President Trump cannot erase us, no matter how hard he tries.
We have always persisted and we always will.
@modcur.bsky.social
Biocurator, Scientist, Photographer flickr page: https://flic.kr/ps/2iY8i2 profile painting by Jaber Lutfi
President Trump cannot erase us, no matter how hard he tries.
We have always persisted and we always will.
There is nobody on planet earth who is more deliberately blissfully uninformed than Mike Johnson.
10.02.2026 15:40 β π 429 π 77 π¬ 42 π 4I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
10.02.2026 16:35 β π 19229 π 4054 π¬ 593 π 330Maine Public front page showing a Susan Collins.
Susan Collins has been running for five years. Outlets putting her PR above the fold today are telling on themselves. #MEpolitics
10.02.2026 16:55 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Irish citizen Seamus Culleton, Boston craftsman and plasterer, on conditions in Texas concentration camp, where he has been held since September 2025.
Listen to the call below the article.
#AbolishICE
#BelieveYourEyes-NotTheirLies
#NonViolenceIsPower
#EveryEffortCounts
#GetInvolved
The anonymity is what allows them to commit their atrocities. Only reason they need it
10.02.2026 16:56 β π 48 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0β60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recallsβ¦ 43% of the recalls occurred less than a year after the devices were greenlighted. Thatβs about twice the recall rate of all devices authorized under similar FDA rules.βfindings form: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
10.02.2026 00:25 β π 17 π 14 π¬ 1 π 1A stoat is a form of measurement, as well as a cute little weaselly mammal!
@stoatamatic.bsky.social
#2026MMM #StoatsAsMeasurement
Image array of 3 MMM-themed, science-based Valentines with an Eagle Owl, Asian Elephant, & Lynx. Screen-reader valentines also available at the LibGuide. We got you, Boo.
You know what's better than science-themed March Mammal Madness Valentines of #2026MMM Combatants!?!
Science-themed March Mammal Madness Valentines of combatants that carry ear-worms. They're INFECTIOUS!
Download in color or greyscale at the LibGuide libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
@delauro.house.gov is my Representative in Congress. I like and support her. But this is a serious mistake. She is caught a trap in which leadership always sinks into legislative compromise. Itβs the myopic electoralism @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social have warned about. 1/
09.02.2026 23:33 β π 262 π 56 π¬ 18 π 1A pied peacock fanning its tail, standing centee inside the dark of an open garage door.
If a door gets left open here for any length of time it summons the elusive but impressive garage peacock.
09.02.2026 20:06 β π 2048 π 533 π¬ 37 π 16βRaskin also said that he saw βreferences to 17-year-old girls, 16-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 11-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls, and I saw a reference today to a 9-year-old girl. So it is a really gruesome and grim story.ββ www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
09.02.2026 21:39 β π 4239 π 1754 π¬ 114 π 143Inside the "drawdown" of agents in Minnesota, legal observers are being arrested. Read the details below.
#BelieveYourEyes-NotTheirLies
#NonViolenceIsPower
#EveryEffortCounts
#AbolishICE #Minnesota
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
09.02.2026 14:10 β π 2443 π 1705 π¬ 583 π 5591SCIENCE IS UNDER CENSORSHIP. βWOMENβ βVACCINEβ βEQUITYβ βADDICTIONβ FROM PEN AMERICAβS LIST OF WORDS BANNED FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WORK.
Science cannot thrive when censorship shuts down research. Shutting down research doesn't make people healthy. Help us impeach & #RemoveRFKJr by visiting standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr .
(1/5π§΅)
Since the early days of the space program, astronauts have quarantined before missions because any illness could be disastrous. Itβs eminently logical β not βextremeβ β for athletes whoβve trained their WHOLE LIVES for one event to take similar precautions in order to stay in peak physical condition
09.02.2026 16:38 β π 2369 π 406 π¬ 52 π 12Digital portrait sketch of a male Resplendent Quetzal. He has a bright yellow beak, big black eye, and then a big fluffy spiky green and turquoise crest and beard of feathers in all directions around his head. On the breast, the colors turn toward blue, with a small patch of red near the wrist of the wing.
Little 1-hr Resplendent Quetzal portrait sketch, off @kulindadromeus.bsky.social 's dinosaur prompt list #DrawDinosDaily (link to list in reply)
Phew yay I will finally have time to do some of these!
π¨πͺΆ #BirdArt #SciArt
Get π your π flu π shot
09.02.2026 18:10 β π 107 π 50 π¬ 5 π 0New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein.
Now we learned that they were in business together.
He has no business being our Commerce Secretary.
He should resign.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
one chatbot told a participant in this study to go lay down in the dark when he was presenting with a brain hemorrhage... what are we even doing
www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...
Susan Collins: It would be impractical to exclude ICE and Border Patrol from the in-process DHS funding bill -- and to channel new dollars to FEMA and TSA instead -- because ICE and Border Patrol already have plenty of money. [Yes, this is logically incoherent and makes no sense.] #MEpolitics
09.02.2026 16:22 β π 16 π 8 π¬ 1 π 01/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
Weβll let the childrenβs words speak for themselves. π§΅
NEW: Republican senators pitched a FIT when Jack Smith didnβt disclose toll record subpoenas were for Members of Congress (not required by law) but Iβm sure theyβll be silent when they learn the trump admin illegally failed to include Natanson is a journalist on their warrant.
09.02.2026 16:31 β π 1438 π 518 π¬ 17 π 8Me holding a beautiful barn owl
#SuperbOwl you say? Well okay then!
09.02.2026 03:00 β π 45 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0A brown and grey owl with squinting eyes pokes its head out of a nesting box covered in pine bark to mimic a tree hollow. Next to it is the fluffy yellow and black head of a young duckling. Their eyes are lined up vertically, which make it look like they're cheek to cheek. CREDIT: Laurie Wolf "Amateur photographer Laurie Wolf captured this image of a duckling sharing a nest with an owl in her backyard in Jupiter, Florida." Sorry, I stole this from the article. My apologies to the original photographer.
There's a real story behind this photo by Laurie Wolf of a nesting box in her back yard & I'll share a NatGeo article by @bittelmethis.bsky.social
A mama eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) hatched a wood duckling (Aix sponsa).
This is likely a case of brood parasitism. Let's talk about it.
It's become a tradition for me to post this short video I recorded of a Barred Owl for #SuperbOwlSunday!
#birds #photography #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin
New paper by my lab! PhD student @fallonmeng.bsky.social set out to use whole genome sequencing of Spotted Lanternfly from China & the US to better understand the invasion... and discovered that adapting to the city may be the key to their invasive success!
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...