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Pliny the Elder referred to a porpoise as a 'porculus marinus' or 'sea-pig'. Later Latin rendered this as porcus ("pig") + peis ("fish"), so porpoise = "fish-pig".
Old German was "meri-swin" which literally means "mer-pig" (modern German is 'Meerschwein') Modern French is 'marsouin'.
Mer-pig! 🐬🐷
Old German was "meri-swin" which literally means "mer-pig" (modern German is 'Meerschwein') Modern French is 'marsouin'.
Mer-pig! 🐬🐷
June 23, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Pliny the Elder referred to a porpoise as a 'porculus marinus' or 'sea-pig'. Later Latin rendered this as porcus ("pig") + peis ("fish"), so porpoise = "fish-pig".
Old German was "meri-swin" which literally means "mer-pig" (modern German is 'Meerschwein') Modern French is 'marsouin'.
Mer-pig! 🐬🐷
Old German was "meri-swin" which literally means "mer-pig" (modern German is 'Meerschwein') Modern French is 'marsouin'.
Mer-pig! 🐬🐷
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Raindrops in lichen.
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
January 11, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Raindrops in lichen.
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
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Trump: "All you have to do is say to China, how many windmill areas do you have in China? So far they're not able to find any."
China:
China:
January 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Trump: "All you have to do is say to China, how many windmill areas do you have in China? So far they're not able to find any."
China:
China:
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The midwinter sun shines on an old and hidden human collaboration with nature. Above the Wye Valley, stone walls are held together by ancient coppiced beech trees, with the trunks often manipulated to run horizontally to the walls, becoming part of them and extending them upward.
January 6, 2026 at 12:44 PM
The midwinter sun shines on an old and hidden human collaboration with nature. Above the Wye Valley, stone walls are held together by ancient coppiced beech trees, with the trunks often manipulated to run horizontally to the walls, becoming part of them and extending them upward.
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Hey Bluesky, send us your best ducks
(Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)
(Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)
January 6, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Hey Bluesky, send us your best ducks
(Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)
(Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)
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of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order
January 6, 2026 at 9:47 PM
of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order
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Did you know octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood.
Two hearts pump blood to the gills; one pumps to the rest of the body.
The one systemic heart actually stops when they swim, meaning they prefer crawling.
🌊🐙🦑🧪
Two hearts pump blood to the gills; one pumps to the rest of the body.
The one systemic heart actually stops when they swim, meaning they prefer crawling.
🌊🐙🦑🧪
January 6, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Did you know octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood.
Two hearts pump blood to the gills; one pumps to the rest of the body.
The one systemic heart actually stops when they swim, meaning they prefer crawling.
🌊🐙🦑🧪
Two hearts pump blood to the gills; one pumps to the rest of the body.
The one systemic heart actually stops when they swim, meaning they prefer crawling.
🌊🐙🦑🧪
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Watch 100 years of December sea surface temperature anomalies updated through 2025. There's a lot of year-to-year variability, but a clear long-term warm signal is evident over time due to human-caused climate change. 🌊
Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
January 6, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Watch 100 years of December sea surface temperature anomalies updated through 2025. There's a lot of year-to-year variability, but a clear long-term warm signal is evident over time due to human-caused climate change. 🌊
Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
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#whale
NOAA says we have15 new North Atlantic, #rightwhale calves this season
Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist | AP News share.google/mvvVWFP2eZU4...
NOAA says we have15 new North Atlantic, #rightwhale calves this season
Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist | AP News share.google/mvvVWFP2eZU4...
A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct
One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction.
share.google
January 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
#whale
NOAA says we have15 new North Atlantic, #rightwhale calves this season
Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist | AP News share.google/mvvVWFP2eZU4...
NOAA says we have15 new North Atlantic, #rightwhale calves this season
Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist | AP News share.google/mvvVWFP2eZU4...
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⚠️Good news alert: A new study led by Scripps Oceanography and @salkinstitute.bsky.social reveals the potential of a new hybrid seagrass to advance ocean restoration efforts in California and beyond! ⬇️🧵
December 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
⚠️Good news alert: A new study led by Scripps Oceanography and @salkinstitute.bsky.social reveals the potential of a new hybrid seagrass to advance ocean restoration efforts in California and beyond! ⬇️🧵
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This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally.
It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug!
Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.
It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug!
Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.
a close up of a green and white sponge with purple spots
Alt: A green and white sea sheep grazes on a green lawn of algae on a surface underwater.
media.tenor.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally.
It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug!
Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.
It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug!
Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.
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Happy Winter Solstice - and Happy #NationalRobinDay!
What better bird to cheer up the shortest day? Reply with your favourite snaps of these beloved garden friends...
Let's fill our feeds with Robins. 😍
What better bird to cheer up the shortest day? Reply with your favourite snaps of these beloved garden friends...
Let's fill our feeds with Robins. 😍
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Happy Winter Solstice - and Happy #NationalRobinDay!
What better bird to cheer up the shortest day? Reply with your favourite snaps of these beloved garden friends...
Let's fill our feeds with Robins. 😍
What better bird to cheer up the shortest day? Reply with your favourite snaps of these beloved garden friends...
Let's fill our feeds with Robins. 😍
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White grunts perfecting the martial art of making out 😮😮 #whitegrunt #mouthfight #fishfight #martialart #mouthoff #grunt #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
White grunts perfecting the martial art of making out 😮😮 #whitegrunt #mouthfight #fishfight #martialart #mouthoff #grunt #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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Right whales got the moniker not because they were good at trivia night.
It was a way of saying "hunt this one right here" in whaler speak. They swam slowly, surfaced often, floated after death & had large fat deposits for oil.
80% of the global population were killed between 1835-1855.
It was a way of saying "hunt this one right here" in whaler speak. They swam slowly, surfaced often, floated after death & had large fat deposits for oil.
80% of the global population were killed between 1835-1855.
A rare right whale spotted off Ireland resurfaces near Boston
A rare right whale spotted off Ireland resurfaces near Boston
In a rare sighting, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, first photographed in 2024 off the coast of Ireland, was recently reidentified near Boston, U.S., on Nov. 19. This is the first…
news.mongabay.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Right whales got the moniker not because they were good at trivia night.
It was a way of saying "hunt this one right here" in whaler speak. They swam slowly, surfaced often, floated after death & had large fat deposits for oil.
80% of the global population were killed between 1835-1855.
It was a way of saying "hunt this one right here" in whaler speak. They swam slowly, surfaced often, floated after death & had large fat deposits for oil.
80% of the global population were killed between 1835-1855.
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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💥GOOD NEWS from Denmark💥
Oil and gas permit REVOKED.
The Danish Energy Board ruled that consent for new fossil fuel production at Hejre field was unlawful, upholding a complaint by Greenpeace Nordic.
The full climate impact of oil extraction and burning - on people and planet - cannot be ignored!
Oil and gas permit REVOKED.
The Danish Energy Board ruled that consent for new fossil fuel production at Hejre field was unlawful, upholding a complaint by Greenpeace Nordic.
The full climate impact of oil extraction and burning - on people and planet - cannot be ignored!
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
💥GOOD NEWS from Denmark💥
Oil and gas permit REVOKED.
The Danish Energy Board ruled that consent for new fossil fuel production at Hejre field was unlawful, upholding a complaint by Greenpeace Nordic.
The full climate impact of oil extraction and burning - on people and planet - cannot be ignored!
Oil and gas permit REVOKED.
The Danish Energy Board ruled that consent for new fossil fuel production at Hejre field was unlawful, upholding a complaint by Greenpeace Nordic.
The full climate impact of oil extraction and burning - on people and planet - cannot be ignored!
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A spotted eagle ray glides gracefully over a coral outplant predation study deployed by Rescue a reef to observe how parrotfish and other reef fish behave when presented with new corals in their habitat #spottedeagleray #flylikeaneagle #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
October 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A spotted eagle ray glides gracefully over a coral outplant predation study deployed by Rescue a reef to observe how parrotfish and other reef fish behave when presented with new corals in their habitat #spottedeagleray #flylikeaneagle #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾
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Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New ship of Theseus just dropped, but now it has conscious thought
September 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New ship of Theseus just dropped, but now it has conscious thought
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yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
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There are days I regret going into the lab side of biology and not the "scrub a happy alligator named Claude" side.
It’s Trivia Tuesday! 🤓
Claude has a skincare routine! Once a week, Claude’s biologists will give him a scrub to help remove any algal buildup.
Claude loves these scrubs and they only take place if he wants them. So, if he’s looking extra green one day, assume he just wanted to skip this week.
Claude has a skincare routine! Once a week, Claude’s biologists will give him a scrub to help remove any algal buildup.
Claude loves these scrubs and they only take place if he wants them. So, if he’s looking extra green one day, assume he just wanted to skip this week.
September 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
There are days I regret going into the lab side of biology and not the "scrub a happy alligator named Claude" side.
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Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
September 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party