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On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on a bill to help regulate GenAI. If possible, please join in support of creatives!

bit.ly/44lRMsX
CA 12/8 HEARING The Al Copyright Transparency Act URGENT! BE THERE !! SHOW UP to support Artists & Creators NOW !!! 12/8/2025 - 10:00 AM Stanford University - Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk Stanford, CA 93405 Entrance faces Nathan Abbott Way Parking: Parking Structure 6 (Cash/ Credit) We want the sea of human creativity that is CA to be in the room! Help us get a head count ... RSVP: https://bit.ly/44IRMsX
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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somuchpingle.bsky.social
🧵1/2 #TurtleTuesday for those who celebrate. It took me a while, but I finally got to see a wild Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temmincki) earlier this year in Louisiana. A charismatic turtle in a primeval, take-off-your-finger kind of way... #herps #turtles #NaturePhotography 🌿
Side image of a large turtle on a sand bar next to a river, mouth wide open and facing right and angled towards the camera. The turtle's shell, head, and limbs are a mixture of dark browns and ebony. The head is massive, with an upturned, pointed nose. The shell is rugged, with scutes that look like mountain peaks.
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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julielfrost.bsky.social
For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Stripes, Northern flickers, which offer the bonus of "polka dots" in other views. 😊

#Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Birder
A Northern flicker viewed from behind, displaying feathers that appear to be strips. A male Northern flicker viewed from the front, displaying black polka dots in addition to its black crescent-shaped bib and "mustache" spot.
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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hanyhossameldin.bsky.social
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Western Reef Heron
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#bird #oiseaux #nature #capture #naturephotography #naturelovers #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #planetbirds #waterbirds #wildlife #art #photography #photographie #foto #bluesky #PhotographersOfBluesky #heron
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December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
Wide, wet and serious about this bath.

Bathing American Robins are always a joy to behold. #birds 🌿
A brown bird with an orange breast is mid bath in a shallow stream. It faces the camera with an incredibly serious expression and has all its breast feathers puffed out so it looks enormous.
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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hatsunemichaels.bsky.social
pleasant boy
#dandy #BeardedDragon
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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slipperyjack.bsky.social
Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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mybirdcards.com
What bird am I? 🤔 (See alt text for
clue) 🌍 #WhatBird #BirdID | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
"I am a large and striking East African bird often described as looking like a cross between a vulture and a peacock. I am known for my bare, blue-grey neck and head, which is why I was given my common name. Unlike my relatives, I do not have a bony casque on my head. Instead, you'll recognize me by my dramatic, long, blue and white streaked hackles that resemble a feathered cape flowing over my body." Gemini 3 (Edited) 📷: Photo by Surprising_Shots via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/surprising_media-11873433/
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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theonetruekat.bsky.social
Some ridiculously muddy toads, after being recovered from post-holes that were left uncovered for weeks. #herps #toadallytuesday
Two western toads, caked in mud, after being rescued from a muddy post-hole.
December 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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luxomancer.bsky.social
Happy #MacroMonday!

This is a Spined Green Stinkbug, Loxa flavicollis, from earlier in the year.

#FujiFilm, X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #macro

#MacroPhotography
#photography
#Insects
#Invertebrates
#Hemiptera
A macro photo of the head and forebody of a green stink bug who is resting on light blue siding. The stink bug's green head is triangular, with a narrow band of yellow along the sides. The eyes are on the rear sides and are gray. The forebody comes to a point on either side, which is bright red, a line of which, bordered with yellow, extends down the sides to the head. The surface of the forebody has a dimpled texture.
December 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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trigonotarbida.bsky.social
me and a very friendly syncaridan in mt field national park. okay probably it was just trying to work out if it could eat me.
photograph of a crustacean with many long head appendages putting its head on a person's finger
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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haykebyr.bsky.social
reminder that if you are interested in drawing people and want to get better at proportions and anatomy, I can't recommend enough the MORPHO line of reference books - I have these, as well as the larger in depth skeletal/muscle reference one, and they are absolutely stellar resources
Four book covers from the MORPHO series of reference books. Simplified Forms, Fat and Skin Folds, Muscled Bodies, and Clothing Folds and Creases.
January 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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langurlover.bsky.social
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Indigenous knowledge and science join forces to save the choro mussel in Chile
Huellelhue means “place for swimming” in Mapudungun. It’s also the name of one of the rivers that flow through the Lafken Mapu Lahual Multiple-Use Conservation Area, established in 2005 in southern Ch...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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snarky.bsky.social
Fascinating

www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fu...
Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only move...
www.sciencealert.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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teamswiftparrot.bsky.social
I had the joy of getting to meet some baby blue-winged parrots today 💚💙
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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aintright.bsky.social
Phil the Pheasant belting out his favourite tune. #BirdOfTheDay #LongTails #ukbirds #photography
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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jhmsparky.bsky.social
I am a rock. I am an island.
SNPL #birding Oregon coast
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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theoplum.bsky.social
The Nameless Prisoner is out now with 3 episodes, & you can read it on tapas or webtoon canvas!
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December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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spidermax3000.bsky.social
#macromonday #crustmas
Powder orange #isopod - Porcellionides pruinosus “powder orange”
(Shot in my old #animalroom 3-27-22) 🪳🪲🦀 #photography #macrophotography #animal #invertebrate #crustacean #ento #bugsky #pet
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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alfabusa.bsky.social
The destruction of the Gävle Goat as a prophylactic neccesity for the prosperity of civilisation is a myth.
It is the hatred you carry for the Goat, the wish for its agony and death, that has you under its curse.
Mend the hatred in your graven mind or suffer further.
November 19, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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hazelmonforton.com
ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦
Okay bear with me. My amazing friend Robyn (@haykebyr.bsky.social) did this amazing image based on my stupid ass joke. It's Miss Piggy photoshopped into some Sister of Battle armour, with the white bob haircut and a fleur de lys tattoo on her cheek and everything. Except she's got pink satin gloves on. The caption is "In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future there is Only Moi" because that's the whole joke. Thank you.
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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catsuka.bsky.social
"Snow Bear" is now available for free on Youtube (and in 4K).
A hand-drawn animated short film directed by legendary Disney animator Aaron Blaise.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXo...
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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xenomatt.bsky.social
A couple of pics of a pair from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao. I think this is a phyllosoma (the larval stage of a lobster) riding a purple-striped jelly which is really too small for it... ID very tentative in both cases though!

#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🦀🌿
A translucent, ten-legged crustacean on top of a jellyfish. The crustacean has very few visible features. The jellyfish has a few short, pale brown tentacles, and some purple organs are visible inside the bell. The pair are seen from underneath which makes it obvious that the crustacean is larger than the jellyfish it has commandeered for a ride. #UnderwaterPhotography #Macro #WildlifePhotography #Wildlife #Nature #NaturePhotography A translucent, ten-legged crustacean on top of a jellyfish. The crustacean has small hairs/spines on its legs but very few other visible features. The jellyfish has a few short, pale brown tentacles, and some purple organs are visible inside the bell. The two are about the same size which gives a very top-heavy appearance to the picture. #UnderwaterPhotography #Macro #WildlifePhotography #Wildlife #Nature #NaturePhotography
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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prosanta.bsky.social
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social

On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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doctorzen.net
If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:

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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.

#AcademicChatter
Slop graphics in academic journals
Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...
docs.google.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM