Brie Ilarde
@gacatail.bsky.social
she | PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota | Natural history museums, evolutionary biology, mammals | Patron of the arts, but like, webcomics and colorful illustrations of animals
it’s #ToothyTuesday! some of my fav teeth are colugo lower incisors. these teeth are pectinate or “fan-like,” exhibiting many long, thin projections used for grooming! while colugos are sometimes called flying lemurs, they’re not actual lemurs: lemurs = primates, and colugos = dermopterans!
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
Oh, this is wild, LMAO. Everyone, listen to this episode! The tl;dr for the peeps in academia: Remove the comments from your TeX files before uploading them to the arXiv. And don't put any sensitive data in there in the first place.
Mike Rugnetta@mikerugnetta.com · 6d agoHey! You! We made a @neverpo.st and put it out. Today! It's about people accidentally publishing gossip, API tokens, SSNs and CC #'s with their physics and math research papers. Also news about Max Shorts, France banning social media for teens, the Delhi Jantar Mantar protests and more.
So… they may have been birders? My bet is by 2036 we discover the first use of symbolic representation in humans was to record a bird life list, to see if it’s bigger than your frenemy’s list in a neighboring cave
Cedric Boeckx@cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 6d agoGreat piece by @ecallaway.bsky.social A “window into the minds of some of Europe’s earliest Homo sapiens” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
absolutely a tactic. theorist media is doing the same thing to its workers, who also have a supermajority. from a piece I published last week: aftermath.site/game-theoris...
![Newfound leverage comes at an opportune time, because the Theorist Media Union’s other path to recognition goes through the National Labor Relations Board, an entity that’s not exactly in great shape to expeditiously uplift a nascent union right now—or do much of anything else, for that matter. Trump has spent much of his second term denying the NLRB the quorum it relies on to make major decisions, which led to a “historic” backlog of cases. Now, even with the quorum restored and another (Republican, of course) nominee on the way, the NLRB continues to move in slow motion.
"In an ideal world, [Theorist Media and Lunar X] would voluntarily recognize us, even with the best NLRB,” said a Theorist Media worker. “In a less-than-ideal but better-than-now world, after they rejected us, we would have a much easier time attempting to take an election with the NLRB. But I have personally been following what appointments are happening there, and ... the more recent appointees are less worker friendly."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreiaam2x7ls7u5e45e5zrfuieqol6352e7bvivttthhfsavjcbzqgn4)
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last wk.breaking: Wikimedia Foundation says it will not voluntarily recognize its workers union, instead insisting on an election held under Trump's NLRB. Wiki Foundation execs dodged this question at its massive conference last week. www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa...
For Aftermath's Hater Week, I wrote about how Google's conversational AI search results aren't just annoying, but are an offense to everything I hold dear about the process of information searching in the first place
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.Stop talking to me, Google search aftermath.site/google-search-...
Hey Bluesky! Emerging from my dissertation-formatting cave to share that I defended my PhD last week! So many incredible people helped me reach this point, especially over the last few months as I scrambled to finish in time. I’m lucky to be surrounded by such good friends.
Massive win for my inner-wolf reintroduction project
Welcome to Night Vale@nightvaleradio.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING: There are now upwards of 25 wolves inside you.
I forgot to share this here! A risograph print I made for an Autoptic fundraiser. A Pari from Iranian mythology ✨
Saying a version of "I don't know" and then outlining the steps you would take *to* know is a nearly-universal requirement for passing your qualifying exams as a PhD student. It was also a requirement for getting hired as a Supplemental Instructor when/where I was an undergrad.
BETRAYED ON ARRIVAL! And by her own crime family! 😱 What's a girl to do? Bite people. Bite hard and break free!-- right into pymary-fueled danger. UNSOUNDED by @glassshard.bsky.social continues its full print run TODAY with a DOUBLE-BOOK FEATURE of Vol. 3 & 4! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
As smoke chokes eastern US cities (again), this is your daily reminder that as recent as 2023, an NSF panel rejected our grant about wildfire smoke impacts because they did not see the connection between wildfire smoke and climate change.
Just added a couple more job apps (thanks Rachel and Arun!) but if you've gotten a job in industry, academia (R1, PUI, whatever!) in the last 5 years or so, please consider submitting your job app materials to help other folks! github.com/RILAB/statem...
GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants
Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Happy to see our work (w/ my amazing advisor) out!
Charlotte Ambrozek@cambrozek.bsky.social · 4w agoI’m so happy this one is out in the world. Farmworkers have very high rates of food insecurity but aren’t well connected to the US’s biggest food assistance program (SNAP), even if they’re eligible. doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... Lead author is super advisee @casemcnich.bsky.social!
Timeline cleanse: American pikas calling to each other in the Canadian Rockies. Sound on to hear the loud “MEEP!” made by these potato sized alpine mammals. They’re way off under those cliffs but the calls travel. *this is likely a niche post, but it’s one of my favorite sounds in the world.
My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes
Reboosting this. More about the design (and full images) at www.scientificamerican.com/blog/sa-visu... .
Annika Barber@annikabarber.bsky.social · 2y agoIf anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
Second piece for my gryphons of the Pacific Northwest series! Violet-green swallow is next. I plan to work with a local printer to see if I can get prints of these first three, and most likely I'd be selling them on Ko-Fi. If they do well I'll make more! #illustration #birds #fantasy #gryphons
Oh, Veriff? The people who are currently in court for failing to protect sensitive data? That's who bluesky's using? topclassactions.com/lawsuit-sett...
Multiple class actions claim Total Wireless, Veriff failed to protect customer PII in data breach
Three new class action lawsuits allege that Total Wireless and Veriff failed to adequately protect customers’ personally identifiable information from a data breach.
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Dredgen Sale 🔜 Maybe? PAX West 🟪⬜️⬛️@destinythememe.bsky.social · last mo.Well i dont know how long this login session is gonna last but @bsky.app just asked me to do an age verification with personal information. If this happens again i will not attempt to log back in. If i dont post here again let bsky know that i prefer my privacy over this platform.
I recently found a tick on my body and didn't know what to do. I went into journalist mode to find out. Here's what I learned about how to manage tick bites, with illustrations of the tick species that cause diseases in humans by Diogo Guerra and maps of where they occur by @jenchristiansen.com 🧪
Bitten by a tick? Don’t panic—do this
Knowing what kind of tick bit you and where you got it can help inform next steps
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I'm not sure I've ever seen a single sentence go downhill this far and this fast
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoTherapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison
Please join me in supporting this Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers! Just like in Chicago, the DOJ is trying to make examples of people who LEGALLY resisted this administration’s reign of terror. (See their story.) Let’s fight back!! chuffed.org/project/1865...
Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers
On the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...
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Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing
when I got laid off from Vice, I later found out that members of the c-suite had awarded themselves bonuses that were higher than my annual salary. I hope that answers your question.
JESSE FADEN LIKER@necrofantasia.bsky.social · 2mo agoi realize this is objectively true but it feels like... how? how is an industry that brings in this much money crashing? where the fuck did the money go?
Where you'll see a rare bird. Thanks to @ryanfm.bsky.social's newsletter for teaching me about the Cabanis's ground-sparrow that lives behind the walmart
Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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