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Fossa Fuller
@ellipsoptera.bsky.social
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Twelve spiders in a trenchcoat sneaking into SC public comment sessions. She, he, or they.

(My shitposting is mine alone and I am not my organization but my organization is pretty cool too)
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darrellclem.bsky.social
First watch: MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947)

Charlie Chaplin critiques a capitalist, murderous war machine, while his character tackles financial desperation to provide for his disabled wife and their child by secretly luring and killing wealthy women for money.
1/2
#FilmSky #Chaplin #MovieSky
Movie poster for Monsieur Verdoux. Poster for the Charlie Chaplin film Monsieur Verdoux.
January 17, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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nanoscaleviews.bsky.social
🧪⚛️ NSF is seeking community feedback on their draft strategic plan for the next few years. Now is the time to make your views known. (Maybe disbanding nearly all advisory committees wasn’t the best idea.) www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan
www.nsf.gov
January 17, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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crvscience.com
Woolly Rhino was not experiencing population decline prior to its rapid extinction ~14,000 years ago, based on DNA recovered from mummified wolf stomach in Siberian permafrost. Instead, extinction likely due to rapid environmental change.

🧪🌎🧬🖥️ #EvoSky #Genomics

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Genome Shows no Recent Inbreeding in Near-Extinction Woolly Rhinoceros Sample Found in Ancient Wolf's Stomach
Using temporarily spaced high-coverage ancient genomes, we can assess population decline prior to extinction. However, finding suitable ancient remains for recovering this type of data is challenging. Here, we sequenced a high-coverage genome from ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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jennanewman.bsky.social
“To explain this phenomenon, the researchers looked to a psychological concept called ‘benevolent sexism.’ This is a belief system that does not necessarily view women w/hostility. Instead, it views women as pure, refined, & morally superior to men, but also as weaker & in need of male protection.”🧪
amydiehl.bsky.social Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 1d
Study finds that news describing victims of war as "civilians who were women" triggers outrage & sympathy; "soldiers who were women" does not. Thus, the protection granted to women is conditional, depending on conformance to feminine norms of innocence or passivity. www.psypost.org/the-psycholo...
The psychological reason news reports single out women and children
Research shows that highlighting female victims elicits as much outrage as highlighting children. However, this protective instinct disappears when women step outside traditional gender roles, such as...
www.psypost.org
January 17, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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nature.com
Many US scientists have reported a rise in targeted harassment. Here are tools and tips to safeguard your cybersecurity

go.nature.com/4jFQnnt
Six steps to protect researchers’ digital security
Many US scientists have reported a rise in targeted harassment. Here are tools and tips to safeguard your cybersecurity.
go.nature.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
“Everybody came, partly to see the girl geophysicist, but also to hear what the revolution could mean for them.”

Absolutely delighted by this story of my friend, mentor, & scientific hero, TANYA ATWATER ⚒️ 🌊 🧪

www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...

h/t @floragraham.bsky.social
cc @drwendyrocks.bsky.social
How plate tectonics revolutionized our understanding of Earth - High Country News
And how scientist Tanya Atwater was at the center of it all.
www.hcn.org
January 17, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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tranniehathaway.bsky.social
I usually already have my phone in my hands but now i am primed to record always~
You have the right to film ICE detentions. Here’s how to do it safely and effectively laist.com/news/educati...
As the agents’ unmarked vehicles pulled away from the parking lot, Eztli recorded their license plate numbers. The scene hurt to watch, he told LAist, but he wanted to gather as many details as he could. Some of it might be of use to Jorge. “I was going to get his birthday too, but they just took him very quickly,” Eztli said. Eztli also meant to get a contact number so he could reach out to Jorge’s family and let them know he’d been detained. Full names and birth dates are also required to search for people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s inmate locator system. “I think it's important for the community to exercise their right to record and make sure that [agents] are being held accountable,” Eztli added. “But it's hard because they are hiding behind anonymity, so they can do whatever they want — that's why it feels so scary.” Witness, a nonprofit devoted to using video evidence to expose injustice, recommends gathering images of any documents that agents present, including warrants. Community members can also record badges, weapons and uniforms. Video of the context in which detention takes place — including street signs, landmarks and any cameras that might be affixed to nearby buildings — can be used to authenticate the footage and corroborate community members’ experiences In videos circulating across social media, community members have also taken to asking detainees three questions: What is your full name? What is your birthday and year? Who can we call? Eliasberg said this is “absolutely permissible.” At the ACLU of Southern California, he added, “we are hearing stories all the time where people are saying: ‘I have no idea what happened to my family member.’ I mean, literally, they've been snatched off the street, or they don't even know. They just don't come home one night.” Can you remind detainees about their rights? Community members also have the right to tell people who are being arrested that they have rights, Eliasberg said. This includes the right to remain silent and not to sign any documents. “You're simply informing them what their constitutional rights are,” he said
June 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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gettyo.bsky.social
コガネムシあれこれ
January 14, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
Doesn't everyone want to go back to a world where if a company knowingly made CSAM while the owner laughed about it, that the company would just instantly die?
January 15, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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rangerdonald.bsky.social
Share the weirdest, wildest, wackiest, WTF-est film you think should be in the Criterion Collection

Chinese Hong Kong Tokusatsu, BABY!!!!!
Infra-Man/The Super Inframan by the Shaw Brothers (1975).
January 15, 2026 at 12:55 AM
ellipsoptera.bsky.social
SAD but it's just the irrepressible desire to eat an heirloom tomato like an apple every day it gets dark before 8pm
January 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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lorrainesimeart.bsky.social
Missing my little critter friends, so here are two wee drawings. Hurry up, spring! #drawing #insects #arachnids #ladybirds
Drawing of a harlequin ladybird on white paper with a shadow. Drawing of a red mite, specifically an anystis mite on white paper with a shadow.
January 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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ehekkala.bsky.social
🧪🌎❤️👇
friendsofdarwin.bsky.social Richard Carter, FCD @friendsofdarwin.bsky.social · 9d
08-Jan: Born on this day in 1823, the man who independently of Darwin came up with the idea of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. Here’s a post I wrote about Darwin’s and Wallace’s friendship…
friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar...
#HistSci
Modesty and candour: the Darwin-Wallace friendship
To mark the 200th anniversary of Wallace’s birth, an article exploring the friendship between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
friendsofdarwin.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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zookeys.pensoft.net
A new genus of wolf spider is described. Learn more about it here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#Araneae #taxonomy #phylogeneteics
January 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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laminda.bsky.social
Here's a moment of wonder for you: spiders that craft spider decoys! Two species of orb-weavers in Peru and the Philippines cobble together web structures out of plant bits and prey corpses that look like bigger spiders, possibly to distract spider-eating predators 🧪
Cyclosa Menge, 1866 (Araneidae) Orb‐Weavers Build Stabilimenta That Resemble Larger Spiders
The orb-weaving spider Cyclosa longicauda from Peru constructs unique stabilimenta from detritus and silk that visually resemble a larger spider. This previously undescribed behavior likely functions...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:19 PM
ellipsoptera.bsky.social
Ok I'm five minutes in and Golden Kamuy is once again my favorite thing on television and it's not even fucking close
January 9, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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hrpixelart.com
Boy, I tell ya.

#pixelart
January 8, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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mesabree.bsky.social
#ProjectAnimalia 772: Coral catshark (Atelomycterus marmoratus)

An Indo-Pacific catshark. Daytime hider, nighttime hunter.

#sciart #dailyart #animalart #scientificillustration #medart #illustration #animalart #coralcatshark #catshark #sharks
Realistic illustration of a Coral catshark (Atelomycterus marmoratus), a slender, marbled shark on a white background.
January 8, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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lolennui.bsky.social
big day for redacted thoughts
January 8, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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eldritchidiot.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ywW...
Rod Serling on Kamikazes
YouTube video by Blank on Blank
m.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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transgenderhistory.bsky.social
"We need to destroy the environment to make more CP generators" - this might not be the worst timeline, but it's definitely the stupidest
January 7, 2026 at 11:53 PM
ellipsoptera.bsky.social
#NowWatching The Curse of Evil, Shaw Brothers, 1982.

What if the Shaw Brothers did a giallo? What if they did the craziest fuckin giallo I've ever seen?
Cover art and rubber monster from the Shaw Brothers' Curse of Evil, 1982. The monster looks like Frank from Donnie Darko
January 5, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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squidfan.bsky.social
Coming into #birbfest with the many-colored rush tyrant 🐡
Watercolor and ink drawing of a little puffed-up bird frowning with the text “fight me”
January 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
I'd like to draw your attention to the accurate cloaca on this bronze Psittacosaurus at the Peabody Museum 🐡🧪
Bronze statues of a juvenile Psittacosaurus, a small ceratopsian dinosaur, and a slightly larger mammal whose name I do not recall because he is a mammal and therefore not as interesting. The mammal is predating the dinosaur.
January 2, 2026 at 6:43 PM