A pretty impressive location for smell receptors! #insects #inverebrates www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Moth wings have a sense of smell

Insect wings are fantastically sensitive, feeling the wind, touch and even tasting. Now researchers from Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, reveal in Journal of Experimental Biology t...

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A male Common Blue Damselfly, Enallagma cyathigerum resting on a Yew hedge in Cambridgeshire 💙 #InsectThursday #Damselflies @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Head on and side view of a Bird Poop caterpillar aka Western Giant swallowtail #butterfly caterpillar. Amazing camouflage! On its host plant - an orange tree. About an inch or 25 mm long. #invertes

Excellent thread - a must read for those that think red tape and regulations are inconvenient

Will Borger@edgarallanbro.bsky.social · last wk.

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

update: I’m a huge mess and I need to be inside , sitting quietly and having food and calming down because I have an interview for this place i might be able to get into could you please help me out with a few bucks E-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com

karen ward@kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 5d ago

update: feel better but it’s too hot. i need somewhere to live or whatever. What’s wrong with this GIFfenator could anyone spare a twenty E-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com head hurts from heat outside

I think that every parent should be aware of this information.

This has happened to me a few times back in the early 2000s. Once, there were no white people on the staff in emergency. I had to wait for someone to turn up, who was junior. They took the history, did the examination, and then had to find me anyway to check their work and make a plan.

Paul Russell@pwrussell.bsky.social · yesterday

The NHS is not obliged to treat these people. It has a policy of Zero Tolerance of abuse directed at staff, which includes racism. It’s not a ‘50% Tolerance’ policy or even a ‘95% Tolerance’ policy. It’s zero. news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

I hope you're sitting down.

Tomorrow at August 6th 2pm PST | 5 pm EST, join Dr. David Putrino, Dr. Lucinda Bateman, Dr. Jennifer Curtin, and moderator Charlie McCone for a discussion on how to best manage and treat post-exertional malaise (PEM). Sign up here: ow.ly/FLoJ50ZtEba

Call your Congressman and demand $50 million in NIH funding for #LongCOVID and #MEcfs research. notjustfatiguewebsite.cdn.prismic.io/notjustfatig...

Billy Hanlon@bhanlon15.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bangor Daily News: 'Congress has a plan to help people with chronic fatigue syndrome. It needs to fund it.' 'The NIH has a roadmap, the science is ready, and the plan is written. What is missing is the funding...' By Amy Blackstone www.bangordailynews.com/2026/08/04/o...

A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body, like Epstein-Barr virus. This reactivation is linked to especially intense bouts of COVID-19 and to the development of long COVID. Published today in @nature.com:

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

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Babelle #1615 2/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↗️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 babelle.terrylaire.fr

BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit, en banc, upholds Florida's anti-drag law, holding that it is neither unconstitutionally vague nor unconstitutionally overbroad. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Cyberattacks have been reported on local water facilities across at least seven states, marking one of the broadest escalations in attacks on critical utilities in several years.

Attacks on water systems could disrupt services for consumers, first responders and the military

Cyberattacks have been reported on local water facilities across at least seven states, marking one of the broadest escalations in attacks on critical utilities in several years.

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We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Laptop class doctors Scott Atlas and Podcast Jay are bashing Fauci, as usual. Since they want you to forget it, let's remember what they actually said in 2020.

Since They Won’t Remind You, Here’s What Drs. John Ioannidis, Jay Bhattacharya, and Scott Atlas, Actually Said 6 Years Ago

The next time these doctors claim they were right, let's remind them exactly what they claim to have been right about.

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I'm just going to throw this out there appropos of nothing: in college I got into a car accident where I hit a guardrail on the highway and the state sent me a bill for it months later

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

SpaceX rocket hours away from crashing into the moon in unintentional collision

What time will James Carville be announcing his official departure from the Dem Party? I want to be sure to tune in.

'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)

If you believe this, and I hope you do, there is nothing stopping you from continuing to protect your vulnerable neighbors by wearing masks in crowded and indoor spaces, especially necessary spaces like healthcare facilities, grocery stores, and public transportation. Absolutely nothing.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

The medical guidance on dealing with Covid has never changed for immunocompromised or high-risk people. It has always been to wear a mask in crowded and indoor spaces. People will literally yell at kids with cancer and the rest of polite society goes “oh well, personal responsibility…”

Thank you, @exploratorium.bsky.social. More museums should follow suit. (And for more than a couple hours in one exhibition space.)

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · yesterday

San Francisco’s Exploratorium will require N95 or KN95 masks during special morning hours designed for immunocompromised visitors.

🚨 Bay area folks: The Exploratorium at Pier 15 in San Francisco is holding mask-required (N95 or KN95) hours for their exhibit Life in Space, from 9-11am on Sat., Aug 22. It should be more hrs & the whole museum, @exploratorium.bsky.social, & you should post the event on your accessibility... 1/3

People are complaining that for two hours in the early morning on one single day, the Exploratorium in San Francisco will require respirator masks. Never mind that this allows disabled and immune compromised kids to safely share in something they’re otherwise excluded from. Fuck them kids.

Your groceries need a hazmat team, but sure, let’s hold another hearing about masks.

Dude literally thinks his shit don’t stink.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

hospitals want us to do more with less without a concern for patient safety or our own wellbeing while refusing to pay us adequate wages

Stop Saying There's a Nursing Shortage

The U.S. may have less of a shortage of licensed nurses than a shortage of nurses who are willing to work in bedside jobs that have become increasingly demanding.

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The Spotnicks - Last Space Train [Sweden, Rock] (1963) https://redd.it/72j1sl https://youtu.be/ybpG-cT0t70

The Spotnicks - Last Space Train [Sweden, Rock] (1963)

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