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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 2h

Like rivers & lakes full of fish? Then you need rivers & lakes full of insects!
On this #BugBanterPodcast we'll dive underwater to meet freshwater insects, & discover the conservation work they need!
Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/s...
Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=22sh...

The Salmonfly Project: Anglers, Insect Conservation, and the Future of Freshwater Streams | Bug Banter Podcast

Insects play a critical role in rivers, lakes, and streams, acting as a vital food source for many animals and maintaining the health of these freshwater ecosystems. A few of these insects include: ma...

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 1h

Cheaper than hiring someone with a PhD

Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 1h

Awesome! Good for you! 🎉🎉🎉

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 13h

doomscroll break

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing video. Worth the watch.

Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 1d

🔬🦠🧫🧪 #MicroSky
This is the most fantatic video I've ever seen: a Tardigrade strolling on a Volvox by Penny Fenton #NikonSmallWorld #DarkField
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

A tardigrade moving around a volvox algae colony | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition

Penny Fenton - A tardigrade moving around a volvox algae colony

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 1d

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Julie Patton Lawson @srfrjulie.bsky.social · 1d

For people eager to scrape lanternfly egg masses but not sure what they look like, here’s one. Right now when they are fresh, the outside is a bit crispy and the inside is wet.

Spotted lanternfly egg mass on a vine. It looks like a smear of gray paint or gum

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 1d

It makes me think of Zewall who won the Chemistry Nobel in 1999 who had, for several years before winning, flown back to Egypt so he would be in his home country when he won.

He also got banners made to congratulate himself.

(Source: my husband who was in grad school at the time)

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 1d

That's not the best place to have a medical crisis. Glad you're better now

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefull news

Science Magazine @science.org · 2d

A new trivalent vaccine based on chimeric alphaviruses shields mice and macaques from infection and CNS pathology when exposed to aerosolized forms of Venezuelan, Eastern, and Western equine encephalitis viruses.

Read more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/4gSP2Z3

An inactivated trivalent virion-based vaccine protects against aerosol challenge with encephalitic alphaviruses in mice and macaques

Two doses of an inactivated trivalent vaccine protect mice and macaques against disease caused by encephalitic alphaviruses.

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 2d

Depends on the organization. My body donation paperwork allowed me to chose what I wanted. Can I trust the university? Hopefully.

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 2d

😀 That sounds like rabbit behavior to me.

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 2d

My local cottontail rabbits generally “den” in dense bushes or under my shed. Different species, different climate (Southern California). I wouldn’t expect them to be in the open like that. Maybe it denned there BEFORE eating the plant?

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 3d

Matted this up so that I could safely secure the painting and cell overlay.

I don't think I'm going to get to listing it properly in my shop tonight, so if you want to snag it just DM me.

$350 (free US shipping)
5x7 inches (8x10 matted)

Artist holding matted painting of fantasy apthocary with painted cell overlay with original bug characters.

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 2d

The cut leaves look like rabbit damage - clean straight cuts no more that 2 feet above the ground.

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 2d

I bet it’s written by AI

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 2d

I started reading the auto AltText on gifs and whoa, boy! are they wrong sometimes.

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 3d

Wow!

Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 3d

This has been my experience, too. Those in power are trying to make us fight each so we don't pay attention to what they are doing.

A comic from Peals Before Swine. Frame one reads "my most common experience traveling around the United States." The remaining frames have two characters: one is a bald man in overalls, the other is a man in jeans, a white t-shirt and a backwards ball cap.

Conversation: Bald man "where are you from?" Ball cap "California." Bald man "Really? You don't seem like one of them." Ball cap "why? what did you expect?" Bald man "A whack job. I hear a lot of bad things on the new about you people." Ball cap "That's funny. I hear a lot of bad things about you people." Bald man "but you're kind of norma.l" Ball cap "You're kind of normal, too." Bald man "well, I'll be." Ball cap "let's hug it out (expletive.)" The last frame the men are hugging. Bald man says "Just so you know we don't use that word here." Ball cap replies "Sorry, we're heathens where I live."

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 3d

1. Life will continue to throw challenges at you but you will get (much) better at handling them.

2. If at all possible start saving money for retirement. Even a little put aside now will grow.

3. Move your body however you can. It will pay off in the long run.

(Advice from the other side of 50)

Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 3d

The 10 things Private Equity companies that buy hospitals and doctors offices don’t want you to know

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · Jul 7

Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:

The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine

- @hislopmd.bsky.social

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3d

Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to.

Graphic: @standplaatskrk.pl

Tardigrade in neon rainbow colors inside a circle with the caption “Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to”

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 4d

OK, you want drama?
Let's have drama!
Top sheets are evil!

A person dressed as a ghost, covered in a white sheet with two eye holes cut out, stands against a dark background. Text on the image reads: “The most common ghosts are the ones that appear dressed in a white sheet with flailing arms. These are people who died while changing their duvet covers and they are condemned to wander in bedrooms forever, trying to find the corners.”

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 3d

Love these little dudes!

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