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A digital illustration of a baby velociraptor sat in a nest of dry branches. The dinosaur has a covering of fuzzy white feathers, except for its head and snout.

Baby Velociraptor.
#SciArt

the skull-wearing pokemon, cubone, balances a bone on its nose as it stretches in the sunshine

this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldn’t give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me

Want a reliable way to tell the two cryptic giant hummingbird species apart while birding in the Andes? Use your ear! 🎶 In a new @fieldornith.bsky.social J. Field Ornithology paper, we show how their vocalizations differ clearly—making sound a slam dunk for identifying them in the field.

South Korea approves creating a trans rights foundation South Korea has approved the creation of a foundation fighting to protect transgender people from discrimination.

South Korea has approved the creation of a foundation designed to protect transgender people from discrimination after nearly two years of deliberation.

www.thepinknews.com/...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

I fucking hate the American culture of entitled asshole selfishness. you see it everywhere. the driver assholes going 90 in a school zone. the assholes who don’t leash their dog or pick up their dog shit. the assholes who litter. the assholes who won’t vaccine their kids

feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined

haunting fact i just learned today: your brain leaves impressions of its topography on the inside surface of your skull

A giant sculpture of a leaf insect made out of terra-cotta clay sits on a a piece of cardboard covered in tinfoil in an oven.

Baking bugs today

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

This curious worm uprooted itself from the sand like a carrot being pulled up by an invisible person, and rolled around in the current for a bit before starting to dig itself back in. You can see the sand grains slowly traveling over some mucous layer as it slowly reverses into the sand.

📢Low Coverage Genome and Ultraconserved Element Workshop at Washington State University!

👥Target participants: Grad students and postdocs

📆When: June 7-13, 2026

⏳Application deadline: March 16, 2026, link in bio

Bottle opener thighs
Sepedon sp. (Sciomyzidae)

Beloved lepidopterist Kevin dissects some noctuid genitalia in the Visible Lab, which he has decorated to look like the penalty box at a hockey game. He is wearing a Pens jersey and a hockey helmet while he looks thru the microscope.

I thought our new “visible lab” space felt like a petting zoo but @mothpotato.bsky.social had a much better idea

i'm gonna learn about rnaseq yayy

THE SKY HIGH POKEMON‼️

A small stream running through a pine forest

I'm 28 today and to celebrate I wanted to share this new piece I've been working on ✨

Comic. [Two people looking at a board with apparent formula (3.1.3.1)/(3.1.2.1)] PERSON: Do mammologists think these are hard? I mean, this one just evaluates to 3/2. [caption] Mathematicians encounter dental formulas

Dental Formulas

xkcd.com/3213/

large cylindrical tank with surrounding piping and duct work in an industrial setting.

bins collect our dewatered biosolids (we call it cake) so it can be pumped to our incinerators.

the cake is fuel, and the incinerators generate steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity.

bin cams help operators monitor bin levels and function in real time.

#NewSpeciesAlert! We discovered & described a new species of gall wasp, Belonocnema mesoamericana, on the central American live oak, Quercus oleoides. Great collaboration between Alejandro Zaldivar & lab at #UNAM, @ymilesz.bsky.social at #EdinburghUni, and my lab at #RiceUniversity. #biodiversity

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

庭でガサガサできる幸せ。ヤブヤンマ
#啓蟄 #湿地帯ビオトープ #俺のビオトープ

You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/s...

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

If you're wearing Meta glasses then, per the article, "much of the footage being recorded by the glasses is being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage."

Wow. Well, that's dystopian as hell.

A tiny hermit crab🐚y¡¡y✨
even as an adult, it’s small enough to pick up with tweezers.

Scientists tagging 10,000 bogong moths to solve mystery The project's success largely relies on citizen scientists spotting a distinct white dot on the wings of moths.

"...a team of researchers from Western Sydney University and volunteers from the self-titled "bug nerd network" have just tagged more than 10,000 bogong moths..."

where do i sign up for this

* takes long drag on cigarette, stares into middle distance *

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.