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Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.

Schumer: "Today Leader Jeffries and I are joining together to push legislation to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems and protect Americans across the country ... we call our legislation, 'stop the steal'"

Look up your name in gifs …

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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This.

Photograph of a juvenile male Gang-gang Cockatoo perched on the edge of a roof, looking down at the camera. It is a mottled grey, medium-sized cockatoo with a bright red crest and patches of red on its check. It appears curious, and is incredibly cute.

Baby Gang-gang Cockatoo on our roof!
#birds

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

A bibliography page listing books and articles. The page reads: Books with Surprised Eel Maps Andersen, Elizabeth R. Sleight of Hand: An Alewives of Colmar Mystery (Haeddre Press, 2024) Anderson, Joel. Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops Into the Roman Church, 1200-1350, (Penn University Press, 2023) Arnold, Ellen. Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–1100 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Barnhouse, Lucy. Hospitals in Communities in the Late Medieval Rhineland (Amsterdam University Press, 2023) Craib, Ray. Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit (PM Press, 2022) Crane, Luke. Miseries and Misfortunes (Book 5): An Homage to Catalonia (Burning Wheel RPGs, 2022) Cullen, Chandler. Introduction to the Carolingian Age (Rutledge, 2024) Denning, Andrew. Automotive Empires: How Cars and Roads Made European Colonialism in Africa (Cornell University Press, 2024) Doubleday, Simon. León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, (Penn University Press, 2024) Flannery, Mary. Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Band, (Reaktion, 2024) Flores, Jorge. Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World (Penn University Press, 2024) Fontaine, Darcie. Modern France and the World (Rutledge, 2023) Gabriele, Matt, Perry, David. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe (Harper, 2021) Gabriele, Matt, Perry, David. Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe (Harper, 2024) Garcia, Maria Christina. State of Disaster: The Failure of US Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (UNC Press, 2022) Heman, Marc. After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World (Penn University Press, 2025)

A bibliography page listing books and articles. The page reads: Books with Surprised Eel Maps Hill, Christopher. "Stealing Fire From Heaven: Odette du Puigaudeau and French Nuclear Colonialism in the African Sahara.” International Review of Environmental History, vol. 9 no. 2 (2023) Jonkman, Jesse. Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Columbia (Penn University Press, 2024) Jusionyte, Ieva. Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border (University of California Press, 2024) Kumbátová, Hana. Christian Nationalism, Nation Building, and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia (Oxford University Press, tba) McKittrick, Meredith. Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid (University of Chicago Press, 2024) Mentz, Steve. Sailing Without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels (Fordham UP, 2024) Musallam, Fuad. A Break in the Future (Penn University Press, tba) Newport, Melanie. This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration (Penn University Press, 2022) Palmer, Ada. Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age (University of Chicago Press, 2025) Parnell, David. Belisarius and Antonina: Love and War in the Ear of Justinian (Oxford University Press, 2024) Rankin, John, Weise, Constanze. World History Since 1500: An Open and Free Textbook (East Tennessee State University, 2022) Stevenson, Donald. Latin American History at the Movies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) Zimo, Ann. In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Penn University Press, 2024)

Are you writing a book? Does it need maps?

I mean...of course it does. But perhaps your editor has told you explicitly that *your* book needs maps, & you don't know where to go?

I can help! I specialize in grayscale maps for books. Here's a partial list of books with Surprised Eel maps in them:

I KNEW there had to be some kinda mistake!

VAMPIRE Kitty! ❤️

[Clutches pearls before swine]

THAT's the AWFUL mistake.

Living the dream

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Yer burnin' a beef stroganoff scented candle, Beaky.

A white cat curled into a ball with a fibonacci spiral overlayed over his shape.

Snowman as Fibonacci Cat
#Caturday

Blocked? Oh, nooooo!

But, @drstevenhobbs.bsky.social! There must be some AWFUL mistake here--‪@dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social‬ is one of the good people; I've followed him for years. I mean, the man loves Red Pandas. Good sense of humor, too.

😂 You know me so well!

Kitty! ❤️

@dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social

“Hi, excuse me. Do you have indoor seating?” #squirrelcafe ☕️🐿️ #squirrels #squirrelscrolling

I woulda hollered, "I'm a free agent and ain't goin' with any humanoid!"

@greenleejw.bsky.social

(Snowman with a snowcat on his shoulder)

Happy Caturday!

The Count from Sesame Street pondering things

"What if it is the thought that counts?" he thought

#RespectTheCorvids!

Ah-wooooooooooooooooo!

The catnip is *always* greener on the other side.

Brunnhilde cat

wow there is a second Brünnhilde cat picture and it’s even better