Zaftig Parcheesi
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Zaftig Parcheesi
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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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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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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...
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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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梨が好きです。がんぼるぞい。

translation:
I like pears.
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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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#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
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Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me

#Archaeology
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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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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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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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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
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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…
phdisabled.wordpress.com
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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
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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.
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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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