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Parasitoid wasp ovipositors are like weevil's snoots, but for the ass: They're long because they gotta get into things which don't want to be got into (Torymus sp. wasp, which emerged from a wasp gall I collected)

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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MGI scientists, led by MGI's James Tiedje, have uncovered a new phylum of microbes thriving deep in Earth's Critical Zone, a largely unexplored soil layer essential to life. Read more in Discover magazine: tinyurl.com/3d67nnnm

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The variable dancer (Argia fumipennis) is a common sight here, but they have personal space and I don't get this view often. That purple is lovely. 💜

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

my father worked the mines/until they took his life it stole him from his only son/it stole him from his wife I swore upon his grave someday I'd make things right so I learned to bend steel watched as it withstood all the hell we put men through with hands of iron, there's not a task we couldn't do

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Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

submitted 11 days ago • 195 comments

This hasn't gotten enough attention. Very effective questioning by Rep. @crow.house.gov in span of 3 mins 1. exposes how Hegseth endangered servicemembers' lives 2. shows that a scandal upon the scandal is the failure to take responsibility Crow is a U.S. Army veteran (Bronze Star Medal)

submitted 16 days ago • 159 comments

Cis allies, here's a super simple way to support trans people - and you don't even have to talk to anyone on the phone! Just add a public comment saying medical care for transgender people is essential and should not be banned from ACA plans.

submitted 25 days ago • 26 comments

Excited to see the second volume of the Status of Tribes and Climate Change (STACC) Report is out. This Indigenous-led, Indigenous-focused climate assessment is led by the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals with 79 contributing authors and many artists.

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BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

submitted 39 days ago • 516 comments

Plans are progressing to build a massive, 2,000 MW solar farm & 2,000 MW battery at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in central Washington on land the government has cleaned up that was formerly used for nuclear research, weapons production and waste storage. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/b... 🔌💡

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

submitted 43 days ago • 67 comments

#Caturday monkeycatluna Luna

submitted 44 days ago • 39 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 45 days ago • 6002 comments

Luke Farritor is not “letting them die”, he is actively breaking the law and withholding life saving meds from the most vulnerable. He is actively killing people on Musk’s orders. This is a death squad. We won’t forget his face or his crimes. #vlakplas #doge #warcrimes

submitted 49 days ago • 87 comments

New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including: “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

submitted 49 days ago • 294 comments

A brief timeline of the 5 bullets email: Saturday: -Musk tweets about it -OPM sends it to all feds -Panic/chaos ensue Sunday: -Agencies scramble to verify, start sending conflicting advice Monday: -Most agencies told to respond -Later guidance is revised—response voluntary, jobs not threatened

submitted 50 days ago • 62 comments

Here are some nice mushrooms

submitted 51 days ago • 404 comments

Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.

submitted 51 days ago • 40 comments

Ok $200 million is the ENTIRE budget for USAID assistance to Bangladesh, a country hosting a huge share of refugees from Burma, dealing w climate disasters and going through a critical democratic transition this year

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

Tis the season to take a good look at the White-throated Sparrows in your yard and appreciate how cool their breeding system (four functional sexes instead of two) is: www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ba...

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

🧪 Experimental Evidence of Evolvability More experimental evidence that mutations can be non-random: natural selection can favor bacterial mutations that generate lineages capable of rapid adaptation, increasing likelihood of survival in changing environments. #evosky phys.org/news/2025-02...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

submitted 53 days ago • 1203 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 53 days ago • 1531 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 53 days ago • 841 comments

I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

submitted 54 days ago • 471 comments

This is incredible. Please watch this 🔥

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

submitted 54 days ago • 195 comments

Ok this is making the rounds and tbc the scale of what is happening to the federal workforce and with impoundment is unprecedented - but I think we need to be really careful about assuming this is going to all hit at once in March or that we know the size of the impact 1/

submitted 55 days ago • 25 comments

NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...

submitted 55 days ago • 397 comments

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ATTENTION FEDS Judge Chutkin won't block Musk's federal worker firings because "'possibility' that defendants may take actions that irreparably harm plaintiffs is not enough" Attorneys are asking us for evidence of harm. If you have evidence contact the tipline asap. We'll provide an email address

submitted 55 days ago • 23 comments

In this week's column, I explore what I see as a very real prospect of systemic collapse, caused by Trump's actions, and suggest we start preparing. I try to explain how complex systems fail, and suggest some of the failure paths we could be on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 56 days ago • 72 comments

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

submitted 57 days ago • 63 comments

Go hug an architect for valentines day.

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SCOOP: 31-year-old Trump operative pushes out the acting archivist to make way for Trump's own appointment. Possible replacements include Hugh Hewitt and John Solomon. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 59 days ago • 149 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 58 days ago • 377 comments

My office is hearing reports that the Trump administration’s purges include firing veterans who have served our country for years. Our veterans deserve better. If you've been impacted, call congress: (202) 224-3121 And share your story: www.veterans.senate.gov/contact-rank...

submitted 58 days ago • 270 comments