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Some recent photos with my Seestar :D

Crescent moon, Andromeda Galaxy, Jupiter, and Saturn! 🔭🌌
February 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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“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?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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"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
February 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🐈
February 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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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
January 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Philza x epic the musical haha #mcyt
January 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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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
January 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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🌍🌀 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 🧪
Possible link between Earth’s rotation rate and oxygenation - Nature Geoscience
Rotational deceleration has increased daylength on Earth, potentially linking the increased burial of organic carbon by cyanobacterial mats and planetary oxygenation, according to experiments and mode...
www.nature.com
January 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
sillies
January 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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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
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January 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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)
🧪🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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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. 🧪
January 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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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
January 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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....
Diatoms
This teaching and learning web-site is intended as an introduction to micropalaeontology. Micropalaeontology is the study of microfossils (any fossil generally less than 1mm in size). This page covers...
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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First Seestar S50 Mosaic of 2025! 🔭

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy 🌌
January 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
i finally got a bluesky just so i can publicly say: HAPPY BIRTHDAY @fallenchaosity.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM