Vertico snail! Just over 1 mm tall, with some nice teeth. First I sifted a bunch of leaf litter in a ravine. Then I took it home and processed it in a Berlese funnel. Then I sifted that litter through a finer sieve. Then I put that litter in a petri dish under a microscope. And finally I found it.

I've been getting into snails this year and can confirm--so many little snail shells just waiting for you in the litter!

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

AOC: All in the name of Charlie Kirk, Trump and the FCC are now cynically threatening to shut down ABC and any outlets who give air time to the administration's political critics. This is a disgusting attack on the American people and the very first amendment rights that define us as a country.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Fluoride in drinking water has widely been heralded as a public health triumph. But this year, with the rise of RFK Jr., legislation has been introduced in *at least 21 states* to roll back provisions related to it. Critical reporting @annaleighclark.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/fluo...

Today's Classic Anime Girl is Kiki, main protagonist of "Kiki's Delivery Service" (1989)!

Come one come all! Our new #BINHM exhibit is up at the #AMNH! @blackinnhms.bsky.social www.amnh.org/exhibitions/...

Many of us are numb to it, but almost every day he publicly confesses that he is at war with our laws and Constitution.

Someone with Wiley access check this paper to see if the mummified millipedes are dope or nope: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

youtu.be/c8mY8RsdFok?... 🗣️ New Brain Scoop Video!!! This is a wild ride, get in

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

To underscore how soaked in bad faith this whole enterprise was, as Rolling Stone reported on Wednesday night, multiple ABC and Disney execs knew that Kimmel hadn’t said anything over the line, and had not actually said what those on the MAGA right had accused him of saying…

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Tired of doom scrolling? Want to help a PhD student out? Check your collection for Promachus (and friends) and I'll be forever indebted! If you need an excuse to get outside and go collecting this weekend, this is it! #Asilidae #Diptera

Same with stacking rocks on beaches and mountains. Rocks are where animals live! It also demonstrates a particularly unpleasant arrogance and lack of appreciation for nature IMO

📻 My BBC World Service documentary is out today!!! 🦠 If you want to hear about bacterial suicide bombers, willing cannibalism victims, faecal transplants and resurrecting Ancient Egyptian diseases, then have I got the programme for you. bbc.com/audio/play/p... or search 'BBC The Documentary'

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

Just so everyone is clear, this right here is what an actual violation of the First Amendment looks like. When the head of the FCC says a company needs to do something about someone who displeased the administration or lose its license, that’s no joke unconstitutional

You can look at the data like this and see how it's actually fiscally responsible to enact these types of programs, but to the "fiscal responsibility" types, this is still a waste of money because it gives funds to people they consider to be "unworthy." They would rather punish some than help all.

Hey get your covid shot ASAP before our federal government pulls some stupid shit. I am pleased to report that aside from a sore arm, I don't even feel like total shit today. Hell yeah, public health.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

It has now been eight (8) straight days of me listening to Echo by ablume www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etec...

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

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I was talking about this with my uncle the other day. I thought Einstein was reclusive for the last few decades of his career and life. He wasn't. He was denouncing racism by teaching & speaking at Black collages and organisations. White people need to know that for his work to be understood

Graduate programs and their students are being fed through the proverbial wood chipper. Multiple entire departments in my fields didn’t admit any students. Professors, at least publicly, kept their heads down and didn’t make a fuss. It will only continue to get worse.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Got my covid vaccine today! Make sure you get yours (and your flu shot!) as we head into fall.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

This quietly got published amongst all the horror of late 2020, and I feel like it got overlooked. Beautiful color plates for every mecopteran in Virginia! Flint et al 2020. The Insects of Virginia Number 16.

For those who care about TB—and humanity—this is a terrific and well-referenced article about the death and destruction sown by the current U.S. administration. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis... thank you @cidrap, for this comprehensive reporting. @tbfighters.org @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

again, I feel like it's a gimme for a reporter to read actual things Kirk said, and ask politicians who have called to honor and pray for him whether they agree. Do you think gay people should be stoned? Do you think men should shoot trans people? Do you think women's suffrage should be repealed?

When Charlie Kirk was demonizing black or trans people he was also chatting it up with white reporters unaffected by the waves of hate he directed towards innocent people. Thats why they are refusing to report the truth about who he was.

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

The first deployment of updated Covid shots under the Trump administration has been plagued by access issues and misinformation amid confusion and chaos at U.S. health agencies. My latest: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Hi I know we're all talking about something else at this particular momennnttt, but can I interest any of you in educational posters? I've got 'em in a pack & seasonal lightning bugs too! It helps support SaS and makes it easy for you to spread important messages in your community! SquidFacts.net

@mmarmoset.bsky.social psst....hey. it's Derek Bugs from the discord if you can add me to the starter pack

AI hates you, and you should hate it back. Only grifters use it and we don't have to accept it as inevitable.

I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology

This adamant refusal to call bullshit is hurting us all. “Might not be his signature” is the sort of obvious, contemptuous lie that deserves a quick scoff, then immediately proceeding from the premise that it’s a lie. For example: “When you drew that picture for Jeffrey Epstein, were you …”

Cross your fingers that I find rare beetles and some cool bees tomorrow. And that I avoid rain, that would muck things up for me.

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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...