There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts www.livescience.com/animals/land...

'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts

As U.S. federal research budgets continue to be slashed, a team of marmot researchers have turned to unconventional sources of funding.

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*ava max voice* oh she's spore but a cyclo a little bit cyclo

In my first story with Kelley French for @notus.com, I spoke to the woman pictured in the Metro photo on July 4. She didn't know she went viral. Her family wants people to know their difficult reality. Please take some time with our story today www.notus.org/metro/viral-...

The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.

America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.

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do you guys think someone actually constructed the Cheez-It sundae?

We need this: Wild Life reinvigorates our sense of wonder, awe and amazement about the incredible creatures we share our planet with. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/cara-...

Atlas Obscura: Wild Life

From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no other—a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world's m...

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“If you love someone, absorb them into your bloodstream.” www.quirkbooks.com/978168369507...

Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake

If you sometimes wish you could sink back into the depths of the ocean, great news—the strange little guys who still live down there will receive you with ...

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cara giaimo@cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 3w ago

since you're into books and jokes about fish - please let me know if you want a copy of my book! www.quirkbooks.com/978168369507... or my other book! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/cara-...

"It wasn’t a prank – it was a platypus." Thanks BBC Discover Wildlife for excerpting the platypus entry from Atlas Obscura: Wild Life! one of my favorites www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Meet the world's most confusing animal: It's venomous, has an electric organ, glows in the dark and sweats milk... | Discover Wildlife

The animal in question also has a fleshy bill, webbed feet and sharp claws.

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DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

and yet no one will answer the question i've had for years: what time is it on the moon?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

The House overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill to make daylight saving time permanent

Ah shit a projectile had become lodged in my person. Following that encounter I just had. Nobody would specify with whom. But there was gonna be a full investigation. They were saying that in the newspaper at least.

i love when a press release headline sounds like it was written by an aggrieved fish

i commented on the proposed OMB changes and so can you

Gwen Pearson@bug-gwen.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨🚨🆘 Today is the LAST day to submit a comment on the 💩proposed OMB rule changes. If you haven't done it yet, this tool can help you identify the parts of the changes that are relevant, and *suggest* ways to comment effectively. (it won't write it for you) ombcomment.netlify.app?link_id=5&ca...

"Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal." nyti.ms/4hch5F3

Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining (Gift Article)

The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.

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enjoying this Market Basket-themed food waste prevention zine by Charlie Welsh, Somerville's Ward 7 climate ambassador. i should make more bread crumbs s3.amazonaws.com/somervillema...

For all you birdwatchers, here's an interactive plot showing species whose colours cannot be accurately shown on screens. Courtesy @moultano.bsky.social , who very kindly shared his data compilation. www.mridulkthomas.com/undisplayabl...

Undisplayable birds

Mridul K. Thomas

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Mridul K. Thomas@mridulkthomas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a gorgeous piece. There is simple beauty around you that we cannot yet show. One of my most vivid childhood memories is of seeing flameback woodpeckers for the first time. They are an intense, luminous gold - framed in red, black and white - that I couldn't believe existed in real life.

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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‘The uprising on 10 August 1680 was one of the most successful acts of Indigenous resistance against colonialism and is sometimes called the first American revolution.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on America before 1776, published online early from our next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Rebecca Solnit · Before 1776

In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...

lrb.co.uk

I would kill or die for Larry

"In Hampton’s materials, I come very close to seeing the shape of Empire, the way an entire ecosystem is implied in an owl pellet." @jpbrammer.bsky.social on James Hampton johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/americas-g...

America’s Greatest Work of Art Is Trash

Alternative title: FEAR NOT

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"Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean's most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being wounded in an Israeli strike" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lebanese turtle conservationist Mona Khalil killed by Israeli strike

Mona Khalil, who had refused to leave the beach she had spent years protecting, died after several days in hospital, an environmental group said.

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"Scientists have performed thousands of [physics] experiments using hydrogen... Perhaps SpudCell will become [biology's] hydrogen atom; the model that finally enables biologists to fully dissect the mechanisms of life." - @nikomccarty.bsky.social, substack.com/home/post/p-...

Synthetic Cell Eats, Grows, Divides

SpudCell could become the hydrogen atom for synthetic biology.

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you can really count on New York Times commenters. huge biological breakthrough just announced and they've already spotted the flaw

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

i originally interpreted "no-analog" here as "digital" rather than "unprecedented"—which spurred an interesting thought loop, as i prepare to hunker down in AC all day, about how we're kicking ourselves out of the physical world

Elizabeth Kolbert@elizkolbert.bsky.social · last mo.

The no-analog future we are creating is arriving:

a prediction market platform centered around when the Walden Pond parking lot will close

different views of the reflecting pool algae… Annie Talley’s beautiful Desmodesmus suncatcher (left), and one of Euan Reavie’s 400x microscope photos. I interviewed Talley and Reavie about what it’s like for algae to finally get some attention: slate.com/technology/2...

The Great White (circa 1993-circa 2007): A massive bar of white lemon ice on a stick, fashioned into the shape of the head of a great white shark. Sold exclusively via ice cream trucks

are you interested in toad calls, cemeteries, walking around at night, and/or what the wood frog has in common with Jesus Christ? you can learn about all these things and more in my new essay for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/listening-fo...

Listening for Life Among the Dead - bioGraphic

A local chapter of a national frog survey convenes at a storied Massachusetts cemetery.

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