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Leonie Moyle

@speciationlab.bsky.social

Into evolution, genetics, reproduction. Immigrant (actual, and from the bird site). She/her.

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Rabbits capture, try and execute a hunter. The Smithfield Decretals, decorated in London, England, in the 1340s: Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 59v-61v

Rabbits capture, try and execute a hunter. The Smithfield Decretals, decorated in London, England, in the 1340s: Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 59v-61v

Bad bunnies from long ago
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GMT-5 timezone not good

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tired

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How many tigers do you think is in a jar of tigers balm

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 art deco facade of the Babylon Kino. The marquee reads: metropolis live babylon orchester berlin

art deco facade of the Babylon Kino. The marquee reads: metropolis live babylon orchester berlin

sunday

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grunewald (in my apartment building)

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snow & stairs, Berlin

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Minotaur in the labyrinth, Roman mosaic at ConΓ­mbriga, Portugal
Frank Stella, Labyrinth, 1960

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fantastic book (and one of her best)

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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

Wow. This is devastating.

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Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

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Portrait of William S. Burroughs from the 'Danger' series, by Brion Gysin, 1959.

Portrait of William S. Burroughs from the 'Danger' series, by Brion Gysin, 1959.

'”Modern man has lost the option of silence.”
William S. Burroughs.

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Shout out to everyone currently experiencing everything

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This is not a model. This is a "fossilised" taxidermy of a Woolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. 🧡

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mislaid species β€” the latest "tortured phrases” in scientific publications?...

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Not apocalyptic looking at all

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Gratuitous X-ray microscopy imaging, a "bouquet" of developing soybean flowers.
@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
@danforthcenter.bsky.social

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Photo of a roundleaf sundew leaf at dusk. The leaf is green and is covered in tiny red hairs. Each hair has a drop of sticky liquid at the tip. The background of the photo is dark.

Photo of a roundleaf sundew leaf at dusk. The leaf is green and is covered in tiny red hairs. Each hair has a drop of sticky liquid at the tip. The background of the photo is dark.

Roundleaf sundew leaf. One of the #carnivorous plants we have here in #newfoundland, Canada. #botany #plant

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The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Screenshot of a twitter post from @kramerposts. β€œIt's not my circus, but... I am a man with a sense of obligation and duty. Very well. I will care for these monkeys. I will raise them as if they were my own.”

Screenshot of a twitter post from @kramerposts. β€œIt's not my circus, but... I am a man with a sense of obligation and duty. Very well. I will care for these monkeys. I will raise them as if they were my own.”

Joining a research project mid-cycle like:

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evergreen

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😬πŸ₯”

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a glowing canal under golden lights and a night sky

a glowing canal under golden lights and a night sky

amsterdam, NYE 2025

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a crescent moon hangs over its faint reflection in a Berlin lake

a crescent moon hangs over its faint reflection in a Berlin lake

christmas moon over koenigssee

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Christmas on HMS Beagle Charles Darwin spent Christmas day of 1831 in Devonport awaiting favourable weather for the departure of HMS Beagle. Darwin wrote in his diary for the voyage: Christmas day is one of great importan…

Happy Christmas! πŸŽ„πŸŽ…

'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship' - Charles Darwin, 25 December 1831. 🍾

thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... #Christmas #histsci #histbio πŸ—ƒοΈ

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two bright bowls of trifle, with fresh red currants, in front of our Christmas tree

two bright bowls of trifle, with fresh red currants, in front of our Christmas tree

christmas trifle 2025

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Christmas morning: a black cat sits expectantly next to wrapped gifts, under a decorated Christmas tree.

Christmas morning: a black cat sits expectantly next to wrapped gifts, under a decorated Christmas tree.

Weihnachtsmorgen, Berlin

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