Imagine being this photogenic 🪲ID Guess: White Garland House Hopper #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts #spider

🌊 Marine Science Series #1 | Why healthy oceans matter The ocean regulates climate, supports biodiversity, provides food and sustains millions of livelihoods. Understanding marine ecosystems is key to protecting nature and society. Dive deeper ➡️ imares.science/about-us ICM-CSIC

Good earworm! 🙏

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From 1966, "Land of a Thousand Dances" by Wilson Pickett. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILiY...

"I loved and respected Louis Armstrong. He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way." Duke Ellington remembering Louis Armstrong, #BOTD.

Hannah Höch, German (1889-1978), Aus dem blühenden Tal, 1937, oil on canvas, 75.5 x 70.5 cm, private collection

"Equine Eyes" Field-mates, Gina and Boxer. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

It was just after sunrise and the junior Merlin’s were already busy performing their aerial acrobatics and chatting about it … loudly! KEE KEE KEE! This young one was very proud of its feathers and wanted to show them all off! #Birds 🪶

INCOMING #birds

Join us for the next Seattle Bike Disco on August 21, gathering at Occidental Park at 7pm! This month, we'll be doing all swim stops 😄 Credit: Lara! Thanks Lara!

Some the colour that’s brightening our local Perth Hills bush as we move into the Noongar season of Djilba 🌿🌸🌺 Chamaescilla corymbosa Acacia nervosa Leucopogon capitellatus Philotheca spicata #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling #winter

It wasn't me! I swear it was the trunk fish that stirred up the sand! #MarineLife #scuba #photography

Let yourself float on the gentle tides of the Mediterranean (even if only in your imagination in this moment). Feel the calm waters and the little fish brush past your fingertips. Wave to the passing squid with the long and short tentacles. #MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky🏺

A Young Daughter of the Picts (1585) Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, ca. 1533–before 1588 [Formerly attributed to John White, active 1585–1593] Inscribed in graphite, lower right: Georg Hüfnagel | 9822 | UBZZ Watercolor, gouache & gold on parchment Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d ago

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, A Young Daughter of the Picts, ca. 1585.⠀⠀ ⠀ www.tumblr.com/mostlysignss...

Vendors wanted! Come join us and sell your stuff. Every 3rd Saturday of the month, starting Aug 15th.10am-5pm We have 12 floors to fill in our building above us all the current vacant rooms and hallways. Join the pop-up party, and apply at lastbookstorela.com

they knew they were a lot & they just didn't care.. #bloomscrolling #photography #nature #gardens #PinkMon #beyourself #lifeisyourstotake

Lionel Lindsay, Australian (1874-1961), The Black Cat, 1922, wooden engraving printed in black ink on Japanese paper, 18.0 x 15.2 cm, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia

Edgar Maxence, French (1871-1954), Calypso, 1901, oil on wood, 54 x 46.5 cm, private collection

Campfires and Starry Skies #gcnp #campfire #stars #summertime

SOLAR IS WINNING ‼️ 0.1 TW to 1 TW: 120 months 1 TW to 2 TW: 29 months 2 TW to 3 TW: 19 months

Australia in 1973: Marshmallow apple pie 🗃️

Arranger Lucas Vermeer reimagined this #SufjanStevens song for choir, allowing its fragile beauty and emotional depth to unfold through the collective voice of the ensemble. ‘Mystery of Love’ — Sonic Vox - Dutch Contemporary #Choir #MysteryOfLove youtu.be/8dEfu_v97ZU

Mystery of Love - Sufjan Stevens / Sonic Vox - Dutch Contemporary Choir

YouTube video by Sonic Vox

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The stripy pink buds & delicate white blooms of coral heath (Epacris microphylla), found in coastal areas of SE Qld, NSW, Victoria, & in Tasmania. Flowering now, south coast NSW. #FlowerReport #ozplants #WildOz

Monotreme Monday This echidna was spotted crossing Googs Track during recent fieldwork. Echidnas – along with platypus – are monotremes, an odd group of mammals that lay eggs as well as giving milk. When threatened, they partially bury themselves and curl into a ball. #wildoz #echidna

The Daintree Forest in Queensland is said to be the world’s oldest tropical rainforest, dating back to the age of the dinosaurs. Here, artist Alice Mannheim’s ironically-titled oil painting depicts it both above and under water (“Log It!”, 2025) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

"Anti-Data, Pro-Earth" Poster spotted in Brisbane

Deep Sea Chandelier ⚡ A chandelier siphonophore, suspended in the deep Atlantic ocean. ~ Schmidt Ocean Institute 🦑

John Burns@burnsajohn.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm giving a public talk next Wednesday, August 5, on approaches to studying mid-water animals in situ. It will be light on technical details, and more conceptual and a journey to the deep than a regular science talk. Please join if you are interested! #marinelife www.bigelow.org/news/cafe-sc...

Checking on the Powerful Owlet that fledged on the 4th of July ("Jefferson", also showed interest in airplanes) it was the classic "that's some really good scat on the ground", looks up, "Oh." #brisbane #birds #wildoz

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... AI enablers, no better than Nazis

‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed

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“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.” ~ Stéphane Mallarmé