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@bsky.app #FossilFriday Arborea arborea, one of many impressive enigmatic Ediacaran fossils from the Flinders Ranges on display at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide.
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
@bsky.app #FossilFriday Arborea arborea, one of many impressive enigmatic Ediacaran fossils from the Flinders Ranges on display at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide.
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Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
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Need a Xmas present idea? How about this delightful book, One Cosmic Rock, by @karenkrossing.com charmingly illustrated by @dreamist.bsky.social about the end of the dinos (I was lucky enough to be the consultant)
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Need a Xmas present idea? How about this delightful book, One Cosmic Rock, by @karenkrossing.com charmingly illustrated by @dreamist.bsky.social about the end of the dinos (I was lucky enough to be the consultant)
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"Judge McCourt said he was prepared to spend all afternoon watching videos of a cat shittng in Mr Nugent's garden, but he wanted lunch first" is a scene that even Flann O'Brien would have been pushed to invent
Judge James McCourt heard that an aggrieved lawyer and his wife had recorded for 18 months what Coco the cat had got up to night and day in their newly-laid-out front garden at their Mountain View Road home in Ranelagh, Dublin.
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Judge shown videos of cat defecating in south Dublin garden after neighbours brought owner to court
Michael Nugent, a leading Dublin solicitor, appeared for and represented himself and his wife.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Judge McCourt said he was prepared to spend all afternoon watching videos of a cat shittng in Mr Nugent's garden, but he wanted lunch first" is a scene that even Flann O'Brien would have been pushed to invent
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I had a pretty fun frost this morning.🌱🍁🌿❄️
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I had a pretty fun frost this morning.🌱🍁🌿❄️
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I do like taking the occasional bug photo that gives the subject space in the frame.
Here's a Liometopum luctuosum tree ant in Arizona, taking home a gall midge it has caught.
Here's a Liometopum luctuosum tree ant in Arizona, taking home a gall midge it has caught.
November 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I do like taking the occasional bug photo that gives the subject space in the frame.
Here's a Liometopum luctuosum tree ant in Arizona, taking home a gall midge it has caught.
Here's a Liometopum luctuosum tree ant in Arizona, taking home a gall midge it has caught.
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#MolluscMonday Balanced on a wall beneath the ice-cream parlour at Aubeterre (Charente, France) is a fossil of the large rudist bivalve Hippurites, probably collected from a local field underlain by Campanian limestones.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#MolluscMonday Balanced on a wall beneath the ice-cream parlour at Aubeterre (Charente, France) is a fossil of the large rudist bivalve Hippurites, probably collected from a local field underlain by Campanian limestones.
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It's a beautiful day here in Pennsylvania. Here a Great Blue Heron shakes things out during golden hour. Despite their large size, Great Blue Herons only weight about 5 to 6 lbs, thanks to hollow bones.
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's a beautiful day here in Pennsylvania. Here a Great Blue Heron shakes things out during golden hour. Despite their large size, Great Blue Herons only weight about 5 to 6 lbs, thanks to hollow bones.
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#FossilFriday Sectioned stems of the Jurassic crinoid Apiocrinus in the paving stones around the Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux. From Burgundy to Bordeaux.
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
#FossilFriday Sectioned stems of the Jurassic crinoid Apiocrinus in the paving stones around the Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux. From Burgundy to Bordeaux.
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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hey I dunno who needs to hear this today but if your toddler decides that they’re obsessed with beetroot and eats like half a kg of it for dinner
warn your nursery the next day
warn your nursery the next day
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
hey I dunno who needs to hear this today but if your toddler decides that they’re obsessed with beetroot and eats like half a kg of it for dinner
warn your nursery the next day
warn your nursery the next day
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A magnificent Beech in Gight Wood - one of the last remnants of ancient woodland in Aberdeenshire, Scotland #ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳🍁📸
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A magnificent Beech in Gight Wood - one of the last remnants of ancient woodland in Aberdeenshire, Scotland #ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳🍁📸
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Bit of a reduction in ambition from when they used to be all about freeing Nelson Mandela.
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Amnesty bid to retrieve Cornwall's overdue library books
All fines will be waived for the duration of the book amnesty which is being held throughout November.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Bit of a reduction in ambition from when they used to be all about freeing Nelson Mandela.
search.app/YuxQ5
search.app/YuxQ5
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I wasn't that excited about this stock standard photo of a darkling beetle (Eleodes goryi), until I noticed the parasitic tachinid fly egg attached above the insect's midleg. This beetle is on borrowed time.
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I wasn't that excited about this stock standard photo of a darkling beetle (Eleodes goryi), until I noticed the parasitic tachinid fly egg attached above the insect's midleg. This beetle is on borrowed time.
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Denmark: turning diplomacy into DUPLOmacy.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening.
Look how happy he is.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening.
Look how happy he is.
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Denmark: turning diplomacy into DUPLOmacy.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening.
Look how happy he is.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening.
Look how happy he is.
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#MolluscMonday Spirals from the Cretaceous: sections of fossil snail shells in the pavements of Libourne and Bordeaux, SW France.
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
#MolluscMonday Spirals from the Cretaceous: sections of fossil snail shells in the pavements of Libourne and Bordeaux, SW France.
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Try and make space for patch of white dead nettles (Lamium album) in your garden, they flower throughout the year (mostly) providing nectar for late & early bumblebees. @lgspace.bsky.social @worcswt.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Try and make space for patch of white dead nettles (Lamium album) in your garden, they flower throughout the year (mostly) providing nectar for late & early bumblebees. @lgspace.bsky.social @worcswt.bsky.social
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A better shot of the Beelzebub bee-eater fly, Mallophora leschenaulti.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A better shot of the Beelzebub bee-eater fly, Mallophora leschenaulti.
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#FossilFriday A bonus fossil for #Halloween: the ghoulish ‘face’ of a sectioned Carboniferous brachiopod from a Winchester Cathedral gravestone.
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 AM
#FossilFriday A bonus fossil for #Halloween: the ghoulish ‘face’ of a sectioned Carboniferous brachiopod from a Winchester Cathedral gravestone.
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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I agree, adding that I’m very concerned about its effects on adult brains too. I think it’s much more psychologically dangerous to interact with an LLM designed to reflect your own ideas back flatteringly than to post on social media, where someone will always be ready to call you a c***
I personally am significantly more worried about the effects of LLMs and AI video slop on children’s brain development than I am about even social media. I am very worried that our school systems and laws are pushing kids toward AI artificial “friends” while banning social apps.
Yeah I think there are going to be more families who do the equivalent of “we don’t own a TV, we simply all sing madrigals around the piano by candlelight for entertainment” during these next decades. There isn’t a safe amount of AI slop for kids to be exposed to. So if a platform has it: then no.
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I agree, adding that I’m very concerned about its effects on adult brains too. I think it’s much more psychologically dangerous to interact with an LLM designed to reflect your own ideas back flatteringly than to post on social media, where someone will always be ready to call you a c***
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Fungi, such a diverse group.
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Fungi, such a diverse group.
Apparently it’s getting colder.
October 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Apparently it’s getting colder.
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A newly described species in 2024, this snazzy harvester is from the Andes Mountains in Colombia. The emerald-green hourglass-shaped dorsal pattern is one of the key identifying characteristics of the arachnid. #Arachtober
(Quindina horologium) Tatama National Park, 2023
(Quindina horologium) Tatama National Park, 2023
October 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
A newly described species in 2024, this snazzy harvester is from the Andes Mountains in Colombia. The emerald-green hourglass-shaped dorsal pattern is one of the key identifying characteristics of the arachnid. #Arachtober
(Quindina horologium) Tatama National Park, 2023
(Quindina horologium) Tatama National Park, 2023
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Most people don't think about arachnids needing water, but they do need some water. Here a harvester gets a drink from a small puddle of moisture. I don't have an ID for this one yet, but believe it belongs to Superfamily Gonyleptoidea.
Bella Vista Cloud Forest Preserve, Ecuador, 2023
#Arachtober
Bella Vista Cloud Forest Preserve, Ecuador, 2023
#Arachtober
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Most people don't think about arachnids needing water, but they do need some water. Here a harvester gets a drink from a small puddle of moisture. I don't have an ID for this one yet, but believe it belongs to Superfamily Gonyleptoidea.
Bella Vista Cloud Forest Preserve, Ecuador, 2023
#Arachtober
Bella Vista Cloud Forest Preserve, Ecuador, 2023
#Arachtober