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Each owlet can have his own door to play on! (I don't believe the owls are here for my entertainment, but if I can amuse them, cool!)🪶

“Hey, look out over the water - that’s an interesting looking b—“ 😲 #birds #mammals 🌿

Buff-tailed Coronet #hummingbird @montezumalodge.bsky.social #colombia #birds #nature

Good morning from the burrowing owls!

Handsome horseshoe

The Toucan Barbet is such a great bird. Found in the Western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, I shot this at Doña Dora #Colombia #birds #nature

A male Indigo Bunting pauses before a moment before heading off to a tree top to sing.

Tourmaline Sunangel at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia #birds #hummingbirds #nature

🚨BEBE ALERT🚨 Do we have a second brood of bebe Steller's Jays? Yes. Yes we do! 💙

I hope RFK Jr is ready to perform the Last Rites for him (strapping his leaking carcass to the roof of his car and driving a minimum of 3 states before stuffing it in a chest freezer and forgetting about it)

Blue Tit wings! 😍 Taken last week in my Somerset garden. 😊🐦 #Birds 🪶

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! #birds #SandhillCranes

The creation of Earth itself. #photography

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ICYMI, Social Security’s chief data officer reported that DOGE staff took actions that “constitute violations of laws, rules, and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement, and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health & safety.” He was fired. Now this.

If you see this, quote post a spherical borb 🌿

Classic father daughter moment right here.

I got up early and took the kayak to a different part of the lake this morning. This is the Washow Bay drain, a little river that runs up into Lake Winnipeg. I thought it would be a fun change of scene. I was right why not join me on this 10 km morning paddle 1/

This walking parade float is a lady beetle nymph. The white fronds are wax and it's probable they help defend the nymph from predators like birds. Who wants a mouth full of wax? #InverteFest (Tribe Scymnini?) Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador

you can tell the US is fucked up as the most basic standard for accountability of law enforcement seems a radical move

Face of a guy who really wants to find all the ladies in the world at once and 2 antennae just aren't enough (he technically just has two antennae like normal god-fearing sawflies, they're just split at the base so it looks like he has four) #InverteFest

Staying at a friend’s place. Thinking I should get a pink duvet cover because it suits Indy so well

A boy bumblebee (male bees have longer antennae, with an extra segment). It may look like he's drinking from the flower, but if you zoom in you'll see he's actually using the claws on his front leg to groom the end of the tongue (glossa), which has tiny hairs for soaking up nectar. #InverteFest 🐙🌿

“‘She uncovered the social experience of women in science’ — the lab assistants who never became managers, the geologists poring over data in government offices while their male peers were doing fieldwork, those who despite their advanced degrees didn’t get hired or promoted, or who were sidelined…”

Silly Hemipteran decided to emerge on one of my tires, so I gently moved them. The intersection of Derp and Perfection 💚 #InverteFest

Live your life in such a way that the mere rumor of your passing doesn’t make people unable to sleep due to sheer anticipation

It’s Monarch migration time! How the heck can they fly for thousands of miles? It seems impossible. (Drinking from some Common Milkweed) #InverteFest #invertebrates #NativePlants 🌿

Happy international whale shark day! Whale sharks are absolutely unequivocally sharks, and are absolutely not whales. And they’re not half shark half whales. While I have you, they’re predators. Eating lots of tiny animals is still eating animals!

Probably time to start thinking about the next trip to #Iceland... From October 2021 trip, taken with the old #DJIAir2S drone, at Hvalnes.

Did we not learn nothing from the abject failure of online charter schools?

Florida scrub jays gathered around to yell at me for going off trail to peer at things yesterday lolol. Couple of them had been banded, which was also cool!

Good morning or good evening Wishing you days with extraordinary colors...

A couple of painted #turtles at Horicon Marsh. The one on the right looks like it's belly surfing on the log.

A Great Egret getting a running start to chase off other Great Egrets that landed in the pond. The pond is pretty small, and this bird decided it was big enough for only one bird.

What gets me about this is that it is the opposite of the truth. Democracy is a collaborative effort, and part of that effort is trusting the judgment of experts regarding their fields of study. It is a dictatorship where the experts’ opinions are subservient to the will of the dictator.

I tried my absolute hardest to track down the local nesting Mississippi kites this week and while I didn’t succeed, I found these cuties on my quest 🥹🌿🦊

My 8-year-old: [tries to search the hotel TV for K-Pop Demon Hunters] Me: It doesn't work that way. It's broadcast. You have to look at the guide. 8: This looks good! It's about sharks! Me: That's a vacuum ad. 8: Ugh. But look! Pirates! Me: Yeah, no, that's baseball. 8: This is impossible!

🎶I dreamed a dream my life would be So different from this hell I'm living So different now from what it seemed Now life has killed the dream I dreamed🎶

Pretty sure this catfish did not enjoy his flight this morning. 🪶

Shiny roof. #BlueSkyArtShow #Shiny #Bulgaria #NevskyCathedral #Photography #Travel

Mood.

Ok, timeline cleanse. Please post a photo from your summer that confers peace (Osprey) #birds 🌿 #SkySky

I've been tracking ads for learning aps for a couple of months now, and this claim that AI can help kids learn at super speed is one of the most prevalent and troubling claims. 1/

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. Gift link: nyti.ms/47PHvI8

The cutest little feather just fell on my leg! 🪶

#227 #Maldives #visitMaldives #art #leaf #plant #palm #garden #green #sunny #day #island #photography #travel #bluesky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #LumixS9 #LUMIX #LUMIXJAPAN

Full Moon is 1808UT 7 September 2025. My image of this month's. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Using a drone in #Iceland can be so amazing! There are lots of rules and restrictions, but it's worth it in the places it's allowed :) #DJIAir2S #DronePhotography April 2023

Had to work in central Florida yesterday, so I hopped over to Lake Placid afterwards and found a lovely Sosippus placidus (Lake Placid funnel web wolf) carrying an egg sac, in the safety of a cactus! Doing her part to keep the small endemic population going. 🤎 #InverteFest

Autumn Meadowhawk Dragonfly (I think) at Horicon Marsh. #dragonfly #inverts

After drinking 1.5 ciders and playing video games, it came to me: I shall call you Leviathan’s Wake! This is perfect. The Expanse is one of my favs, almost shit myself (not really) playing Subnautica & had to turn the monsters off, and it looks like a dragon. Nice.

Good morning! Squirrel of the Day for August 30, 2025 #sqrlpix

Awhile back Indy had a sitter who complimented me on how attentively he listened to her, saying “I can tell you talk to him a lot.” Which I do, but…are there people out there who don’t talk to their dog constantly? About everything? The news, the weather, the wide variety of poop consistency, etc?

Scolopendra viridis with all her babies! 🥹 #InvertebrateParenthood makes me happy. #InverteFest #LegsLegsLegs

Male American kestrel “poofed” on a palm. 🪶🌿

Driver who hit mother, kids in Twin Cities intersection and fled is police chaplain www.startribune.com/state-patrol...

Because green...

Jaws 4k restoration on IMAX fucking rules, especially in the middle of a vacation where I’m surfing, diving, or snorkeling every day

Summer sunset . 🌅 🤙🏻

Sarah lays things out so clearly, even though she shouldn't have to for folks to understand how truly twisted the UK government is right now. Her story brings heartbreaking clarity to what we mean when we say the UK has outlawed trans people. So many people "followed the rules" to this awful result.

This team still hasn't lost a game since I was hired as a postdoc at Ohio State, and we all know correlation absolutely implies causation. If your team needs a boost, hear me out: you could offer a tenure track position to Dr. SK Winnicki

if you zoom in on the europa clipper team picture, you can see someone VERY familiar… 🥹

Guys I've been working on a video on Ballerina Farm for MONTHS and there's finally starting to be light at the end of the tunnel

Sam Altman poking a laptop and asking it to hurry up

Hours before its death, a massive star violently reshuffled its insides then exploded into Cassiopeia A. NASA’s Chandra data reveals this last-minute chaos, offering new clues into how stars live, die & transform the cosmos Credit: NASA/CXC/Meiji Univ./T. Sato et al.

Each Friday, I write up the impacts to science 🧪& higher ed. This was Week 32: + Chaos & courage as CDC Director Monarez fired & 4 top leaders resign + FDA limits COVID vax eligibility, pharmacies restricting access + pocket rescission, sad research shut downs & more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Tried putting the kayak into the lake at a different spot tonight. Unfortunately, it was much shallower than I expected and not the best paddle. Still, it was an interesting view of a landmark I’ve seen hundreds of times from the road.

King Vulture Unique doesn't even begin to cover it...

HiPOD: The Devil is in the Details This Martian dust devil formed on the dust-covered, volcanic plains of Amazonis Planitia. The dust devil is bright, and its core is roughly 50 meters across. More: uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_06... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA

Eight years ago today 🌿 Palafoxia sphacelata, our Othake, blooming on sand hills north of Roggen #nativeplants

Starling Doing a little repair work...

According to the Feather Atlas this is a Short-eared Owl tail feather, which is cool because there was such an owl reported a week ago in the area where I found this www.fws.gov/lab/feathera... #birds

Some nice late summer blooms.

One side of my family did a white elephant sort of thing, where folks exchange random gifts (competing to get the nicest thing under the $50 limit). They'd do themes, one year was "green." My brother brought a truck load of zucchini. Like, filled with it. we no longer do a white elephant

Nature's impressionism...

Eastern Bluebird Gentle nudges...

Morning all, I have literally just woken up. It’s 10am! 😮 This shot was taken a couple of years ago whilst travelling though Glencoe. I believe this is Glen Etive.

A few more of the barn swallow in flight with wings down. #birds #barnswallow

The private sector has a billionty dollars in AI. AI doesn’t need to take half the public money for all the rest of science too.

nothing more freeing than pushing absolutely terrible nondescript commit messages to a private repo only you are in

At the very least it sounds like Donald isn’t feeling great, so loudly speculating on his condition will force him to make public appearances where we’ll see what’s wrong or he’ll hide and confirm that something is wrong

New brain watercolors with messages of serenity and growth. Originals, one of each. artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡🧠

He hasn’t been seen in public in three days

A female Sparrow giving me some side eye while perched on a beautiful sprig of flowers at a local pond. #birds

Anybody remember AI a month ago? • Everybody in the Bay Area seemed to think that AGI was imminent • Expectations for GPT-5 were through the roof • Zuckerberg was spending bajillions of dollars on Alexandr Wang, staff and GPUs, and seemed to have a coherent plan

I'm pretty sure that the skills AI can't replace are skills kids can't learn from an app.

I was quite pleased to get a clear shot of this White-tailed Deer fawn as it and its mom played hide and seek with me in the underbrush. #adorable Saint John, #NewBrunswick, Canada July 2025 📷 #mammals #deer #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z6iii #Nikkor180600

Happy #Caturday from Luine who is the ONLY one at The Albatross that is mad the Excessive Heat Warning finally ended. #CatsOfBluesky #becurious

Lots of fun fluttering friends from my garden for #InverteFest! Dragonflies, damselflies and more. #invertebrates 🌿 #BugSky

A large squadron of White Pelicans was kettling up when I arrived at Horicon. I estimate near 1000. It was a beautiful sight to observe. They were pretty far away and mostly out of camera range, but here's a few. #birds #pelicans

Since @mineralcup.bsky.social is coming up soon, it’s time to share my updated rock collection! Collected from my travels (and always with permission). Meteorites + chunk of Vesta in box. Mount St. Helen’s ash in vile. Every rock tells a 4.5+ billion year story. Show me your rock collection!

Is he dead 👀 #EmotionalSupportSpood #InverteFest

Sad to see the struggles of the University of Baltimore. It’s the kind of school that can offer the benefits of higher education to a broader community. Something that our society really needs right now.

Spread a little love and light...

Should I pick up steaks tomorrow morning or should I wait until It Happens and then go to a grocery store in the redneck-iest part of town and pick up an obnoxious amount of cookout/party food

Roundup of local DC mama squirrels. Looks like we'll have a bountiful autumn : ) #sqrlpix

In general, people shouldn't treat currently high costs or a negative cost-benefit ratio as reasons to believe it's not worth tackling a problem. Costs aren't fixed or unchangeable. Innovation can be about making processes more efficient, doing more with the same resources.

A young male Wood Duck flying over younger Wood Ducks who are not old enough for their license to fly (but in a week or two they will be flight ready.)

To contemplate the meaning of green...