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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 22m

A terrific book!

stevegoldca.bsky.social @stevegoldca.bsky.social · 11h

Great science writing. 5 stars.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #TheTreeofLife #Edelweiss @maxjtelford.bsky.social

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 2h

Trafford Park I guess.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 2h

Building a Beaufort Fighter - Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services), by Ethel Gabain, 1941.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1536)

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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 12h

That little blue dot is a young exoplanet!
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪
#Astronomy 🔭

www.space.com/astronomy/ex...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 12h

Well Riot Women on BBC1 is *very* good.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 13h

Ladybird book endpapers design.
From the 2007 book published by Penguin called ‘Boys and Girls’

The endpapers design is made up of a series of different ladybird book covers laid out neatly in an 8 x 7 grid

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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy

My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

cstonline.net

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 20h

Should be Bluesky's tagline.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 21h

it's the americans who are most exhausting

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 17h

Too bonkers; didn’t read.

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Threeoffour. @beckitoo.bsky.social · 20h

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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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of World Squid Day, here's a Moroteuthopsis longimana fr #SouthSandwichIslands. International cephalopod awareness days happen each year in Oct — we celebrate octopuses on the 8th, in honor of their 8 arms, and squid on the 10th, to acknowledge their ten appendages (8 arms and 2 tentacles).

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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 19h

First (and only) time seeing this species - and this doesn’t appear to be a larval-stage - perhaps a juvenile, just post-metamorphosis.

#soapfish #larvalsoapfish #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater

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Terumbu @terumbudivers.com · Feb 17

A friend
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #giliair #trawangan #holidays #sealife #marinelife #moray #eel #padi #ocean #Indonésia

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 19h

"I've just come from Timbuctoo on my horse, Rumpelstiltskin."

"Your horse is called Rumpelstiltskin??"

"That's right. I've been through the desert on a horse with gnome-name."

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 19h

Agree. There is a lack of deep discussion on TV across all culture from music to literature to science. (except for a couple of periods of history, which are well catered)

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 20h

I think one reason we have an elitism divide with the arts now has a lot to do with the reduction of proper documentary and discussion from TV. There used to be something on every single night like that.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 23h

The 5 year old told me she saw some small flies go into a hole at the back of the cupboard under the stairs and I should go in and have a look, so I crawled in and she's shut and bolted to door behind me. I have about 5 hours of battery life and the BBC iPlayer installed. More fool her.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 1d

Ah not the same. No doubt we will bump into each other - it's a small place.

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Matt Smear @mattsmear.bsky.social · 1d

Octopus track chemosensory plumes to find food

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 1d

Violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus) and nationally rare according to @hedgerownibbler.bsky.social who posted one from Surrey the other day.

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 1d

Autumnal fungi in disco colours

A bright red mushroom amidst chestnuts and fallen leaves

A creamy purple mushroom amidst chestnuts and fallen leaves

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 1d

You too! Are we going to the same meeting?

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 1d

Phoresis! Poor wasp!

Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 4d

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 1d

He's right about English Nationalism.
And also saying the quiet part out loud:
"Mr Nesbitt talked about the implications of unity, where unionist representatives could have a major say in the politics of a new Ireland... He said unionist TDs could end up being a controlling block in Leinster House"

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

English nationalism is the biggest threat to Northern Ireland's place in the union, according to the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.

English nationalism biggest threat to union, says Nesbitt

English nationalism is the biggest threat to Northern Ireland's place in the union, according to the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.

www.rte.ie

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 1d

Brittle star vs squid
youtu.be/oHN4sWAuBVc?...

Brutal Brittle Stars

YouTube video by oceanexplorergov

youtu.be

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 1d

astrophysicists, please help a poor terrestrial palaeontologist out:

Did beryllium form in the first 3-5 minutes of the Big Bang, or not?

Nasa mentions it here, science.nasa.gov/universe/ove... but other places EXPLICITLY say there was only H, He and Li until star formation.

thank you!

Overview - NASA Science

The origin, evolution, and nature of the universe have fascinated and confounded humankind for centuries. New ideas and major discoveries made during the 20th

science.nasa.gov

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