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@franzanth.bsky.social

i draw bugs and stuff. please ask before using my images. he/him 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇩 contact: franzanth at gmail portfolio: franzanth.com Hashtags: #Art #SciArt #Gardening

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Libby@libbystigaard.bsky.social · 15h ago

Good 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 2d ago

A lot of parents already know they need to talk about sexual violence and consent. And you do. But that’s only the tiniest piece of the puzzle. And if you don’t situate that conversation in a broader focus on gender equality, then you might do more harm than good.

sol@spider.florist · 17h ago

Senators of the 4th Parliament draw laws like warding charms, limiting their influence to their tiny chamber in exchange for assurance that they can never be removed from it. Their power is endless stalemate—better to make the same small moves forever than to lose, or to question the game itself.

Drawing of a Sabethes mosquito, with stylized wings. Lots of iridescent blues, fuchsias, and emerald.
calisera@rolylowpoly.bsky.social · 17h ago

UPDATED PUZZLE!!! the original puzzle is dummy hard since it can have multiple solutions, oops ^^; this revised version should only have one solution! therefore, it is much easier to solve! ;v;

nonogram puzzle on a grid size fifteen by twenty two. the key is in the top left corner and is inverted.
Aussie Moths@wa-moths.bsky.social · yesterday

Good news #invert story of the week 🦋 After a catastrophic decline in numbers over recent years that placed Australia’s iconic Bogong moth on the IUCN Red List, their numbers have really surged this year! #mothsmatter #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist www.smh.com.au/environment/...

After a catastrophic decline bogong moths are back, and naturalists are celebrating

Bogong moths numbers have surged after years of decline, flying evidence of an ancient transfer of vital nutrients from lowlands to the fragile high country.

smh.com.au

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 2d ago

I wish all science teams who advertise their work with GenAI a very pleasant emergency meeting to mitigate the damage to public trust.

Raven Amos (Autumn Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛@alaskanime.bsky.social · 2d ago

Heads up, #science people, this "Earth BioGenome Project/Genomes on a Tree (GoaT)" uses generative AI extensively in their advertising, so I would definitely not trust anything that comes out of this. If they can't be bothered to use real graphics and make their own posts, I doubt their app is good.

Raven Amos (Autumn Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛@alaskanime.bsky.social · 2d ago

Heads up, #science people, this "Earth BioGenome Project/Genomes on a Tree (GoaT)" uses generative AI extensively in their advertising, so I would definitely not trust anything that comes out of this. If they can't be bothered to use real graphics and make their own posts, I doubt their app is good.

Screenshot of a post from "Earth BioGenome Project" bluesky account advertising a new "science app" that has "we vibe coded the shit out of this" stink all over it. The post shows two slides, one which looks normal-ish with text over the top of slices of different photos of animals, plants, and fungi. The other one is definitely generated by some kind of Gen-AI steal prompt. It shows a goat in a lab coat by a weird looking "tree" and for some reason there are infographic type logos above sets of text, something that gen AI loves to do when "creating" slides. The text of the main post reads: How do you coordinate a global genome-sequencing effort? Before starting a new genome, researchers need to know: What's already been sequenced? What's underway? And where are the gaps? That's where Goat — Genomes on a Tree — comes in. Explore GoaT.
Raven Amos (Autumn Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛@alaskanime.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm probably going to get muted or blocked for this, but as a fellow science communicator, using AI-generated imagery/text is really a bad look all around. It not only steals from your fellow scientists because it's all trained on stolen data, it also makes up fake science.

Ainsley S@americanbeetles.bsky.social · 2d ago

FWIW, there are three versions of the death's head hawkmoth associated with this movie: the doctored image on the movie poster; the real deal (Acherontia atropos); and the live stunt moths they used in filming Buffalo Bill's house, which were (IIRC) Manduca sp. with fake skull prosthetics

Movie poster for 'Silence of the Lambs," with Jodie Foster's ghostly visage and a retouched Acherontia atropos specimen (the skull has been altered to look much more human and the colors are brighter than the real thing)Actual specimens of Acherontia atropos in our collection. The "skull" marking is much less distinctly human and varies between individuals.promotional (?) photo of Ted Levine as the movie's lepidoptera enthusiast, posing dramatically with a pair of Manduca who have had little fake nails with skulls painted on them glued to their backs. The moths themselves seem chill about it.
Ainsley S@americanbeetles.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our fantastic exhibits team put together a gorgeous mini-exhibit to highlight the CMNH’s most famous insect, “that spooky moth from Silence of the Lambs”

A lone plinth, topped by a jewel case, highlighted by a ceiling-mounted spotlight, holding some bugs. At left, you can see the wall projection of some of Adrian Smith’s fantastic insect flight videos.
Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈@joshlukedavis.com · 3d ago

what pisses me off about the endless conversations on how to develop and scale carbon capture is that we already know of a very good way to do this: bogs if a company was really interested in capturing carbon, they'd simply pump lots of money into peatland and bog restoration projects, and yet...

Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷@book-historia.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s one thing to be aware of how the public is using it and how the disinformation it breeds can be countered in a respectful reference exchange, but it’s entirely different to use a tool that is ACTIVELY HARMING OUR FIELD in a public-facing way