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bluevoter24.bsky.social
This chick already looks like it’s seen too much 💭🦤😂 #birds #humor
September 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The monstrous, swift-moving flood that swept through the Hill Country of Texas on Friday, killing at least 24 people and leaving more people missing, was a flash flood, the nation’s top storm-related killer.
Flash floods like the one that swept through Texas are the nation's top storm-related killer
A swift-moving flood that swept through the Hill Country of west-central Texas Friday and killed at least 13 was a flash flood.
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July 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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quantumkat.bsky.social
Star #Lines
This photo is a stack of hundreds of shots over 2 hours, revealing Earth's rotation.
Each star shows its spectral color, forming a palette dancing around Polaris, the near-static star near the celestial pole.
#blueskyartshow #circumpolar
A long exposure photo showing star trails circling around Polaris above a forest. The trails form curved lines of varying colors—red, blue, and white—caused by Earth's rotation and each star’s spectral signature. Bare tree branches silhouette the foreground.
May 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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emilycurates.bsky.social
The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
April 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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owldaily.bsky.social
Great Grey Owl - A moment of serene beauty captured in the heart of a winter wonderland.

📸 maxime_lv_photograph
#Owl #Nature #Birds
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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vincentledvina.bsky.social
20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.
March 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
conniecgil.bsky.social
It’s the lil wins…
March 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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johannajoyce.bsky.social
Revisiting 'Women in cancer research & oncology' 🧪⚕️

Thanks to Cancer Cell & @montse-rojo.bsky.social for this article from International Women's Day in 2021

It was great to be part of this perspective - and it all still applies in 2025 - here some thoughts on how much our microenvironment matters!
Microenvironment matters During my PhD and postdoc, I have to be honest, I really didn’t think too much about gender disparity in academia. I was really fortunate to have very supportive (male) mentors and to see many successful female professors around me, especially at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Because of those early “microenvironments,” I never thought that it wouldn’t be possible for me to advance in academia because of gender bias. Looking back now, I see I was quite idealistic, and perhaps somewhat naive! When you become a PI, your circle of peers shrinks dramatically compared to your trainee years, and for countless meetings, I was often the only woman in the room. I began to really see then the critical importance of diversity and inclusion—sadly, even to this day, I still have to point out to colleagues organizing meetings and commissions with all-male line-ups that this cannot continue. I have also come to appreciate the crucial importance of women role models; it is essential for young scientists (female and male) to see diverse examples of women who are successful while also having a full life outside of work. Again, I have been incredibly lucky that the scientific area we focus on—the tumor microenvironment—is full of female role models who have personally inspired me, including Lisa Coussens, Mina Bissell, and the late Zena Werb, and with an incredible cadre of emerging female investigators who will help lead this field in the years to come. I believe strongly that the “microenvironment matters”: that we can each have a positive effect on our scientific and academic culture at a local level, while we continue to push forward at the more challenging global level. This is the mantra that I try to put into practice in my own lab, and beyond, and I am incredibly proud of the many women, and men, I have trained who are now building and leading their own supportive microenvironments around the world.
March 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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governorwalz.mn.gov
On International Women’s Day we honor the past, present, and future contributions of women who make our state stronger.
March 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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nywolforg.bsky.social
Let their howls inspire you 🐺
February 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM