Julie Bell
@jlbell.bsky.social
Adult educator in Winnipeg, Manitoba with Hubby, three adult kids (one in NYC) and a cat we found in a parking lot. I love learning about learning, genealogy, cycling, and curling which is my lifeline in winter!
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more irl watercolor birb
December 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
more irl watercolor birb
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It's also amazing to consider that this virus has plagued humans for at least 45,000 years
and now we have a vaccine.
Science, it works bitches!
and now we have a vaccine.
Science, it works bitches!
Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV.
This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.
This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.
Two ancient humans, including famed ‘Iceman,’ had cancer-causing virus
Findings from ancient DNA may shed light on HPV’s history in our species
www.science.org
December 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's also amazing to consider that this virus has plagued humans for at least 45,000 years
and now we have a vaccine.
Science, it works bitches!
and now we have a vaccine.
Science, it works bitches!
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the winter solstice is just a made-up holiday to sell more henges.
December 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
the winter solstice is just a made-up holiday to sell more henges.
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Woman Realizes Adorable Rescue Is A Coyote Pup After It Orders Dynamite Detonator Off The Internet
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Woman Realizes Adorable Rescue Is A Coyote Pup After It Orders Dynamite Detonator Off The Internet
Lynx
Bear
Porcupine
Moose
Fox
Bear
Porcupine
Moose
Fox
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Lynx
Bear
Porcupine
Moose
Fox
Bear
Porcupine
Moose
Fox
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
Northern lights. Nov 12. Winnipeg, MB
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Northern lights. Nov 12. Winnipeg, MB
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Ant Queens Birth Hybrid Offspring Using Another Species' Sperm www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ant Queens Birth Hybrid Offspring Using Another Species' Sperm www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I firmly believe:
If I don't find you interesting, that's my failure, not yours.
Every person contains infinite multitudes. Our capacity to perceive and appreciate all that is limited. I think I'm better at it than most, but I too sometimes fail to see a person's light.
That's not your fault.
If I don't find you interesting, that's my failure, not yours.
Every person contains infinite multitudes. Our capacity to perceive and appreciate all that is limited. I think I'm better at it than most, but I too sometimes fail to see a person's light.
That's not your fault.
August 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I firmly believe:
If I don't find you interesting, that's my failure, not yours.
Every person contains infinite multitudes. Our capacity to perceive and appreciate all that is limited. I think I'm better at it than most, but I too sometimes fail to see a person's light.
That's not your fault.
If I don't find you interesting, that's my failure, not yours.
Every person contains infinite multitudes. Our capacity to perceive and appreciate all that is limited. I think I'm better at it than most, but I too sometimes fail to see a person's light.
That's not your fault.
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I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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If you're looking for a timeline cleanse, you could certainly do worse than the etherial music of the neanderthals!
www.openculture.com/2025/06/hear...
www.openculture.com/2025/06/hear...
Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years
Several years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpretations of the oldest known song in the world, discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and dating back to the 14...
www.openculture.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
If you're looking for a timeline cleanse, you could certainly do worse than the etherial music of the neanderthals!
www.openculture.com/2025/06/hear...
www.openculture.com/2025/06/hear...
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I am perpetually annoyed and saddened that I missed seeing these beasties by just a few thousand years. That's nothing geologically speaking! I should have glyptodonts in my garden!
The remarkably odd, mostly giant GLYPTODONTS are remarkably odd. But are they really _that_ remarkably odd, given that other #armadillos - yes, glyptodonts are armadillos - are remarkably odd too? A look ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/6/... #mammals #evolution #xenarthrans
Armadillo Empire, Part 2: Fairies, Tolypeutines, and Where Glyptodonts Go — Tetrapod Zoology
Once more, it’s time to look at armadillos, both at their diversity and at some aspects of their evolutionary history…
tetzoo.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I am perpetually annoyed and saddened that I missed seeing these beasties by just a few thousand years. That's nothing geologically speaking! I should have glyptodonts in my garden!
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Our cat Biscuit had his grooming appt today and they sent us his report card but I think I'm just going to use it as my bio
June 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Our cat Biscuit had his grooming appt today and they sent us his report card but I think I'm just going to use it as my bio
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Yessssssss, more of this. Much more.
In Bell, CA an entire community stood up against ICE, including the local police and the fire dept. The fire truck appears to not allow ICE vehicles to move forward nor remain and pushes forward to escort them out. A police car also helped with escorting. /
June 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Yessssssss, more of this. Much more.
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I asked chatGPT for quotes from the very fake book "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code" by Will Gervais.
It happily provided a quote about how snowboarding is like coding, as well as code for a deranged halfpipe.
Thanks, chatGPT!
It happily provided a quote about how snowboarding is like coding, as well as code for a deranged halfpipe.
Thanks, chatGPT!
June 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I asked chatGPT for quotes from the very fake book "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code" by Will Gervais.
It happily provided a quote about how snowboarding is like coding, as well as code for a deranged halfpipe.
Thanks, chatGPT!
It happily provided a quote about how snowboarding is like coding, as well as code for a deranged halfpipe.
Thanks, chatGPT!
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Imagine a world with horsetails as forest trees - this enormous Calamites stem cast is about 300 million years old and 12cm broad.
On display in Liverpool World Museum.
#FossilFriday ⚒🌏🧪🔬🌿🌱
On display in Liverpool World Museum.
#FossilFriday ⚒🌏🧪🔬🌿🌱
June 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Imagine a world with horsetails as forest trees - this enormous Calamites stem cast is about 300 million years old and 12cm broad.
On display in Liverpool World Museum.
#FossilFriday ⚒🌏🧪🔬🌿🌱
On display in Liverpool World Museum.
#FossilFriday ⚒🌏🧪🔬🌿🌱
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I have a new hero.
This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!
This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!
June 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I have a new hero.
This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!
This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!
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This is the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard!! 😍
June 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard!! 😍
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Sukhjot Singh
"This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."
"This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."
June 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Sukhjot Singh
"This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."
"This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."
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The gift that keeps on giving: not only did Russian lose 7bn USD worth of strategic bombers to 500,000 USD worth of drones, but they will expend time, staff and money to check now all trucks across country. Great time to donate directly to Ukraine's military for the next brilliant strike: u24.gov.ua
June 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The gift that keeps on giving: not only did Russian lose 7bn USD worth of strategic bombers to 500,000 USD worth of drones, but they will expend time, staff and money to check now all trucks across country. Great time to donate directly to Ukraine's military for the next brilliant strike: u24.gov.ua