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A long-time friend of mine is arachnophobic, to the point that I've had to take down decor for her. Today, though, she proudly showed me the tiny spider on her wall that she’s grown fond of 🥹🕷️❤️

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We Don't Give Uglier Animals The Love They Need — Leading to Conservation Concerns www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth... “Regardless of the threats to their survival, we love and often try to help animals we think are beautiful or cute. Others, not so much.” @discovermag.bsky.social 🐼🐸🐘🐊🦘🐠🐋🦈🦧🦂🦁🐍

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

I’m not doomscrolling I’m just desperately sucking the marrow from the bones of hope

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Amo Eslovenia, pero salir de esta playa en PR para regresar al frío y la oscuridad me dolió

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I completely forgot to vote in big of the year but I’m so glad everyone else made good choices. Velvet worms are THE BEST Ancient worm-like creature that shoots slime crowned 'Bug of the Year' www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

I wish I could sign 🇪🇺

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Do spiders select prey based on its nutrient content? This is challenging to study outside the lab - but evidence from the field in our new @oikosjournal.bsky.social paper led by @jordancuff.bsky.social supports the idea 🧪🌍 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Tree ferns 💚

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My mom's Alzheimer's is severe, but she still has a friend who calls her to check on her and tell her she loves her. True friendship >>>

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On International Day of Women in Science let's celebrate the life of Prof. Georgina Mace (1953–2020) who was instrumental in creating the Red List of endangered species which now underpins conservation around the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgin...

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Greetings from Puerto Rico 🕷

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Whip spider (Paraphrynus laevifrons) covered with chloropid fly puparia. The parasitoid fly attacks the eggs carried by the female. When done, the maggots climb on the "childless" mom's back and pupate. She protects them during this period thanks to her motherly instincts.

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

I am once again asking the European members of this app to please sign the petition for safe and accessible abortions in the EU 🙏 We're so close to the goal!

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New pub! Based on largest pisaurid UCE phylogeny + morphological comparison, Dolomedes does not belong to Pisauridae, but Dolomedidae. Climate changes coincide with lifestyle evolution in pisaurids, but in Dolomedidae, rapid species radiation is more likely the driver. www.ezlab.si/post/systema...

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Have you signed yet? (EU citizens) eci.ec.europa.eu/044/public/#...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

So, if I did 4 hrs of deep focused work that's enough, right? 😴

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Have you signed yet? (EU citizens) eci.ec.europa.eu/044/public/#...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Another spectacular sunset I was lucky to watch while doing fieldwork in Piran, Slovenia 🇸🇮

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

A glimmer among all the triggers

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This goes so fucking hard dude

submitted 30 days ago • 23 comments

I received a message from my son's school that there had been "threats with explosive devices to Slovenian schools" on social media, but there's no real risk and kids are safe. I'm going to lose my mind.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird! Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 34 days ago • 99 comments

If you are a federal employee, it is advised to set your social media accounts to private to prevent outside viewership, as reports suggest that loyalty screenings have begun.

submitted 31 days ago • 747 comments

Still needing signatures! Only European citizens can sign. #MyVoiceMyChoice #AbortionRights

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Quote this with a gif of your Disney sidekick personality.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Sooooo if this whole "biological sex" EO is really happening, biologists are going to make as much noise about it as possible, right? Professional societies, universities, individual research groups? It's really incumbent on us (that's a "biologists us" here) to make a BIG FUCKING STINK

submitted 36 days ago • 30 comments

A few years ago, I started a color palette project, drawing inspiration from insects, spiders, and other wildlife. Thinking of resurrecting the idea.

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

Our Sapo Concho 🫶🏼

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Many Latino immigrants in Los Angeles worked to extinguish some of the fires with hoses. They aren't firefighters, they were just helping people in other neighborhoods.

submitted 46 days ago • 267 comments

Lo mejor de que "Dtmf" se haya vuelto viral es que puso al mundo entero a escuchar el ritmo de plena, autóctono de Puerto Rico - ritmo que sólo escuchamos en navidad y en fiestas patronales en la isla. Gracias, Benito! 🫶🏼

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Thankful no one has reached out to circle back or touch base 🙏

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Bad Bunny dropped a new album and the visualizer for this song against colonization is about endemic and endangered species 👏🏼

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Almost a month ago, the field of marine mammalogy in Latin America lost one of its rising stars. His colleagues wrote this beautiful In Memoriam for him. Buen viento, Eric 🩵

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