This is a very cool one. The scientific report on the first naturally mummified big cats ever found - seven mummified cheetahs, some dating back thousands of years, discovered in caves in Saudi Arabia #science #caves #mummification #mummies #zoology #history 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Just incredible that any government could under fund an eradication program for these things. Long term cost is going to be many multiples of the cost of an eradication program.

Over the past decade, thousands of African gray parrots have been exported from the Democratic Republic of Congo despite a ban on their international trade. The DRC government has finally taken action to prohibit the capture and sale of this iconic species.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol) doesn’t cause autism. Here’s the American Psychological Association’s statement about it. #autism #acetaminophen

Not the rapture. Just human trafficking by a degenerate, vicious government.

libertarianism doesn't work because eventually you run out of other people's money and have to borrow it from the US taxpayer

My pregnant neighbor took Tylenol and all the chickens in our village layed only small flavorless onions instead of eggs for seven cycles of the moon.

Greetings, people of @notredame.bsky.social ! I'll be visiting on Thursday for a public lecture on writing about science in these unprecedented times. science.nd.edu/events/2025/...

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

Our friend the Amboli Tiger Toad is only known from a small area near the village of Amboli in the Western Ghats of India! Females of this species tend to be a muddled brown color, but the males have bright yellow and brown tiger stripes that give them their name! (photo by Avinash Bhagat)

Our paper evaluating effects of experimental warming in soil respiration is finally out!!

Many examples throughout history of civilizational regression. Take these people seriously. This is how you kick off a dark age.

🎨 Huang Yongyu (1992)

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

Patience is a virtue. #WorldBollardAssociation

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

One of my favorite species, the little dodo (or manumea), has gone missing! This weird pigeon looks and acts more like a parrot – an evolutionary marvel. This is a species that DESPERATELY needs support & funding to try and rediscover it. @mongabay.com #birds news.mongabay.com/2025/09/fund...

TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #roadecology

Here they are, the first Dark-sided Flycatcher in the known history of the lower 48 states of the United States. It's a bad time to visit, little guy!! Even more obscene, it's zipping around Google's campus in Palo Alto, California. They're destroying your planet, buddy!! #birds

A rare sighting in the wild of a billionaire who gets it

Weird right? He used to support the first amendment

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Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one. trib.al/RdNHhC6

Every night, billions of tiny fish rise from the deep in Earth’s largest migration. A new @jexpbiol.bsky.social study confirms what scientists long suspected: mesopelagic fish help lock carbon in the deep sea for centuries. Small fish, big climate impact. 🔎 More: https://bit.ly/4goVkiW

My take: Too many takes, not enough reporters

A spate of poisoning events this year has killed more than 400 vultures in and near South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Observers have noted an increase in hunting of species for the bushmeat trade, with poachers frequently leaving poisoned carcasses behind to kill carnivores or vultures.

146 environmental defenders were killed or disappeared last year

Had a massive male Chacma Baboon in the house this morning & my (smallish) dog was barking right up in its face, had to get her away before she got bitten without getting bitten myself… crazy scene! Much running around & yelling.Eish the STRESS of living in small town S Africa is too much sometimes!

Had a massive male Chacma Baboon in the house this morning & my (smallish) dog was barking right up in its face, had to get her away before she got bitten without getting bitten myself… crazy scene! Much running around & yelling.Eish the STRESS of living in small town S Africa is too much sometimes!

The list of native CA trees that are now at risk is long and growing fast -- most oaks, whitebark pines, giant sequoias, sugar pines, Joshua trees, limber pines, pinyon pines, Oregon ash, coast redwoods, desert mesquite, sycamores... 🌎

NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going. Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations. Plus almost all of social media. The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.

A classic 80s ballad for your Tuesday, from the years when massive Western artists were collaborating with amazing African artists and introducing their sounds to the Western mainstream In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel (1986) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N6G... #adamwelzsmusicthread

Great reporting; astounding corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

“To say that I care about your security & actually do the very thing that’s actually threatening our security, it does not make sense. We cannot be that stupid,” – Anote Tong, fmr president of Kiribati. Pacific leaders see through the rhetoric & are furious about Australia's fossil fuel expansion.

A classic 80s ballad for your Tuesday, from the years when massive Western artists were collaborating with amazing African artists and introducing their sounds to the Western mainstream In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel (1986) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N6G... #adamwelzsmusicthread

It's Signal. It's worth using. Good interview with @Mer__edith https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-09-14/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-in-technology-its-way-too-easy-for-marketing-to-replace-substance-thats-whats-happened-with-telegram.html h/t #signal

Disappointingly biased reporting by Amelia Bernasconi and Ben Clifford from ABC News. INS is not a “weed” and it is not a “biodiversity problem“. In fact, if you read the report, experts showed how much this native regrowth SUPPORTS biodiversity. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Even if the Senate doesn't go along with the House proposal, this is... very bad. Another world-class scientific organization needlessly thrown in the woodchipper to benefit no-one but an anti-government ideology.

Fusion vibes from eastern & western South Africa Jeremy Loops - This Town ft. Ladysmith Black Mambazo (2021) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdOt...

The numbers in this article about #climate breakdown and the U.S. home #insurance market are staggering e360.yale.edu/features/cli...

Anyone proposing that an official be allowed to revoke the passport of a citizen for criticizing *this* country would be rightly regarded as batshit insane and deeply hostile to this country's laws and traditions. Proposing that they can do that if we criticize some *other* country? Fuck. That.

beginnings of a recognition of the scale of the catastrophe they've created for their own core policy of reshoring industrial factories. still deputy secy of state mcrandoson probably wont cut it.

I was looking for rare flowers in Table Mountain National Park (Cape Town) this morn when I heard a puffing hiss a few ft away. This large 80cm/30in Puffadder was displeased with my presence! Would have struck if I’d got closer but when it realized I was no danger it took off. Amazing beast! #snake

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

I was looking for rare flowers in Table Mountain National Park (Cape Town) this morn when I heard a puffing hiss a few ft away. This large 80cm/30in Puffadder was displeased with my presence! Would have struck if I’d got closer but when it realized I was no danger it took off. Amazing beast! #snake

All the VSPs out there abasing themselves to lionize Kirk and, hilariously, the toxic narcissist at the top can't even pretend to give a shit.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS