A shelf full of books about Darwin and evolution

Happy 217th, Mr. Darwin

Read “The Old Ethologist” by @scdeghett.bsky.social in Issue 22!
Get your copy here: www.storymagazine.org/store/autumn...

#fiction #shortstories

What a wonderful face—

Adirondack residents block private equity buyout of mobile home park in NY first
https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/community-news/housing/adirondack-residents-block-private-equity-buyout-of-mobile-home-park-in-ny-first/

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Painting of an open doorway looking outwards from the interior, on the floor inside and out are wooden clogs, two pairs, one adult sized and one pair to fit a small child

Anna Ancher, At Noon, 1914 Danish painter #WomensArt

My Strengths Are Primarily Avian - Electric Literature Two poems by Ori Fienberg

Fill my hollow bird chest with love.

COMMENTARY: An Open Letter to DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton Regarding Death of AFR Brendan Jackson - By Danielle Carr, Saranac Lake, NY We briefly spoke in Newcomb when my friend’s body was airlifted from the Adirondack backcountry. The DEC Forest Rangers Week in Review dated July 2 stated Assistant ...

www.adirondackalmanack.com/2025/07/comm...

So beautiful

Video shows a young man carrying his dead father on a bicycle after he was shot while trying to secure food parcels at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site in Gaza.

Israeli forces have killed more than 220 Palestinians at GHF aid distribution sites since they opened.

Let me know when--and thanks

Is this piece for sale?

The Tangled Garden | J. E. H. MacDonald
#Modern #GroupOfSeven

…let me reiterate for the sake of emphasis of a powerful point: “the amount of privilege it takes to flee…is staggering.”

PAM HAS JUST FAINTED SHE IS BEING CARRIED OUT FEET FIRST. I'M JEALOUS.

Very tight close-up of a white bird's head (herring gull) with yellow eye and yellow bill with a spot of black and red near the tip.

Detailed profile view of a Herring Gull.

Little Lepreau, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025

📸 #birds #HERG #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

🔉Sound up for 10 seconds of wood frogs declaring that this pond is open for business - frog business 🐸🌿

“ŒUFS (Eggs),” illustration by Adolphe Millot (1857-1921) from _Nouveau Larousse Illustré_ [1897-1904], vol. 6, p. 473. A symmetrically organized collection of various eggs, mostly birds but also with examples of cartilaginous fish, turtles, butterflies & moths, and cuttlefish.

Easter eggs 😉
“ŒUFS (Eggs),” #sciart by Adolphe Millot (1857-1921) from Nouveau Larousse Illustré (1897-1904), Vol. 6, p. 473. Not just bird eggs, but also cartilaginous fish, turtles, butterflies and moths, and even a cuttlefish!
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Embroider piece reflecting three horizontal sections filled with busy images of figures, horses and boats in brown and black yarns on a cream background

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70 metres long Eurppean medieval masterpiece depicting the events leading to the Norman Conquest of England, created by women artisan embroiderers in the 11th century #WomensArt

Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk At least 20 officers forced their way into property and police said some present were planning direct action in London Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand. More than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers, forced their way into the Westminster meeting house at 7.15pm, according to a statement by the Quakers. Continue reading...

Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk

White pines and sunset

Both are colorful bird species of urban areas. Both compete with other species. Both have been on the increase. Yet one is vilified, the other welcomed. Is that really based on ecology or is it just ecoxenophobia? Read my take in my new @mitpress.bsky.social book, The Urban Naturalist.

One of the last things JD Vance saw when leaving Vermont

Painting showing a white woman and man both painting, while the man stands to the right working at the easel, the woman sits on the floor, both in an interior space

This 1900 painting by Vanessa Bell says much about women artists & Western art history!!
And so does the @womensart1 book on women who paint - from Gentileschi to O'Keeffe & much more...
- 'Unlocking Women's Art'
🎨 amazon.co.uk/Unlocking-Wome…
Or yr indie bookstore #WomensHistoryMonth

Painting featuring many brightly coloured birds in flight gliding in different directions with wings open in a grey sky

'Les courants (the currents)' series by Montreal artist Dominique Fortin #WomensArt

When I asked my publisher for advice, they said: show more of yourself!
That's why my new book is a more personal one than any of my previous books. What does that mean? Get the book and find out! Now available from @mitpress

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