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Know Your Rights Training: Get Ready for June 14 Take action with ACLU People Power!

Protesting this weekend? Sign up for @aclu.org Know Your Rights training tomorrow, June 10, at 5 p.m. MT! The training will take place on Zoom, so be sure to RSVP ahead of time:
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An icon of a haloed man in robes is painted reading from an open book. The book is held in both hands, but the fingers of the right hand are also holding a single-edged dagger, point up.

Its a great day to be a fan of cephalopods #squid #deepsea #giants #marinebiology #marinelife #marineanimals #breakingnews TikTok video by Meg | Octopus Biologist

Footage of a young giant squid!

Listen to the First Known Recording of Shark Sounds, a 'Weird' Audio Clip Captured at a Marine Lab in New Zealand Researchers detected short clicking noises from rig sharks during handling in the lab, though they're not sure why or how the sound is produced

This is really interesting. It certainly sounds like a defensive stress response.

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Stunning #gorgonian forests thrive in the coastal waters of Lesvos! Our ROV surveys, conducted as part of @nemo-tools.bsky.social , continue to unveil these underwater marvels. #MarineEcology #MarineConservation 🧪

To my student who just left our botany lab vowing to keep your new plant daughters safe:
I am proud of you, protective plant papa!

**squee!!** It's Darwin's birthday today and one of my students just gifted me a copy of "The Origin of Species" to celebrate!

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

They have scripts. They have an esy-to-index list of them. You have a free couple minutes? Make it count.

As a commenter has said, most excellently,

"Semper phylum!"

I love this.

Rare Mount Lyell shrew photographed for the first time by college students in Calif. The elusive pointy-nosed, beady-eyed, greyish-brown critter is native to the Sierra Nevada region.

Tagged for @orodentia.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com

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Not quite invisivle, but transparent solar panels that could be installed in place of conventional windows!

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Photo of SK in a forest in Pennsylvania, wearing a tie dyed field shirt from the 2017 grassland bird Konza Crew and holding a large sparrow that is black on one side of the body and brown on the other.

Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird!

Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

This is courage in action.

Reminder that part of this project is going to rest on trying to convince you that you did not see what you saw, you didn’t hear what you heard, it didn’t mean what you thought it meant, it didn’t even happen

They’ve already been doing that, for years, and they’ve had a lot of help

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These are *embroidered* sculptures of fungi. They're incredibly lifelike!

Bison calf snuggling his mom. Sage in the background.

Despite todays outrageous injustice, we're still going to be fighting for the climate, wildlife, our national parks and public lands, social justice, democracy and above all, future generations.

If you need a break
Take it
But never give up

Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

write a book that gets stolen

It looks like we lost the nature center at Eaton Canyon, which would be no surprise. I hope they got all the animals out!

That moment when your diabetic student confesses, at about 4pm, that they have not eaten at all today.

Protective professor, engaged! Thank goodness we keep emergency snacks in the office area.

Captain Carrot Ironfounderson

Never walk into a cage willingly. If you're already in one: break out.

Digital faux linocut. Another plan for the future. #art #tiger #quotes #fauxlinocut #printmaking #linocut