@ellipsoptera.bsky.social
Twelve spiders in a trenchcoat sneaking into SC public comment sessions. She, he, or they. (My shitposting is mine alone and I am not my organization but my organization is pretty cool too: campquest.org)
Photobombing is a constant problem in macrophotography
(Heliolonche pictipennis moth in the Mojave Desert last weekend; green mirid plant bug going "Oh heyyy" in the upper left.) #BugSky 🌿🐙📷
We counted 1500 measles cases as of the end of last month. Guess who else is starting to rear its ugly head- Mumps.
It has been detected in ~34 people across 11 states.
Symptoms show up a few weeks after exposure in the form of fever, heads & swollen salivary glands.
🧪 archive.today/zuBf9
First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪
On International Women’s Day it’s great to remember that Grunya Sukhareva identified Autism before Kenner (100 years ago), identified that Autism presented regardless of sex, and that it is a spectrum.
Examples from Wikipedia:
we must attack and dethrone time
Throwback to the time This Thing appeared 👀 (giant mayfly, from 2021)
The Innocents (1961)
Starring Deborah Kerr
Directed by Jack Clayton - BOTD in 1921
DON’T BE A SUCKER (1945) 📽️ an anti-fascist film produced by the United States Army Signal Corps.
The film argues that both majority and minority groups are harmed by fascism, and that Americans must unify against fascism regardless of race, religion, or national origin
youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
#46: Swordsman
A movie that really understands the inherent appeal of watching lower power Naruto fights. A woman shoots snakes out of her robes and a man draws a line in the sand that cuts people in half. What's not to love?
#filmsky
boxd.it/dgDwYD
Female Hedgehog Harvestman Nemastomella bacillifera, Billacombe, Plymouth last week - always good to see these 'punk rock' harvestmen
Opilioacarus texanus, a large primitive mite that shares many characteristics with harvestmen. Travis County, Texas
#inverts #arthropods #macro
Some recent nature fun to share: Here's a Spinybacked Orbweaver (Gasteracantha cancriformis). This little spider looks more like a crab. Plus the cephalothorax kinda looks like a Friday the 13th hockey mask🔪🕸️ #nature #arachnids #wildlife www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49540-G...
Like yes tongue in cheek (specifically Tim Thomerson's tongue in a teenager's cheek) but it is hard to watch
Nw: Trancers II. I forgot all about this masterpiece. Wild example of age gap 90s relationships and the time traveling hoops you can go to create them. Otherwise incredible.
Me, trying to get people to invest in Campbells Soup: it’s moon soup, they eat it on the moon
The planet continues to warm from our heat-trapping emissions regardless of how much the government lies about it.
The frog has spoken.
🐸
#frog #messageoftheday #art #frogart #pencildrawing #sketch #pencilsketch #sketchbook
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
As ICE buys warehouse space nationwide to convert into immigration processing centers, we've compiled information to answer: What is an ICE detention center? What takes place inside? And who profits?
My editor: Do you think we can talk about whether you’ll make this deadline?
Me: The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about
![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi)
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs
xkcd.com/3204/
Which brings us back to the funniest video in internet history.
@nature.com you claim that Krauss had "no knowledge" of Epstein's crimes until after 2018, but there is absolute proof that he was defending Epstein as early as 2011, after he had already been convicted in 2008
This is documented in the Epstein files and here:
www.patreon.com/posts/143888...
SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
A kidney transplant recipient in Minnesota who was arrested by ICE has allegedly been denied access to life-saving medication for more than four days.
I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
I still really like how this megalosaurus i did awhile back turned out, just has a nice charm to it.
Based on the original reconstruction from the @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social
#paleoart
"I'm Going to Get My Baby Out of Jail" — Len Chandler & Bernice Johnson Reagon
youtu.be/56V_Kig6k2I?...
@larrythek.bsky.social I concur. This movie is incredible.
#filmsky 📽️ #criterionchannel #hbomax youtu.be/ZYU2lD5pPus?...
