wizard frog is insane

How Jane Goodall’s Death Initiated Netflix’s Newest Show

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...

"This morning Medford District BLM excluded the public & the press from attending auction of the 'Take a Chance' old-growth timber sale located in the Cascade Mtns of s Oregon. Federal agencies are now handing over our forests to the timber industry behind locked doors. (from K-S Wild)

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Leaf litter sampling is impressively hardcore. Have always thought oh I should learn how to do that someday. IDing based on those all those tiny tiny teeth is another thing entirely!

Check this one out if you haven't. My jaw dropped when the paper reveals how many specimens were involved...
www.sci.muni.cz/botany/nekol...

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

What you can do. www.nokings.org

Rick Arnitz, Melon Squared, 2013

Yayoi Kusama, Watermelon 1981.

Disney+ cancellation success form. Reason for cancellation is Other, with text that reads, "ABC, which is owned by Disney, censored Jimmy Kimmel"

I just canceled my Disney+ and Hulu subscription, and cited ABC's decision to censor @jimmykimmel.com as the reason. Will resubscribe when ABC's parent company shows that they are willing to resist Trump's fascist regime

#CancelDisney #CancelHulu

CBS, ABC and Disney should get the full treatment Target got. They are anti-FreeSpeech & openly pro-Fascist.

Boycott them.
Destroy their bottom line.
See how long they can survive just MAGA viewership.

Time to put your money where your love of the Constitution is.
Do. Not. Support. Them.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

Kyiv court rejects appeal, upholds Ukraine's first de facto recognition of same-sex couple as a family The Kyiv Court of Appeal upheld a landmark ruling recognizing a same-sex couple as a family, human rights organization Insight LGBTQ reported on Sept. 10.

⚡️Kyiv court rejects appeal, upholds Ukraine's first de facto recognition of same-sex couple as a family.

The Kyiv Court of Appeal upheld a landmark ruling recognizing a same-sex couple as a family, human rights organization Insight LGBTQ reported on Sept. 10.

Her name was Iryna Zarutska. And her death is now not mourned but used as a tool in internal racial and political game.Trump wants death penalty for a guy that killed one Ukrainian, but rolled a red carpet and wants to do business with a maniac, who killed hundreds of thousand of my Ukrainians.

Researchers on Kauai rediscover two native land snails, unseen for nearly a century A team of researchers on Kauai rediscovered two native land snails.

Some good #snail news amid the general chaos.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/09/10/r...

"Würmer" on a German broadside from 1672. The title: Eigentliche Abbildung und Vorstellung derer jenigen Würmer/ welche in Ungarn mit jedermanns Entsetzen häuffig von Himmel gefallen/ und weit und breit das gantze Land überdecket... (VD17 12:656482B).

These #worms fell down from the sky, maybe, in 1672 Europe, and lived for another couple of days. However fantastic the #earlymodern story of the falling "Würmer" is, I do like the alien-freakish styled insects a lot. Zoom in and choose your favorite:

Fascists Notes from a frontline factory in eastern Ukraine

Timothy Snyder.

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

MBARI's advanced underwater technology reveals a new species of deep-sea snailfish • MBARI The bumpy snailfish is one of three new species of deep-sea snailfish described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY Geneseo.

Meet the newest (and cutest) addition to the snailfish family 🐟

MBARI collaborators @sunygeneseo.bsky.social have described three new deep-sea snailfishes, including one first discovered using MBARI’s remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts.

Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbaris-...

Do you post these students on iNaturalist? There are some Ukrainian snail experts on there ...

0 Dems, no?

Anybody catch a bunch of big military helicopters flying VERY LOW over Old City Philadelphia just now? Think there were 7 of them, and I could have hit them with a rock from the fifth floor here.

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

Look at this crazy thing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT:

RFK Jr is a danger to public health.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield Restoring the EU’s drained bogs would stop both Russian tanks and planet-warming pollution.

A tank-trapping, carbon-capturing bog barrier to keep out Putin? Governments in Finland and Poland say they're looking into making this a reality.

My big summer read, w/ @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social and @wojciechkosc.bsky.social, on defensive bog restoration:

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Under 65 in Pennsylvania. CVS let me schedule an appointment based on self-described risk conditions. But then ... no vaccine available anywhere ☹️

An orangey-brown snail with a striking white and brown shell crawls over a rock.

An orangey-brown snail with a striking white and brown shell crawls over a rock.

We're big fans of snails over here. Here's a species that has less than 10 iNaturalist observations: Sheldonia cotyledonis!

📷 cliffdorse on iNaturalist
📍 South Africa
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay #InverteFest

iNat has not "started using AI recently" please get your facts straight

Nature headline "I invented a life-saving frog sauna." Photo of said frogs in said sauna

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...