Jacob Jackson
@inkfronds.bsky.social
Ecological storytelling.
I’m a wildlife conservation graduate based in Northern England
23 | AuDHD & Proud!! | He/They
I’m a wildlife conservation graduate based in Northern England
23 | AuDHD & Proud!! | He/They
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This is the second time I have photographed one of my favorite Mycena species - this one is found on leaves and has regular water droplets along the stem for a reason which remains a mystery to me.
From the Chocó Andino region of Ecuador.
#mycology #fungi #mycena #fungifriends
From the Chocó Andino region of Ecuador.
#mycology #fungi #mycena #fungifriends
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is the second time I have photographed one of my favorite Mycena species - this one is found on leaves and has regular water droplets along the stem for a reason which remains a mystery to me.
From the Chocó Andino region of Ecuador.
#mycology #fungi #mycena #fungifriends
From the Chocó Andino region of Ecuador.
#mycology #fungi #mycena #fungifriends
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“The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don’t know if I accept everything even now. I don’t know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there’s defiance in that, too.”
— @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
The whole planet is now AREA X.
— @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
The whole planet is now AREA X.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don’t know if I accept everything even now. I don’t know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there’s defiance in that, too.”
— @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
The whole planet is now AREA X.
— @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
The whole planet is now AREA X.
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Had Omar sign a couple of copies last night at Literary Arts, of his phenomenal One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. A finalist for the National Book Award. I hope it wins.
October 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Had Omar sign a couple of copies last night at Literary Arts, of his phenomenal One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. A finalist for the National Book Award. I hope it wins.
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Acts of imagination and creative play do have a place in countering the rancid, psychotic imagination of this administration. It's just one way, but the juxtaposition is important because it helps us remember how utterly bankrupt it is in normal human values.
October 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Acts of imagination and creative play do have a place in countering the rancid, psychotic imagination of this administration. It's just one way, but the juxtaposition is important because it helps us remember how utterly bankrupt it is in normal human values.
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I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?
September 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?
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You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n
August 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n
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Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
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What could be more classist than replacing human teachers with slop machines, and denying people knowledge and expertise on the basis that they can just prompt a slop machine?
July 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
What could be more classist than replacing human teachers with slop machines, and denying people knowledge and expertise on the basis that they can just prompt a slop machine?
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Yesterday we had earthworm cocoons, today I bring you springtail spermatophores!
Springtails, like many soil invertebrates, reproduce by a male leaving these structures (sperm-rich fluid on a stalk), which the female will sniff out and collect to fertilise her eggs. Romantic!
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
Springtails, like many soil invertebrates, reproduce by a male leaving these structures (sperm-rich fluid on a stalk), which the female will sniff out and collect to fertilise her eggs. Romantic!
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
July 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Yesterday we had earthworm cocoons, today I bring you springtail spermatophores!
Springtails, like many soil invertebrates, reproduce by a male leaving these structures (sperm-rich fluid on a stalk), which the female will sniff out and collect to fertilise her eggs. Romantic!
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
Springtails, like many soil invertebrates, reproduce by a male leaving these structures (sperm-rich fluid on a stalk), which the female will sniff out and collect to fertilise her eggs. Romantic!
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
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The replacement of everything with generative AI is NOT inevitable, but it sure is if you all shrug and say "Well, it's inevitable" like your brain was washed in bad predictive SF for decades.
July 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The replacement of everything with generative AI is NOT inevitable, but it sure is if you all shrug and say "Well, it's inevitable" like your brain was washed in bad predictive SF for decades.
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Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
June 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
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Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.
June 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.
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fuck space x and musk
No matter how slippery the SpaceX fans get in their defenses ("you don't understand, we learned so much!") the fact is these tests are waaaaay past the "experiments sometimes fail" stage. These are tests of what's supposed to be a working design and build.
But it doesn't work. It blows up.
But it doesn't work. It blows up.
ok I feel completely insane asking this but like
weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"
weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"
May 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
fuck space x and musk
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😱 NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! 🤯
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
May 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
😱 NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! 🤯
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Excited for this long overdue read as part of my Ursula K. Le Guin binge.
May 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Excited for this long overdue read as part of my Ursula K. Le Guin binge.
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Fun fact, the worms have eyes, THEY CAN SEE YOU 👀
I can't tell for sure which type this species would have, but they are all cool 🧪🦑
www.cell.com/current-biol...
I can't tell for sure which type this species would have, but they are all cool 🧪🦑
www.cell.com/current-biol...
April 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Fun fact, the worms have eyes, THEY CAN SEE YOU 👀
I can't tell for sure which type this species would have, but they are all cool 🧪🦑
www.cell.com/current-biol...
I can't tell for sure which type this species would have, but they are all cool 🧪🦑
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Recent pics of waterskaters, a relevant page from my beloved copy of Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin, and a quick unpolished piece of writing it all inspired.
April 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Recent pics of waterskaters, a relevant page from my beloved copy of Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin, and a quick unpolished piece of writing it all inspired.
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In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
March 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
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Me and countless other authors today…😂
March 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Me and countless other authors today…😂
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You can read the full speech at the link below, and in the collection Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove Press, 1989).
serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/leg...
serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/leg...
February 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
You can read the full speech at the link below, and in the collection Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove Press, 1989).
serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/leg...
serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/leg...
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Well. At least 21 of my journal articles and at least one essay in a popular book I contributed to were used to train Meta's AI. I never consented to this use.
What are our rights here? What is our recourse?
What are our rights here? What is our recourse?
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Well. At least 21 of my journal articles and at least one essay in a popular book I contributed to were used to train Meta's AI. I never consented to this use.
What are our rights here? What is our recourse?
What are our rights here? What is our recourse?
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Like a lot of authors, I'm enraged that my work has been used to train Meta AI. Writing is a hard hobby and it's already nearly impossible to make a living of it faced with shrinking audiences, attention competition, a surplus of talent, a lack of viable markets, and closed distribution channels.
March 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Like a lot of authors, I'm enraged that my work has been used to train Meta AI. Writing is a hard hobby and it's already nearly impossible to make a living of it faced with shrinking audiences, attention competition, a surplus of talent, a lack of viable markets, and closed distribution channels.
New profile picture, courtesy of my partner
March 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
New profile picture, courtesy of my partner
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In this episode, we take a look at the many faces of decomposition and its essential role in ecosystems and in forming our fossil record.
Episode 213 – Decomposers
Listen to Episode 213 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts! Leave a carcass or a log or a pile of poop out in the wild long enough and it will break down i…
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March 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In this episode, we take a look at the many faces of decomposition and its essential role in ecosystems and in forming our fossil record.