Planet's wonders
@naturesoddities.bsky.social
My analogue-twin parades as a somewhat-famed molecular biologist. I/ME/MY
I just offered chatgpt a chocolate cookie if it performed better than it had on a previous task. It agreed and massively outperformed itself. "Homies Without Chromosomeope"
Today's unremarkable insight: Mars has a carrying capacity of zero.
This just appeared out of nowhere in the corner of a slide in a PowerPoint presentation I'm completing. What does it mean?
I've got legs! I've got legs! www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Before Building Their Retirement Home, They Had to Relocate 174 Legless Lizards
A pair of retirees needed to remove protected slow worms from the property before they could break ground on their $3.2 million home in the English countryside.
wsj.com
What appears to be a single Borg-like #perovskite crystal is an intergrowth of repetitively “twinned” crystals that have formed striations and very complex faces. How? See comment. Photo from Mindat-link in ALT. Vote perovskite below #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · last yr.#MinCup25 Round 2 Match 2: It's all about how minerals interact with humans as dramatic #stibnite faces off against futuristic #perovskite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
don't remember, don't know how that even is. all the better!
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last yr.FLASHBACK: Remember that time Ann Coulter thought she was a guest at Rob Lowe’s roast, but they dragged her for filth instead? Bully getting bullied.
There actually is a Harvard in Florida (Harvard Florida 32619) but no one lives there😂
Lee-in-Iowa 💙@lee-in-iowa.bsky.social · last yr.Idiot proclaiming no vaccines for children in Florida is…a Harvard grad? Gotta say, too many Harvard grads are seriously embarrassing to the notion that Harvard is a “good school”.
The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have published their Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, setting a great example for other academic societies. 🌏🧪🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
ATBC Code of Conduct
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Funny how times have changed. Just watch movies from any decade you like until 2000.
Alisa Bokulich@alisabokulich.bsky.social · last yr.August 31st / September 1st
Definitely in my top 5 planets and famed by a Paul McC & Wings song
David Blanchflower BSc@davidbflower.bsky.social · last yr.Venus. 0400UT 31 August 2025. Handheld. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotohour
I picked strawberries to make some extra cash when I was young, but wrecked my back. No one ever thanked me 🥲
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · last yr.Workers are harvesting lettuce on CA's Central Coast. "Lupe" tells us that they work more than 8 hours this day. She tells us that you can see how the workers rotate breaks in this video. One crew is taking a break while the other two are working. #WeFeedYou
PreFucCool. They do do a job on my fennel. Smart adult females finding the right plants.
Dr. Marissa Civic@stemfactually.com · last yr.I just love these guys 🌱🧬🧪🦋🐛 #caterpillar #monarchs #plantmilkweed #nativegardening #NY #iloveny
wow - not taking away from the immensity of the gas ball, but I get a round array of b&w polymers when I leave my electric razor shavings in toilet water for several hours. Try it. NB. I'm a bit autistic, so forgive me.
David Grinspoon@drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · last yr.Have I told you today that I love Jupiter? (Image from the incredible JunoCam) 🧪
Have I told you today that I love Jupiter? (Image from the incredible JunoCam) 🧪
Good thing that a pterodactyl did not swoop down and yank out the big one
Insta Science@instascience.bsky.social · last yr.Ducklings swarm perceiving the guardian as a safety instinct.
This is a flying spaghetti monster (seriously), but you can call it Bathyphysa conifera. Apparently they are about as smart as a stupid dog (or cat), which places them neck and neck with some humans I know. It's Thursday people! I digress.
This is a black and rufous elephant shrew Rhynchocyon petersi. Very cute and they don't (can't) bite. So very okay for the nervous and thin skinned.
that's what freezers are for. I've got two of em (freezers that is)
Colin “impeach RFK” Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · last yr.What do you mean the Domino’s in this college town closes at midnight
Just occurred to me that I'm more often than not, a species of one. énough for my deep insights.
nice, and in a different realm, the photo might apply to the Portuguese-man-o'-war too 😁
Tamim Ahsan@tamim-ahsan.bsky.social · last yr.Editorial: Mind-body medicine and its impacts on psychological networks, quality of life, and health, Volume II #health #stress #psychiatry #mind #disease doi.org/10.3389/fnin... 🧪