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The virus that won’t quit: new research reveals how SARS-CoV-2 evolves
Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long-term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants.
www.unsw.edu.au
University of NSW, Australia. SARS-CoV-2 : The Virus that won't quit.
www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
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2/2 All dressed up: a soldier, portrayed by Jacob Toorenvliet.
January 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
2/2 All dressed up: a soldier, portrayed by Jacob Toorenvliet.
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2/2 Sounds of anguish: the jolly fun of public, open-air dental care, as immortalized in 1690 by Jacob Toorenvliet of Leiden.
January 3, 2026 at 4:37 PM
2/2 Sounds of anguish: the jolly fun of public, open-air dental care, as immortalized in 1690 by Jacob Toorenvliet of Leiden.
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2/2 Scholar, interrupted. Great portrait by Jacob Toorenvliet, whose day is today.
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 PM
2/2 Scholar, interrupted. Great portrait by Jacob Toorenvliet, whose day is today.
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Dutch world traveler Carel Quina, holding compass over Asia Minor in atlas & w/ Saint Peter's behind him. Painted 1669 by Jacob Toorenvliet.
January 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Dutch world traveler Carel Quina, holding compass over Asia Minor in atlas & w/ Saint Peter's behind him. Painted 1669 by Jacob Toorenvliet.
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January 3, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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Whether it’s Barack Obama being the editor of Harvard Law Review or Donald Trump narrowly passing a cognitive test used to detect dementia, there’s plenty of serious intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.
January 2, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Whether it’s Barack Obama being the editor of Harvard Law Review or Donald Trump narrowly passing a cognitive test used to detect dementia, there’s plenty of serious intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.
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Reporting that "Grok apologised" is like saying that your calculator likes BOOBS.
It's not a person. It doesn't think. It can't reflect on its actions. It can only do what you told it to do.
It's not a person. It doesn't think. It can't reflect on its actions. It can only do what you told it to do.
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
January 3, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Reporting that "Grok apologised" is like saying that your calculator likes BOOBS.
It's not a person. It doesn't think. It can't reflect on its actions. It can only do what you told it to do.
It's not a person. It doesn't think. It can't reflect on its actions. It can only do what you told it to do.
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I hope you guys like owls! There may be a few posts about these Australian Boobooks that roost in our Perth Hills garden… they are just so magnificent 😍
It was hot today (40°C 🥵), this owl was feeling the heat so holding its wings away from its body 🪶
#ausbirds #wildoz #owls #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds
It was hot today (40°C 🥵), this owl was feeling the heat so holding its wings away from its body 🪶
#ausbirds #wildoz #owls #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds
January 2, 2026 at 11:52 AM
I hope you guys like owls! There may be a few posts about these Australian Boobooks that roost in our Perth Hills garden… they are just so magnificent 😍
It was hot today (40°C 🥵), this owl was feeling the heat so holding its wings away from its body 🪶
#ausbirds #wildoz #owls #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds
It was hot today (40°C 🥵), this owl was feeling the heat so holding its wings away from its body 🪶
#ausbirds #wildoz #owls #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds
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Tawny frogmouth in almost total darkness
This photo is really an advertisement for OM Systems OM-1 + 50-200 f/2.8 IS lens...
1/8 second *handheld* at 314mm full-frame equivalent...
f/2.8, ISO32000, DxO + Lightroom, 95% crop
Actual scene below - pitch black /1
#photography #birds #EastCoastKin
This photo is really an advertisement for OM Systems OM-1 + 50-200 f/2.8 IS lens...
1/8 second *handheld* at 314mm full-frame equivalent...
f/2.8, ISO32000, DxO + Lightroom, 95% crop
Actual scene below - pitch black /1
#photography #birds #EastCoastKin
January 1, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Tawny frogmouth in almost total darkness
This photo is really an advertisement for OM Systems OM-1 + 50-200 f/2.8 IS lens...
1/8 second *handheld* at 314mm full-frame equivalent...
f/2.8, ISO32000, DxO + Lightroom, 95% crop
Actual scene below - pitch black /1
#photography #birds #EastCoastKin
This photo is really an advertisement for OM Systems OM-1 + 50-200 f/2.8 IS lens...
1/8 second *handheld* at 314mm full-frame equivalent...
f/2.8, ISO32000, DxO + Lightroom, 95% crop
Actual scene below - pitch black /1
#photography #birds #EastCoastKin
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Kookaburra portrait
(A very big kingfisher...)
#FlyDay
#photography #birds #nature #wild #kookaburra #EastCoastKin
(A very big kingfisher...)
#FlyDay
#photography #birds #nature #wild #kookaburra #EastCoastKin
January 2, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Kookaburra portrait
(A very big kingfisher...)
#FlyDay
#photography #birds #nature #wild #kookaburra #EastCoastKin
(A very big kingfisher...)
#FlyDay
#photography #birds #nature #wild #kookaburra #EastCoastKin
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January 2, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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January 2, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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🧐👩🔬🌞💊 New research has discovered that increasing vitamin D intake may be a simple approach to overturning obesity-related health problems. @jcuofficial.bsky.social
Read full story 👉 tinyurl.com/yrk23a9u
Read full story 👉 tinyurl.com/yrk23a9u
January 2, 2026 at 5:27 AM
🧐👩🔬🌞💊 New research has discovered that increasing vitamin D intake may be a simple approach to overturning obesity-related health problems. @jcuofficial.bsky.social
Read full story 👉 tinyurl.com/yrk23a9u
Read full story 👉 tinyurl.com/yrk23a9u
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Money's getting tight as expenses (especially medical) add up, so I've just launched a Patreon for 4k wallpapers of my photos!
Support my photography *and* enjoy birds, insects, spiders (optional), and more in 4k, ultrawide, and portrait for phones: patreon.com/davidcsimon
Support my photography *and* enjoy birds, insects, spiders (optional), and more in 4k, ultrawide, and portrait for phones: patreon.com/davidcsimon
David C. Simon | Patreon
4k photographic wallpapers
patreon.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Money's getting tight as expenses (especially medical) add up, so I've just launched a Patreon for 4k wallpapers of my photos!
Support my photography *and* enjoy birds, insects, spiders (optional), and more in 4k, ultrawide, and portrait for phones: patreon.com/davidcsimon
Support my photography *and* enjoy birds, insects, spiders (optional), and more in 4k, ultrawide, and portrait for phones: patreon.com/davidcsimon
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Another hard day at work. #workskeet
January 2, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Another hard day at work. #workskeet
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Died (alas!) on this day in 1617, in Haarlem, the wonderful & prolific draftsman, printmaker, and painter Hendrick Goltzius. Here by himself in 1594.
January 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Died (alas!) on this day in 1617, in Haarlem, the wonderful & prolific draftsman, printmaker, and painter Hendrick Goltzius. Here by himself in 1594.
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2/2 Goltzius's little lady-headed serpent, keeping an eye on things.
January 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
2/2 Goltzius's little lady-headed serpent, keeping an eye on things.
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Tourist attractions of the renaissance: beached whale near Berkhey, 1598. By Hendrik Goltzius, who died OTD in 1617.
January 1, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Tourist attractions of the renaissance: beached whale near Berkhey, 1598. By Hendrik Goltzius, who died OTD in 1617.
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2/2 Man proposes, God disposes. Surrounded by his instruments, plus fab action scene in background, mathematician & astronomer Nicolaus Petri van Deventer. As engraved in 1595 by Hendrick Goltzius.
January 1, 2026 at 11:10 PM
2/2 Man proposes, God disposes. Surrounded by his instruments, plus fab action scene in background, mathematician & astronomer Nicolaus Petri van Deventer. As engraved in 1595 by Hendrick Goltzius.
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2/2 Portrait of the artist's sister Sophia reading, 1591, by Hendrick Goltzius. She would later marry chemist/engineer/ inventor Cornelis Drebbel.
January 2, 2026 at 12:25 AM
2/2 Portrait of the artist's sister Sophia reading, 1591, by Hendrick Goltzius. She would later marry chemist/engineer/ inventor Cornelis Drebbel.
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Lots of fun to y'all! 🐦🥲 @effinbirds.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Lots of fun to y'all! 🐦🥲 @effinbirds.com