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Democracy is not a spectator sport! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 16m

Brazzaville Beach: A Novel by William Boyd — Review

#BookReview📖 by @GrrlScientist

#books #BookSky💙📚 #MustRead #scientists🥼 #research #LabLit #Congo🇨🇬 #Fiction grrlscientist.substack.com/p/brazzavill...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 59m

Next week, on Oct 18, go to @newscientist.com Live to see @jaapderoode.bsky.social discuss his book, Doctors by Nature, and the fascinating ways in which animals practice medicine. Among many excellent speakers, be sure to see Jaap at 2:35pm BST!

Explore the lineup and book tickets: buff.ly/4YBFj1U

Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves by Jaap de Roode

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seen in portland, oregon

#politics #ICE #gestapo #Lawlessness #tyranny #KristiNoem #GnomesAgainstPuppyKillers

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REMINDER: they blame immigrants so you don't blame billionaires

#politics #tyranny #oligarchs #billionaires #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #Nazis

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BEWARE: the #NobelPeacePrize2025 went to a trump-loving thatcher disciple who agrees with Netanyahu's #GazaGenocide & the orange rapist's use of lethal force in the Caribbean. there's nothing to celebrate here. more:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...

#MariaCorinaMachado #NobelPrize

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2025 winner of the Nobel Putz Prize

#politics #tyranny #NobelPeacePrize #PeacePrize #NobelPrize

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Menticide is an organized system of judicial perversion & psychological intervention, where a powerful tyrant transfers his own thoughts & words into the minds & mouths of the victims he plans to destroy or to use for his own propaganda.

-- American Psychiatric Association

#politics #psychology

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Democracy is not a spectator sport! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 6d

Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#Biodiversity #Spider🕷️ #NewToScience #NewSpecies #Thailand🇹🇭 #Gynandromorph #Wildlife #Halloween🏮 #SpookySeason😵‍💫 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science

Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon in this previously unknown species.

www.forbes.com

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 10h

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Drake Passage.

Map showing location at tip of South America

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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 1d

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Living Safely With Covid @covidsafenz.bsky.social · 1d

#LongCovid “No one is immune to this”

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of formerly healthy young Kiwis suffering with long Covid

The pandemic never ended, and we're all living proof of that.

www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid

A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

www.1news.co.nz

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Democracy is not a spectator sport! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 4h

the nobel peace prize winner is a strong supporter of both trump and netanyahu. clearly, the nobel committee has taken leave of their senses

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𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙰𝚁𝙲𝙷-𝙴𝙼𝙸𝙻𝚈 @nhyrvana.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sorry but that Hyllus is SO CUTE!!
(please keep scrolling if you aren't into spiders)

How does the world look through a spider’s eyes?

Spiders - are they really more afraid of you than you are of them?

theconversation.com

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David Blanchard @davidblanchard.bsky.social · 11h

Raindrops cling to maple leaves on a tree in my backyard.

#landscape 📷 #leaves #azwx

A cluster of red maple leaves fills the frame.

Closeup of a red maple leaf covered with water droplets.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 11h

Can we actually train ourselves to be more open-minded and harder to fool?

New research says yes. A short message warning us about closed-mindedness made people better at spotting misinformation, less likely to believe conspiracy theories, and more thoughtful about what they shared #MisinfoResearch

How to Train Yourself to Be More Open-Minded and Less Easily Misled

New research shows that cultivating open-minded thinking can be taught, and that this simple shift improves our ability to tell facts from falsehoods.

matthewfacciani.substack.com

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 1d

Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.

Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...

THAMES mnemonic for reading science:

T
Theory
•What BIG IDEA is the focus?

H
Hypothesis
•What SMALLER IDEA is actually getting tested?

A
Assumptions &
Alternatives
•What needs to be true to connect T:H?
•What else could explain results/predictions?

M
Methods:
Measures & Manipulations
•Were methodological tools validated?
•Evidence that we’re measuring/manip what’s claimed?

E
Evidence &
Ethics
•Are claims calibrated to EVIDENCE? Is EVIDENCE appropriate?
•ETHICALLY sound in practice/intent/implication/application?

S
Sampling
Statistical Model
•Who was studied? Who are claims about?
•Do stat results match verbal ideas?

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 5h

You asked. My thoughts on the Qatar expansion of Mountain Home Air Base.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 18h

JB Pritzker: “Another thing that’s happened with very few people paying attention is they demanded our voter data. Not just ours in Illinois — every state’s voter data. Why? They won’t tell us why.”

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note to self: #book

Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 15h

Ronald Hutton called it 'The best overall view of the subject... It not only covers the traditional remit of folklore but extends it into many less conventional areas'. And you can't argue with Ronald Hutton 😁 You can buy #Folklore in bookshops & here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180377/

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i’m astonished that trump has invited in brown people when he’s been engaged in an ethnic cleansing campaign to remove all brown people from USA & has invited in a nation that supports international terrorism when he’s actively gunning for antifa “terrorists” (even though antifa does not even exist)

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 14h

Good night from the City of London

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as the dust settles … the nobel peace prize went to a trump loving thatcher disciple who agrees with israel & trump’s use of force in the Caribbean & is described as a “liberal conservative”. more here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...

María Corina Machado - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Democracy is not a spectator sport! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 1d

Bye-bye birdies!

500 Bird Species Face Extinction Within The Next Century

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#birds🦉 #conservation🌏 #extinction #biodiversity #ecosystems #ClimateCrisis🌡️ medium.com/grrlscientis...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17h

"Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago"

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

Important reporting from @swin24.bsky.social:

Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

zeteo.com

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