Julie Bell

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

Ant Queens Birth Hybrid Offspring Using Another Species' Sperm www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I firmly believe:

If I don't find you interesting, that's my failure, not yours.

Every person contains infinite multitudes. Our capacity to perceive and appreciate all that is limited. I think I'm better at it than most, but I too sometimes fail to see a person's light.

That's not your fault.

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years Several years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpretations of the oldest known song in the world, discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and dating back to the 14...

If you're looking for a timeline cleanse, you could certainly do worse than the etherial music of the neanderthals!

www.openculture.com/2025/06/hear...

I am perpetually annoyed and saddened that I missed seeing these beasties by just a few thousand years. That's nothing geologically speaking! I should have glyptodonts in my garden!

Screenshot of a report: TEMPERAMENT Expressed some opinions and told lots of stories Nervous and benefitted from lots of reassurance Wiggly

Our cat Biscuit had his grooming appt today and they sent us his report card but I think I'm just going to use it as my bio

Yessssssss, more of this. Much more.

The title is "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code", I believe the author is Will Gervais. I'm hoping for one quote about how snowboarding is like coding, and one batch of code to draw a halfpipe in ggplot() Certainly! Here's a quote that captures the essence of how snowboarding relates to coding: > “Snowboarding is like coding: you start with a plan, but the real joy comes from adapting to the terrain as you go.” This reflects the dynamic and adaptive nature of both activities. Additionally, to draw a halfpipe using `ggplot2` in R, you can use the following code: ```r library(ggplot2) library(dplyr) # Create data for the halfpipe halfpipe_data <- tibble( x = rep(seq(0, 100, length.out = 100), 2), y = c(sin(seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = 100)), -sin(seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = 100))), group = rep(c("Top", "Bottom"), each = 100) ) # Plot the halfpipe ggplot(halfpipe_data, aes(x = x, y = y, group = group)) + geom_line() + coord_flip() + theme_minimal() + labs(title = "Halfpipe Design", x = "Length", y = "Height") ``` This code creates a simple representation of a halfpipe using sine functions to simulate the curved shape. You can adjust the parameters to refine the design further.

ggplot graph showing a wasp-shaped figure 8, labeled "Halfpipe Design" y-axis is length, x-axis is height

I asked chatGPT for quotes from the very fake book "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code" by Will Gervais.

It happily provided a quote about how snowboarding is like coding, as well as code for a deranged halfpipe.

Thanks, chatGPT!

A Museum display donated by a massive Calamites stem cast

Imagine a world with horsetails as forest trees - this enormous Calamites stem cast is about 300 million years old and 12cm broad.

On display in Liverpool World Museum.

#FossilFriday ⚒🌏🧪🔬🌿🌱

Image shows an owl with a hobby horse - looks like a witch on a broomstick

I have a new hero.
This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!

This is the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard!! 😍

Sukhjot Singh
"This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."

The gift that keeps on giving: not only did Russian lose 7bn USD worth of strategic bombers to 500,000 USD worth of drones, but they will expend time, staff and money to check now all trucks across country. Great time to donate directly to Ukraine's military for the next brilliant strike: u24.gov.ua

Government | Harvard University Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.

pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

London has become a cycling city It shows how dockless-electric bikes could transform cities

Bikes now outnumber cars in central London, and are on track to outnumber all motor vehicles within 2 years.

How you ask? Let’s Lime.

@economist.com

US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return

Stop calling kidnapping and trafficking people to countries they’ve never been to “deporting.” It’s criminal behavior by a country with no conscience. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

this queen

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

Once in a while. Good morning Blue Sky

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammophila_pubescens#/media/Fil:Ammophila_pubescens_-_Kulna.jpg

1/2 Episodic memory in parasitoid wasps

Although traditionally associated with large-brained animals, Ammophila pubescens females have memory of the three key elements: who, when and where characteristic of episodic memory.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

a map of canada showing the results of the 2021 election Alt: a map of canada showing the results of the 2021 election

Canada

VOTE

It’s Election Day 💪🏻🍁

🟥🍁🟥

Carry on ✅

Cancer death rates have declined in many countries over the past few decades.

You will often hear the claim that this is "only because of reductions in smoking".

In her latest Substack, my colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev shows that this isn't true.

www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/the-declin...

Always keep watch. Eventually the aliens will slip up and do something unhuman a little too nonchalantly. Then we'll know. 👽🛸

Yesterday, the lifeform we call "Elly De La Cruz" forgot himself and took flight to catch this baseball. 😮

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...