In collaboration w/ @groundwork.bsky.social & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, we convened hundreds of volunteers from across the country to investigate Instacart’s AI-assisted pricing experiments at popular grocery stores like Target & Kroger. Read our full investigation below:

1st of our holiday puzzles. Merry Market by Joy Laforme. Another w/foil accents from Galison. 1000 pieces. Very enjoyable.

Current record is 8 for the amount of peanut halves a single Blue Jay can stuff down its crop in one visit

The nature center's longtime eagle pair is now visible around the clock.

Our not leaving the house forecast for tomorrow: 4am snow 5am freezing rain 6am snow 7-11am rain, snow, freezing rain noon snow

It's snowing (again) so this is me but with an added blanket.

Count me among the dry brine turkey converts.

Listening to a live Ronald Hutton lecture on Hecate and I swear his intonation will soon be causing the goddess to appear.

First up: scientists said it couldn't be done. But we put our logo on a scroll, and then got a mouse to hold it while riding a lobster. Be wowed: merl-shop.co.uk/shop/curiosi... Original artwork from @uorspeccoll.bsky.social.

@ryannims.bsky.social Reminds me of sooo many games we enjoyed and then realized we were playing them wrong

I love this

@shinyferal.bsky.social Thought this came from you for a minute.

Music selection at my fave diner during breakfast includes Supermassive Black Hole: takes this place up another notch.

Luv the staff all wearing deely-boppers for Kaki King: Bugs this morning.

Monday snow shovel Followed in November by Friday leaf rake

Last autumn amble in the park. Wished Meadowbrook a peaceful winter's sleep.

Beautiful.

Tradional skull food for Halloween.

Fave of Halloween puzzles: Spooky Village by Joy Laforme. From Galison.

Puzzle of my fave Universal Monster. The script was the hardest part!

The vacuum cleaner 😆

Famous Shanghai tea brand Auntea Jenny recently gave away uterus plushies with their drink set that nourishes and aids blood generation, this has been controversial, but they previously released stomach and kidney plushies, so why not uterus. Good to see more antidotes to period shame. #popculture

Spooky season means Halloween puzzles.

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

Woooowwww. I watched this over and over.

NGL, this is my favorite from today

doomscroll break

I voted!

Had a helper when refilling the bird baths this morning.

It may be the first climate-driven bird hybrid found in nature.

At the café: let's sit at this table to look at the art. The art: brick walls

@jillinois.bsky.social Would this be helpful?

Is it me or does this clock look like it's encased in melted Christmas candy?

Two people were looking at pics on a phone saying awww, how cute so I was rude & asked to see thinking I was going to see puppy or kitten pics. Instead I got to see lovely wedding pictures. ☺️

Aha, finally a diner that understands my morning coffee needs (sunglasses for scale)

While out birding a treeline today I said "there's nothing here" & a grasshopper flew up & hit me in the mouth. So I would like to publicly apologize to all those grasshoppers at Colbert Park for ignoring them.

Beautiful night with The Hot Club of Urbana.

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

Local co-op sale ad had jigsaw puzzles in the wellness section; they get me!

Greeter at the Nature Center this morning.

Got to tour the pinned insect collection at the Uni today.

Have an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail to celebrate nice weather at last.

Why can I never remember to remove my name tag after events?!? 😵‍💫 #WhenEveryoneKnowsYourName

I need to find a video on how to properly eat rice noodle rolls with chopsticks. The pork stuffed ones at Dim Sum House are delicious (but slippery). 😊

🌱🍍🍍🍍 The Illinois Pineapple Growers Association 😅 can always count on Jewel-Osco & Albertson's Food Stores to champion their products. A Summer drive through Illinois wouldn't be the same without the sight of acres of Pineapples, stretching far into the horizon.🤣

How great was Tom Lehrer? In 2020, he moved his entire catalog into the public domain because he felt he'd made more than enough money off of it. Enjoy every Tom Lehrer album: tomlehrersongs.com

At a perfectly titlef summer stock show on this steamy afternoon.