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If anyone's interested, they would need to have a proposal ready to go in the next week and a half....so short notice! 🧪

It's rough out there, seriously. Read about the fat and sassy 3-legged lizards. It will cheer you up and inspire you to persist, in spite of the horrors. They do. bsky.app/profile/sabs... 🧪🦎

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

Math professor Terence Tao and neuroscientist Vidya Saravanapandian told PBS Newshour's Stephanie Sy that US's global leadership in science hangs in the balance. 🧪

Meme. Medieval painting showing a shipwreck. The ship in question is upside down near a green shore, and the passengers are falling out. There are three figures in the process of tumbling from the ship. They are all wearing plate armor, and seem destined to sink right to the bottom. There is a fourth figure, wearing red, swimming in the water. He is also wearing armor, so he's probably screwed too. Unlike the others, he's wearing a crown. So he is royally screwed. There are three other ships, loaded down with warriors in armor, standing just off shore in the roads. They're watching the disaster unfolding, but they can't do anything about it. The king's fate is his own. The three ships could represent the trinity, or they could represent the 3 out of 4 dentists who agree. And the 4th? Well. You can see what happened to that guy. If there are eels lurking in the shallows (as is likely) they are about to have a wonderful feast. Meme text reads: "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgereeld"

In 1107, King Henry's butler founded the abbey of Wymondham, & he donated 2 things to help the monks get by:

1. the right to salvage shipwrecks on a nearby coast
2. a rent of 2,000 eels per year

Time for an eel picnic on the beach!
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LA scientist working to debunk myths surrounding bats with educational tours Joy Benedict speaks with the local scientist working to debunk the myths surrounding bats by giving educational tours in Los Angeles.

UCLA biologist Joey Curti is UCLA's very own batman. Join him on a recent evening where he shared the secrets of LA's bats with an eager crowd, and cleared up some myths about these important but misunderstood mammals. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v... 🧪

ICE impersonators on the rise: Arrests made as authorities issue national warning | CNN Authorities in three states have made arrests in connection with individuals impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, as tensions rise amid a nationwide immigration crackdown.

Multiple ICE impersonation arrests made during nationwide immigration crackdown

www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/u...

What an insane photo! There’s this modern stone monument, the Arctic Henge, standing tall and proud under a mind-blowing aurora in an Icelandic night that looks hand-painted.Greens, pinks, yellows, and reds swirling like living curtains, twisting, weaving, totally hypnotizing. Up top, Polaris shines straight like a beacon. Left side, Ursa Major hanging out; bottom right, Orion peeking in.Seven hours waiting in the freezing cold, nose running, feet numb… and then, bam! This magical explosion of colors. It’s kinda like Stonehenge, but Nordic edition: basically a giant sundial built to snag the sun’s rays, drop shadows exactly where they’re supposed to, and trap the light between these perfectly aligned arches.It’s not just rocks. It’s a place that makes you feel tiny… and alive.

This spectacular pic by Cari Letelier captured an incredible aurora-filled sky over Arctic Henge (in Raufarhöfn, northern Iceland), a monumental structure still under construction that is like a huge sundial, aiming to capture the sunrays, ...

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23032...

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Hawaiian Skies: Welehu 2025 — Maunakea Observatories The night sky is full of stories, lessons, and wisdom that have been passed down for generations. During the Hawaiian month of Welehu (October 22- November 20), we can see stories like that of Polo-ah...

Hawaiian Skies: Welehu 2025

by Leilehua Yuen @leilehuayuen.bsky.social, Hawaiʻi Culture and Language Resident at the International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab

www.maunakeaobservatories.org/stories/hawa... #Maunakea 🧪🔭

Comment: Celebrating accessibility, inclusion, and 45 years of Chemists with Disabilities Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month #NDEAM, a time to recognize and celebrate the invaluable contributions of persons with disabilities to our professions, communities, workplaces, and campuses. cen.acs.org/acs-news/com... #chemsky 🧪

Europe’s Original Climate-Resilient City Has a Lesson for Us All On Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary, it continues to be a leader in climate adaptation — showing how a city can thrive in overcoming existential challenges.

Amsterdam 750th Anniversary Showcases Centuries of Climate Adaptation - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Simple capacity projects taking 10-15 years to complete. Electrification delayed for 30 years while we test dirty hydrogen trains that we know will fail. As the climate rapidly warms and goals fly by, we can't keep doing rail projects this way. Fix transit construction for climate action.

My heart hurts for Jamaicans.

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

Melissa could be the strongest hurricane to ever hit Jamaica. A heating ocean is fuelling it | CBC News Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest ever recorded in the Caribbean, is set to hit Jamaica early on Tuesday after undergoing “rapid intensification” — a climate-charged phenomenon that’s increasing...

Climate change has made hot ocean temperatures feeding Hurricane Melissa 500-700 times more likely and strengthened top wind speed by about 16 km/h—that’s helped make Melissa one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Caribbean.
www.cbc.ca/news/science...

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.

A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.

I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

It's dark, it's cold, it's time for bed

My body feels like a rotting haunted mansion. At least it’s seasonally appropriate

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

YouTube video by Jonathan Roy Jonathan Roy - Back To The Moon (Live Acoustic Performance)

A dzień dobry, nowy dzień i podobno jakieś spotkania dzisiaj będą 🥰 nie zgubmy się

youtu.be/ZGTk0WWyeRI?...

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Lia Smith was a transgender rights advocate and athlete who spoke out forcefully against this administration's policies.

Rest in peace. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.

www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

From now on, when anyone asks how we’re going to pay for it, the answer should be we’ll take it out of the teargas budget.

The GFRobot article about Star Trek fans being majority male/conservative is still going around several days later, so I was to say 1) don't click on it or they will "write" more just like it & 2) the site is known trash.

Here's my Star Trek Feminist Community starter pack!

go.bsky.app/BJx9pao

tbqh I think westerners (esp white ones) shouldn't be policing what Palestinians share to get help. I don't care if you don't like sharing "gore," it's the news, it's important, and Palestinians have already learned that people DON'T BELIEVE THEM without that kind of proof. They can't win.

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

11 queer romance books with a purple cover - full alt text in thread

Haunted mediation

If we were a movie

The dating disaster

There are some book challenges on instagram for people in Gaza - and I wanted to share this one here as well. If you want to help the cause (distributing 50 food parcels) you can check out the fundraiser here: chuffed.org/project/1499...

[ #PurpleStackForPalestine
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Bahahaha, that's amazing. You have a huge cock 🤣

If CBS wanted a billion dollars they’d hit Romantasy with new Trek novels.

Romulan Knotting!
A Mouthful of Datas!
Only One Bed Menagerie!
Fated Mates (Tuvix)!

Cuomo could have slunk away after his humiliation in the primary, decided to come back for another shot, and somehow found even lower ground to sink to. Which is honestly an accomplishment when your starting position is "sexual assaulter who killed everybody's grandma"