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Vivek Nityananda
@viveknityananda.bsky.social
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I research behaviour. Writing. Illustration. Improv. Scicomm. Views my own. (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈
website: www.viveknityananda.com
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davinahill.bsky.social
Apply for @glasgow.ac.uk's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics:

Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me
@sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

📅 Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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divyampersaud.com
Appreciate shares, can't really type these anymore, BUT we have an exciting match opportunity this week (up to £4,000, yall).

Your support doubled for six families & a camp: medical emergencies, families in tents, a newborn. Click “weekly” on anything, it helps. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
January 4, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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jayaprakash777.bsky.social
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

― Edward Said
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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openculture.bsky.social
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
Though it isn't the kind of thing one hears discussed every day, serious Disney fans do tend to know that Goofy's original name was Dippy Dawg. But how many of the non-obsessive know that Mickey's fai...
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January 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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bethlovesbollywood.bsky.social
Wishing you a very filmi new year.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVIm...
Yaar Bina Chain Kahan Re (HD) | Saaheb Song | Anil Kapoor | Amrita Singh | Bappi lahiri Retro Hits
YouTube video by Shemaroo Filmi Gaane
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January 1, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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amalelmohtar.com
If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas!

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The River Has Roots ebook by Amal El-Mohtar - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The River Has Roots The Sweeping, Magical Solo Debut by the Best-Selling Co-Author of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR" by Amal El-Mohtar available from Rakuten Kobo. Follow the river Liss to t...
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December 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find!

An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea.

✨ Happy New Year all! ✨

National Museum of Denmark
📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a small figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The bear is seen in profile facing right. The legs are incomplete. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The figurine is displayed on a small metal stand. The display lighting shines on the bear’s head and neck enhancing the translucence of the orange amber. The neck of the bear has a polished groove indicating it was once suspended on a cord or string. Length 6.5cm. The Fanø bear was found in 1991 on a beach on the west coast of the Danish island of Fanø, located off the south-western coast of Jutland. In the Stone Age the Danish coastline was different from today. “Since then the coastline has been influenced by later changes to the sea level as well as the rising up of the land after the last Ice Age. This rising of the land is still going on today. North of a line on the map the land has risen up and south of the line the coast has become submerged because of the subsequent rise in sea level. Therefore a proportion of Stone Age settlements south of the “tilt line” now lie under water or at the edge of the beach. Thus objects can be washed out in the sea and later be found on the beach”. The Fanø bear is one of a small number of amber bear figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach Amber has many amazing properties: it’s warm to the touch, it’s a glossy translucent colour when polished, it gives off a fragrant scent when burnt, and when rubbed against fur or hair it can produce static electricity which ‘magically’ emits green sparks in the dark and can make hair stand on end.
December 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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divyampersaud.com
We're trying everything to ensure that these six families & a camp aren't forgotten today, so I'll be sharing new sketches of birds from Palestine.

My New Year's challenge: click "weekly" on a coffee to join the giving circle, and help with healthcare, food, more: chuffed.org/project/hope...
black ink sketch of a white wagtail (a tiny black and white bird) perched on a small rock in water, with a watery reflection
December 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
'We are so cold 💔😭
We are so cold 💔😭
We are so cold 💔😭
Because of donations... I need to buy a tent for my family 💔
Any donation, no matter how small, could save a life my family 🙏💔
✅
@mommunism.bsky.social '
December 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
'🚨
We in Gaza are begging you to save us😭
The storm destroyed our tent & we are flooded.
We are homeless & without a tent⛺️
We implore you to donate & support us so we can buy a tent that costs $100.
Your donation will be our lifeline
Help⬇️

Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
✅'
December 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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mommunism.bsky.social
Hana is my last daily verification so if you’ve always thought you wanted to donate but haven’t- here’s a chance to help a family of 7 ❤️
mommunism.bsky.social Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 6d
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hana. Hana was a housewife and her husband Muhammad worked in a workshop, during the war he was injured which made him partially paralyzed. She’s trying to take care of their children Youseff, 13, Mayar, 12, Mira, 10, Aya, 8 and Yamen, 5.
December 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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divyampersaud.com
A hudhud as we highlight Nya & family today for new year's eve—a day that doesn't change their daily reality of deadly cold & rain while stranded in a tent. This family, mostly kids, needs any support they can get to survive.

Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
A black ink sketch of a hudhud in profile, standing tall with beautiful little black tufts
December 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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slack2thefuture.bsky.social
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.

A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
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Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
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December 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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divyampersaud.com
I'm sharing a new bird of Palestine every two hours on new year's eve to remind you that six families & a camp of fifteen more, still surviving famine, bombardment, displacement, rely on your help.

For eight months, that's meant survival. Join in: chuffed.org/project/hope...
A black ink sketch of a grey heron standing on rocks in the sea, with a watery reflection in the water. the bird is tall and thin
December 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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andyradford.bsky.social
🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching...

6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6

8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp

Social monitoring & manipulation
#meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata

@patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
viveknityananda.bsky.social
Last read of the year- Last Dragoners of Bow Bazaar by @indrapramitdas.bsky.social. A beautiful, magical and nostalgic book I loved losing myself in.

In a strange way it reminded me of I Saw The TV Glow. The same sense of a otherness, childhood and bonding over stories.
A copy of the book Last Dragoners of Bow Bazaar by Indra Das. A blue cover with a dragon wrapped around a tree. A circle lists the award wins and nominations.
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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raccoonologist.bsky.social
I had the honour of working to bring @auersperga.bsky.social’s baby to life. It’s a VERY heavy baby - over 200 references (and yes I read them all) - but necessary to do justice to our new hypothesis of combinatory tool use origins 📝👶🛠️

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The flexible, the stereotyped and the in‐between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis
Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherite...
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December 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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prdolan.bsky.social
Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!
Billy Joel listed 59 people in his single "we didnt start the fire." after Brigitte Bardot's Death, Only 3 Remain Alive.
December 31, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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franckbourgeron.bsky.social
L’étoile filante
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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olivia.science
reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine:
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."

www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
Although the twentieth century finds male practitioners firmly in control of formal Western medicine, women doctors and healers still have important inventions and innovations to their credit. For example, although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness. Women had discovered the mold’s usefulness centuries or perhaps millennia earlier (Halsbury 1971, p. 19; Raper 1952, p. 1), and one nineteenth-century Wisconsin woman, Elizabeth Stone, an early antibi otic therapist, specialized in treating lumberjacks’ wounds with poultices of moldy bread in warm milk or water: she never lost an injury patient (Stellman 1977, p. 87). In the twentieth-century development of the drug, it was a woman bacteriologist, Dr. Elizabeth McCoy of the University of Wisconsin, who created the ultraviolet-mutant strain of Penicillium used for all further production, since it yielded nine hundred times as much penicillin as Fleming’s strain (Bickel 1972, p. 185; O’Neill 1979, p. 219).4 And as Howard Florey, leader of the British penicillin team, was quick to point out, it was Dr. Ethel Florey’s precise clinical trials that transformed penicillin from a crude some time miracle worker into a reliable drug. It was also a woman, Nobel laureate and X-ray crystallographer Dr. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who finally deter mined the precise structure of the elusive penicillin molecule (Bickel 1972, p. 216; Opfell 1978, pp. 211, 219). Women were also involved in developing the sulfa drugs that preceded penicillin. For instance, it was a married pair of chemists, Prof. and Mme. Tréfouėl, and their colleagues at the Pasteur Institute in Paris who split red azo dye to create sulfanilamide (Bickel 1972, p. 50). At least two women have invented new antibiotics for which they receive sole credit. Dr. Odette Shotwell of Denver, Colorado, came up with two new antibiotics—duramycin and azacolutin—during her fi…
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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chowleen.bsky.social
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
We present: The Art of #InverteFest - December 2025 Edition
A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna.

Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book!

Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1JCXz...

#Art #SciArt
a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like an opabinia, a leaf insect, close up of a starfish, and so on. the art featured shows a range of different medium, including digital, pixel art, ceramic, fursuit, post it, and so on.
December 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
oh no, book illustrations are such a good way to force people to look at all my favorite types of small goo goo animal. putting in a caprellid right now
small illustration of a pink skeleton shrimp, which has a very long thin body and long antennae
December 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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indigobugs.bsky.social
#InverteFest is going on. Yee haw.
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM