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Mad respect: can only imagine the coordination that went into this. 👊

Took a sec for this penny to drop. 🤣😂🤣

The image shows a circumhorizon arc (or circumhorizontal arc), an optical phenomenon resembling a fiery rainbow. It forms in a clear sky with cirrus clouds made of flat, hexagonal ice crystals aligned horizontally. These crystals refract sunlight, creating a colorful arc parallel to the horizon. Vibrant colors shine brightly against the blue sky, captured near North Fork Mountain, West Virginia.

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A nice circumhorizontal arc (informally known as a fire rainbow, which is a misnomer) over West Virginia captured by Christa Harbig!

It is an optical phenomenon belonging to the family of ice halos, so it is neither fire nor a rainbow.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21083...

🔭 🧪 #science

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you can see the exact moment the possum’s ghost rises

Much of the coverage of this White House "compact" remains really very bad, including today's headlines about MIT. Read @fishkin.bsky.social on what's actually going on here.

talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-tru...

Mic’d bats reveal midnight songbird attacks Sensor data reveal greater noctule bats chasing, catching and chewing on birds during high-altitude, nighttime hunts.

The greater noctule bat can, and DOES, hunt and eat freakin ROBINS in midair.

...and then it chews while continuing to echolocate.

Heheheh it "talks" with its mouth full. www.sciencenews.org/article/bats...

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

‘It’s my responsibility’: In the wake of ICE raids, youth support their families A 22-year-old looks for a third job to support her sisters. A 19-year-old in Malden helps his mom pay the rent. There are many more.

What happens when ICE detains the family breadwinner? Youth take over.
https://bit.ly/3WwvKiV

Here’s all you need to know about her without the sanity filter of WaPo editors:

www.importantcontext.news/p/trumps-new...

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

A photograph of a shiny gold metal-plated jewel weevil enamel pin. It is a green weevil with yellow and pink highlights, and large dark eyes. It is photographed on a lichen-covered rock.

A photo of a tiny fruit fly enamel pin, with large red eyes and brown markings! Also photographed on a lichen-covered rock

A photo of two leafcutter ant pins carrying large green leaves. The ants are small and reddish-brownish. They are photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock.

MY FALL DROP IS NOW LIVE! NEW PINS (DID SOMEONE SAY WHALE FALL?!!), STICKERS, AND MORE!!!

🛒🐛 shop.fossilforager.art

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads: VIVE LA RIBBITSTANCE

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

Johnny Most Voice: JUNO STOLE THE BALL! 🎙️

I love that they gave them a hoop that matches their enclosure walls!

Indigenous Peoples Day Trash & Recycling Collection Schedule Neighborhoods on a Regular pickup schedule include: Back Bay Bay Village Beacon Hill Charlestown Chinatown Downtown Fenway-Kenmore Mission Hill North End Roxbury South Boston South End West End Wharf District Neighborhoods on a Delayed pickup schedule include: Allston Brighton Dorchester East Boston Hyde Park Jamaica Plain Mattapan Roslindale West Roxbury Go to boston.gov/trash-day for the full schedule.

For the Indigenous Peoples Day holiday on Monday, Oct. 13:

🚫 Parking meters are free.
🛣️ Daytime street cleaning is canceled. Overnight street cleaning is on a normal schedule.
🚮 Some neighborhoods will run on a delayed trash/recycling pickup schedule. See the list below or at boston.gov/trash-day

A park employee, who spoke with SFGATE on the condition of anonymity to protect their job, said they know of only one wilderness ranger working the entire park. And technically, that person is not even a ranger, the employee said, but a volunteer.

Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation Exclusive: Trial that has produced 13 hatchlings could help other threatened species avoid extinction

Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation.

Trial that has produced 13 hatchlings could help other threatened species avoid extinction.

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Update on #noreaster — bump up in rain totals. Showers & wind begin Sunday afternoon, ramp up to heavy rain Sunday night through Monday. Multi-day rain totals = 2 to 4 inches. Wind gusts 30 to 60 mph. Expect some flooding & power outages.

bostonglobe.arcpublishing.com/composer/sto...

#mawx #boston

Musk’s satellite internet company contests Wisconsin’s rural installation plans A representative of Elon Musk’s rocket venture SpaceX, the parent company of its satellite internet company Starlink, publicly challenged plans in Wisconsin and other states to fund high-speed interne...

CBN director @sportshotchris.bsky.social explains to the Tribune-Enterprise in Wisconsin how the Trump Admin is forcing Wisconsin "to significantly decrease" meaningful infrastructure investment "in order to write a bigger check to SpaceX...rather than making sure everyone has good Internet access."

Yes, you should also read this bc it is just straight-up wild.

Exhibit A: FL's top health official believes his spirit animal is a tiger & that the ex-Navy SEAL helped unleash it by walking on the backs of his thighs 👀🐯

His wife thinks the same guy helped her levitate & see divine spirits. 🔮

A photograph of a black and orange American Copper butterfly perched on New York Aster.

An American Copper butterfly perched on New York Aster nectar at Mass Audubon's Allens Pond Sanctuary.

#photography #insects #wildlife #nature #dartmouth #massachusetts #wildmassachusetts #massachusettswildlife

Gorgeous! 🤩

Dopaminergic Modulation of Short‐Term Associative Memory in Caenorhabditis elegans Forgetting is a vital, active process that clears irrelevant memories and supports new learning. Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, we investigated how dopamine, a key neurotransmitter,....

🧠 Dopamine and forgetting

A new study shows dopamine helps the brain forget old memories. Worms lacking dopamine held onto memories longer, suggesting forgetting is an active, dopamine-driven process.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jnc.70200

#SciComm 🧪 #Neuroscience #Memory

First, the Trump administration cut SNAP benefits. Now it wants to stop measuring food insecurity On the heels of $186 billion in cuts to SNAP, the Trump Administrations announced plans to cancel a long-running annual report on food security. But stopping the count doesn’t stop the suffering, writ...

Commentary: Measuring food insecurity over the next few years will be especially critical since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act included $186 billion in cuts to SNAP, write Paul Shafer and Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba.

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

FOOD JUSTICE ON THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL

Yesterday at the City Council, along Councilor Breadon and myself, we introduced a hearing order to discuss the role of publicly-owned grocery stores in addressing food insecurity.

We are excited to study the feasibility of municipal grocery stores soon.

Whoa.

it's almost as if the extraction class has hijacked the press to help them use race and gender as wedge issues to distract the plebs from the fact they're destroying consumer protection, corporate oversight, democracy, and labor rights while selling the country for scrap off the back loading dock

Windows 10 support ends on October 14 and there's a link floating around with instructions to enroll for an additional year of security updates, but I'm not linking to that chatgpt article so here's what you do.

Settings
Update & Security
Windows Update
Initiate Enrollment

Our fossa pup health check has gone viral! 🥹

By the way, did you know we work with Malagasy partners to protect fossa forests in the wild?

Find out more (and consider donating) here: chesterzoo.org/madagascar

#fossa #fossalove #toebeans