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Environmentalist, amateur astronomer, concerned citizen. https://syntheticgeneticshakespeares.wordpress.com/
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This month marks 5 years of the Coral City Camera, our ongoing live stream of Miami’s underwater world! To celebrate this milestone, have a listen to an @npr.org segment with Colin: www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n... Thank You to everyone who has watched, chatted, and shown support over the years!

It's not a transaction. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Another week, another absolute banger from @onthemedia.bsky.social 🔥🔥 Billionaires are the biggest cowards in the world and they're trying to save themselves in the LAMEST WAYS IMAGINABLE.

The Tragedy of the Commons reaches Low Earth Orbit? spacenews.com/chinas-megac...

Joshua trees just after sunset. Joshua Tree National Park, California, 22 Dec 2012. #NationalParks

Nothing to see here… Just a squirrel that found a grocery aisle in the garden center 🐿️ 🔊🔊 🎥animalbeingpets

Habitat destruction is the leading cause of biodiversity loss. With a growing human population, that destruction is guaranteed—and accelerating. apple.news/AH3A0pOA6Roq...

A red milkweed beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Tetraopes tetrophthalmus) feeding on a common milkweed (Apocyaceae: Asclepias syriaca). Side Cut Metropark near Maumee Ohio, 08 Jul 2012.

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The National Weather Service shows Tucson could hit 100 degrees on Friday, blasting through a record 99 degrees on the same day in 2023.

De-extinction is Mars colonization for biology nerds. Sorry but it is.

'At least 70 whales have perished since the start of the year in the shallow lagoons of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula where the animals gather to calf, nurse & breed. 3 gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay recently during their migration north, with one showing signs of malnourishment.'

Turns out chickens are the proverbial canary in the coal mine. @sandybahr.bsky.social @jackbrewer.bsky.social

NASA poised to prioritize fulfilling the dreams of billionaires. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/s...

Your random reminder that I’ve got a starter pack for #ScienceFiction creators, reviewers, and fans. If you make #SciFi, if you’re a reviewer devoted to sci-fi, or if you’re an uber sci-fi fan and you want to be in on the fun, leave me a comment. #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚🪐 go.bsky.app/5BL1giA

Nice article from the Xerces Society: Want to Save the Bees? Focus on Habitat, Not Honey Bees 🌿🐝https://xerces.org/blog/want-to-save-bees-focus-on-habitat-not-honey-bees

A #ladybug preparing for takeoff They can eat up to 5,000 aphids in their lifetime, making them natural pest controllers! In some cultures they’re associated with luck

Public service announcement. They are not Dire Wolves. They have 20 single letter changes in their entire genomes. I’ve done shits with more mutations. Every time journalists write up a Colossus press release, They are making people stupider. Client journalism by a ridiculous company.

We watched fungal plagues decimate wildlife—frogs, bats, forests. Now 2.5 million humans die each year from fungal infections. The boundary between “us” and nature was always an illusion. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Genetic resurrection triumph and tragedy. Dire wolf look-alike hybrids have nowhere to go in a changed world. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...

Sunlight reveals a lattice work web appeared on our patio overnight. Waiting to see if this turns out to be a good spot to cast a net. #Arizona

Trying to brighten up what is likely to be a rough Monday... There's so much beauty in this world. Mount Robson Provincial Park - the lake was so calm this day. I tossed a pebble, took a photo, and then flipped the image. I love the result! #mountainmonday #landscapephotography #landscape #nature

Forming ‘quality’ bonds with AI therapy bots. Is anyone listening? @jeremyvaeni.bsky.social @jackbrewer.bsky.social

Forget Pamplona, run with the robots. www.humanoidrobotmarathon.com

An expanding list of players, a non-existent enforcement regime and fast-evolving technical capabilities create worries about a new era of risks posed by bioweapons. 50-year-old bioweapons treaty is dangerously flawed, researchers say | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

@binnall.bsky.social Bunny nest in the backyard.

Pretty or ugly? Nikon Z9 and 105mm macro SS1/2000 f11 iso3200 My latest YouTube vid is up shooting butterflies with the OM1 and pro capture. Please subscribe and share as I’m trying to build up a larger macro community on there. Thanks for all you guys do 👌🏿 #macro #insect #photography #camera #wild

Last reported count of which I’m aware, about 600,000 RSVP’ed. Actual attendance might well top a million.