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Married Cat mom... MSU & Lions fan!!
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An older watercolour drawing from when I used to make frequent trips to sketch in London. This shows the Embankment with lots of pigeons, a pavement artist and a couple of Japanese young women on one of the benches. This was sold at an exhibition.
#art #pleinair #London #Thames #watercolour
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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We will prosecute all of them with a hand in this terrorism.
A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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New rule: if you’re a Supreme Court Justice and you’re mentioned in the Epstein files, you have to recuse from any future lawsuit about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.

Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.

Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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If anyone's interested, they would need to have a proposal ready to go in the next week and a half....so short notice! 🧪
October 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Could species-specific fish 'hotels' help save Australia's freshwater populations? This spring could hold the answer - ABC News 🦑🧪🐠🌎
How ecologists turned fish 'hotels' into 'bungalows' to save a species
This spring offers a critical window to see if man-made "bungalows" installed in rivers can help a struggling fish species. If they work, they could provide a path forward for restoring other…
www.abc.net.au
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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“I’ve been working in the lab and am paying close attention to every single thing. . . . I’m savoring every moment, in case these are my last ones.” @juliekovacs.bsky.social 🧪⚗️
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
For chemists in academia, federal shutdown compounds stress
The nearly monthlong stoppage of government activity is disrupting an already-chaotic funding year
cen.acs.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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FOOD BANK DIRECTOR: “For every meal a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9. There’s no way we can meet that gap. We were not built to do this.”

(@TNDemocrats are imploring @GovBillLee to fund SNAP with the billions in reserves as other states are, but he refuses)
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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The non-military version of "stolen valor."
October 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
So many prayers for all in Jamaica ♥️🙏
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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“The velocities we measured are totally surprising; I didn’t think we would see so many fast dust devils on #Mars,” said planetary scientist Valentin Bickel. 🔴🧪 eos.org/articles/mar...
Martian Dust Devils Reveal Dynamic Surface Winds - Eos
A new wind map covering the whole of Mars includes some of the fastest winds ever detected on the Red Planet.
eos.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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This visualization explores the Orion Nebula as seen in visible-light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. These high-resolution visible observations show fine details including the wispy bow shocks and tadpole-shaped proplyds. 🔭 🧪
Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Visible Light
This visualization explores the Orion Nebula as seen in visible-light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. This movie is designed to be compared and contrasted against the companion movie using infrared-light observations from the Spitzer Space...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Urgent Request to help a young lady in WoodPark St Mary, Jamaica no shelter avail Requestfrom Stone Island Family family She is in a structure w/zinc roof If anyone can help pass request plz contact the family in the link below #WoodparkStMary #help #requestforhelp www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGns...
Urgent Help Needed! St Mary 🇯🇲
YouTube video by STONE ISLAND FAMILY
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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NRG raises $67 million for a small molecule for Parkinson’s and ALS

The British biotech’s lead molecule targets mitochondrial dysfunction to treat neurodegenerative diseases. cen.acs.org/business/sta... #chemsky 🧪
NRG raises $67 million for a small molecule for Parkinson’s and ALS
The British biotech’s lead molecule targets mitochondrial dysfunction to treat neurodegenerative diseases
cen.acs.org
September 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Your astonishing artifact for the week: this adorable but strange silver figurine from the Proto-Elamite culture. 🏺🧪
Kneeling Bull: A 5,000-year-old hybrid creature from Iran with a mysterious purpose
This silver bull figurine posing in a human-like manner may have been buried in a ritual to mark a temple boundary 5,000 years ago.
www.livescience.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Seven hours until the Summer Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere. 🔭🧪
June 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Happy #FluorescenceFriday! These are cultured fibroblasts imaged on a confocal microscope by postdoc Christina Daly. She is trying to understand how cells grow long signaling filopodia called cytonemes. Examples are visible extending from the orange cell in the image. 🤩 🧪 👩‍🔬
June 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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One of many secret projects that is finally seeing the light of day this summer, we just delivered the first copy of Deinosuchus schwimmeri for #FossilFriday

Here is am this past winter assembling the 3d printed prototype of the upper skull 🧪🐊
June 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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French violinist and social media influencer Esther Abrami releases her new album, Women, featuring music by female composers in a bid to redress historic biases.
Violinist Esther Abrami uncovers 'hidden treasure' of music by women
French violinist and social media influencer Esther Abrami releases her new album, Women, featuring music by female composers in a bid to redress historic biases.
www.npr.org
April 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured Curiosity rover mid-drive on Feb 28, 2025. The image shows the rover and its 1,050ft track across Gale Crater, marking a rare orbital view of the rover in motion. Curiosity is en route to study potential boxwork formations
#Mars
#CuriosityRover
#NASA
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NASA Orbiter Spots Curiosity Rover Making Tracks to Next Science Stop
The image marks what may be the first time one of the agency’s Mars orbiters has captured the rover driving.
www.jpl.nasa.gov
April 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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The discovery of soap dates back 5,000 years to ancient Babylon.

A chemist explains the science behind this enduring cleaning staple:
buff.ly/egrKHnb @prof-richardson.bsky.social, Coastal Carolina University 🧪
April 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn
Exclusive: ‘I have done all I can’: NSF director announces he is resigning
Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led the agency since 2020, leaves amid mass firings and grant terminations
scim.ag
April 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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🧪This is a good article explaining why the NIH is such an important institution that benefits all Americans and others globally. For example, NIH funding contributed to 99% of drugs approved for treatment. Drug approval comes after clinical trials.

www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
How Cuts to NIH Research Funding Would Hurt States
Proposed changes to the National Institutes of Health’s $48 billion budget would risk jobs, threaten state economies, and hamper progress toward prevention and treatment of diseases such as cancer.
www.americanprogress.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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🧪This is more than asking scientists to go find another job/find other career alternatives. The impending loss is dire. We are talking about the overall impact on human health/ economies. Our understanding of disease, from causes/origins to better treatment cures, at some point came via NIH support.
April 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM