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Today we're launching At The Well, a new, Patreon-exclusive bonus series where our cast talks about the stories that shaped them. The books, films, shows and soundtracks they draw from when they sit down to build worlds together.

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This guy gets it.

Comic depictions of the first page of different scientific papers, with titles that include the following: We put a camera somewhere new. Hey, I found a trove of old records! They don't turn out to be particularly useful, but still, cool! My colleague is wrong and I can finally prove it. The immune system is at it again. We figured out how to make this exotic material, so email us if you need some. What are fish even doing down there? The task I had to do anyway turned out to be hard enough for its own paper. Hey, at least we showed that this method can produce results! That's not nothing, right? Check out this weird thing one us saw while out for a walk. We are 500 scientists and here's what we've been up to for the last 10 years. Some thoughts on how everyone else is bad at research. We scanned some undergraduates.

Here's the brilliant original version from @xkcd.com: xkcd.com/2456/
#science #sciencesky #academia #academicsky

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

Julia out there proving that you can jump better at 28 than at 15. We love to see it! ⛸️

The Great Pumpkin Pancake Party This warm, beautiful picture book follows Lily and her grandfather as they establish a new autumnal tradition with an old family recipe.This year, Lao Ye wan...

I just snuck into the Zoom for @mackidssl.bsky.social where they showed my picture book, and flailed a little.

Thank you for doing a lovely job showcasing it!

And please consider pre-ordering now - Kelly Wu (who is not on Bluesky) did an AMAZING job with the art.

when the Olympics aren't on: our noble neighbors to the north. so alike yet so different. why must our government treat them with hostility, when we have gained so much from our friendship

watching women's hockey: we must saw this continent apart at the 49th parallel and push them into the Arctic

Surreal Estate on Syfy and Hulu starring Tim Rozon and Sarah Levy.

Back to Surreal Estate. Really digging this show.

BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit

you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table

you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

The fact that the world's richest man, owner of a non-trivial amounts of its communication infrastructure, is just a flat out bonkers Nazi... well this is a fact that perturbs me.

Short thread. Essential reading.

Alesbuchanan Summer Olympics: Who can run the fastest? :) Who can swim the fastest? :) Who can do the best somersault? :) Winter Olympics: WHO CAN MAKE IT TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ICE SLIDE OF DEATH AND SURVIVE?? WHO CAN GET AROUND THE RINK WITHOUT GETTING THEIR HANDS SLICED OFF BY EVERYONE ELSE'S FEET BLADES?? CAN THIS GUY DO A 1080 DEGREE FLIP WITHOUT DYING?? legionoftuna Summer Triathlon: Don't run too fast, you have to save your energy for a swim and a bike ride! :) Winter Biathlon: I see you've been skiing for five miles now here's your gun Source: lesbuchanan #olympics

Welcome to the Winter Olympics don't ask about how many people died or were injured in the making of this sport please and thank you.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Centaur Games Centaur Games

*Reposts appreciated”

My webstore heycentaur.com is finally up!
This took so many months of labour (mostly my partner’s), but it is all ready and running.
Physical copies of Kala Mandala are now available, shipping to most of the world.

We're doing this.

Ep. 4 of Flight of the Icaron is out NOW on your favorite podcasting platforms!

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Important addition here!

Olympics Dog was chasing the motorized camera they have to capture the competitors at the finish line, then decided to chase some competitors instead

A drawing of three speed skaters (by me!) One is wearing red and white with black accents and the caption "Guy who is either Canadian or Swiss or Austrian or Japanese or Polish or Danish" One is wearing red white and blue and is labeled "Guy who is either American or Norwegian or French or Czech or Slovakian or Slovenian or British" One is wearing neon orange and labeled Guy who is UNDENIABLY DUTCH

God bless the Dutch for this

The cheating by Canadian curlers is starting to look systemic:

“…an official said she touched her second to last stone in the first end after releasing the handle

Homan could be seen extending her finger after releasing the stone, but insisted she did not touch the rock after releasing the shot”

black and white illustration of skeletal death about to leap onto a tobogganer's sled. The tobogganer wears boots, an anorak, and a fur hat and grasps a rod in one hand.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina
Death and the Tobogganer, etching by Swain, 1862
wellcomecollection.org/works/kxghsvfb

MAGA propagandists: "We represent the silent majority"
The silent majority:

People think I’m joking but turkeys run the streets like gangsters. Last year, they broke a mailman’s hip!

Clearly a DM: I know you have quote posts disabled, but I want to tell you how much I like your watercolour. Great work.

IF SOMEONE HAS THEIR REPLIES TURNED OFF DO NOT TAG OR DM THEM WITH YOUR REPLY

Even if you are doing it to compliment them!

THEY TURNED THEM OFF FOR A REASON.

*tapping the sign for the second time today, despite how I have barely been on bluesky today*

A menu for a Medieval Midwinter Feast, decorated at the edges with historical marginalia drawings of a weird owl, a cat churning butter, and a lady in a red dress dancing. Menu consists of: Barley Water 14th c. France Hypocras Spiced Wine 14th c. England and elswhere (non-alcoholic version) Grave of Small Birds 14th c. France Drawen Benes 14th c. England Diuers Sallets 17th c. England Parsnip Pie 16th c. France White Leek Sauce 15th c. France & England Verte Sauce 14th c. France & England Pear Tart 15th c. England Zabaglone Wine Custard 15th c. Naples.

A table with red tablecloth laden with food for feasting. There's a beautiful loaf of homemade bread, butter, a crystal bowl filled with bean stew, three difference sauces, a platter of cornish game hens, a platter of cauliflower topped with quartered hardboiled eggs, and a savory pie.

Our Medieval Midwinter Feast was a rip-roaring culinary success! I cooked all day (what else is new when I host a party 😂) and everything was really legitimately good! I was honestly expecting a lot of the food to be weird-but-edible, and it was genuinely delicious! Read on for details!

Fat Bear Week 2021: before-and-after pictures of the contenders Twelve bulging bears battled it out to take home the illustrious title of Alaska’s fattest bear earlier this week

At the end of hibernation (properly 'post-denning'), they'll be down to a lean, mean 5-9% body fat & need to rebuild reserves.

The Guardian has before and after photos from 2021 with a neat slider-effect to show you the remarkable transition they undergo to get ready.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

idk whose idea it was to hold a men’s figure skating competition on Friday the 13th when your average men’s competition is like watching 24 nervous, skittish horses fighting for their lives at the best of times