"Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola hasn’t made any public statements about the Iran war, and her campaign social media accounts have been silent on the subject.

When contacted Thursday, her campaign spokesperson said she had no comment."

Thank you, @alaska.bsky.social for asking.

Talented guy! Space AND fungi

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

this (good) story is very funny to me because it's like How Did These Top Scientists Avoid Working With Epstein? 🤔 They Googled Him And Saw He Was A Bad Guy 😔
www.science.org/content/arti...

Audubon sketches of five commonly seen winter birds in eastern Interior Alaska with the Tanacross Dene names annotated. Left to right: jîiz (Canada jay), ts’egąąg (chickadee), dįįts nęy (redpoll), taatsą́ą’ (raven), thuls̲h̲iid (boreal owl).

Commonly seen winter birds in eastern Interior Alaska with their rightful Tanacross Dene names. Bird sketches courtesy @audubon.org #Dene #Language #Alaska #Birds

Gall of the week, an unusual one, is caused by a fungus on a fungus. It is Agamothyia wankowiczii on the bracket fungus Ganoderma applanatum.
Photo by Graham Calow.

Saw four separate moose on a short walk in the Westchester lagoon area last week. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven!

a picture from alaska's 511 cameras located on highway

The view from Glenn Highway @ Gunsight Mountain MP 117, 📷 from 511.alaska.gov

Observations Observations of Bittacomorpha

That's the most soothing cranefly video I've ever watched!

Scrolling through iNat's most faved Bittacomorpha observations is a treat www.inaturalist.org/observations...

That phantom cranefly is AMAZING, both the art and the species

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Bees

figurine of a rock Crab (true crab) holding on to the claw of a King crab (false crab) in a similar manner to Scar and Mufasa in The Lion King, the King crab is hanging on the ledge

*Scar, brother help me

*Long live the King Crab

a picture from alaska's 511 cameras located on highway

The view from Klawock Hwy @ Control Lake, 📷 from 511.alaska.gov

Photo of a lichen with a white thallus/body. About 2/3 of the lichen body is covered in fairly large, orange apothecia.

Orange Rock Posy Lichen.
NWT, Canada. Lichen is about 3cm long.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

PIONEERS: William Edward White First in a season-long series

Who was MLB's first Black player? Not Jackie Robinson in 1947, not Moses Fleetwood Walker and his brother Weldy in 1884 … but William Edward White, in 1879. He passed for white for much of his life but, uniquely among MLB players, he was born a slave. ourgame.mlblogs.com/pioneers-wil...

I haven't finished yet but am liking it

It feels less like Marvel to me (complimentary) and more like an extended adult-version (also complimentary) Gen V sidestory. Not the Boys, but Gen V

Zoom in on this amber orb — see the fuzzy brown stick? That's a springtail's antenna. This tiny creature fell victim to Pandora batallata, a fungus from an order called the "Insect Destroyers."

📷 christian_neumann on iNaturalist
📍 Germany
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

Westchester Lagoon Family Skate ⛸️ A frozen 50-acre lake, a 1.6 km skate loop, families, hockey, kids racing seal toys 🧊 🦭and even a moose! Total culture shock, but such a fun afternoon.
#WestchesterLagoon #AlaskaLife #Anchorage #WinterSkate #FrozenLake

Huh! Cool!

Curious how this would work for a #citsci definition...

"when the people formerly known as the public employ the scientific tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that's citizen science"

❤️🥔

CW: Have you ever been in an eating contest?

GG: Yeah, a long long time ago. I did a mashed potato eating contest at a renaissance fair back in Georgia.

a picture from alaska's 511 cameras located on highway

The view from Seward Highway @ Summit Lake MP 45.8, 📷 from 511.alaska.gov

Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.

I didn't know who @polphilpod.bsky.social was before this year, but he's rapidly become one of the few writers who consistently makes sense to me. Feels like stumbling on a oasis in the desert.

Anyway, I strongly endorse every word of this piece:

Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.

Look for the helpers

Sunset over Haines from the M/V Hubbard

Looking across the bow of the M/V Hubbard towards Haines. Beautiful orange sunset.

Photo of two people with their phones out taking pictures of the sunset on the ferry

Came back on the M/V Hubbard from Haines today. Absolutely stunning sunset

King crab legs cheaper than steak 🧐🤤😢

a picture from alaska's 511 cameras located on highway

The view from Alaska Highway @ Canadian Border MP 1221.8, 📷 from 511.alaska.gov

BugShot Guyana — BugShot Photograph in one of the most biodiverse intense places on Earth! 7 days in the remote jungle with some of the best macro photographers in the world!

Registration for the BugShot insect photography workshop in Guayana is now open!

Time to play ... find the lanes.

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.