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Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it. www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’

Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their…

404media.co

Graduate students and postdocs in vertebrate paleontology (and other disciplines): the @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering collections study grants to study specimens here. Come visit Seattle! Applications due Dec. 15th, complete info: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-... Please share broadly!

Collections Study Grants

Collections study grants provide financial assistance for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to study the collections of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (UWBM).

burkemuseum.org

Everyone who pre-orders shrimp city shirt will get a free shrimp temporary tattoo 😘 These shirts are how we’re funding our fall mural series - 3 murals created by Philly women & gender non-conforming artists, about our city’s most charasmatic bugs! We’re almost 20% funded! SquidFacts.net

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

a very straightforward way to act against data centers is to see if there's any way you can trigger some sort of environmental review or anything else that slows them down by a month or two or three or six. These are all paid for with debt, and are interest-only payments until completion.

The Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY, has been in financial trouble for a while. I'm biased because I currently have my life-size giant snail and clam on display, but they're a bunch of great people doing great work. Read how you can help here: www.priweb.org/mortgage-cam...

An update on PRI’s current position and financial challenges - August 2025 — Paleontological Research Institution

An update on PRI’s current position and financial challenges August 15, 2025 | Also posted to Mortgage Campaign Landing Page

priweb.org

Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · last yr.

We included life size art of some of the largest mollusks ever, including the largest nautiloid, ammonite, a giant squid, an inoceramid bivalve, and the largest ever snail (ino and campanile by @franzanth.bsky.social, cephalopods by Wendy Marvel)

Anyone else might want to contribute work to fundraise for PRI? If someone is willing to coordinate and run the auction, i will certainly spread the call to all my #sciart friends 🥰

Dr. Win@paleowin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I wonder if a group art for PRI auction could be set up? I have some paleo quilting I’d donate!

I feel compelled to try to help in what ways I can to donate to the sustained survival of the Paleontological Research Institution. Would people be interested in an art auction for a print from my private collection that I would otherwise not be selling to the public?

Dr. Win@paleowin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Loosing the PRI would devastate US science. Any level donation, spreading the word helps. #FossilFriday #SaveScience priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

You all, don't spend even ten seconds of your precious life browsing Grokipedia. Nothing good will come of it. Your attention adds value to something of no value. 👎👎👎

⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan! The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25). Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period. Video source: @_yagha_

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Funny story, I bought 100 extra of these pins with the intention to sell them to those that may have missed preorder, only to for my ADHD brain to LOSE THEM somewhere in my international chaos whirlwind. Hoping I find them this week as I reorganize 🫠

Flamebait@flame-bait.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My signed edition of @caitlinstarling.com's Starving Saints has arrived in the UK, along with the book launch enamel pin by @missdaisydee.bsky.social and I'm in the best mood. Can't stop smiling. I really loved this book. Also, every book should come with a pin.

Been busy establishing an artist residency situation here in Taiwan. But i’ve had a little time for art, mainly creating little creative feedback loops with my grandma and her brilliant drawings ❤️ #printmaking #stampcarving #penguins

This is my most confrontational post of the day: please watch Armond’s video & think on it. It isn’t at all progressive or leftist to spread disabling disease in an ongoing pandemic. There are more Armonds than you know, & folks who don’t mask are making more each day bc most spread is asymptomatic

AI requires that they destroy the biosphere you depend on to live in order to unemploy you.

Good overview of mast cells, cells that contributed to derailing my life as it did to those interviewed: “I would describe myself as a person who had tremendous potential in this world, [...] and that potential has been hijacked by the mental, physical, and psychological impacts of this condition.”

Allergic to Everything — The Mysteries of Mast Cells

How one of the oldest components of the human immune system can trigger a mysterious and little-understood syndrome.

discovermagazine.com

Jim Ryan's resignation as UVA President will be effective July 11th, after which he will go on sabbatical before returning as a full professor in the schools of Law and Education.

Meghin Moore@meghin.bsky.social · last yr.

INBOX: Outgoing UVA President Jim Ryan's official end date and his next steps (spoiler: he's staying at UVA.) news.virginia.edu/content/news...

Extremely dark that the entire U.S. government is lying down to be steamrolled by something called the Trump agenda for fear of some force called "Donald Trump" while the actual Donald Trump has no idea what's happening

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · last yr.

Helluva @notusreports.bsky.social scoop showing that Trump has no idea what's in his budget bill. Seems like something that ought to get a lot more attention. Also this: a republican house member actually admits that they are attacking medicaid. Yes, they are. www.notus.org/congress/rec...

🤔 I’m really not a conspiracy theorist, but this really does read like something a lizard person WOULD say…

El Norte Recuerda@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · last yr.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

NO KINGS Be safe, be smart, and give ‘em hell.

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

wrote about what the protests say about the strength, or lack thereof, of the trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

Opinion | Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He’s Actually a Weak Man (Gift Article)

He is still dangerous, though.

nytimes.com

Giveaway time! I offer you one bust portrait of an OC, persona, or character of your choice. All you have to do is follow, like this post, and reply with a photo of what you would like me to draw. Deadline is May 30th, 2025 12am EST. I will spin a wheel on my stream on the 31st to select the winner.

A GREAT video by @agcollins.bsky.social talking about the importance of our science and discovery of new species in the oceans! youtu.be/rOQvPdH4IN4?...

NOAA Marine Biologist Allen Collins on the Importance of Exploring Our Oceans

YouTube video by NOAA Fisheries

youtu.be

Measles is in the city! Hooray

Paige Perriello@paigeperriello.bsky.social · last yr.

Local folks: check the locations listed to see if you were possibly exposed to measles and call your health care provider if you have questions. www.vdh.virginia.gov/news/2025-ne...?

I know i am SO late to the game, but saw #Sinners today and it will probably be my favorite film for this year! The insane layers of details, visual gags, depth of character, history, story, and soul. Just so masterfully crafted, and a perfect blend of action, comedy, horror & drama. 🤯