Wow

Tiny patch of Amazon probably holds 40,000 insect species — many new to science

Megaproject involving hundreds of sites is cataloguing rainforest insects from the ground to the canopy.

nature.com

#wormwednesday

Lisa@tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 7d ago

Great Swima image @nautiluslive.org dive on 7.29.26 #MarineLife

The sea mouse is not a mouse. It's a chunky marine worm covered in felt-like hair that diffracts light into shifting reds, blues, and golds, some of the best natural photonics we know of. A brown lump on the seafloor that turns into a rainbow when the light hits right. #WormWednesday #marinelife

While #Okeanos personnel have a fantastic discussion with the PRIME MINISTER of the Cook Islands! here was a cool scale worm at about 5590 m ! #wormwednesday! Some cool tentacles extended!

If you meet me in the summer – or autumn or winter or spring – you should just say: 'Why aren't you writing?'

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 1h ago

Whoever you meet in my shape in the summer is a monster, a feral beast who's clawing at the skin of existence. Do not trust what she says. But fear her.

FABULOUS

Elway 98@didierfluchaud.bsky.social · 2h ago

Oldies but goodies ! 😎 Tom Jones "What'd I Say" - 1969

“A maggot knows things about the outside world in a way that no computer does.” — Matthew Cobb, Manchester University Right on, Dr Cobb, right on. (This article is terrific btw)

Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 2h ago

"AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK" www.quantamagazine.org/ai-is-nothin... Hmm... it's a great article, maybe not a great headline.

One of the most important questions in the history of biology, posed during an 1837 discussion of agricultural breeding in Brnö by Abbé Cyrill Napp, the man who recruited Mendel: "What is inherited and how?" (Transliteration, translation, reference and source in Alt)

Bumping for the daytime crowd — help me choose my dustjacket pic! Pls <3 the ones you like. @matthewcobb.bsky.social? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com ? ...???

Nathaniel Comfort@nccomfort.bsky.social · 15h ago

🧵With trepidation, I submit the 5 portraits I've shortlisted as possible author photos for my forthcoming biography of James Watson. These can be cropped, obvs. I'd love for folks to <3 those they <3. Help me decide! Pix follow... 1/6

The mint chocolate chip flavor of flies [I imagine] 😋 #Stratiomyidae: #Promeranisa #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica

Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976/

"So if we put the sofa here, there's still room for an armchair, and we also get the nice light though the window."

I had forgotten what a marvellous resource the Disused UK Railway Stations website is - maps, photos (old and contemporary), timetables, old tickets. A quite extraordinary collection. It's also delightfully retro, and is still being updated. www.disused-stations.org.uk

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

When accepting Glasgow’s Mayoral Pigeon Chain of Office, Jimmy hadn't fully appreciated the many pressures that came with the job.

Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.com

"Well you can't win them all on astronomy events" Heroic efforts by all the live-streamers on YT! Sad that there was nothing visible to see, but here's hoping @eso.org detected something. We wait with excitement for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images of the moon's new crater! 🔭

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Will I be able to see the crash?" Probably not, but that doesn't mean friends in the Americas shouldn't try (daylight for those in Europe): look to the eastern limb of the Einstein crater. The @eso.org VLT will observe it & NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is taking before and after images! 🔭🧪🛰️

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #American #Contemporary #SteveKeister Steve Keister (b. 1949) NIGHT FLIGHT, 2016 Glazed ceramic, acrylic, wood

1777: Many swifts.

I carry the papers into the shop as the shopkeeper goes into the back room. As I leave, Doug arrives and we stand talking about heat and rain like characters in a Somerset Maugham story. We gaze at geese flying by.

A look back to a beautiful sunrise with our emus Rodney & Del.

An #IceAge masterpiece: This small carving (4.7cm) of a water #bird was made from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. It's thought to be a #diver, #cormorant, or #duck. Found in the Hohle Fels cave on the Swabian Jura. It's the oldest known representation of a bird. 🧵1/2

So pleased that the Heritage Lottery fund has awarded us a grant of £98,135 for our 'Investing in Incredible Invertebrates' Project!!!!!!

I'm in Halberstadt where I have been sent by the lovely folk over at Orbital Studies to witness and write about the 17th chord change of John Cage's "As Slow as possible" which has been playing on an organ here since 2001 and is projected to keep playing until the 2600s.

Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm in Germany for mysterious reasons

Don't worry, they're just eating booklice (another common name for pseudoscorpions is book scorpions) or carpet beetle larvae or flies or clothes moth caterpillars. So they're helping you out. Here's another mama carrying her eggs.

In preparation for watching THE ODYSSEY tomorrow we are watching the film that Tom Hanks thinks is the best film ever, which terrified me at age 7: JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS.

Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...

Thread of Sam's attempted dalliances and apparent threesomes including with a ventroloquist/voice-thrower.

Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · yesterday

To Westminster hall, and not finding Mrs. Lane, with whom I purposed to be merry, I went to Jervas’s and took him and his wife over the water to their mother Palmer’s (with whom I have two or three years ago made good sport with Mr. Mallard).

Bad news for Edward the Martyr (ruled 975–978, murdered at Corfe Castle). Full details of 1300 CE source in previous post.

The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.