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Soh Kam Yung
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Exploring one universe at a time.

Interested in #Nature, #Photography, #NaturePhotography, #Science, #ScienceFiction, #Physics, #Engineering.
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A female False Apollo (Archon apollinus) for our #AdventCalendar post today.

Taken by guest Sheila A.W on our unique spring tour in northern Greece.

Another from the 20+ tours from which a donation was made to @europebutterfly.bsky.social

@ukbutterflies.bsky.social @sbbtrust.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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A Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) spotted at Bidadari Park, Singapore on 6 Dec 2025. A common migratory bird, it showed up at a pond in the park, where a group of birders was awaiting its arrival.

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

#iNaturalist #Singapore #Birds #Aves
A small bird with an orange underside, a white-tinged throat, turquoise blue upperparts and a mostly black bill. In the image, the bird is seen in profile, facing to the left. The same bird in a different position. Its body is facing the camera, showing the orange underside, with its head turned to the left.
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
sohkamyung.bsky.social
The cat with an unusual connection with books returns in "The Cat Who Saved the Library". Here, it teams up with a girl suffering from asthma who discovers books are disappearing from the library.

Full review on my website [ sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/fict... ]

#Reviews #SFF #Books #Cats
Cover for "The Cat Who Saved the Library" by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai
December 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
NIGHTFROST (2011)

Acrylic on Watercolor Paper - 9” x 6”



A breath of the fantastic… 1/2
Set in profile against a busy starscape, a regal woman exhales a frosty breath that starts as a delicate spiral before dissolving overhead. Her skin is pale and her wardrobe decidedly wintry, mostly white with pearlescent accents. She wears an ornate headdress, detailed in ornamentation, all swirls and flourishes. Her gown made of feathers and snowflakes opens high on the chest to expose more pale skin but she seems unaffected by the chill of winter.
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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matthewberry.bsky.social
Day 6 of my #orchid #AdventCalendar

Dense-flowered Orchid (Neotinea maculata). Here I present my favourite 'raspberry ripple' flavour, alongside the more frequently encountered 'plain old vanilla' flavour!

#OrchidsOfRhodes
December 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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matthewberry.bsky.social
Day 7 of my #orchid #AdventCalendar

Good morning! Here's a few pics of one of my favourites found here, 𝘖𝘱𝘩𝘳𝘺𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢.

#OrchidsOfRhodes #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #GreekOrchids
December 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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walks30.bsky.social
Pond frog as a predator of hornet workers: High tolerance to venomous stings

Paper:
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Fearless frogs feast on deadly hornets
A remarkable resistance to venom has been discovered in a frog that feasts on hornets despite their deadly stingers. This frog could potentially serve as a model organism for studies on mechanisms und...
phys.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
Another year almost over and I still haven’t made any progress on my book project. Sigh. #birds
Fake book cover for “A field guide to Duck Butts of Western Canada” by Janet E. Hill, Ph.D. There is a picture of a duck with its butt sticking straight up as it forages on the bottom of a pond.
December 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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"Air-Borne" by Carl Zimmer is a fascinating book that covers the history of air-borne diseases, to the current day COVID-19 outbreak, which was eventually determined to be air-borne.

Full review at my website [ sohkamyung.github.io/.../2025/202... ]

#Reviews #Books #Diseases #Air
Cover for "Air-Borne" by Carl Zimmer.
December 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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greenwingstours.bsky.social
For day 6 of our #AdventCalendar we're sharing this Orange-banded Pine Moth (Milionia basalis). It was taken on one of our tours in India by Greenwings guest Allan.

Another tour that helped us raise funds for our friends at @europebutterfly.bsky.social

#MothsMatter #TeamMoth
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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One of my favorite local planthoppers, Dictyonissus griphus. Such distinctive wing venation.
Macro photograph of a small yellowish green bug, in side view, standing on a leaf against a pure black background. The bug has a stubby, upturned face and translucent wings criss-crossed with an irregular network of light blue-green, raised veins.
December 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
sohkamyung.bsky.social
Happy to get this close shot of a Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis) at Bidadari Park, Singapore on 6 Dec 2025. A common bird in urban and forest areas, I usually only see it from a distance: but not this time.

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

#iNaturalist #Birds #Aves
A bird with a stout body, chunky head and red bill. It has greyish to blackish feathers with a blue gloss.
December 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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theregister.com
Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG
Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG
Who needs JavaScript? Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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We knew it was going to be bad, but now we know how bad:

A study of half a million stars shows that their planets rapidly vanish as the stars grow old and bloated. The planets may get shredded, evaporated, or (most likely) dragged by tides into a fiery death. 🧪🔭

warwick.ac.uk/news/pressre...
Once a star like the Sun runs out of hydrogen, it cools down and expands to become red giant. In the Sun’s case this will happen in about five billion years and scientists think this expansion will cause the destruction of Mercury, Venus and perhaps Earth, but lack evidence on how or whether this will definitely happen.
December 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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#FossilFriday The awesome new article in Science by
@griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social et al. adds more evidence for the validity of Nanotyrannus by showing that the hyoid bone in the holotype has adult bone histology. Here are some more images showing the ceratobranchial bone in place in the skull. 🦖
Volume renderings of CT scan data of the holotype skull of Nanotyrannus lancensis (CMNH 7541). The top image is mostly a left lateral view. The bottom image is a ventral view showing the caudal half of the hyoid bone preserved in place. Additional images (all in ventral view) of the holotype skull of Nanotyrannus lancensis (CMNH 7541). The top right image is from the original 1946 article by Charles Gilmore showing the full ceratobranchial hyoid bone in place. The bottom photograph (that I snapped in 2005 when I had the skull on loan for study & CT scanning) shows the caudal half of the hyoid bone preserved in place. The top left image is similar to the bottom image but is grayscale except for the hyoid bone. The main photograph (again, that I snapped in 2005 when I had the skull on loan for study & CT scanning) shows the caudal half of the hyoid bone of Nanotyrannus (CMNH 7541) preserved in place, but it's more of a front view. Notice the broken end of the ceratobranchial in a close-up in the inset.
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
When David Alejandro Sánchez Gómez photographed this orchid in Colombia, he didn't know how special it would turn out to be. 🧵⤵️
A yellow orchid with four petals and a dark maroon interior. White text reads "this orchid is a new species."
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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xkcd.com
Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/
Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
sohkamyung.bsky.social
A pretty Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyanus) spotted at Century Park, Shanghai, China on 3 Nov 2025. A common bird in urban parks and moves around in flocks.

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

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #China #Shanghai #Birds #Aves
A bird with a black crown, white body and powder-blue wings and tail. The long tail is narrow and stretches for one body length. The bird is perched on the side of a rough tree trunk.
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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New Holland Honeyeaters.

Husband Damian @ninoxconnivens.bsky.social has been photographing one of our most common backyard birds, the New Holland Honeyeater. They are breeding within a few metres of our lounge room window. Yes, I know how lucky I am!
December 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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greenwingstours.bsky.social
Today we offer a Tamil Lacewing (Cethosia mahratta) from Goa, India. It was photographed by Greenwings guest John C, during our unique butterfly tour there.

Another tour that has enabled us to donate funds to support the work of @europebutterfly.bsky.social

#AdventCalendar
December 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
sohkamyung.bsky.social
Intriguing. But more research needed.

"Neuroscientists [...] are working out how the weight-loss drugs suppress addiction by acting on hormone receptors in brain regions that control craving, reward and motivation."

#Drugs #Addiction #Biology #Research #GLP1
Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?
Scientists are testing whether GLP-1 drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids — as well as food.
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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"[T]imber skyscrapers are not where a shift to wooden construction will have the greatest impact. The main gains will be found in the more numerous mid-rise buildings that make up a sizeable proportion of the world’s cities."

#Construction #Wood #Buildings #Environment
Wooden skyscrapers point the way to more sustainable cities
Buildings made of wood store carbon, instead of adding it to the atmosphere.
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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"By examining the chemical traces inside a turtle’s claw, we can tell whether the animal grew up in the wild or in captivity."

#Wildlife #Smuggling #Environment
The tiny clue that reveals if an animal has been illegally smuggled
A new scientific technique can reveal if an animal has been taken from the wild, exposing the illegal wildlife trade.
theconversation.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Researchers in Malaysia have discovered an incredible new endemic ‘fairy lantern’ species with fewer than 20 individuals known to exist in the wild.

🔗 Learn all about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/12/02/n...
New critically endangered ‘fairy lantern’ discovered in Malaysia
Just 20 individuals of the unusual species are known to exist in the wild.
blog.pensoft.net
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
sohkamyung.bsky.social
"[Ice XXI] which exists at room temperature and is structurally distinct from all previously observed phases of ice, was produced by rapidly compressing water to high pressures of 2 GPa."

#Physics #Ice #Materials #Water
Ice XXI appears in a diamond anvil cell – Physics World
Previously unknown ice phase exists at room temperature and pressures of 2 GPa
physicsworld.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM