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Plover Pastor
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Birds and theology, sometimes at the same time. Sometimes I pretend to be a Piping Plover.
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Why are we still illustrating dinosaurs without their feathers? The scientist that led the discovery literally called this thing a Hell Heron.
February 20, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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cidrap.bsky.social
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The FDA refused to review a flu vaccine, contrary to evidence. Now the agency reversed itself

@jakescottMD

The latest reversal is welcome, but the episode of first denying Moderna review of its mRNA flu vaccine deserves close examination

Photo: Gary Lee/Flickr cc
February 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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debmaluk.bsky.social
Jay of the day #birds
A Blue Jay on a branch looking at the camera. The bird has a gray and white chest and a pointy blue head crest. There is a black circle around the face and black H over the beak. There are out of focus snow covered branches and red berries in the background. A Blue Jay on a branch looking right.
February 19, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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yahiro-photograph.bsky.social
A fluffy Long-tailed Tit brightening up a chilly winter morning.
#birds
A Long-tailed Tit perched on a branch in winter, its fluffy white and black feathers softly puffed up against the cold.
February 18, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Hey fam, it’s us!

“…Defend Public Health filed an amicus brief, arguing that the changes to the vaccine schedule…did not follow best practices for vaccine policy and that HHS’s statements that the changes would increase trust in vaccines and its comparisons to peer nations were faulty”.
In court, AAP argues Kennedy’s HHS made unlawful changes to vaccine policies
After a day of oral arguments in a packed courtroom, a Boston federal judge did not rule from the bench on a lawsuit from AAP against HHS focused on vaccines.
www.statnews.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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cumberlandjc.bsky.social
!FRACAS!
I don't know what was going on here but they really were at it hammer and tongs! Even the chick joined in! Talk about #fail to get along with the neighbours
Rockhopper #Penguin being #DramaQueens

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #FalklandIslands #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #FebruArty2026
Photo shows a group of Rockhopper penguins with the black and white adults on each side facing each other and a brown chick in the middle with his back to the camera. The two middle adults are in an aggressive stance facing up to each other red beaks open the right one leaning in with his flippers flung back. The adults on either side of which only heads and a small amount of bodies showing appear to be joining in 2 with their beaks o0pen as well as if shouting The chick is looking at the two aggressors and is standing on one leg with its fluffy down covered flippers outstretched at each side Canon R5363mm f/8 1:1600s ISO400
February 18, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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heartlessbirch.bsky.social
More like “forced” into, when AI is added to our existing software, email, spell check, web browsers and operating systems. It is extremely difficult to disable.

It’s also who we are forced to talk to when reaching out to customer service or, increasingly, even our own local government.
February 18, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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maillardreaction.bsky.social
because I need to heal, here's the very touching moment when ilia malinin congratulated mikhail shaidorov on winning gold seconds after his own dream was crushed #MilanoCortina2026 #figureskating
February 13, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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instbirdpop.bsky.social
🪶 Good advice from an Anna's Hummingbird.
Photo of an Anna's Hummingbird from behind by Frank D. Lospalluto. The bird is stretching its wings above its back and splaying its tail. Text on the photo says: Don't forget to stretch.
February 11, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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oldirtybasbird.bsky.social
I very seldom see canvasbacks, and when I do, they’re typically far away. But this guy inexplicably decided to grant me a close look a few weeks back.

#birds #🪶 #nature #ducks #birding #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
Eye-level view of duck with red head, red eye, black bill, black breast, and light gray humped back, swimming in blue water toward the left side of the frame.
February 10, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Seeing negativity about Lindsey Vonn that she shouldn’t have competed due to her age and it was hubris and she shouldn’t have been skiing on an injury, but:

- that’s ableist and ageist
- she was medically cleared
- she hooked the gate, extremely common error and totally unrelated to her ACL or age
And photo of Lindsey Vonn at the moment she hit the orange gate on her run. Her arm is through one of the gate poles and her skis are in the air.
February 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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clinty1.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay theme for today from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #StareDown, and the alt theme is #Gulls. Here's a disgruntled Grackle who was a clear winner in the stare down contest #Birds #Grackle #WetlandBirds
Grackle perched on a dried branch staring into the camera. Grackles are in shades of iridescent blues and purples
February 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud
February 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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jannerbirder.bsky.social
We have some great birds in #Shropshire at the moment: the Crudgington Moor floods host the largest group of Russian White-fronted Geese in the county in more than 40 years; on the "Leighton Loops" were five Barnacle Geese. Both species are county rarities. And it didn't rain!

#ShropshireBirding
Some of the 270 or more Russian White-fronted Geese, grazing against a backdrop of fence and mature hedge. Lapwing and Golden Plover on muddy islands in a large field flood. Five Barnacle Geese, behind some of the larger Canada Geese, grazing on the edge of the flooded River Severn. Looking down from the valley side to the River Severn floods at Leighton, near Ironbridge, showing the river up on its floodplain with wooded hills beyond and pasture in the foreground. A low wintry sun is shining through a partially clouded sky.
February 8, 2026 at 10:10 PM
revbirder.bsky.social
This gorgeous Lark Bunting flew all the way from, like, southern Texas to north-central Ohio because, idk, maybe she's had it up to here with other Lark Buntings? I assume it's the bird equivalent to when I say I'm moving to Mars to get away from people.

#birds 🪶
A female lark bunting, a small sparrow-like bird delicately streaked in brown and white with a chunky bill, fluffed up almost spherical in the cold, sitting on the ground munching on birdseed.
February 8, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Maybe a good time for this as well with norovirus making headlines.

I made this for our bathroom and a few “lucky” friends also got one as a gift.

As I’ve said before, it’s astonishing that I even have any friends at all.
Cross stitch that says wash your hands. It has 3 pathogens on it: e.coli salmonella and cholera
February 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Coo coo
We see two house sparrows drinking out of a puddle. The male says to the female: "Good puddle!" to which she replies "I love you but you have low standards". Pigeons arrive in the background, the female says "Ope! Here comes the herd" There is a long horizontal frame of the two sparrows in the midst of a bunch of pigeons cooing around them. The male then says "gentle giants" the female agrees "mhm" and then says "coo" and the male responds "haha. coo!"
January 21, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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alan678.bsky.social
I promised Graham @oldmanrambling.bsky.social I would post a Robin a day for a week in memory of his beloved wife, Janet. As she loved Roberto who is their little garden visitor. So for the third day #WinterRobin #ForJanet #birds #EastCoastKin
A European Robin stands on a frost-dusted stone, its bright orange-red breast glowing in low winter sunlight. Soft brown and grey feathers are fluffed against the cold, with dark green leaves blurred in the background, creating a calm winter garden scene.
January 21, 2026 at 6:14 AM
revbirder.bsky.social
À propos of nothing in particular, one of the reasons that verbal and emotional bullying is difficult to stop in schools is that bullies are really good at twisting language, so that if the victim reports it to the teacher, it sounds like they are overreacting to something innocuous.
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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raniawrites.bsky.social
Greenland is Inuit Land. US & Europe playing tug of war with Kalaallit Nunaat, it will be Indigenous people who suffer most. Colonization is not a distant history.

Under a colonial system built on white supremacy violence never disappears it only reiterates itself, sometimes dressed up differently.
January 21, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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tyleraking.com
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
Blue buttons jellies float at the oceans surface, like little animal flowers, living between sea and sky. There are millions of them out there right now, and most will live their whole lives without even being seen by a human.

Despite the hard things, the world is still wondrous.
January 15, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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cidrap.bsky.social
Family history of cancer linked to increased risk of long COVID

Pre-existing conditions, genetic susceptibility, immune dysregulation, or environmental exposures may play a role.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
January 15, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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banditelli.org
Welp, it's certainly morning. 🪶
A snowy egret hunched over on a wooden rail. Knees slightly bent , like a guy who wears a hoodie but not pants
January 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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everyheron.bsky.social
In olden days people saw Heron as some of the saddest, wretched, depressed creatures. Perhaps they just saw themselves reflected?

Today people who stop to watch describe us as meditating, thoughtful, wise, and seeing the world better than most. Again, reflections. 💙 (1804)
HERON. COMMON HERON, HERONSEWGH, OR HERONSHAW. (Ardea Major, Lin. - Le Heron hupé, Buff.) ALTHOUGH the Heron is of a long, lank, auk- ward ſhape, yet its plumage gives it on the whole an agreeable appearance; but when ſtripped of its The Heron is defcribed by Buffon as exhibiting the picture of wretchedneſs, anxiety, and indigence, condemned to ſtruggle perpetually with mifery and want, and fickened by the reſtleſs cravings of a famiſhed appetite, &c. However faithful this in- genious naturaliſt may have been in pourtraying the appearance of the Heron, yet others are not in- clined to adopt his fentiments in defcribing its habits and manners, or to agree with him in opinion that it is one of the moſt wretched of animated beings. It is probable that it fuffers no more than other birds, many fpecies of which employ equal atten- tion in looking for their prey, and it is not un- likely that the Heron derives pleaſure from it in- ſtead of pain. This bird, however, is of a melan- choly deportment, a filent and patient creature; and will, in the moſt ſevere weather, ſtand motionleſs a long time in the water, fixed to a ſpot, in appear- ance like the ſtump or root of a tree, waiting for its prey, which conſiſts of frogs, water-newts, eels, and other kinds of fish; and it is alſo ſaid that it will devour field-mice. Cover of book HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. THE FIGURES ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY T. BEWICK. VOL. II. CONTAINING THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF WATER BIRDS. NEWCASTLE: PRINTED BY EDWARD WALKER, FOR T. BEWICK: SOLD BY HIM, AND LONGMAN AND REES, LONDON, [Price 15s. in Boards.] 1804.
October 20, 2024 at 10:06 AM