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Each stick has to be placed just right in the nest. There isn't much known about the breeding of the Agami Heron, but that's going to be much easier now with this amazing new rookery discovered in northern Costa Rica. We've watched the birds collecting material and working on their nests. #birds

Here's your Friday morning dose of fox kit cuteness. Could see this attack coming from a mile away! #wildlife #fox

Everything is a lot these days and I know I’m very lucky to live in a place in a situation that is relatively calm right now. So how about you come kayak along Lake Winnipeg with me? Hopefully it brings a little peace to your day. 1/ 🌿

This is terrifying, so please read this as cope: The Wilshire Federal Building is 15 *miles* from the protests in downtown Los Angeles. It is a half-hour drive. You could fit an entire Manhattan, the long way, between them.

Cedar Waxwings in the midst of their courtship ritual. A berry is passed back and forth, with one bird hopping away with the berry, and then hopping back to pass the berry back. This continued until the Cedar Waxwing on the right ate the berry.

Not an Agami for a change. This Green Hermit was taking a break in the forest this morning at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #hummingbirds #birds #nature

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My sis just shared this pic of her new kitten and very, very old shih-tzu snuggling, and y'all probably need this today

I believe this is the male Agami, and he decided to put on his fancy gown to relax at the nest site. Agami Heron #CostaRica #birds #herons #nature

Dramatic light over sharp mountains… Les Écrins National park, French alps. #photography #nature #landscape

Hobby approaching having discarded the wings of a Dragonfly it had just eaten in the air! 😁😍🐦 #Birds 🪶

With anti-Trump protests ramping up, I’ve seen some misinformation being spread even by people with good intentions. So here’s a quick correction on what the science says about dealing with tear gas 🧪 skepchick.org/2025/06/how-...

🐙🌿🐍🐛 Nope, it's not a snake - it's the caterpillar of a sphinx moth (Hemeroplanes sp.)., found by our guides in Corcovado Natl. Park., Costa Rica. Normally the caterpillars blend with the vegetation, but if disturbed they twist their head upside down to reveal a "snake," and even wave around to--

I see a lot of people talking about how "we just need to explain science more to the public". The state Space Grant programs (one issued in each state) does incredible deep and wide outreach work - supporting education at every age and stage, nurturing science interest.

"You idiots, you've captured their stunt doubles!" is one of my favorite jokes in Spaceballs and maybe one of my favorite of all time.

The MPD targeted journalists and sources speaking to journalists in Minneapolis. We saw it. That military and police continue to do it elsewhere is no surprise.

Now I've had a chance to read Andrea Sella's article in @chemistryworld.com on why he returned his Royal Society Faraday Medal. I recommend that you read it too. It's inspiring, though inevitably also disturbing, in these troubled times. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-...

Tree Swallows Heating up the argument...

Spending a few days with intramural researcher at NIH has me thinking about the old Bell Labs, the storied research institute where major breakthroughs in physics, chemistry and mat sci (and associated @nobelprize.bsky.social awards) were made in the 70s-80s 1/n

There's a local satirical newspaper here called the Philadelphia Jabroni. I have just learned that you can sponsor an article to get some messaging in there... Is this what I think it is?? Is this an environmental education opportunity??? 😈

Hercules Skimmer (Libellula herculea) above my pond this afternoon here at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #dragonflies #bugsky #nature

"But take a step back now. We are having conversations about whether the military will save us from the actions of a dictator, for God’s sake. Just like the conversations we are having about whether the courts will save us, this is a sign that our constitutional order has broken down."

Bronze jumping spider parts fresh from casting. Much cleaning up to do among all those little setae (hair/petal bits) but this redesign already is making me very happy 😁🛠️ #sciart #invertebrate

Wholesome shit amid the fucking horror alert! My neighbor Kate just texted me "thanks for the seeds!" with this picture 😭 She and her next door neighbor tag team watering them. People are mostly good, even if the evil minority is fucking shit up for the rest of us. We can't forget that.

I’m cigarette snake and I approve this message

Artist Ralph McQuarrie was born #OTD in 1929. He is probably best known as the primary concept artist for the Star Wars movies, but he also did work for Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and E.T., and he won an Academy Award for his work on Cocoon. Image: Ralph McQuarrie

In all six tests of self-driving mode, the car "blew through school bus stop signs at full speed, running over the manikins and driving off — completing a hit-and-run."

Great timing! Relevant to my video today, this zine gives the correct science-based advice on staying safe while protesting ✊

👀This is impressive: Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work. The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.

Russian intelligence services were paying Benny Johnson $400,000 per month prior to the election. I feel like this is worth mentioning every time he or his dumb show pop up. It’s bald propaganda.

Sorry if you’ve been expecting some grand, eloquent statement from me about what’s going on in the world because I have some internet followers. But for the record, fuck fascisim & genocide!

A female Baltimore Oriole bopping around an Aspen while looking for tasty things to eat.

If you’ve got Instagram definitely hop on over there to see @michaelfogleman.com absolutely phenomenal series of photos of Chuck-will’s-widows. www.instagram.com/p/DKyLfdHxje...

Leggy Green Jello Monster, guarding her eggs 💚 #InvertebrateParenthood (Lyssomanes viridis, magnolia green jumping spider)

The gal working behind the counter at the package center across the street said my poster was “so good”, a compliment I will live off the fumes of for weeks.

Is it a frisbee? No, but catch this Hubble and #NASAWebb comparison of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. Hubble shows the galaxy’s glowing core, threads of dust, and groups of stars. Webb reveals the spiral arms’ structures and dust particles. 🔭 🧪

real men cried over opportunity

Please read the post here, for once I have a bit of faith in humanity restored 🧪

scientists in america reading the news every single day

The weekend starts here! This was taken in July 2020 at the absolutely incredible Stuðlagil (basalt canyon) in east #Iceland. Long exposure made the nasty frothy bits look pretty!

The @unitednations Ocean Conference wraps today! Huge thanks to local artists Jennifer Miller & Otom for bringing our ocean vision to life. Stay tuned Monday for UNOC updates & the big reveal of these stunning @pangeaseed collabs! 🎨💙

In 2019 I made a big Twitter thread defending one of my study species (Brown-headed Cowbirds) that ultimately spawned a seminar series. I just recorded an updated version, so if you need an interesting politics-free distraction, check it out! #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l4p...

Stickle Tarn

Fun fact I learned recently: The state stocks some of the lakes in Minneapolis with fish. They put 1 largemouth bass in Powderhorn in April. This cracks me up and feels like the start of a game of hide and seek. Will YOU be the one to find him?

when we talked to attorney @clayjak.substack.com on our podcast, he warned that the practice of federal enforcement agents entering areas and attacking people without any identification would inspire and enable this exact thing www.liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswe...

Just a reminder that a huge fraction of the US population is in the nominal "border enforcement zone" including meany of our cities. This has been for a long time, and is frankly ridiculous and all about power grabs.

Behold, my first ever acrylic painting. #TradArt

Red Dragonfly Hovering...

A Tenebrionid beetle, Araeoschizus sp., poss. A. duplicatus. They're tiny (smaller than a rice grain) and can be found trying to sneak into harvester ant nests at dusk, when the ants are closing their entrances for the night. Their texture reminds me of Cephalotes turtle ants! (Montana) 🐙🌿 #insects

Just booked flights for Japan in October for the squid conference and general fun with @wowthanks.bsky.social which means it’s officially official that I need to get better at this damn Japanese language. Come on Sarah. Focus!!!

Another beautiful evening on my kayak yesterday. The days are so long that I wasn't off the water until almost 10 pm

The uptick in women earning bachelors degrees in most STEM fields between 2010 and 2020 is encouraging, but the fact that physics, engineering and computer science are still so low is not. Sigh. 👩‍🔬 🧪 ⚛️

Made myself a new sticker for the laptop.

Fascism moves really quickly, even in places people don't think it's possible.

Another war in the Middle East, soldiers trying to "liberate" a Democratic California, and the President hosting a military parade for his birthday. I still can't believe so many Americans voted for this dumpster fire.

I need to go make coffee but... This is a PSA for all people in charge of databases with human info. If you give me an option to put in a "Preferred Name" for myself or a family member. & then you keep the database listing under a deadname. & you use that deadname in correspondence NO. BAD.

The Astronomy feeds stopped showing new posts for a little while, one of our servers had a hiccup ☹️ 🔭 It should be catching up on posts again now though and should be through the last 24 hours in an hour or two =)

“Willful medical disinformation.” Experts call out the claims Kennedy is making to Congress to justify his new covid vaccine policy. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Sean Connery bought me my first drink.

You’ve never seen #NASAWebb like this! Experience every close-call, technological feat, and scientific marvel of the Webb telescope's journey, through the eyes of the people who made it happen. NASA's new documentary, Cosmic Dawn, is streaming now. 🔭 🧪

Saw a Hamataliwa helia egg case sitting unattended, which isn't normal, and looked around the shrub until I found the mum, who seemed to have lost her dragline to her egg sac and was running frantically up and down a lower branch trying to find it. Reunited her with it. 🤎 #InvertebrateParenthood

Check out this cute little guy visiting the neighborhood today. Maybe a 1 or 2 years old? He didn't stop by our house for a swim but he is visibly wet, so he was swimming nearby.

Helonicus Ismenius butterfly At rest...

reality of the information ecosystem in 2025

No one. Absolutely no one. mirya busts through a wall Kool-Aid style "hey does everybody want me to answer questions about my new book??"

Comet NEOWISE from 2020. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The AI Con book tour is headed abroad! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I aren't traveling together but check out thecon.ai/events for our upcoming events, starting with Edinburgh (Alex), Sydney (Emily) and Melbourne (Emily)

Webb imaged two giant exoplanets orbiting young star YSES-1, 310 light-years away. One has a dusty disk, the other silicate clouds, revealing different stages of development. This rare discovery challenges current models of how planets form. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Nature, Reuters

I have scheduled too many events during the season when it's hard to get people to come out to events. Add on to that the reality that everyone is scared and burnt out and is already doing too much!!! I will organize events anyway!!! We need them!!!

Child on the hunt in the rain 🥹 (owlfly baby, newly-hatched and ready to eat)

It's Friday night. I've done enough this week. You've done enough this week.

Green Cathedral

Stay safe tomorrow, everyone, and raise hell!

I’ve been getting delusional emails from ChatGPT users as well, where ChatGPT tells people to email me about serious ethical issues they’ve uniquely discovered. Have other people with Wikipedia/news articles about them had this happen?

The cuts to NSF, NASA and the NIH come just as interest in STEM fields is booming. This administration is literally crushing the dreams of young people in the USA. Not to mention the impact on the STEM workforce. 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢

But of course, this will turn into a mothers' problem. Rather than regulating the vehicles, we'll end up blaming moms if their kids get hit. Since, obviously, those kids shouldn't have been crossing the street alone. 🙄

By surveying workers and AI experts, this paper gets at a key issue: there is both overlap and large mismatches between what workers want AI to do & what AI is likely to do. AI is going to change work. It is critical that we take an active role in shaping how it plays out. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06576

Going to the Seattle protest tomorrow? Stop by the street fair on your way there or back. Beacon Hill has a huge immigrant community, so come support local artists. Vendors here are hyper local, we have to live in South Seattle to participate! It's right outside the Beacon Hill station.

Pelican pals. 🪶

Great Blue Heron. #Birds #photography #nature #GreatBlueHeron #Herons #ArdeaHerodias

I'm travelling and have the @hausderastronomie.bsky.social Seestar S30 with me. A really bad time for observations (nights that are soooo short!), but I managed to get a nice North America nebula NGC 7000. You can clearly see the Gulf of Mexico! Will try to enlarge the image tonight. 🧪🔭 1/

#BlueSkyArtShow #Joy

Love this. "Elders, aunties, uncles, cousins, & friends intertwine in a network of mutual support, each Yupiaq uplifted by the presence & wisdom of their loved ones. No Yupiaq stands alone; we draw strength fm each other, learning & leaning as the atsalugpiat reach into each other under the tundra."

There's a lot of news to track. But it's also important to keep up with the ongoing shock waves in American science and medicine--from the hollowing out of public health to the denial of climate change. I take a look at where we are in my email newsletter today buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...

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🔊Calling #Edinburgh! One of the world's largest telescopes twinned with the world's biggest camera is about to embark on a 10yr mission to survey the Universe! Join us in Dynamic Earth's Planetarium as we unveil the 1st Rubin images🥳🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🗓️: 23rd Jun@15:30-17:00 £5🎟️ dynamicearth.org.uk/event/rubin-...

Crimson threads across the skies. Morning opens its sleepy eyes. Lighthouse standing, proud and bright. Watches over the fading night. Waves reflect the fire above. A quiet world of light and love.

Wow. This is really interesting. I knew there was stuff happening, but hadn't realized the scale.

this is the most dangerous shit I have ever seen sold as a product that wasn’t an AR-15

A clumpy galaxy, possibly merging, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GOODS-N-FULLDEPTH survey. It is at redshift 1.43 (lookback time 9.35 billion years) with coordinates (189.05173, 62.24409). 40 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Fresh microbes in watercolor. Infectiously appealing #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4320...

Even wasps wash their ass (Wash your ass)

It's morbidly funny watching the MAGA idiots rediscover why various federal organizations existed in the first place.

Proud Canada Goose parent swimming across the pond with its new family. Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada May 2025 📷 #birds #goose #CANG #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

Good morning or good evening Wishing an evening with peaceful glows...

Not just a cuck chair but a whole cuck bed 🤣

Lawrence’s goldfinch, primarily a CA bird, feeding a fledgling. 🪶

Nope still crayfish would be a pretty solid band name

*tiptoes in* um...how many wars are we in this morning

Ok Philly people. Where do you find out about events? Both online and IRL. Summer is hard to get people to come out to events and I need to do a better job of getting the word out. HELP.