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Not since Moo Deng have I seen an animal captivate, move and inspire artists like this lost #anglerfish has

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Exciting News! The BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin is launching a Bus to Nature program! We’re offering $500 scholarships to help kids explore the outdoors by providing transportation to green spaces. Let’s get more kids outside in 2025. Nature is for everyone, especially the youth. 🚌👐💚

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Just got my Kickstarter copy of Indiginerds, a comics anthology by Indigenous creators, edited by @alinapete.bsky.social. I’ve already read through it twice, the stories and art are so damn good! Find it on Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/indi...

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Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

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Boozhoo Books is an Indigenous led imprint with Bindery Books, publishing exclusively Indigenous books. We are currently accepting submissions from agents and authors directly. We deserve to have our voices heard and our stories championed. Please share with you network.

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Cleaning out random drawers means randomly finding press passes from when I was a baby fashion reporter covering London Fashion Week

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Is it time for a beauty break? I think it's time for a beauty break. Check out the gorgeous glowing plumage of birds-of-paradise, which scientists recently found to be biofluorescent. Most species (37 of 45) have feathers and body parts that glow yellow or yellow-green under UV & bright blue light 🧪

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Even mimics are prone to carcinization, and I am here for it 🦀

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Scoop: 40 news orgs have signed on to a letter circulated by the WHCA supporting the AP and denouncing Trump's move to block them from official events. The WHCA has gone through great pains to keep the letter from leaking, but I obtained a copy. Read it in Status: www.status.news/p/associated...

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Before @chriswarcraft.bsky.social was arrested, he said this—& more—about the library's proposed MAGA plaque: "MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and, most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is."

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I've had Caligula in my movie queue for a week, is watching it tonight going to make me feel better or worse

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Remarkable thread offering guidance to current and prospective NSF grantees about how to navigate the times ahead — from an NSF program officer who was fired in yesterday's DOGE purge (!)

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Mailers are landing for the NJ governor race, and boy are these two Dem candidates giving off different vibes. Spiller appears to have read the room, at least

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I urge cis allies to read through this thread. Even if you don't agree with this interpretation (that the sudden spike in interest is a bad sign that journalists are aware of more anti-trans actions coming that are not publicly known yet), understand how scared we are right now:

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"...while we keen like Harpies for the other to stop, we ourselves refuse to stop. Every time someone picks up a gun or a knife or a rock and tells themselves this one is justified, the world gets dumber, crueler, and less human"

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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

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There are actions in: Atlanta, GA Austin, TX Boston, MA Chicago, IL Los Angeles, CA St. Paul, MN Newark, NJ New Brunswick, NJ New Haven, CT New York, NY Philadelphia, PA Portland, OR Seattle, WA State College, PA St. Louis, MO and Washington, DC if you can make one of these actions, please join! 🧪

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Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

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Day-to-day life in Gaza is phenomenally expensive; especially for families with young children and for people who are ill. If you have the means to support or boost, small amounts and gestures really do add up

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If a journalist is interested in writing about people from Gaza and how @gofundme.com treats them- my DMs are open ❤️

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Found the perfect spot for my very tiny psittacosaur: on top of my very humongous squishy stress tardigrade Tiny dino by @primalcreations.bsky.social, gifted by @monospace.com ❤️

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I am, in fact, kind of a nerd about all of those things, and perhaps you are too

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State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

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Flora, fungi, ribbontail rays Flukes and cheetahs Kunstformen for days

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Great news for Freelancers working in the State of CA! The Freelance Worker Protection Act went into effect January 1, 2025. This law requires freelancers to be paid 30 days after completion of work for any job over $250, & gives them the ability to take legal action against clients who don’t pay.

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Cover illustration for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social by artist @mollycrabapple.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

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Goliath by @tochitruestory.bsky.social has utterly knocked me on my ass. The prose is gorgeous, like study-and-learn-from-this gorgeous, and the story of Black pre- and postapocalyptic America is rich and deep and resonates with NOW so hard that my teeth are still rattling #booksky 📚

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For #ValentinesDay, here's a story of a woman whose heart was in the right place—but her other organs weren't. She died at age 99 unaware that her abdominal organs were transposed; medical students discovered the woman's rare condition when they dissected her donated cadaver during an anatomy lesson

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Hey disabled writers on Bluesky! Reply to this post with either: 1. The publication you're proudest of, something that's cool about it, and a link to read it. ~OR~ 2. Something you love writing about. Can be the minutia of motorcycle repair, or as simple as "Dragons."

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For the record, @bittelmethis.bsky.social is someone you should follow if you're into cool animals that make you go "WHAT IN THE DING DANG HECK"

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As you steel yourself for today's news and navigating this crueler, more precarious world in general, perhaps you might find inspiration in the magpies of Antwerp who looked at anti-bird spikes and thought "I could build a nest with that" (research and pix by @aukeflorian.nl)

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