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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 14h

The cuteness 😍

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 14h

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Threeoffour. @beckitoo.bsky.social · 16h

A mandatory duck in pastels I did a few weeks ago. I'm really pleased with my progress in pastels. Practice practice practice.
#mandarinduck #duck #bird #riverbird #birdart #natureart #riverlife #wildlife #pastelmat #pastelart #artist #pastellist #ukartist #pastelpencils #panpastels #drake

A colourful male mandarin duck facing left on a river with it's colours reflecting beneath him.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 14h

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · 14h

If you study plants, you need this book.
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The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants

A dazzlingly illustrated guide to the plant life of the dinosaur age, from intricate ferns to the most majestic megaflora

press.princeton.edu

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16h

For day 12 of #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮🔭 #histsci She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, 🧵

My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Iconic💔

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Fans and colleagues on Saturday remembered Diane Keaton, who died at 79, leaving a legacy as a vulnerable actress onscreen and a compassionate colleague while away from the camera.

Hollywood and Fans Remember Diane Keaton

Tributes from colleagues and fans flooded social media as they learned of her death. Many celebrated her onscreen legacy and some noted her impact on their lives.

nyti.ms

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

This is great by @motherjones.com. This is also great by @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social: ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 1d

ANOTHER 38c day in CHINA

Brutal heat day and night continues in this insanely hot October,a month which is rewriting history.
Next days temperatures will increase even further, breaking dozens/hundreds of records again with peaks close to 40C.

Map credit:Jim Jiang

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

Critical reappraisal of a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and a revised view of diplodocoid evolutionary relationships and biogeography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Critical reappraisal of a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and a revised view of diplodocoid evolutionary relationships and biogeography

Diplodocoidea is a diverse clade of sauropod dinosaurs that comprises three major lineages: Diplodocidae, Dicraeosauridae and Rebbachisauridae, with the former two united as Flagellicaudata. There ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 2d

Debbie Brockman is a journalist for WGN, Chicago's most iconic television news station.

Here she is being wrestled to the ground, handcuffed & detained by masked ICE agents in broad daylight.

ICE rammed into her vehicle, dragged her out & whisked her away. Whereabouts unknown.

This is fascism.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

Rebuilding Gaza: don’t sideline Palestinian scientists, say experts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rebuilding Gaza: don’t sideline Palestinian scientists, say experts

Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as ceasefire is agreed in the first phase of a peace deal.

www.nature.com

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis - Atterholt - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis

In birds, the neural canal houses a variety of anatomical structures including the spinal cord, meninges, spinal vasculature, and respiratory diverticula. Among these, paramedullary diverticula and t....

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 2d

If only there were a French expression to denote an uncanny feeling of having experienced something before

Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 2d

France’s new prime minister is…the very one who resigned on Monday, Sébastien Lecornu. It rounds off the most chaotic and absurdist week in French politics in modern times

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

A friendly reminder about the current global situation

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

Y las madres y abuelas de Plaza de mayo nada. Ex premios

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

A new long and narrow‐snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval - Lomax - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A new long and narrow‐snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval

Ichthyosaurian faunas before and after the Pliensbachian stage of the Early Jurassic are known from numerous, often complete fossils. The two faunas are very different taxonomically, with only one of....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

#FossilFriday Gertrude Lilian Elles was born on 8 October 1872. She was a field geologist, stratigrapher & palaeontologist. In 1919 she won the Murchison Medal & became one of the first female Fellows of the Geological Society.
#FeministFriday #WomenInSTEM
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/f...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 3d

New tetrapod remains help constrain the age of a peculiar assemblage, including early dinosaurs and pterosaur precursors, from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New tetrapod remains help constrain the age of a peculiar assemblage, including early dinosaurs and pterosaur precursors, from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil

The Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone (AZ) is a key global marker of the Carnian stage in the Late Triassic. In the Candelária Sequence of Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), it splits into the lower Hyperodap...

www.tandfonline.com

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 3d

Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern North America ⚒️🧪🦕

giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...

Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern North America | Geology of the Intermountain We...

giw.utahgeology.org

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 4d

We have no choice but to Stan

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 4d

effinbirds.com/post/7803730...

A painting of a bird beside the text "I appear to have overestimated the fuck out of your intelligence"

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 4d

52. I feel bad, really bad

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 4d

Sloth World, 2025 (Part 1) by @tetzoo.bsky.social
tetzoo.com/blog/2025/10...

Sloth World, 2025 (Part 1) — Tetrapod Zoology

Like me, you are no doubt a big fan of sloths...

tetzoo.com

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 4d

Extracción perfecta 😍🧪⚒️🦕

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 4d

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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