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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 3d

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 25m

I have a couple of extra Figma Design + FigJam seats that I paid for until March 2026. I’d like to give them away to those who need it the most, such as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color creators, recent graduates, immigrants, or individuals working on social justice campaigns.

Breakdown:
• 2 Design seats — full design access (Figma Design editor).
• 0 Dev Mode seats — no developer-mode licenses.
• 2 FigJam seats — collaborative whiteboard access.

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 6d

This beautiful fluorescent ribbon is an Oriental Whip Snake. Common and stunning

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Alex Nelson @alxnelson.bsky.social · 6d

Roseate spoonbills will splash their wings through the water as part of their beauty routine. Here's one doing so mid-splash, facing straight ahead towards the camera. I really love this shot. #birds

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 6d

A Black-bearded Gliding Lizard (Draco melanopogon) in camouflage mode on a tree trunk. Often the way to spot these tiny little dragons is catching a flutter out the corner of your eye as it glides from tree to tree

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 4h

Tiny little loop of Painted Bronzeback. Smaller than a shoelace

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 4h

Beautiful markings on this Mangrove Pit Viper in Singapore

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 2h

Gorgeous female Wagler’s Pit Viper in Singapore

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 2h

Adult Oriental Whip Snakes are usually fluorescent green. I’ve met this blue/green individual a few times over recent months. Stunning morph.

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 2h

A regular adult Oriental Whip Snake looking like a laser beam

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SADIE 𓅐 @cicadie.bsky.social · 8d

Would you believe this spindly guy is an assassin bug? I picked him up initially thinking he was a phasmid…then I got a closer look at the face and saw the rostrum, and the raptorial forelimbs started to make sense! He's a member of emesinae, a reduviid subfamily I didn't know about before!
#bugsky

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 7h

One I’m sharing my flat with .. a ‘Bridge’ spider .. ?

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning!

Burrowing owl perched over an irrigation canal.

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Spider-Anne, or, Two Furry Demons in a Trenchcoat @anned13.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Emily rescued this peacock butterfly from her apartment stairwell. She said it was hissing and making cricket noises at her. Butterflies vocalize to scare away predators. I did not know that.

Peacock butterfly on a white windowsill. Photo by Dr Emily Davis, Toruń Poland, 10/10/25.

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Arachtober @arachtober.bsky.social · 12h

#Arachtober 10th is International Jumping Spider Day! Created in 2017 to show the cutest and most adorable spiders as a way for people to embrace instead of fear spiders. Started by photographer Shaham Tamir.

Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)
#JumpingSpiderDay #macro #macrophotography #spider

Jumping Spider in its shelter with its moth prey.

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John Boorman @johnboorman.bsky.social · 19h

Garden spiders (Araneus diadematus) can build impressive webs, at least in terms of the distance of the support lines. For the last 2 days this one has built a web where the lines go from the gutter of my kitchen roof to plants below, a distance of just over 2m. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 23h

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

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Тэ дрэвэт утвикλэрэн @teadrivendev.bsky.social · 20h

11. Ereban: Shadow Legacy (PC, 2024) -- Beautiful stealth game taking clues from "Assassin's Creed", "Tomb Raider", and quirky indie platformers, and applying them in a setting that while dystopian is still very unique. Stealth and traversal feel very cool once you get into the flow. Hidden gem.

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Zoo Boise @zooboise.bsky.social · 23h

Meerkat pups Bart, Quinn, and Twitch (here with dad Kijani) are getting ready for move-in day.

The renovated Small Animal Kingdom reopens on Thursday, October 23, where you’ll be able to see the meerkats in their brand-new habitat, along with other Zoo Boise favorites and even some new animals.

Four meerkats stand up inside a zoo habitat.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23h

He is ridiculously comfy. Never seen a bastard this comfy before.

Rupert the orange cat lays on his back tucked under a white sheet on a gray couch looking up at me sideways with his little arms crossed

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 22h

497 air targets last night. Before that: Kramatorsk train station, Hroza cafe, Okhmatdyt children's hospital, Yarova pension line.

This isn't war. It's systematic Russian terror against civilians. Article 51(2) of the Geneva Conventions names it. So will we. euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/10/r...

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Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History @smmnh.bsky.social · 22h

A flower beetle in baltic amber. We hope to raise money for a museum microscope so kids can examine insect specimens like this one!

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Cagle Cats @caglecats.bsky.social · 22h

The gang's all here!

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 1d

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

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