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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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Conor @bronxbirds.bsky.social · 4h
Pileated Woodpecker this weekend camping in Pennsylvania #birds #nikon
Pileated Woodpecker
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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 1h
By 2035, @ebpgenome.bsky.social is aiming to genetically sequence every one of the 1.8 million species on our world. They hope to discover drugs, enzymes, and catalysts from their chemical sampling. spectrum.ieee.org/whole-genome...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1h
When fly designers subcontract Jackson Pollock to do the eyes. (Eristalinus sp. hover fly, Victoria, Australia).
A close-in macro photograph of the face of a robust greenish-yellow hover fly standing on a green leaf. The fly's enormous compound eyes are speckled with hundreds of blood-red spots.
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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 1h
A Chocolate Royal (Remelana jangala) spotted at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park, Singapore on 12 Oct 2025. A moderately rare, but pretty, butterfly.

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

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Butterflies #Lepidoptera
A butterfly with brown wings, and a brilliant blue-green patch at the tail-end of the wing with two eye spots and a pair of white-tipped tails. A darker brown line runs along the wing near the edge. The butterfly resting with the wings partially open. The upper side of the wing has a purple patch in the middle with a broad brown border around it.
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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 2h
"This has created concerns among archivists, historians and archaeologists that future generations may face a sort of "digital dark age" when they look back for material from the past 50 years or so."

#ComputerHistory #FloppyDisks #History #Data #Archives #Preservation
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 2h
Also check out this post by @aresluna.org , which has lots of wonderful details on the Qwerty keyboard, and the result of using the Qwerty layout on the typewriter that Mark Twain used.
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · Aug 29
I just put online the chapter from my book that talks about all the myths and mysteries about QWERTY and Dvorak.

You can read it here: aresluna.org/the-primitiv...
The primitive tortureboard
Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY
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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 2h
"Researchers in the US have studied the physics of how cutting onions can produce a tear-jerking reaction.
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[I]f you want to reduce chances of welling up when making dinner, sharpen your knives, cut slowly and perhaps don’t keep the bulbs in the fridge."

#Physics #Food #Onions
The physics behind why cutting onions makes us cry – Physics World
It’s mostly to do with knife sharpness and cutting technique
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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 18h
Giocatraduci

Sanyo - 1995

Source: padandpixel.com/a-history-of...

#Handcandy
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3h
ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍
“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant
My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…
www.southernfriedscience.com
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 14h
Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.
Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.
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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 3h
A fascinating book that looks at the large variety of moths found. It covers the major groups of moths except one: the butterflies, which have their own book.

Review at my website [ sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/nonf... ] and on BookWyrm [ bookwyrm.social/user/sohkamy... ].

#Reviews #Books #Moths
Cover for "Moths of the World: A Natural History" by David L. Wagner.
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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 15h
Like other members of the Hyperbaeninae, Dialarnaca zhoui spins silk to create shelters from rolled leaves. What ISN'T common is the species' striking pink and gold colouration! This gorgeous leaf-roller is known only from the Yunnan province in China. #EverydayEnsifera

📸: Zhou Yu
Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189864718
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15h
One of the midwest's most iconic insects, a goldenrod soldier beetle sits in a mid-summer aster. Indiana Dunes National Park.
Macro photo in full on view of a large yellow flower, with an elongated orange/yellow beetle with black legs, antennae, and markings standing on the petals just above the center.
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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 13h
Our first observation of a Hook-winged Carpet moth (Anachloris uncinata) for the season this weekend.

The caterpillar of this moth feeds on leaves of native Guinea Flowers (Hibbertia sp.), which are flowering madly at the minute.

#teammoth #ausinverts #ozflora #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Picture of a moth with brown forewings that have a dark mark at the apex and paler markings across the middle of each forewing. The wings have a pointed tip Picture of a small shrub covered in bright yellow flowers
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Stickyfrogs @stickyfrogs.bsky.social · 21h
This Beautiful Friend from Perth is the Western Banjo or Pobblebonk Frog! This species is only found in the southwest corner of Australia and they were kind enough to share their Song of Bonk with us while we were there!
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rickmalad.bsky.social @rickmalad.bsky.social · 1d
How fortunate am I, that not 100ft from my back door this wonder of evolution decided to post up. She—a bolas spider, Mastophora stowei—spent her nights luring in moths from the low branches of a sassafras tree in our yard. Luckily she picked ideal spot to capture her with a bolas at the ready
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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 21h
Freyer's Grayling (Hipparchia fatua) nectaring on Sea Squill (Drimia aphylla). One of the Grayling species to be seen here in Rhodes 🇬🇷 at this time of year.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels. Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory." Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality." Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?: Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint) Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close" A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.
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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 1d
The weather’s warming in the Perth Hills so there’s increasing moth activity.

More moths in the trap than we’ve had for a while on Saturday night, despite very smoky conditions overnight from numerous prescribed burns 🔥
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Unknown moth, likely a Concealer Moth possibly in the genus Garrha. Pale brown forewings with a darker brown patch in the middle Thallarcha rhaptophora - Desert Footman (I think) - moth with white forewings with various black spots across them Agrotis munda - Brown Cutworm - a common moth, forewings are pale brown with various paler and darker patches View over Kalamunda National Park showing a very smoky haze
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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 1d
Managed to get shots of this Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica) resting on the railing at Springleaf Park Connector, Singapore on 12 Oct 2025. Lovely details when seen from up close.

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

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Birds #Aves
A swallow resting on a railing. It has a red face, blue back, white chest and dark wing feathers that extend past the tail. The bird is facing right, but with the head turned slightly towards the camera. The same bird, but with the head now turned to look to the right. The same bird, but for the other side. The bird is now facing to the left. The same bird, still facing left. But the head is now turned to face the camera.
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Arto Maatta @artom.bsky.social · 1d
Belated photos of the best moths (out of 10 sp) trapped on Thursday night. Feathered Thorn and November Moth agg. were nfy and we also got the 2nd Merveille du Jour and 3rd Rusty Dot Pearl of the autumn. Durham VC66. #TeamMoth @teesbirds.bsky.social
Feathered Thorn November Moth aggregate (Epirrita sp). Merveille du Jour Rusty Dot Pearl
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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 1d
Spotted around 10 of these lovely moths all sheltering amongst the prickly branches of a local native Grevillea yesterday.

I think this is a Concealer Moth, but I haven’t been able to ID it more specifically despite its striking appearance.

#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
A side view of a moth with yellow forewings that have a dark stripe along their edge and at the bottom as well as a dark arc near the bottom. The moth clings to a thin green stem Picture of the Grevillea (Wilson’s Grevillea) and its red flower that the moth was sheltering in
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d
My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com
Title: Where writers really get their ideas. A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying: "I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."
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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 2d
Failed to find any pseuds on Thursday's short cycle ride but @jeremybartlett.bsky.social found me this lovely Pale Tussock caterpillar.
A hairy, pale yellow caterpillar with black lines between the body segments and a row of four 'shaving brush' tufts along its back crawling along the ground, heading left. On the caterpillar's rear end is a slender tuft of pale red hairs pointing up at an angle. A hairy, pale yellow caterpillar with black lines between the body segments and a row of four 'shaving brush' tufts along its back crawling along the ground over oak leaves and twigs, heading left. On the caterpillar's rear end is a slender tuft of pale red hairs pointing up at an angle.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 2d
Temnothorax isabellae, from the rainforests of Puerto Rico, is one of the more colorful ant species I have photographed.
Macro photograph in side view of a small ant carrying a bit of tree bark in her mandibles, her gaster tucked tightly under her body pointed forward. The ant's head, antennae, gaster, coxae, and femora are black, the thorax and petiole are red, and the tibiae are bright yellow.
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