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🏊‍♀️ swim teacher , 🐕 animal care tech, 🎸 musician/music therapist, 🧠 mental health tech, science &k elementary Ed. I care about people, animals, and the environment. Dealing with genetic diseases. I refuse to let them still me. 💙 JUST KEEP SWIMMING 🏊‍♂️
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I really hate the way Trump treats people. He is mean, cruel, and vindictive. Why would anyone like him as a person? Why would people even vote for him?
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January 30, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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This Orchid Mantis is the same female from birth to maturity. Orchids and other mantis species undergo dramatic change at each stage of development over their roughly one-year lifespan.

#naturephotography #nature #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #prayingmantis #insects #eastcoastkin #photography
January 29, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Happy Fly-day. We made it!

Southern Paper Wasp poses
(Polistes bellicosus)

on Crêpe ginger
(Cheilocostus speciosus)

Naples Botanical Garden
Florida 10-8-25

#flyday #eastcoastkin #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #wasps #nature #art #gardens #gardening #flowers
January 30, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Female bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)

on dahlia flower
in Andersonville neighborhood
July 25th, 2025

#macro #photography #green #MacroPhotography #native #bees #flowers #dahlias #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugsky #art #greenbees #ColorADay #GreenSat #eastCoastKin
January 31, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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January 30, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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This hibiscus was in full bloom on the island of Taiwan. The city of Hualien resides on the Pacific coast and the Tropic of Cancer. 🌺

#naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #flowers #hibiscus #eastcoastkin #photography
January 31, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."
Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him
CHICAGO—Saying he had been absolutely blindsided by the sudden change in his fortunes, local 33-year-old Tyler Branton, a man who lost everything in cryptocurrencies, told reporters Thursday that he j...
theonion.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election, narrowing Republicans’ already-slim majority
Democrat Christian Menefee Wins Election For U.S. House, Narrowing GOP's Slim Majority
The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year.
www.huffpost.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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We aren't heading there. We're there America.
Call on congress to impeach and remove Trump.
February 1, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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This is what courage and strength looks like!
So, proud of Minnesota!!! 🔥🔥🔥
#ICEOUTNOW
January 31, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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Lots of bikes today for the bike ride for Alex Pretti in Santa Barbara this afternoon!
January 31, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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Animals In and Beyond Wartime

Rethinking Ukraine’s Environment: War, Ecocide, and Beyond – An International Seminar Series

Thursday – 12 February 2026 – 10 a.m. MST (Edmonton) / 12 p.m. EST (Toronto) / 18:00 CET (Warsaw) / 19:00 EET (Kyiv)

niche-canada.org/2026/01/30/v...

#envhist #animalhistory
Virtual Event - Animals In and Beyond Wartime
12 February 2026 - Bringing together scholars from different disciplines as well as practitioners, this presentation in the seminar series will explore how war disrupts non-human lives and reconfigure...
niche-canada.org
February 1, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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Your assigned listening today is this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social History of Science channel interview with John L. Rudolph discussing his 2023 book "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should), published by @academic.oup.com. #HistSci #Booksky

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
John L. Rudolph,
Podcast Episode · New Books in the History of Science · 01/31/2026 · 37m
podcasts.apple.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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Dynamic actin waves in a zebrafish embryo. Credit to @aaandmoore.bsky.social & Dvir Gur. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
February 1, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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Moment bright light trail streaks across New Zealand skyline. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Moment bright light trail streaks across New Zealand skyline
The footage was captured by a webcam at the Heretaunga Boating Club in the capital city of Wellington.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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🧪Are high protein diets really better for aging?

Protein restriction in mice improves mitochondria quality control via AMPK signalling. This enhanced cardiovascular health by maintaining ATP production.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dietary Protein Restriction Ameliorates Cardiac Inflammaging via AMPK‐ULK1‐Mediated Mitochondrial Quality Control
Dietary protein restriction protects the aging heart in the context of obesity by limiting mitochondrial DNA leakage and suppressing cGAS–STING-driven inflammation. Through AMPK–ULK1-dependent mitoph....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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Cool pictures from my platform. It is neat to see the behavior of the internet. 🧪 #100daysofnetworks
February 1, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Our article, a birder’s guide to HPAI, was published today in @britishbirds.bsky.social - it’s open access this month.

We explain how bird-flu infected seabirds in 2021/22 and the importance of citizen science to montoring future outbreaks in the wild. 🪶🧪

britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
BB eye: A birder’s guide to High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza
High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI, bird flu) virus infections have historically been most commonly associated with wild Eurasian waterfowl with...
britishbirds.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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February 1, 2026 at 7:31 AM