Vote #Copper! It’s the pro-Democracy, pro-immigration ore!

#OreCup

A close up of a roadrunner from the neck up being backlit by the sun. The bird is looking left.

A close up of a roadrunner from the neck up being backlit by the sun. The backlighting makes many tiny hairlike feathers visible around its head. The bird is looking left.

Ravi is showing off a halo of super fine hairlike feathers especially under his beak. 🥰
🪶 roadrunner

TWO THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT THE SAME TIME Sanitation and other hygiene-related advances in public health like sewage control, waste water filtration and treatment did absolutely significantly increase life expectancy. But so did vaccines. A recent study estimated that vaccines have saved 154 million lives globally since 1974, equivalent to a rate of six lives every minute. unambiguous SCIENCE

Don’t get sucked into the whataboutism. There doesn’t need to be competition between public health advances - each are important & critical in making people live long + healthy lives. Anyone in public health will tell you this. Alas, the folks doing damage only know how to rage bait for self-gain.

No no it’s fine. No one else wanted a pillow. Why would you think that?

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

‘We’ve been able to resurrect some of the ancient life that shows what this wetland was like prior to urbanization.’

I didn’t have this Guardian article about Toronto on my bingo card yesterday:

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

4 round(ish) loaves of Multigrain Sourdough on a cooling rack. Chef gets his "Four Score, and Seven Grains Ago" bread.

Y'all...I finally got the Multigrain recipe to work!!!😁😁😁

For #FossilFriday some iguanodontian dorsal vertebrae with ossified tendons which would have formed a crisscross pattern. First appeared Late Jurassic associated with increased mass and quadrupedality. From #IsleofWight in the collections of @nhm-london.bsky.social.

Color photograph. A small orange tabby lays back on a white blanket and looks up at the camera. He is fully belly up and looking mischievous and has a small brush off to the left side of the photo. The image is taken from above so you are looking down on this cutie.

“Excuse me, ma’am—am I next for my fabulous brushing? Don’t forget the belly, it’s my best feature!”

#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #NoVA #photography

young gray, black and brown squirrels on a branch

Multicolor squirrel family 🥹 #sqrlpix

The Senate voted to confirm Neil Jacobs as the new head of the NOAA. Jacobs previously served as acting director during the first Trump administration, a period marked by the “Sharpiegate” hurricane forecast controversy.

People coming down with Covid all around me. We're in a big wave - protect yourself. Studies show chance of Long Covid/ other damage rises with every infection.

A month after school starts...who knew. And classrooms with no hepafilter units bec govt/schools disallow it. #bcpoli

Headline reading “Atlantic current at risk of collapse - plunging U.K. into never ending winter”

On rare occasion there’s an accurate headline about rapid climate warming
and it’s always jarring as hell
and a reminder how much we’re being lied to on a daily basis.

Got Tower of Power on. Let's go.

October 2004—I was 17, jazzed to see an eruption of Mount St. Helens in my lifetime.

The earthquakes, the eruptions through Crater Glacier, and the subsequent growth of the whaleback dome and spine.

We were spoiled from 2004 to 2008, weren't we? Harmless dome fun.

Saber-tooth fuzzy potatoes!!!!

Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.

New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US

A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers

Sometimes the internet is so delightful. 🎉

Somehow this post from an account I don't follow showed up in my feed for a book launch for a book I hadn't heard of in a city I've never visited before but will happen to be there that night. Sounds like a great way to spend an evening! 📚🚲

Laccaria amethystina - Amethyst Deceiver 💜 #FungiFriends

A squawking great horned owl revealing his tongue.

Good morning, #Bluesky!! Have a great day.
Follow @mclellandphotography.com
#GreatHornedOwl #BirdOfTheDay #Favourite #BirdPhotography #Birds #Birding #BirdNerd #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky 💙🦋

Hematite A "fan" (1mm) formed by Hematite needles, covered with tiny Cristobalite. From the Wannenköpfe near Ochtendung. Photo/collection: Fred Kruijen. Copyright © Fred Kruijen

C'mon, hematite! #MinCup25
www.mindat.org/photo-46723....

Senifinals time folks in the #MinCup25

Sf1: #kyanite v #hematite.

Awful sore at #kyanite for beating dioptase a while back, so probably stumping for #hematite this round.

Pics below!

The Scream for #Hematite! #MinCup25

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4...

Woman with a nonchalant pose is dwarfed by the background as she stands on a ridge of the folded red bands of rock of the Banded Iron Formation of Hamersley Range, Australia. Photo: Masha Pastuhov, Dronesandstones

Have you ever stood on an ancient seafloor bed?

This is the banded iron formation (BIF) of Hamersley Range, Australia.

Go big #hematite !

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3...

#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Edvard Munch, The Scream 1893 Medium: Tempera and crayon Support: cardboard Size: 114,3 cm x 146,7 cm Art movement: Expressionism Nasjonalmuseet Oslo NG.M.00939 Used red ochre (aka hematite) as a pigment. This famous expressionist painting shows a somewhat abstract bald figure holding his head and screaming on a path next to a fence in a landscape at sunset painted in livid colours. There are two walking figures in the background.

My face, as I campaign for minerals in art, when I see the #MinCup25 voters swayed against mineral titans of art history, like voting for kyanite over 164,000 years of hematite and red ochre in art !? 😱

Give me hematite you rock nerds! Without hematite we couldn’t have this:

A simple sign on a building in upstate New York that that reads “Books & Cake”

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-

Prime Minister Carney cheers on the Canadian Women’s Rugby Team at the Rugby World Cup Final in London, England. — Le premier ministre Carney encourage l’équipe canadienne féminine de rugby lors de la finale de la Coupe du monde à Londres, en Angleterre.

Prime Minister Carney cheers on the Canadian Women’s Rugby Team at the Rugby World Cup Final in London, England. — Le premier ministre Carney encourage l’équipe canadienne féminine de rugby lors de la finale de la Coupe du monde à Londres, en Angleterre.

Prime Minister Carney cheers on the Canadian Women’s Rugby Team at the Rugby World Cup Final in London, England. — Le premier ministre Carney encourage l’équipe canadienne féminine de rugby lors de la finale de la Coupe du monde à Londres, en Angleterre.

On behalf of a proud nation, massive congratulations to Team Canada for an incredible run in the Rugby World Cup 🇨🇦

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Au nom d’une fière nation, je tiens à féliciter sincèrement l’équipe canadienne féminine pour son incroyable parcours à la Coupe du monde de rugby. 🇨🇦

Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon President made announcement on social media, but the White House did not immediately provide details

This is illegal. It is immoral. It is insane.

The president, sending soldiers to use "full force" against a civilian population based on made-up charges of terrorism by political opponents should be the kind of presidential crisis that provokes an impeachment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A fluffy gray cat lounging on an ottoman beside a large black and tan dog who is sprawled out on the floor, taking a nap.

State of the household update:

Photograph of an outcrop of rock framed in an artificial rock wall, showing metamorphic foliation kinked with overall kinematics of East over West.

Annotated photograph of an outcrop of rock framed in an artificial rock wall, showing metamorphic foliation kinked with overall kinematics of East over West.

Poked around Harper's Ferry, WV today, and revisited this lovely kink fold in Harpers Fm phyllite incorporated into a rock wall. ⚒️

Physician here: Tylenol is a recommended treatment for fever and pain in pregnancy.

As always, Canada sticks with science. 🇨🇦