Always strange, the cuttlefish
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Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench gave a heartbreaking health update, saying her eye condition has left her unable to act or read more than a decade after her diagnosis.
Right, it's not that I disagree that some of the people sentenced to execution are monsters -- many of them are! -- it's that I disagree that we all should be monsters too.
A crowd-sourcing question: I have a gorgeous old Elvis microphone that worked last time I used it. I loaned it to a friend, and they just returned it and say it no longer works.
Who, or what sort of place, should I look for to refurbish such a thing?
Grateful for reskeets from larger accounts!
97% reduction in the Giant Australian Cuttlefish population following last summer’s fatal algal bloom is devastating. Cephalopod populations *can* rebound relatively quickly, and I hope in this case they do, but I’m worried nonetheless.
The giant cuttlefish aggregation is one of Australia's great wildlife spectacles. By mid-June, it should be in full swing.
This year, the reefs are largely empty.
The next time you find yourself in front of the cuttlefish tank at an aquarium, wiggle your fingers like tentacles at them, they will wiggle theirs back.
I did it, it was so touching. I’ll never forget it.
At a certain point it became
Unfashionable for poets to care about
Meter. they just started writing
Whatever they wanted
Into a vaguely poem-like shape.
Whatever happened to sonnets?
Are rhyme-schemes trying too hard?
Or did we forget to teach people how
To read
medium.com/prismnpen/wh...
This is fantastic information.
Scientific data from studies done on men across all variables, that crushes any argument about transgender women and hormones.
Read this and share it.🏳️⚧️
The current state of educational gag orders that state legislators have introduced since 21 according to @penamerica.bsky.social's index. Of course, this isn't even the full extent of restrictions, given the measures institutions are taking themselves due to political pressure. #AcademicSky#polisky
A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now.
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...
🚨 Requesting help:
I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists
I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬
Please signal boost?
Imagining what this storm would be like before the days of modern weather prediction—unexpected, terrifying, and deadly—and realizing that is what the current administration is trying to send us back to by cutting NOAA and NWS funding.
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
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Here's Ellen Harding Baker's "Solar System" quilt.🧪
This is the story.🔭
Back in 1876, an Iowa mom with 7 kids, E. H. Baker, decided that cooking & raising children wasn’t enough for her.
She started working on a wool quilt showing the solar system.
americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...
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I’m biased, but I think poetry is one of the most useful and generalizable subjects/skills one can possibly learn. Especially *writing* poetry.
It is the most efficient way to get someone to truly *know* that there are better and worse words to choose for any given purpose. At every level.
I can hardly believe it, but there's just a little over 24 hours left to back Inks & Paints of the Middle East (2nd edition).Tomorrow I start putting together surveys and working on logistics! (Woke up this morning thinking "I need to order more lapis lazuli" 😆)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation