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Zaftig Parcheesi @realcoolsolid.bsky.social · 6h

Shirley!

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Andy Warhol @warhol.bsky.social · Oct 30

I can never get over when you’re on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

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Sabocat @beedut.bsky.social · May 2

@aussieinto.bsky.social

The Gum Leaf Skeletoniser (or Mad Hatterpillar) wears the heads of its previous moults on its head. It's Australian.

My name is Grub
I wear a hat
It's made of heads
That l'once had
Cause when I grow
I shed my skin
I am an Australian.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 12d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 13d

Could not be more well-deserved! Congratulations Hahrie! 🎉 @hahrie.bsky.social

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 15d

www.classics.utoronto.ca/events/trans...

Translating the Violence of the Iliad: 2025-26 S. J. Stubbs Lecture in Classics | Department of Classics

In the 2025-26 S. J. Stubbs Lecture in Classics, Translating the Violence of the Iliad, Professor Emily Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania will assess the challenges of interpreting and translat...

www.classics.utoronto.ca

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 18d

Vaccine breakthrough for deadly elephant virus. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vaccine breakthrough for deadly elephant virus

A vaccine against a deadly disease that affects young elephants is shown to be effective in a world-first trial.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19d

As I have discussed before: artisans tend to cluster in city districts and then erect a clubhouse called a schola for their collegium. At Roman Sagalassos in Turkey, they have found such an association meeting-place near the 80 workshops that made up the potter’s district. 🏺 #collegia

Ancient association building unearthed in Sagalassos

Archaeologists uncover remains of a communal building in the ancient city of Sagalassos, believed to have hosted meetings, feasts and even weddings organized by Roman-era professional and religious as...

www.hurriyetdailynews.com

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 19d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

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がんぼるぞい®︎ 💪🐶✨borzoiボルゾイ @ganborzoi.bsky.social · 28d

梨が好きです。がんぼるぞい。

translation:
I like pears.

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 19d

Today marks the first day in the 55-year history of PBS and 54-year history of NPR that public media has broadcast to its audiences without federal funding. But even though lots of local outlets are at risk, PBS and NPR are still here, providing fair, accurate news coverage and will not be silenced.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · Sep 19

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22d

This week’s astonishing artifact is a pair of cloisonné eagles found in the grave of a Visigoth woman. 🏺🧪

Eagle brooches: 1,500-year-old pins filled with dazzling gems and glass — and worn by powerful Visigoth women

Visigoth women may have worn eagle-shaped pins as a symbol of power.

www.livescience.com

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Zaftig Parcheesi @realcoolsolid.bsky.social · 19d

They even tried to source the exact same stone, but had to settle for something similar.

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Duke’s Inspiration from other Institutions

How did other universities and institutions inspire the design of Duke's campus?

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 21d

Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me

#Archaeology

My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a cartoon-like, stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against a white background. The front-facing octopus has a large red and white head/body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot. Below the head/body are eight writhing tentacles

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 20d

The world is kind of scary right now, so here's what I'm offering:

Hognose snake drinking water.

Be sure to stay for the lip smack.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 21d

This GIF appears to show a honeypot ant.

A specialized caste of workers called 'rotunds' or 'repletes' act as "living larders."

Their abdomens can swell to enormous size to store food fed to them by other workers, a phenomenon called 'physogastrism' (from Greek "swollen belly").

a black ant is crawling on a piece of paper next to a drop of honey .

Alt: A black ant is crawling on a piece of paper next to a drop of honey. It begins drinking, and the abdomen swells, becoming semi-transparent, and changing to a golden honey color as the exoskeleton stretches and swells.

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Zaftig Parcheesi @realcoolsolid.bsky.social · 21d

Viviane - Shama Plus

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFPP...

Shamalama Ding Dong

YouTube video by Viviane Chidid - Topic

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27d

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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Zaftig Parcheesi @realcoolsolid.bsky.social · 21d

This is great reporting on why — heads up, this will send you into a rage 😡

www.apmreports.org/episode/2022...

Episode 1: The Problem

www.apmreports.org

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蓮猫 Lotuscat @lotuscat.bsky.social · 21d

A Drepanidae moth or hitotsume-kagiba (Auzata superba). This moth aspires to be a bird poop. Actually, there are many insects that try to look like excrement. Tokikubo, Komoro, Nagano#Invertebrate #Insects
ヒトツメカギバ。長野県小諸市鴇久保 #虫

White moth on a leaf. Front wings have brown smudge pattern with 3 white & black vertical eye patterns. There are grey wavy pattern on the back wings. The abdomen has a grey “six pack” pattern on the back.

A white bird dropping on green leaf. It looks like the moth.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · Sep 21

I'm thinking of this piece I wrote way back in June 2014, about the problematic assumption that when you're a starting PhD student or PGR who is disabled, you'll know what access support you'll need, even though you've never done a research degree before

phdisabled.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/t...

The Adjusted PhD: What Accommodations Work(ed) For You?

Today I initiated conversations with my new institutional home’s Disability Support Services. As a disabled postgraduate researcher returning to PhD study after a previous unsuccessful attem…

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Aug 8

Jeanette Scissum (1939) is a US mathematician, space scientist, and diversity advocate who put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot cycle.
Here, at her desk in NASA.
#WomenInSTEM

A black and white photo of a young Black woman seated at her desk and turning her head to smile for the camera. Her desk is set against a wall, and on the wall, a very big poster of the moon.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 21d

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

The Gazette @thegazette.com · 22d

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent’s license following his arrest by federal immigration officers

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent's license following Friday arrest

A state educational licensing board has revoked the license of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts following his arrest by federal immigration officers last week.

www.thegazette.com

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 21d

This is the best news of the day. 🥹🥹

"Mychal has been spreading library joy across social media for years, and now he’s the resident librarian at PBS."

Phttps://bookriot.com/new-host-of-reading-rainbow/

Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian

After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.

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