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Sunset Beech

this is one of those space images that’s “so beautiful it looks like a painting” 🌌

The sheer intensity of loser gamma rays emanating from this picture, my God. The deer eating the rhododendron in my back garden just staggered and fell over dead.

Rare O-type star powers NGC 6164, a 4-light-year-wide nebula with striking bipolar symmetry. Just 3–4 million years old, the star will end in a supernova. A faint halo hints at its active past. Also called the Dragon’s Egg, it lies 4,200 light-years away in Norma. Credit : Daniel Stern

A gentleman

#BentbilloftheDay The best Costa Rican bird by far, the splendid Northern Bentbill. The female here was busy working on her nest outside my bedroom window last year. I'm hoping she does so again this year. #birds #nature @casabentbill.bsky.social

Last bluebell image for this year? Probably not... This week's entry for #sharemondays2025 with the best light I've had over the past couple of weeks. #Bluebells #LocalPhotography

Made a friend. They jumped on me, I had no say in the matter.

a STUNNING composite 3d model of the cygnus loop supernova remnant using x-ray and optical data!!! 🌌

Crazy light this evening straight after landing in Rome… Was planning to catch up long overdue sleep before starting our next workshop, but had to go out to shoot when I saw how promising was the sky… #surprisesunset #sunset #colors #italy

Hell yeah. Good lizard. Not “supposed to” live here, but…still a cool fucking lizard 😅

A detailed view of the glorious Northern Bentbill at @casabentbill.bsky.social #costarica #birds #nature

In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Absolutely lost in the sauce. #photography

When you sign up for Bluesky, you’re shown a comic that explains how Bluesky is different and what it has to offer. That comic features a shark, because (at least partly) of me. @davis.social drew it, and today he’s on a shark research cruise with me! I had him sign my print of the comic.

Eastern US let's fucking goooooo We've got hundreds of millions of precious migrants pouring overhead tonight and in the next few weeks. Get those overnight lights off, cats inside, and windows treated (to prevent collisions) to keep my bird friends alive. Get ready for spectacular birding!

Shoreline Samba…🌺

A Great Blue Heron launching from the metal bridge railing

I believe this is a Cholus viduatus that I saw at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #bugsky #invertefest #nature

An excited Streak-headed Woodcreeper at @casabentbill.bsky.social #costarica #birds #nature

Sometimes you look at the ground and sometimes the ground looks at you 🌿 (thirteen-lined ground squirrel)

A male Wood Duck stopping by a stand of cattails. A Sandhill Crane's nest was nearby, but the Crane sitting on the nest did not seem to mind the Wood Duck waddling through.

Taking gator selfies without harassing any wildlife with @vicky.science

The internet is incredible got a guy fussin in my Instagram replies about how "but I'm not one of those farmers with multigenerational wealth who gets bailouts!!" Here's his family's entry on the EWG farm subsidy database. Over $1.5M taxpayer dollars received. farm.ewg.org/persondetail...

If you're curious, here are some samples from my upcoming birding dictionary www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

#105 #Maldives #visitMaldives #sea #boat #dhoani #fishing #island #photography #travel #LumixS9 #LUMIX #LUMIXJAPAN #bluesky

God, I love academia so much, I love the ideals of higher ed so much, and I fight so hard for its principles. It's so annoying that it will never love you back - and will even punish you for daring to show how much you care about something.

“Events dear boy, Events” — Harold Macmillan.

Pictures from my Patio Grape Hyacinths...

It's true. You should watch North of North

TOADPOLE UPDATE! There are thousands of the teeniest little tadpoles I've every seen in one section of the shallows! (American Toads) #herps 🌿

This We can have nice things, as long as we know the difference between nice things & window dressing

The US minimum wage sends the message to employers that trapping vulnerable people in poverty is perfectly okay.

Tree Swallow Posing because I can...

If you want to create completely free software for other people to use, the absolute best delivery mechanism right now is static HTML and JavaScript served from a free web host with an established reputation. Here's why think that in more detail: simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/28/...

Mars and the Beehive Cluster through clouds. 28 April 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

In ancient times, when sailors sought what lay past the edge of a boundless sea, They chanted a mantra to the gods, finding inner strength, continuing on, with the stars above backlighting a moonbeam pointing the way..... ✍️ @mdanielsmith.bsky.social

This Allen’s hummingbird in the fog gave me a quick “flash” of his gorget when I walked by. 🪶

Mars and the Beehive from last night. 28 April 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Skyscapes...

the universe really is a work of art isn’t it

Sunset on Mars captured by NASA’s InSight lander.

It’s rough stuff when your exes post this kind of thing publicly.

I’m an expat and voted absentee. Feeling so nervous

Meet Idonas! He’s a volunteer guide at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. With a big smile and a steady flow of fun ocean facts, Idonas is always ready to connect our visitors with the wonders of the ocean. www.youtube.com/shorts/aYgex...

LETS GOOOOO Also:

RFK, Jr. thinks autistic people are a tragedy bc some will never pay taxes. If that’s his biggest issue, maybe he should create a registry of freeloading billionaires, instead. skepchick.org/2025/04/rfks...

Bad girl Xylocopa (carpenter bee) busy stealing nectar by piercing the base of lilac flowers #InverteFest

scrolled for several minutes and couldn't find a single reply pointing out that this is obviously fake

Love getting an in situ photoshoot with this extremely tiny Hedychridium species cuckoo wasp (sand grains for scale), as she pokes around in the sand for her host. Just a shiny nugget creature 💚 #InverteFest

Another of the many bugs having a party in the Golden Ragwort patch. Seriously, there were bugs zooming everywhere! This one is a hoverfly #InverteFest #invertebrates #Bugsky 🌿

Always on the lookout...

Green Sweat Bee!!! I had a terrible time finding bugs who would slow down enough to be identified for #InverteFest. And then I got to this patch of Golden Ragwort which was covered in pollinators!! #NativePlants #invertebrates 🌿

Male Cardinal Considerations...

Good Tuesday morning. Wishing you subtle shades and nuances to add meaning to your day...

Our volunteers are leading by example this Earth Month with reusable water bottles! Every small action, like ditching single-use plastic, makes a big difference for our ocean. Join us and make waves of change, one refill, one action, one person at a time. 🌱💙

I've just submitted my image from last week of "Mars and the Beehive" to Astronomy Now magazine. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Incidentally, this is why I worry about the dominant position of AI critics on this site that "AI doesn't work and is just a scam" It absolutely does work, in good ways (controlled studies on education, medicine) and in ways that create risks & problems. Pretending AI isn't real is a big mistake.

We now resume our regularly scheduled programming... Here's a young Grizzly Bear out for a walk on a fall day last year. #wildlife #bears

Hard to believe but another #FeederWatch season has come to an end. On the last day of reporting for this year, I got to report the first robin bath! Spa season is **ON** #birds

My dirty secret is that I've been working on a popular science book about stress physiology (in my spare time) ever since my stress systems tried to kill me. It's still a ways out but I'm guessing people are getting sick right now, so here's a TL;DR version: www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...

Singing Wood Warbler! 😍🎶 A little bird that I'd only ever seen on 2 previous occasions, and never had a decent shot of. 😀 Taken at the weekend on the Quantock Hills in Somerset. 😊🐦 #Birds 🪶

I couldn’t handle the stress of checking the election every five minutes, so I went for a drive. The wind was awful, but worth braving to take this calming shot of the old ferry dock between the mainland and Hecla Island.

It is 2025, and @elsevierconnect.bsky.social is still happily publishing AI-generated crap and asking money for this. Come on, Elsevier, where is your commitment to publishing quality articles and book chapters? pubpeer.com/publications...

Also sending good thoughts for my Canadian friends! 🇨🇦

Life is too stressful. I’m putting the fancy butter on my dinner baked potato tonight 💅

ChatGPT's recent update caused the model to be unbearably sycophantic - this has now been fixed through an update to the system prompt, and as far as I can tell this is what they changed simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/...

It's heartbreaking how easily this was taken away from so much of the world, and how doable it is to return it

Come for the clear description of what's behind the chatbot interface, stay for the :chef's kiss: footnotes. (Always read the footnotes!) scatter.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/i...

I have a new online art class starting next week. Come and join me as we learn to draw bees! 🐝 🌿 🎨 #Invertefest www.eventbrite.com/e/drawing-be...

Pull apart a bronze trilobite (Cryptolithus bellulus) and put it back together. #TrilobiteTuesday #InverteFest (sound on for satisfying clicks)

Willet scoring a sand crab at sunset. 🪶🌿

Head over heels in love with our overnight dolphin and manatees overhead 😍〰️🐬〰️🐮〰️🌝 #dolphin #manatee #dolphinsofcoralcity #manateesofcoralcity #overnight #overhead #headoverheels #coralcityafterdark #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity

why do I even try to photograph Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, man

Thanks to today’s guests, including @davis.social ! We caught a six foot tiger shark today

I verified myself. I am a big deal. Please buy my art 😎✅

Just a week and a half left to preorder THE BIRDING DICTIONARY, my funny birding book, and get an adorable pin! Preorder here www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem... and fill out this form www.hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page... (US residents only). Thank you. Preorders help authors so much.

👀Today’s AIs are already hyper persuasive. A controversial study where LLMs tried to persuade users on Reddit found that: “Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.”

So it looks like the Patriots team plane was... chartered to Guantanamo.... 👀 I actually can not. Did they deport folks on the Patriots Team Plane???

that’s your boy Elon Musk FRS @royalsociety.org

Finally, we have power again! Imagine nothing working in town, except old fashioned radios. No shops open, no cash machines, no buses, no traffic lights (we don't have them in our town) & no mobile phone network. You can't find out what is going on. A state of emergency has been declared in Spain.

Golden whispers kiss the shore, Peace walks where tides explore. Lighthouse glows, a steadfast flame, Night retreats with no one to blame. Clouds drift low in gentle grace, Dawn unveils time’s soft embrace. Silent rocks and mirrored skies, A new day wakes and never cries.

Keep taking deep breaths and hoping for the best. I’m running out of daylight and need to go home.

#EmotionalSupportSpood #InverteFest He's just a happy little an't, peering intensely at things and waving 🥹 (Adult male Sarinda hentzi)

The beauty of twilight, night touched by day, light fading into dark, a world barely visible, glowing, a world we never imagined..... #photography #landscapephotography #landscape #travel #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #outdoors #sunset #sunrise #adventure

Golden whispers kiss the sky. Mountains hush as stars draw nigh. Valleys green in twilight's grace. Shadowed dreams in soft embrace. Clouds like ships drift slow and wide. Peace walks gently, far and wide. A land where secrets safely lie. Beneath a flame-streaked evening sky.

Did you know a lot our medicine is based on Indigenous botanical knowledge? Johan and I wrote this, on the Mesoamerican Cosmo vision and the beautiful 16th c Nahua Cruz-Badianus Ms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A new Science study finds that different dendritic segments of a single neuron follow distinct rules. The results challenge the idea that neurons follow a single learning strategy and offer a new perspective on how the brain learns and adapts behavior. scim.ag/3YQdUZK #SciencePerspective

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I recently had a Star Wars related post go viral on Instagram- my most-liked post ever. I forgot how many Star Wars “fans” actually hate Star Wars and hate people who like it. It’s bizarre. Star Trek doesn’t do this.

i do tend to avoid calling bad people unamerican, because i think america produces all kinds of people including bad ones, but honestly trump really is anti-american, as in he hates and wants to hurt americans. and i feel it fits my general refrain: “he is not america, we are america”

"One would think that venture capitalists, especially those with ties to the Trump administration, would be the most forceful champions of America’s research universities, given how much these institutions have fueled our careers and fortunes." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

Here is the Sandhill nest I visited yesterday. It is an extremely small retention pond with a pair of tier 1 predators (Bald Eagles) active in the area. I’m really hoping they leave this gorgeous family alone! #Birds #photography #nature #SandhillCranes #AntigoneCanadensis

Mellow mood...

Absolutely amazing - crazy - what are the odds that this patch of sun coming in from my front window would land right where our cat is lying? So crazy.

Well really it’s more like a $40 million jet because everyone knows it’ll lose like a third of its value as soon as it rolls off the deck.

These sea turtles dance for joy when they magnetically sense it’s snack time. Learn more on #InternationalDanceDay: scim.ag/42VqsSz

Bear says good morning to Canada and Canada only