Bristlepede 🤎 Polyxenus sp bristle millipede. Just a couple millimeters long.

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

Last month of operations for ww.simplemappr.net. There are now a few solutions to replace most of the functionality. See the bottom of docs.google.com/document/d/1...

David Shorthouse@dshorthouse.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Regrettably, I have decided to decommission SimpleMappr, www.simplemappr.net on September 1, 2026. You may read about its origins, what others have accomplished in its 18 year run, and the reasons why I must turn it off in a document I wrote last night bit.ly/simplemappr.

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

I'm way behind on my @ologies.bsky.social episodes but I caught this one and it's incredible. Funny, informative, and a title that can't be beat. Don't miss it! www.alieward.com/ologies/colo...

FIELD TRIP: My Butt, a Colonoscopy Ride Along & How-To — alie ward

Come check out my butt with me! 1 in 16 people in the U.S. will have colon cancer, and 0 in 16 want to talk about getting a camera up your guts to check things out. I am one of them, but after losing ...

alieward.com

don't want to speak out of turn, but I think a little DEI might have been of some use to this state department working group www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

theguardian.com

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

Lucas Tieman@lucastieman.bsky.social · 6d ago

There would be more pushback if folks left of center were more serious about outreach. But folks aren't despite the fact that our system does give disproportionate power to rural areas. But instead of taking that as the rules of the game as it exists, and actually organizing, we complain about it.

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

It's the last night of National Moth Week. I had a good one. Moths are so pretty that they make me emotional.

The world's richest man keeps promoting exterminationist rhetoric on his social media site. This kind of talk has led to deadly mass shootings in recent years and there's no reason to assume it won't again. As with DOGE, Musk has to be held accountable here for the destruction he keeps causing.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

Stop everything! Ray Gagne has just finished the second edition of "The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America" and it's freely available here: zenodo.org/records/2137...

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w ago

The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Put these people in jail where they belong

Science Magazine@science.org · 2w ago

Exclusive: NIH, which 1 year ago was slammed by a federal judge for illegally terminating more than 1700 grants funding research on health disparities and other politically sensitive issues, is again killing ongoing projects on those topics. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4pF6Mvy

The scientist who identified this gene in the first place calls this profoundly misguided. “Using SRY to establish biological sex is wrong because all it tells you is whether or not the gene is present. It does not tell you…whether testosterone is produced &if so, whether it can be used by the body”

Tennis is the first major women's sports league to require genetic testing

This policy impacts all women; and most other women’s leagues aren’t taking the plunge.

19thnews.org

This should not only be impeachable, every official involved should be imprisoned.

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Gutting USAID is why it took so long to find out where this outbreak came from. A lot of CDC's budget for dealing with Cyclospora came from USAID. When that was cut, most of the CDC's Cyclospora people were fired!

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“The remaining parasitic and malaria funds had to be stretched to cover all the money that was lost from USAID. Cyclospora work was collateral damage.” thehill.com/policy/healt...

"Scientific systems rarely collapse through a single dramatic event. They decline incrementally: one technician dismissed, one laboratory left unrepaired, one instrument taken out of service, one young scientist deciding to build a career elsewhere." physicsworld.com/a/letter-fro... ⚛️🧪

Letter from Argentina: 'an empty desk and an idle electron microscope signal the erosion of the country's science' – Physics World

Faramarz S Gard laments the decline of Argentine science

physicsworld.com

Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

nytimes.com

if you see me at SDCC and ask for one of these i will give you one

It may be surprising to some that there are thousands of undescribed species just sitting in museums awaiting description. One of the main reasons this problem exists is that taxonomy is undervalued and underfunded, a trend that coincides with the devaluing of studies on natural history.

The NY Times favorite industry: making a movement's imagined rhetorical excesses more narratively focal than the modest clearly beneficial shift it is successfully pushing for. Now for native plant gardening!

Ferris Jabr@ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 4w ago

For the @nytimes.com Magazine, I wrote about the increasingly fervent native plant movement; its esteemed guru, the entomologist and bestselling author Douglas Tallamy; and the complexities of ecologically responsible gardening in our modern era. Gift link 🎁 : www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/m...

Brb need to buy a magnet

Hannah Cave Stout@gdrp2009.bsky.social · 2w ago

beyond thrilled with this magnet 😍 thanks, @rottingrelictprops.bsky.social !!!

Ah yes, taxes, the thing that all of us famously already pay

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2w ago

The WaPo Editorial Board is back with another op-ed attacking the progressive policy agenda on behalf of big money.

I forgot to post this yesterday for #molluscmonday It's about various deep sea mollusks that would be threatened by mining the sea floor. the one in the photo is a scaly foot snail. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/climate/iucn-red-list-threatened-species.html

Sea Mining Could Devastate an Enigmatic Group of Creatures, Researchers Warn

The snails and other mollusks around hydrothermal vents have evolved to thrive in extreme conditions, but mineral extraction could drive more than half to extinction.

nytimes.com

For #MolluscMonday, a grim one. The new IUCN Red List assessed every mollusc known to live only at hydrothermal vents. Of 201 species, 125 are now threatened with extinction, and the driver is deep-sea mining that has not meaningfully started yet. #marinelife iucn.org/press-releas...

From desert frog to deep-sea molluscs, remarkable species at risk – IUCN Red List

Gland, Switzerland, 9 July 2026 (IUCN) – Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has revealed. In Aust...

iucn.org

matthew always brings the receipts

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 2w ago

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

“Does anyone use google anymore?” then he links to his substack post with an AI-generated header image

Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.

Just saying, the natural history journal Banisteria only charges $50 for a manuscript if not a member of the VA Natural History Society (free if member!) and doesn't allow AI: virginianaturalhistorysociety.com/publication-.... Yes I'm shilling for it, I'm the Secretary of the Society.