Some recent photos with my Seestar :D

Crescent moon, Andromeda Galaxy, Jupiter, and Saturn! 🔭🌌

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

"Happy 31st Birthday Missa!"
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Happy [belated] borth anniversary to this talented, kind, goofy, lovable wet cat of a man! Thank you for all the laughs and smiles Missa!
[im so late-]

No reposting pls <3
#missasinfonia #missafanart

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in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine

Philza x epic the musical haha #mcyt

Eeeeeee!! What an adorkably silly face 🥰

Researchers found this baby king crab (Neolithodes agassizii) hitchhiking on a plastic bag in the Gulf of Mexico. They usually live at depths of 200–1,900 metres and grow up to 12 cm in size. 🧪🦑 🌿

What would you name this tiny crablet?

📹 NOAA Fisheries

🌍🌀 Earth’s Rotation and Oxygenation

A new study suggests longer days on ancient Earth boosted oxygen production via cyanobacterial mats, possibly driving major oxygenation events.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #EarthScience 🧪

sillies

New paper out! 🌳 🌲 (and this one is very special to me)
➡️ Diversity boosts forest productivity also (and especially?) through its effect on the number of trees within forests
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@journalofecology.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social
More ⬇️ 1/7

Just when the Swedish government announced that they want to stimulate forest fertilization to increase productivity (ignoring previous recommendations from my colleagues at SLU), our new paper on the context-dependency of forest fertilization is out! 🧵 (1/5)
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out this great video showing how even if you may not see them, animals during extreme weather are certainly still around. These snapping turtles are hunkered down in the Mississippi River, waiting for warmer days. 🧪

This book by @andrewlhipp.bsky.social is not just about oaks but presents seven beautifully written lectures on the evolutionary ecology of plants using oaks as the model

I read it next to a Q. coccifera ...  

🧪🌍🌳🍁🌿💚💙📚👀 biodiversity botany #ecoevo #plantbiology

no problem cathy :)

Silicon-Based Life

Diatoms are "recent"? 🤯

"First recorded occurrences of diatoms are from the Jurassic, however, these are uncertain and the earliest recorded well preserved diatoms are centric forms from the Aptian-Albian stages of the Cretaceous."

🧪🧬🧵1/n

www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micr....

and here’s a cake (you’re cathy now)

First Seestar S50 Mosaic of 2025! 🔭

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy 🌌

i finally got a bluesky just so i can publicly say: HAPPY BIRTHDAY @fallenchaosity.bsky.social