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한지실 • 🇰🇷🇺🇲 • any pronouns phd student. dubbed expert bug surgeon by america's top entomologists. accessioned and catalogued in a museum near you! makes art sometimes :> 한국말 배우고 있습니다! (personal account! expect unscientific nonsense)

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Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 3h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Developed new species concept"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 12h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 12h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 2h

I'm smarter than a movie character so I will not be playing the hopscotch that makes you small

A photo of a crudely drawn hopscotch layout that gradually becomes tiny

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 5h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 4h

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Oregonizers @oregonizers.org · 15h

I am Amphifa!

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 13h

field cricket pope

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 14h

Field crickets (Gryllinae) aren't just plain brown chirping things in backyards - the group is actually pretty diverse, with >3,000 species. Maybe the weirdest are in the genus Sciobia, which all have these delightful Pikmin-like "hats" 🥺

📸: Sciobia barbara, Pierre-Henri Fabre

#EverydayEnsifera

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 18h

Day161 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) with Busycon carica. K-college educators left with similar prizes from PRI's teacher resource day today, supplying 40+ teachers
#savePRI ⚒️ 🧪

John oliver holding a large fossil whelk in a checked shirt in front of a green background

Crowded room of teachers sorting through long rows of tables covered in free specimens. Mostly of mollusks, but also publications, fossils, minerals and chemistry labware.

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Lydia @coyoteprince.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly charmed people were doing this nearly 100 years ago but I've also gotten this occassionally on my art and stories and it makes my day every time. Incredibly silly but the raw earnestness of it... one of the best compliments one can recieve imo

Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 1d

This is old and it's not even the first time I've seen it but I need to stress to everyone that I am the reincarnation of this teenage girl

Tale Foundry
@TheTaleFoundry
Brainrot this, chronically online that...
Meanwhile some teenage girl in the 1930s was sending these to her faourite horror magazine:

Devil's Croft is enticing. Raggh---woof---grr---I like so very much.

If you can get me any more story-length poems like Lovecraft's Psychopompos---by all means 'gimme.'

Ah---ahaha---haw haww---chuckle!

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SnowWolpard @snowwolpard.com · 1d

I work in an exhibit with live spiders, and I think I have lost count how often people misheard "green lynx spider" as "green link spider"...

Two illustrations of a green lynx spider (green spider with two bigger forward facing eyes and lighter colored legs) stacked on top of one another. The one on top is labeled "Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans)", the actual name of the spider. The one below is wearing a green, pointy hat, carrying a blue shield and sword drawn to look like the Hylian shield and Master sword from the "Legend of Zelda", series and is labeled "Green Link Spider (Peucetia hylia)".

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 1d

yea there's not a lot of emotional range in nh true

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tmy@10/19浅草ニャンフェスI-21 @tmy.bsky.social · 1d

amPlug🐾

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 1d

no i feel this, most of new leaf's music is still very nostalgic to me but i don't remember most of new horizons' either

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Luther Wells @ultraluther.bsky.social · 4d

I haven’t really been completely satisfied with some of my art for #invertober2025 (mainly because I don’t have time to put more effort into each one), so I’m switching to a different style for the rest of the animals.

#sciart

Digital, stylized drawings of a Japanese Sea Nettle, Red-Banded Leafhopper, Giant Green Anemone, Palmetto Weevil, Painted Spiny Lobster, and Buff-Tip Moth

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Tirk @tirkarokujo.itch.io · 1d

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Trang ✦ MCM London @trangmn.bsky.social · 2d

dancing on the forest floor!
#animation #art

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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 2d

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

climateages.com

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Sami Mark @samimarkart.bsky.social · 2d

shop update is live! so pleased with the new stuff this go around - check it out if you’re able!
www.microbiomearts.com
#bsnm 🐡🦑 #bugsky

arched sticker with a black background. text reads “NATURE IS QUEER” in a rainbow gradient and various marine animals swim above the text

hand holding a transparent maple leaf shaped red pin. a rosy maple moth illustration sits in the center of the pin.

hand holding a sticker of a mom and three baby opossums. Their eyes are holographic and look like they’re shining.

hand holding a heart shaped white sticker that says “I ❤️ kelp” and kelp fills out the negative space in the heart shape.

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 2d

In today's episode of otherworldly fungi: a close look at Polycephalomyces tomentosus! It's growing right alongside what's likely a species of slime mold.

📷 tannarc on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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