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Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · 1d

Un clásico! (80s y 90s, me equivoqué antes)

Tu Pum Pum - El General Produced by Michael Ellis 1989

YouTube video by Michael Ellis

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Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · 1d

La verdad es que no conocía la canción y ahora que escuché la original me suena más al estilo de El General (Panameño pero con flow medio jamaiquino porque cantaba reggae en español de los 90). Te suena?

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spooky sauce ☻ @ranch.is.sick.fyi · 4d

for adhd awareness month they should take all the executive function away from people without adhd and distribute it evenly among us

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 6d

Here is your Saturday Spider. It's a twig spider (maybe Ariamnes sp.?) in Madagascar, at night in the forest; it has captured another spider, which is the soccer-ball thing near its fangs. About 1 inch long. (I've shared this elsewhere before, but I think not here. Sorry, if so.) #Arachtober 🐙🌿

A photo of a spider called a twig spider, standing atop a straight, thin, dry twig, parallel to it, stretching in a level line left to right. The background is pure black. The spider has very long legs and an extremely elongated, twig-like abdomen. It has captured a smaller spider and has it wrapped up in a silk ball; two straight strands of silk are visible, one starting at the spinnerets and anchored to the twig, the other attached to the prey and leading left, out of frame.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 9d

#Arachtober is here

Consider the Sapphic Orb Weaver (Acacesia hamata), a perfect sexy lump 🤎

Smooth brown orb weaver with a suggestive vulva-like pattern on her abdomen, few neatly folded top a perfect point in front and behind her as she rests on a leaf

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Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks for sharing!
I hope I didn't come off as seeing ADHD in a negative light. I am pretty neutral about it (although annoyed by my own challenges). I mostly get frustrated at other people who don't take those challenges seriously and brush them off as "quirks"

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Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · 11d

Tomorrow marks the start of #ADHDAwarenessMonth, so here are some phrases about ADHD that make me cringe (in no particular order):

- "It's a superpower!"
- "neurospicy"
- "it's not a disability, it's a different ability"
- "everyone is a little ADHD"
- "just [insert useless advice]"

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Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · 12d

We're about to be even more insufferable

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Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · 13d

Igual, pero completamente al revés en todo

Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · 15d

that brought back memories

Baby in a stroller by a meadow. The baby's dad is in the background bent over and looking for spiders.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 16d

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 17d

Okay, I warned you yesterday but SPIDER POST SPIDER POST SPIDER POST. Look. Spiders are great! They're our friends. They do good work out there and in our houses. I love spiders and how can you not love THIS spider, who is both a work of art *and* wildly successful at this game of hide-and-seek?

I DON'T SEE ANY SPIDER HERE DO YOU SEE A SPIDER HERE GOSH I SURE HOPE THAT ANYBUGGY WHO WANTS TO COME VISIT THIS FLOWER DOESN'T SEE A SPIDER HERE okay fine there's a spider here. This landscape-oriented photo is a black-eyed susan except tucked against the middle of the flower is a perfectly blended-in crab spider. A white-banded crab spider, maybe? Even though there's no white band -- this spider is yellow as the flower's pedals, with reddish Rorshach test ink blots on its plump crabby body that also blends into the center of the flower. It's really something else. You can barely see it. Spiders are so cool. They're great. I am admittedly glad they're not human-sized, though, though I guess that's true of all bugs, even the cute ones. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

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EZ Lab @ezlab.bsky.social · 17d

In a new publication, we focused on the little-known African spider Megaraneus gabonensis, in which females are 4x larger than males.

We provide an overdue taxonomic description, phylogenetic placement, and reconstruct the evolution of sexual size dimorphism.

www.ezlab.si/post/taxonom...

Taxonomy, phylogeny, and size evolution in Megaraneus

Many spider species show large differences in size between males and females, but biologists still do not fully understand how or why this evolves. In this study we focused on the systematics and evol...

www.ezlab.si

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Carlitos D. Eslovenia 🩷💜💙 @carlitoseslove.bsky.social · 18d

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 18d

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 18d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · 20d

I'm a bit sorry I missed the livestream of Bad Bunny's concert, but watching it alone from Slovenia at 3am would have been so sad

Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · 20d

La cucaracha más feliz del mundo

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 25d

A gallery of insects having sex. Insex, I guess. It’s a wild world out there.

Insect Sex - Alex Wild

The world's millions of insect species display a glorious diversity of strategies for courting and mating.

www.alexanderwild.com

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Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · 28d

Howdy from Austin, Texas!

It's home to the largest urban bat colony in the world, with an estimated 1.5 million bats🦇

If you are ever in Austin, it's a must see! It was spectacular!

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Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · Sep 8

8 yrs fly by when you're having a good time. Happy wedding anniversary @matjazgregoric.bsky.social
Čin-čin 🥂

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Earlier this week a paper dramatically reduced the realistic potential for forest carbon storage. Now another downgrades the capacity of geological storage. Emissions reductions are the only effective climate action.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · Sep 4

New paper in Nature finds that global geologic CO2 storage potential is ~90% lower than previously believed. Many candidate sites could leak CO2 back into the air or into groundwater, undermining climate mitigation efficacy or putting nearby human health at risk.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature

A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

www.nature.com

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Shakira @shakiguani.bsky.social · Sep 4

After this first week of school without my husband around, a good night's sleep is not enough. I need to be put in a 3-month coma

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Sep 3

ICYMI: Next week I am leading a free online 2-hour crash course in scientific writing and publishing, perfect for graduate students about to write their first paper.

Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome.

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I’m offering a free online crash course in scientific writing and publishing. Here’s how to join!

The world of scientific writing and pubilshing is complex and confusing, and it can be hard for early career scientists to master. But don’t worry! I am an experienced and award-winning scien…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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𝕄𝕠𝕩𝕚𝕖 @moxology.net · Sep 3

I don’t think even Black Mirror showed this combination of dystopian themes.

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