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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

Could annihilation occur to matter, this were the thing to do it.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know that BHL has #FullTextSearch? You can search for scientific names, places, etc, but you can also find all the things that "Alfred Russell Wallace" found "delicious" in his travels (search for "delicious" and then narrow search results by author). #ILoveBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org 🧪

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 2d

🐟 Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes
London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1908.

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Black-and-white historical illustration showing the Victoria Regia, a giant water lily, as it grows in the Amazonian lakes and side channels. The image features large, round floating leaves with upturned edges on a calm river surface, surrounded by dense aquatic and shoreline vegetation. The detailed depiction highlights the natural habitat of the plant in the river environment of the Amazon, emphasizing the size and spread of the lily pads across the water. The scene captures the botanical and ecological context of this notable riverine species in the early 20th century.

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Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 2d

ARTICLE: Leonard Jenyns on the variation of species and Charles Darwin on the origin of species 1844–1860 bit.ly/48RiAo2

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ARTICLE: Leonard Jenyns on the variation of species and Charles Darwin on the origin of species 1844–1860

In the journal Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science: Leonard Jenyns on the variation of species and Charles Darwin on the origin of species 1844–1860 Mark Hanson a…

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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 3d

I remember as a kid in South Carolina seeing huge flocks of red-winged blackbirds flying over in the Fall. They seemed to stretch to the horizon!

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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 23d

I picked up this gem last week in Rye. I love the Blue Note Reissue series. As a young fan in the mid-1970s, eager to discover and explore this exotic world, these and the Milestone/Prestige twofers were a great way to get a cheap double dose of fabbo jazz sessions with superb liner notes.

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 23d

Fripp & Eno: An Iron Frappe - from their 2014 album, Live In Paris 28.05.1975 #BrianEno #RobertFripp www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYte...

Fripp & Eno - An Iron Frappe (Live In Paris 28.05.1975)

YouTube video by Robert Fripp

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 21d

The Musician In Politics by Robert Fripp in MUSICIAN December 1980 www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_musi...

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 21d

David Byrne kicks off his world tour with the first performance of 'Psycho Killer' in 19 years consequence.net/2025/09/davi...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10d

Exclusive: Zohran Mamdani reacts to Eric Adams dropping out of the New York mayoral race. "I think it's very much the same race," he says, criticizing attempts by President Trump and other outsiders to affect the election.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/28/zohran_mamdani_eric_adams_nyc_mayoral

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 9d

Every time Eric Adams is in the news, I think about this response he gave to the question of what the best concert he ever attended was.

"What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to?

Curtis Mayfield at the Wingate Concert Series. At that concert there was a rainstorm and the lights fell on Curtis Mayfield and they actually paralyzed him at that concert. He died a few years ago, but it was an amazing concert before that happened. Just so unfortunate."

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 10d

The Haters won. But the Table of Success is forever. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com

Home - Table of Success

Eric Adams has said that “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” The haters are no longer waiters—on Wednesday, September 25, amidst widening investigations into his...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 22d

🔆Good morning!

Dedication to work is to be admired, provided the work itself is of value, but the more of a day’s hours you devote to it, the likelier returns diminish.

Why You Should Only Work 3–4 Hours a Day,
Like Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf & Adam Smith 🧪
www.openculture.com/2025/09/why-...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23d

chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events

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Danny Robb @inverting-vision.bsky.social · 23d

When cave science emerged in the early 20th century, early speleological communities became entangled in right-wing nationalism. Cave explorers became nationalist symbols, as "conquerors" of an underground world.

#histsci 🗃️

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Underground Conquest: Cave Exploration and Nationalism - JSTOR Daily

As cave exploration became more popular and speleology developed as an academic discipline, cave explorers were drawn into a problematic European nationalism.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25d

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Danny Robb @inverting-vision.bsky.social · May 2

Historians have debated if Carl Linnaeus was bad at drawing, and how much he valued illustration. But Linnaeus used illustration and visual thinking at every stage in his career, even if some of his own sketches were a little... rough-and-ready.

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Was Carl Linnaeus Bad at Drawing? - JSTOR Daily

Linnaeus has often been thought of as a poor artist, but visualization was a core element of his analytical tool set.

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 26d

“The insect populations were found to have declined by an average 6.6% annually — a 72.4% drop over the 20-year period.”

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NPR @npr.org · 26d

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

Insect populations drop even without direct human interference, a new study finds

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 26d

The BirdCast forecast map shows migration is very active tonight along the Mississippi and Atlantic Flyways.

How? BirdCast analyzes data from weather radars to separate bird migration from other activity: non-biological (rain, hurricanes, etc.) and other biological (bats, insects).

The map shows the forecast for bird migration on the night of September 12, 2025. Note that activity is highest along the Mississippi and Atlantic Flyways and that the birds are avoiding the storms along the Central Flyway.

Bird migration forecasts show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. These forecasts come from models trained on the last 23 years of bird movements in the atmosphere as detected by the US NEXRAD weather surveillance radar network. In these models we use the Global Forecasting System (GFS) to predict suitable conditions for migration occurring three hours after local sunset. These maps also show precipitation forecasts (outlined and shown in grayscale). Note, areas forecast to experience precipitation and bird migration may overlap, and predictions for migration intensity may be highly variable in these locations.

Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts. Leon Levy Foundation, Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission supported this research, with additional support from University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Oklahoma. The BirdCast project was created with grant awards from the National Science Foundation and subsequently supported by awards from Leon Levy Foundation.

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Richard Carter, FCD @friendsofdarwin.bsky.social · 23d

15-Sep: On this day in 1832, Charles Darwin’s legendary powers of observation temporarily let him down while travelling with gauchos in Patagonia, when he failed to realise the people wearing chaps weren’t all chaps… #HistSci

15-Sep-1832: Gauchess

On 15th September 1832, Charles Darwin’s legendary powers of observation temporarily let him down.

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 23d

On this date 190 years ago, Charles Darwin arrived at the Galapagos Islands, where he watched the tortoises, flung a few iguanas into the sea, and collected some birds that he couldn't yet identify: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM

Lithograph of two cactus finches from the Galápagos Islands, after a drawing by Elizabeth Gould, in The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, ed. by Charles Darwin, vol. 3, plate 42, 1839; description from the Linda Hall Library website.

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infoclio.ch @infoclio.bsky.social · 24d

Le colloque infoclio.ch 2025 explore les antécédents intellectuels et techniques de la notion d’Open Science et discute des enjeux pratiques de sa mise en œuvre dans les sciences humaines et sociales.

Le 21 novembre 2025 à Berne.

Programme et inscription: www.infoclio.ch/fr/programme...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 26d

Too bad Beesly and Marx never wrote anything together. I would be fascinated to see how sociology would have played out with a Positivist-Marxist synthesis approved by Marx.

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Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

Ibn Khaldun(27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406/ 732–808 AH)the profound historian who,centuries before the emergence of modern sociology, grasped the cyclical nature of civilizations.A forerunner of historical philosophy, the Maghribi sage unveiled the inner rhythms of rise and decline.

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