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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
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MS Biology, MPH, MS Cybersecurity |
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This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm
January 9, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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*Bloop*
crits4cats.org Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 1d
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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The Belt and Sword of Orion again, this time with about eight hours total exposure time. I think I'll leave it at this and work on something new tonight. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
January 8, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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The Vaccine Integrity Project at CIDRAP is launching an independent review of the HPV vaccine, using transparent methods and drawing on more than a decade of data
January 8, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Spider or puppy? We report, you decide.
Macro photograph of a furry, 8 legged animal with large saucer eyes, looking up at us, begging with its foremost appendages held expectantly in front, perhaps for a morsel, just one little piece of whatever you're eating.
January 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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The world feels rough right now

So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.

🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
January 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Yesterday we started #kakapo artificial insemination for the season. We do this to help maintain genetic diversity, with a potential additional benefit of improving fertility. We inseminated Esperance, who mated naturally a few nights ago. #conservation #parrots #birds
A female kakapo being held during daytime. Credit: Andrew Digby
January 8, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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Jellyfish sleep, which is already bizarre given they have no brains. DNA damage accumulates in their neurons when jellyfish are awake, and it gets repaired when they sleep. This might be something fundamental, evolutionarily, to the role of sleep. 🧪🌊

Link: nature.com/articles/s41...
a,b Average sleep time during 36 h under LD in C. andromeda (a) and N. vectensis (b). White, black, and red horizontal bars represent light, dark, and SD periods, respectively (C. andromeda: ZT17-23, N. vectensis: ZT20-ZT4). c, d Sleep time accumulation of the previous 12 h (sliding average) in C. andromeda (c) and N. vectensis (d) during 36 h under LD. Black arrowheads indicate sampling time for the DNA damage assay presented in (i–l). e Confocal z-projection of a C. andromeda rhopalium and adjacent peri-rhopalial tissue. White squares mark representative single nucleus in the mesoglea. Red asterisk indicates rhopalium. Scale bar 150 μm. f Confocal z-projection showing the mOrange-positive endodermal nervous system in tg(-2.4NvElav1b:mOrangeCAAX) N. vectensis. White squares mark representative single neurons. Scale bar 100 μm. g Representative images of cells in the peri-rhopalial tissue of C. andromeda sampled at ZT11, ZT23, and the following day (Day2 ZT11). Nucleus stained by DAPI (gray), and γH2AX foci (magenta) are stained using immunohistochemistry. Scale bar 4 μm. h Representative images of γH2AX staining (magenta) in mOrange-positive neurons (green) of tg(-2.4NvElav1b:mOrangeCAAX) N. vectensis sampled at ZT17, ZT8, and the following night (Night2 ZT17). Nucleus stained by DAPI (gray). Scale bar 2 μm. i, k Normalized number of γH2AX foci per nucleus of control and sleep-deprived C. andromeda under LD. i Control: Day1 (n = 24, 1.00 ± 0.64), Night (n = 22, 0.55 ± 0.55), Day2 (n = 26, 1.31 ± 0.63). k Sleep-deprived: Day1 (n = 27, 1.00 ± 1.09), Night (n = 31, 2.11 ± 1.13), Day2 (n = 28, 1.42 ± 1.12). Values are mean ± s.d. (n=rhopalia from 8-10 animals per time point).
January 8, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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Daylily
June 1st 2024
January 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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Cladonia lichens among moss. NWT, Canada. #lichen #moss #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of several grey Cladonia podetia growing from green thallus. The lichens are growing among Polytrichum moss plants which are green.
January 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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Stemonitis slime mold aka Chocolate Tube Slime Mold. This one is part way through the maturation process. In a matter of hours, this will have turned brown, eventually becoming fluffy and blowing away in the wind or dispersing by way of rain drops, or other disturbances. NWT, Canada.
#fungifriends
Photo of a developing slime mold on dead, brown leaves on the forest floor. The slime mold looks like several tight groupings of tiny bright yellow tubes on wire-like stalks.
January 7, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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I don't take a lot of pictures of geese but anytime I can get wings over water with a sunrise and fog in the background I will fire away 📷 #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueSkyPhotographer #Birds 🪶 #NatureLovers #Wildlife
January 7, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Saw this bracket fungus on my walk yesterday. Am even less of an expert on this kind of thing than with birds - anyone any idea of a name?

#fungus #photography
Pale coloured bracket fungus on a tree stump
January 8, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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US withdrawing from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as well as the Framework Convention on Climate Change. Just a big f-u to nature.
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one net effect of this will just be to make life a little harder for Americans in ways, they can’t quite put their finger on, because some of these organizations do the invisible work of multilateralism that enables contemporary life; another will be to hold up progress on most shared global goal…
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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loser stuff thread www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Some dusk shots around town

#Corvallis #Oregon #PNW 🐡
Under bridge angle photo Garden close up wide angle Garden closeup wide angle Brick wall illuminated by light at dusk
January 6, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Cat Inspecting Macro Lens (2025)
Ozymandias, a brown tabby cat, close up macro shot
January 5, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Crazy how that works
Grok saying it doesn’t generate images.
January 5, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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Beautiful Paragorgia. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 892. #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife
January 4, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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First fungus of 2026 - Velvet Shank I think #Mycology #Toadstool #Mushroom #Fungi
January 2, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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It might bite... 👹🍄

#Pareidolia #Pareidolie #Iseefaces #FacesInThings #FacesInPlaces #Grisette #Mushroom
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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𝗦𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
If we leave aside the more extreme discussions about "everything everywhere" and modularity this is a very cool paper.
So much can be done with data from 260 regions and 60K neurons.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence
January 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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It’s also time to start wondering if some of these reporters are a little cooked by the bots themselves. Reporters aren’t inured to chatbot psychosis. In fact, some of them may have drank too much of the kool aid from sources selling them stuff. We’re in a new world of stupid. Adjust your credulity.
January 3, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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I used to think X had no public utility but it is developing into some sort of monument to billionaire hubris. It's a living museum of paranoiac mania, a Grey Gardens situation.
January 2, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Another brainy Orange Rock Posy (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) #lichen.
Northwest Territories, Canada.
#fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a cream coloured lichen growing flat on grey (mostly crustose lichen) rock. The left part of the lichen has a large brain-like growth.
January 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM