channels for MTV2, VH1 Pop-Up Video, MTV Spring Break, 120 Minutes, Headbanger's Ball, Yo! MTV Raps, and more. wantmymtv.vercel.app

Look at the retirement The Count provides for his workers. Wonderful boss!

TODAY. Take Back our Science Rally. Don't take this administration's assault on science sitting down. Get to a rally: fight2win.standupforscience.... #StandUpForScience #March7 #Rally #science #savescience

Spouse who is an immigration lawyer just got the world’s greatest USPS forever stamps for his mail

AHRQ has been hit even harder than NIH. They have no grant making staff at all.

1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published 1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series 1997 - BBC remake 2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added 2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap 2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next

Now that viewers have such social-media agency—and no compunction about sending violent threats—how much can a creator lie about a real-life person without becoming an accomplice?

“I have never used cocaine in my life or hosted cocaine-fueled parties. I have never pressured anyone into marriage. I have never desecrated any family heirloom or intruded upon anyone’s private memorial... I never compared Jacqueline Onassis’ death to a dog’s.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...