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Tell me again how schools are biased against boys? "Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled" apnews.com/article/scho...

Snagged this excellent enhydro quartz from Erongo, Namibia. Huge mobile bubble with a second, smaller one pointed to by the arrow. 😍

Green Card holder, living in the U.S. since she was 11, put in ICE detention for 5 months because she bounced a check decades ago.

Other things found to cause radar interference include the judiciary, Black people, impossible burgers, NPR, immigrants, people who are rude to me in restaurants, being banned from seeing my grandchildren, Black people again, free and fair elections, and people who refuse to follow me on Twitter.

Today's my birthday so I'm posting my favorite bird, the Tufted Titmouse. (Even if it wasn't my birthday I probably would've posted a Tuftie...they are so cute!)

One funny thing about weird hair color is that it drives predators away for at least two years after you grow it out

A female Barred Antshrike looking for delicious bugs at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature

Every Single Sound…🌺 #BeachLife

Ephemeral blue (2025). Wild Blue Flax flowers open in the morning and each one lasts only a day #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography

The always spectacular Snowcap #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature #hummingbirds

Holy crap, what a shot, @kevinosx.bsky.social !

Long shadows at solar noon on the #Solstice. It’s as tall as I’ll get all year. Tomorrow there will be 4 seconds more daylight than today! 🌞 (1/2)

A GORGEOUS NEW JWST IMAGE OF WESTERLUND 2 DROPPED AND EVERYONE SHOULD SEE IT!!! 🌌✨

Stoplight parrotfish hammin AND cheesin for the Camera 😁🤪😝🤩 #stoplightparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #hamminandcheesin #goofball #cheesin #smile #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Today I visited the Takeshima Aquarium in Gamagori, which specializes in deep sea animals. I saw giant isopods, spider crabs, deep sea octopus and all kinds of fascinating #invertebrates.

This is exactly the sort of energy I want to see in life.

Finally got some photos of Australia’s “blue ant”, Diamma bicolor, which is not an ant at all but a shockingly large metallic blue thynnid wasp, wingless and solitary, that hunts mole crickets. Been meaning to shoot this thing for years.

Great Egret showing off that neck! #birds 🌿

When it comes to the national security implications of windmills, the military has of course a long history of rational suspicion and justified aggression.

Starting the day off with a little yoga #MallardMonday #birds 🌿

"Don't make me apologize!" is code for "I know I'm not a good person, but I don't want to feel guilty about it, so I'm going to imagine that you're trying to make me feel bad and direct all my self-hatred back out at you."

Shower thought: way more food is "mostly just grain + cheese + tomato" than you would think lasagna spaghetti (marina + parmesan etc) enchiladas grilled cheese & tomato soup nachos if there's salsa I gotta be missing some

Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes!! 🥰 Today was pretty quiet bird-wise on the (very icy) trails, but there was beautiful light and I did get some nice looks at a Pileated Woodpecker. I'm still editing those photos; here's a photo I took of a female Pileated Woodpecker earlier this year.

why would I do this to him, my only son

Radio engineer, amateur astronomer, and Chicagoan Grote Reber was born #OTD in 1911. After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡 Image: NRAO

Things Found Under Palmetto Fronds Today: Otiocerus stollii (derbid planthopper) Apache degeeri (derbid planthopper) Sisyra sp (tiny lacewing) Little An't Man (Synemosyna formica jumping spider)

American food safety could be headed for a breakdown. Story by @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...

If you told me this was part of the M3GAN movie I would 10000% believe you.

westerlund 2 - hubble vs webb:

It’s hard for me to pick my favorite Xmas movie bc there are so many sub-categories: nostalgia, comedy, action…but tonight’s is at the top of most lists, including non-xmas.

Day 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar: "Sitting Pretty" This Grizzly Bear cub took a break to sit and check me out as I was taking her photograph. #wildlife

I keep finding myself with evening plans in the darkest coldest week of the year and cursing my daylight self for committing me to leaving the house after dark.

it appears your manuscript "in preparation" was not published in 2025 after all, mr. bond

Happy Wreath of Khan season to all who celebrate

Over the weekend my best friend (who is a huge transit nerd) learned about the word "Bustituted", which is when a trolley line is replaced with a bus. I can't stop thinking about it. Good word, transit nerds.

This is very much a bullshit excuse: big newsrooms follow each others' stories *all the time.* Just last week we watched Vanity Fair publish an interview, followed by every big newsroom in the country running a "Vanity Fair published an interview" story

Sleep is overrated anyway right? It’s 2:32am and I’m awake, why do people’s minds work overtime when they should be sleeping? Why? Anyway, here’s an old photo taken at Llyn Padarn in Wales. This is The Lone Tree.

Let’s #FallBack 6 months and remember the warmth and light of June Somehow I can not remember at all where this is. It’s from 2019 which feels like a thousand years ago. Usually I remember all my trips and locations but this one is a mystery! 🌿

These pâtes de fruits were fun to make. You usually cut them into squares, but I have my grandma’s old card suit cutters, and thought this would be a good application for them. Flavours are orange and pomegranate.

You guys, look what @joeymaier.bsky.social and @carylanneejmaier.bsky.social got me!

Solidarity with Jess and Eugene; I've had the experience they're describing. But I continue to be a pollyanna about this. I think it's easy to have substantive AI discourse here -- sharing papers, etc, I never get harassed. But if you do meta-discourse, yes, you've got to set followers-only.

This would be a good solution. An automatic circuit breaker. If you're getting more than N negative-sentiment replies or QTs, it either sends a notification to you or proactively disables QTs / limits replies. N needs to be adjustable, I think, because it depends on acct size and skin thickness.

My in-laws both have smartphones. But FIL won't use them for driving directions, relying instead on his 20-year-old Garmin, which can't find anything built in the last 10. So now they're stuck in a church parking lot, and MIL is calling me *from her iphone* to help them find a store <1 mile away.

Nice. flightaware.com/live/flight/...

Remembering fondly the days when The Free Press under Bari Weiss would nobly refrain from running a story smearing a professor for overwokeness when that professor refused comment.

Good morning from the Squirrel of the Day for December 22, 2025 #sqrlpix

Just had some visitors up the driveway. These are two of three coyotes that came by a few minutes ago. The the second photo is one that almost came right up the driveway, but saw me in the window and turned around. Always a treat to see them. #mammals 🌿

A moment with our neighbourhood deer. They are unfortunately, a little bit too used to people thanks to some of my neighbors. #mammals 🌿

Nextdoor finally worked. I came home to the scene below (without food, which I added) -- a distressed lost kitty. Signed up immediately on Nextdoor and found a post from the owner looking for their cat, and got them reunited within ten minutes.

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Time for another Forbidden Course at the University of Austin. Or perhaps an open letter. Or maybe some adjunct at a branch campus needs to be pilloried for giving a bad grade. In any case, Free Speech must be defended.

Nature's artwork Lines...

Black-crested Coquette staying busy at @tapirworf.bsky.social #CostaRica #hummingbirds #birds #nature

My Favorite Photos August 2025 #Vienna #Belvedere #Austria #Sofia #Bulgaria #Timisoara #Romania #Greece #Halkidiki

An early morning encounter with simple grace...

I have a lot of great egrets. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #ArtAdventCalendar

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Grounded (birds on the ground) we have a beautiful Chipping Sparrow in the grass with the day's dying sunlight warming the ground behind it. I love that he's going a little grey around the temples. :) #birds #photography

“Good night, and get fucked.”

If you are visiting relatives for the holidays, turn on parental controls / password protection on their cable box and router, then block CBS. If they’ve found a way to turn FOX and Facebook back on since your last visit, go ahead and block those again.

Dusk spills ink on the edge of the sea. A lighthouse keeps watch like an old sentry. Tide pools whisper what daylight knew. While purple and gold trade places with blue. Rocks wear moss like emerald crowns. And silence settles as the sun steps down.

Lupinus plattensis, our Nebraska Lupine, blooming at Lathrop State Park #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 22 🌿

Mindscape Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University. After a tough year for higher education, I give a pitch for the most idealistic, aspirational conception of the value of a liberal-arts education. #MindscapePodcast Happy Holidays all! www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Looking at you looking at him...

Good Monday morning Wishing you a day of subtle vision and gentle messages...

House Sparrow Posing like a champion...

Steelers victory squirrel! *

Planning out 2026 over here at ol' Skype a Scientist HQ. This year, our merch worked pretty well for keeping our program not only running but allowing us to fund projects we'll be rolling out in early 2026. Is there anything you hope we'll have in the shop in 2026?

Everything's bigger in NYC

Clouds waves at sunset...

Making ornaments with the kids, so I present to you the Fishmas… “Doughfin” #25DaysOfFishmas

Whenever I start to think Bluesky is bad, I remember that brigading on old Twitter got way more personal, with a junior-high-school “let’s ruin her life” vibe that I rarely encounter here. Medievalists basically had to preface every post with “I, for one, welcome our public struggle sessions.”

Absolutely stunning!

Nature's still life Orange and brown...

The light was better when I was photographing from ground level. At this time of the year the sun goes behind the town and hills to the south-west so you don't get to see the whole stack in golden hour light. Bow Fiddle Rock #Scotland #CanonR5ii

Because red...

Opening in the fog… From a beautiful morning in the Écrins National Park, French Alps. #photography #nature #art #landscape #mountains

Bullfrog of the day! Monday, 22 Dec 2025

AI can help explain complex topics easily by throwing together a simulation. A newer paper argues that this pattern is actually due to collider bias (the authors disagree). What is collider bias? Gemini one-shots an explanation from the paper and a prompt: gemini.google.com/share/d8c336...

It’s almost New Years Resolution Time! Here’s mine: 1) Every month, I will purchase at least one piece of original artwork. If I don’t find anything I like/can afford, I’ll donate to an artist on Patreon. What are yours?

The Eurasian Griffon has long been culturally significant, having been used in ancient flutes and mummified by Egyptians. Though the species has faced great declines, conservation efforts have significantly advanced recovery. More on this majestic bird here! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...

My kid just paused a movie to ask this important question: "why do they call it boob sweat when they could have called it humidititties?"

The aerodynamic shape of an American Crow in the clear blue sky. Back Bay, #NewBrunswick, Canada December 2024 📸 #birds #AMCR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

Dark-eyed Junco Watching the world go round and round...

I would judge this a win by Gemini and a close second from Claude. ChatGPT-5.2 missed the reference (though, to be fair, it did write a surprising amount of successful code to actually enhance the image) and Grok wasn't in the ballpark.

Until we get this, I hope everyone knows that you can *retroactively* limit replies and QTs on a post. Go to the three dots and “edit interaction settings.” I often do that if a post is taking off, even in positive ways; you have no moral obligation to let yourself become discourse.

A lot of people quote-posting this are condescending to Ian while simultaneously revealing that they don’t understand the publication pace in scientific disciplines. In many fields, you must do triage. You physically could not read everything if you did nothing else 8 hrs/day, 5 days/week.

It is raining, but still nice to work in the yard. #SucculentSunday #Succulents

Drone view of Bow Fiddle Rock. #Scotland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro

#ArtAdventCalendar Neural Connections, Ink on Yupo, 2023

Another lovely evening on X. Please report.

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon

The hepatitis B vaccine is amazing. It was the first viral protein subunit vaccine, the first recombinant vaccine, AND the first vaccine to prevent a type of cancer. That's right: we've had a cancer vaccine for over 40 years. Our new three-hour episode of Hard Drugs is all about it:

Possible problem with the H3 launch, looks like the second burn of stage 2 may have shut down early. Waiting for confirmation one way or the other

I let my nature geek flag fly at this time of year. I always do a centerpiece with things I have collected on my hikes. Pinecones, acorns, juniper berries, toyon berries, desert mistletoe, seed pods & whatever. I will add a few sprigs from our Noble fir 🌲 Christmas tree. Cost: $0 🌿

The Hudsonian Whimbrel travels a long way from its breeding grounds in the Arctic to the coastal areas of its nonbreeding range. Some individuals have been recorded to fly around 8,000 km nonstop! Follow us and read more about the amazing journey : birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...

But what if the summary could be random nonsense without warning

Disillusioned with the illusion...

Fox Squirrel If you have an itch, it's probably best to scratch it...