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A German Wasp worker, feeding on a Knapweed flower in our #Staffs garden yesterday. #WaspLove #macro #photography

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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

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Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled victims of a mistaken police raid can continue their quest for accountability in the courts. While this is progress for the Martin family, the case now goes to the lower court, where the fight continues to stop the FBI from evading responsibility for its actions.

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📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

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Look beyond Trump and Musk's public blowout to the bigger problem: the infiltration of Big Money in our politics. It has corrupted our democracy — creating a vicious cycle that funnels more wealth and power to those at the top while drowning out the needs of regular Americans.

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The result of a decade-long journey across England, @henleydarren.bsky.social reflects on our remarkable national cultural landscape – and why he believes that public investment in creativity and culture can help us all to lead happier lives. Order via @bookshop-org.bsky.social: bit.ly/3DiP39D

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Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

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Communicating our #pandemicpreparedness conversations with #graphicfacilitation. Thanks #NSF for seeing the potential in our work to harness the power of natural science collections and cross-domain expertise.

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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

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Arsenal revel in WCL celebrations at home: ‘The happiest I’ve been in my whole life’

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We’re excited to bring #TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social to #spnhc2025. We’re touching on the #ExtendedSpecimen #identifiers #SciArt potential #DataPapers #taxonomy mgmt #PathogenPreparedeness and more. How does your community and software help you do this work?

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For anyone attending the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections conference in May 2025, I will be giving a talk on specimen imaging titled "Creating Research-Quality Specimen Images: Insights from the University of Michigan Herbarium" spnhc2025.ku.edu #SPNHC #SPNHC2025

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

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My friend Rev Terry Kyllo of Paths to Understanding is a Lutheran pastor and cross-cultural community cohesion builder. He writes: pathstounderstanding.org/either-all-o...

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Cheers to Pensoft for incorporating a Bluesky share option. I've just embarked on the Wikidata/ORCID/Bionomia journey as curator and database manager of the #NationalForestryHerbarium @scionresearch.bsky.social. All this to make data #FAIR

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5 takeaways from this interview with @stone-lis.bsky.social: stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/philip-cohen... 1. The noise is all about budget cuts, but the action is all about undermining our sense of shared reality.

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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

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Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪 It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/ www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...

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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

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Did you know beetles pollinate more flowering plants than any other insect group? They've been at it for over 200 million years, predating bees and butterflies.

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Finally, the Trump regime has met its match | Robert Reich

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Can you say white?

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

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RFK Jr. is very loud and very WRONG about Autism. 1. It’s not a disease 2. There are thousands of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder who pay taxes, have jobs, can use the bathroom on their own, and are thriving in life.

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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

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Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.

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If Trump can disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? Either everyone has due process — or no one does.

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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador to lobby for the release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whose deportation has gripped the U.S. He isn't the only lawmaker with such a trip in mind.

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This won’t turn out well.

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JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

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If you've ever wanted to convert BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social browser links to BHL PageIDs (niche topic, I know) then I have a tool for you! microcitation-parser.herokuapp.com/bhlurl.php takes a URL like "www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36660#p..." and converts it to one or more PageIDs.

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The letter obtained by NPR marks a rare bipartisan critique from Capitol Hill of the administration's immigration policy.

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Join us to discuss #eDNA opportunities and needs with @markdavis79.bsky.social at #TWT2025 on May 8th! Registration is open (and free)! together.taxonworks.org

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📢 #eDNA? @tdwg.org @gbif.org #SPNHC #idigbio @dissco.bsky.social @prairieresearch.bsky.social join #TWT2025 TaxonWorks Together: connecting eDNA to vouchers, inventories, provenance, scaling, identifiers, fieldwork, standards, AI & collections. Need new connections? 🪡https://together.taxonworks.org/

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‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years

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Go @harvard.edu — may many other universities follow your exemplary lead!

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fine, FINE, congrats on the water bear, but my beefly was ROBBED! #InvertebrateOfTheYear #invertebrates #SciArt

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Amidst the general chaos, I forgot to mention the 2nd volume of Graphic Anatomy (Cuore) just came out! www.beccogiallo.it/negozio/grap... It was a pleasure working with the team at #GraphicMedicine Italia and exploring this fascinating organ ♥️ Here are some of my favorite pages #scicomm #sciart

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Happy birthday to Canadian 🇨🇦 geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! 🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci In my #linocut Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (shown with pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her 🧵

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BREAKING: The Department of Defense Inspector General has launched an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for sharing secret attack plans against the Houthis using Signal.

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