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Calling all people concerned w/ public lands, food safety, rural development & all other services provided by US Dept of Agriculture! You have 30 days to tell Brooke Rollins what you think about the reorganization plan! On the list of things, no ‘Hub offices’ in the Pacific time zone WHAT SAY YOU?!?

a man wearing sunglasses talks to a woman with the word that behind him Alt: a man wearing sunglasses nods and says "That's cool."

I didn't know there was anything endemic to D.C.

Ooh! Hope you found a good number.

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

So many people I know need jobs right now.

Handwritten text reads: #Insert An Invert 28: Subterranean (stygofauna) Hay's Spring Amphipod (stygobromus hayi) Stygofauna live in groundwater ecosystems. This tiny crustacean is endemic to groundwater beneath Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., and only occasionally is seen spilling out into shallow seepages.

The latest #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025 is a minute resident of a park my sister in law's family loves. They'll probably never see it but I think they'll enjoy hearing about it!

I am so sorry for this deep loss. What a wonderful life. ❤️

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Hahaha civet??

We have both native and non-native (noxious weed status) aquatic bladderworts and I am not equipped to tell them apart, especially since these are not flowering. Whichever it is, it's struggling to outcompete the Salvinia minima (a sweet floating fern) that is currently blanketing the water surface.

View through a microscope of a bright green aquatic plant with a finely branching structure and small oval sacs.

We have some volunteer bladderwort (Urticularia sp.) in the pond at the moment! I didn't know anything about them and am grateful to have been able to ID it with my microscope. Would you believe the whole family is carnivorous and the tiny sacs you see here are for trapping invert prey??

Hey friend, sorry to bother you. Please help me quote the tweet and donate even a dollar so I can buy some flour. My family eats wet flour and dry bread. Please don't ignore me. 💔😑🥺

Thank you to @murray.senate.gov for signing on to this letter. @cantwell.senate.gov, when will you join her?

The Zaynab Project: GAZA Relief Our name is inspired by Zaynab bint Jahsh (RA) — wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, renowned for her extraordinary compassion and generosity.She was called the shelter for orphans, widows, and the needy....

A good friend of mine [who is Palestinian] swears by this group doing work directly in Gaza: chuffed.org/campaign/zay...

Thanks! I have access to computer vision tools as well. I'm looking for help from bug folks. :)

"[UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini] said the "manmade hunger" can only be addressed by Israel lifting the restrictions on aid into Gaza and guaranteeing the "safe movements + dignified access to people in need."

Israeli military says airdrops of aid into Gaza set to begin tonight amid increased starvation deaths For months, the U.N. and experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke."

www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

A tiny mint-green caterpillar on blackened moss

A fly that wants to look like a bee but is not a bee fly.

We saw these two friends on a hike up the middle fork of the Snoqualmie River in Western Washington today. Anyone know them? #invertebrates #entomology #bugs #InsectID

I think it helps me connect more with the drawing, actually, if that makes sense :)

It's so great when there's a good photographic reference!! I picked this species because it's native to our caves here :)

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@mightbekaren.bsky.social FYI I am having mysterious Discord problems but just wanted to pass on to the server that Ross is getting discharged soon ❤️

Ink drawing of a very long-legged cricket perched over a pine cone. Hand written text reads: "#Insertaninvert 27: Subterranean (Troglofauna). Square-legged Camel Cricket (Tropidschia xanthostoma) These adorable cave dwelling Orthopterans rarely see the light of day. ❤️

The latest #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025 needed some color to differentiate this little dude and the pine cone he is standing over.

(Have an extra 'l,' it's free!)

Would you? Whatever strategies you use to assess written reports about books you haven't read probably have parallellls that transfer to this format.

How big is your class? For this assignment in particular, I might consider having the output be a one-on-one conversation with you about the book.

Seeing mutuals sharing altNPS again, so here’s a reminder of this excellent thread and this truth:

No one is immune to falling for a grift, but anyone can choose to do better once they learn better.

There have been 87 car deaths in NYC so far this year, 51 of them pedestrians killed by cars

There have been 2 homicides in the subway*