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distaffcreations.bsky.social
Sad news. Walter S. Judd was my master's thesis advisor and an excellent teacher of taxonomy and systematics. He had a positive influence on my career trajectory.
scottzona.bsky.social 🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 4d
I have the sad news that my friend & mentor Walter S. Judd passed away last Sunday. Walt was an award-winning teacher & a stellar systematist & taxonomist. His work with Ericaceae & Melastomataceae is the model of what good taxonomy is all about. He will be greatly missed. #Botany 🌾🧪
January 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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queenofpeat.bsky.social
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
Image of an Alaskan bog with water and red moss in the foreground and trees in the background.
January 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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dagneo.art
Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it

Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
A photo of a newspaper advertisement, showing a zoomed in photo of a hand holding a Pilot brand fountain pen. "Make AI Jealous" is written in Japanese next to the hand, with "Write what AI can't touch" in English underneath.
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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beadamoss.bsky.social
Autumn is on the way, and with the change in season, so comes the change in colours.

Once Sphagnum moss has established in a peatland environment, the different species develop their natural colours, and we think it’s just beautiful – particularly these autumnal hues of red and burnt orange.
September 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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kbspangler.com
I think the Headdesk Project, Tariffs edition, will go live this week?

It's actual name is Civix Comics and the mascot is, of course, a civet wearing glasses and a dapper vest with a bowtie.

#comics #tariffs
A little civet weasel in a dapper vest and bowtie looks down at a page of text: "Tariffs are intended to protect local industries by making imports more expensive and driving consumers to domestic producers. In the United States, several politically sensitive industries benefit from such tariffs." "Additionally, tariffs are used to shield domestic industries from foreign countries' unfair trading practices and, in some cases, for national security purposes." "What are tariffs," council on foreign relations, 2024.
July 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
I don't normally make comics, but this one has been in my head a long time. #MakeATerribleComicDay2025 #SciArt
A two-panelled comic strip featuring a photo of a club moss in both. It looks like a small, almost miniature conifer tree. The first panel reads: Club mosses and not mosses. They are actually one of the earliest groups of vascular plants, appearing in the fossil record about 400 million years ago. During the Carboniferous Period (300-360 mya) they were as big as trees and grew over 100 feet tall. They dominated the great coal swamps at the time. The second panel reads: ... it's a fact they've never forgotten. A thought bubble from the moss reads (we will be giants again one day!)
June 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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mzak.bsky.social
The WH has covered up POTUS health issues forever and Biden's is not the worse. Consider just a few:
-Reagan's emerging Alzheimer's
-JFK's Addison's disease (and drug regime) & sex addiction
-FDR's wheelchair
-Wilson's strokes (and non-recovery)
-Cleveland's oral cancer
-Pierce's alcoholism
May 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives.

So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!

#Invertebrates
a shiny metallic green sweat bee on white yarrow flowers a chonky, pollen hauling in flight digger bee hovering in front of a pink red flowering currant flower a fuzzy bee covered in pollen on top of the cone part of a cone flower a hovering mason bee with a pollen hat and booties in front of a yellow flower
April 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Signs of spring, ranked.
A six-panel comic called Signs of Spring, Ranked. In panel 1, #10 is Robin - not always a useful sign since robins are quietly present in winter in many areas. In panel 2, there's #9: Daffodil - nice, mundane, #8: Skunk Cabbage - unusual, cool, and #7: Dutchman's Breeches - lol. In panel 3, there's #6: Turkey vulture migrating - gloriously ominous, a humbling reminder of life's transience, and #5: very very small bunny - wow, the little ears. In panel 4 there's #4: Snake sunbathing, with a gartersnake warming itself - underappreciated, looks cozy, and #3: Woodcock going peent - the perfect sound. In panel 5 there's #2: small frogs yelling as loud as they can, with a wood frog floating in a pool inflating itself to make a loud quack - they crave love, or at least they crave the external fertilization of 1500 gelatinous eggs. In panel 6, there's #1, Even smaller frogs yelling, with a spring peeper sitting on the ground making loud calls - yes, YES.
April 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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proflhunter.bsky.social
In this age of diminishing funding, citizen and community science work becomes ever more important.
peiferlabunc.bsky.social Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Mar 9
As a wildflower enthusiast, I love the iNaturalist app. It's helped us ID plants in our backyard & in countries around the world. However, it also can help advance our knowledge of biodiversity. A recent story from the NC Botanical Garden provided a great example 1/n
ncbg.unc.edu/2025/02/19/c...
Community Scientist Documents New Plant, Lesser Mock-strawberry, in North Carolina - North Carolina Botanical Garden
by Sarah Oberlin, Community Scientist In 2023, I joined the community science website iNaturalist and developed an interest in learning how to identify the plants around me in North Carolina.... Read ...
ncbg.unc.edu
March 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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grrlscientist.bsky.social
Scientists Document Cultural Change In The Dialects Of Wild Parrots Over 22 Years

by @grrlscientist via medium

#parrots🦜 #dialects #culture #communication #wildlife #SciComm🧪 medium.com/grrlscientis...
January 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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sephiramy.bsky.social
please enjoy this "vintage movie poster" I saw in a dream which was so funny to my subconscious that I immediately woke myself up to write it down for later
a mock up of a vintage style movie poster, with a bright yellow background featuring red, white, and black elements. the title reads "Please Margaret NO" and shows a well groomed man in a suit looking terrified, as a woman with curled hair and red lipstick holds her mouth open in a broad smile. the text below reads "he was a man with the world's largest collection of live butterflies and she wanted to eat them all". a motif of black and white butterfly silhouettes floats along the top of the poster.
December 31, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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florecita-nomada.bsky.social
Love this! Failure is an integral part of any learning process. Pausing, reassessing and going at it again. Applies to all kind of scenarios, really ,)
scifri.bsky.social Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · Nov 13
The Journal of Trial and Error is a scientific publication that only publishes papers with negative or unexpected results.

The team behind it wants to change how the scientific community thinks about failure in order to improve science.
What To Do When Your Hypothesis Is Wrong? Publish!
In an effort to learn from scientific failure, The Journal of Trial Error only publishes “negative” results.
www.sciencefriday.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social
Friends, if you send a distraction in the next hour, check out this live feed of the capsule bringing our moss experiment (and some other stuff ;-) to the ISS

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NASA's SpaceX 31st Cargo Resupply Services Rendezvous and Docking - NASA+
Coverage of the Rendezvous and Docking of the NASA/SpaceX CRS-31 Dragon Cargo Craft to the Harmony module of the International Space Station (docking
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November 5, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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ncdemographer.bsky.social
We respectfully acknowledge the Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi, Sappony, and Waccamaw Siouan and honor the enduring presence, vibrance, and diversity of contemporary Indigenous communities. linc.osbm.nc.gov/p/celebratin...
Celebrating Tribal North Carolina — NC OSBM
Data for the tribal community of North Carolina
linc.osbm.nc.gov
November 4, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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alepresser.com
Ok, here she is. The woman of the hour.
Thank you for the ko-fis!
And GOOD LUCK!

#kamala #kamalaharris #VPOTUS #shewill
An illustrated portrait of Kamala Harris, smiling. It's in my comics' style.
July 21, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Remember to turn the clocks back 1 hour, NOT 100 years. VOTE!
"Colored Waiting Room" sign at a Durham NC bus station Women protesting to get the right to vote
November 3, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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rheisman.bsky.social
In case you missed it: I have a story in the fall issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology magazine about an amazing nonprofit trying to make field work more safe and inclusive for minoritized people of all sorts. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/field-i...
Field Inclusive: A Small Nonprofit Aims to Make Fieldwork Safe for All
Founded by two Black graduate students, Field Inclusive is working to raise awareness of the risks that minority scientists face when they go into the field.
www.allaboutbirds.org
October 22, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Time has passed but the needs continue in western NC. Here's a way to donate to recovery efforts in one of the small towns that have received less attention: Lansing NC. The community is working together but financial support helps!
lansingrecovery.com/local-inform...
Lansing Recovery
If you have a resource to be added please email: lansingrecoverync@gmail.com - NOT A DISTRIBUTION LIST
lansingrecovery.com
October 13, 2024 at 12:59 PM
distaffcreations.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,623,949!
#2,623,949
September 17, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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scifri.bsky.social
Herbariums are plant libraries that contain fragile specimens of plants that are carefully documented and stored away so that researchers can study them for years, even centuries.
Inside Iowa State’s Herbarium With 700,000 Plant Specimens
The Ada Hayden Herbarium preserves hundreds of thousands of specimens, including some collected by George Washington Carver.
buff.ly
August 4, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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ethankocak.com
Well I just realized we’ve surpassed the number of individual backers of Moistly Harmless on the Unfamiliars. We had 369 on MH and a total of $17,683. Unfamiliars is currently at $12,719 and 380 backers with 12 days to go. So that’s cool.

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The Unfamiliars
One day, all the wizards disappear overnight. The only magic-users left are the most bottom-of-the-barrel familiars and it's now up to them to save magic and save the world.
Tinyurl.com
July 27, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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xkcd.com
President Venn Diagram xkcd.com/2962
July 23, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Maybe it's time that the @nytimes.com should step aside for a younger, fitter, more coherent newspaper.
July 7, 2024 at 9:12 PM