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Javed Ahmed
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Wildlife Biologist featured in TIME, National Geographic, and The BBC (among others).

Modern Day Pokemon Master - I discover and re-discover species.

#naturalhistory #wildlife #invertebrates
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plazi-species.bsky.social
#NewSpecies
New croaker from #indonesia just swam in:

Johnius javaensis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/48F92633-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #JohniusJavaensis

#FAIRdata
#taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fish #fishfriday #ichthyology #croaker
Fresh specimen of Johnius javaensis, paratype.
November 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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plazi-species.bsky.social
#NewSpecies!
New beetle from #china just snuck in:

Metahelotella alatonotata

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/13FBBC52-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #MetahelotellaAlatonotata

#FAIRdata
#nature #wildlife #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs
Metahelotella alatonotata, holotype, ♂, dorsal view.
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Reposted by Javed Ahmed
zookeys.pensoft.net
Three new wasp species are described and illustrated in the genus Pteromalus. Learn more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#newspecies #parasitoids #taxonomy @unibe.ch
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Reposted by Javed Ahmed
zookeys.pensoft.net
A review of the Chinese species in the grasshopper genera Genimen and Genimenoides: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#grasshoppers #taxonomy #Orthoptera
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Reposted by Javed Ahmed
zookeys.pensoft.net
The identities of two species of Korean Isometopinae are clarified based on examination of their type material: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#biodiversity #plantbugs #taxonomy
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Reposted by Javed Ahmed
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Start your day with a judgmental blackbird. 🪶
A brewer’s blackbird is perched on a stick pile and glaring at you.
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
curiocritters.bsky.social
Absolutely loved @somegadgetguy.com's #OnePlus15 review.

Detailed and nuanced is how we like our Tech journalism.

#Tech #Android #OnePlus

youtu.be/9SpffgyrOxw?...
Using the OnePlus 15: What I Liked, What I Didn't Like...
YouTube video by JuanBagnell
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reposted by Javed Ahmed
savebutterflies.bsky.social
Moths need darkness to thrive 🖤

But globally, light pollution is increasing by 10% a year, and these vital nocturnal pollinators need our help.

Find out how you can provide a haven for moths where you live by creating Moon Meadows 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/moon-meadows...

📷: Marian Coburn
Poplar Hawk-moth resting on a branch against a black background
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Reposted by Javed Ahmed
drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
"To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought."
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October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far.
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Launch Day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY!
Welcome back, and hallo, new readers! This is it! The US launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is February 4th. I’m amazed and relieved to get to this...
buttondown.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
What makes a perfect monster? I wrote about #StarTrek #TNG's The Borg Collective for @reactorsff.bsky.social
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reactormag.com/star-trek-tn...
“Resistance is futile.” Why Star Trek: TNG’s Borg Collective Is the Perfect Monster for Our Time - Reactor
35 years on, what can we learn from the Borg and "The Best of Both Worlds"?
reactormag.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Reposted by Javed Ahmed
jopabinia.bsky.social
Damn I keep thinking of more crabs that fit the holiday. Because there's also CANDY crabs, Hoplophrys oatesi:

🍬🦀

7/maybe done
jopabinia.bsky.social Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Jul 4
Imo the soft coral decorator crab, Hoplophrys oatesii, is the Barbie of crabs 🧪

Matching their outfit to their environment 💅

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137061157
October 31, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Reposted by Javed Ahmed
photosteve.bsky.social
Up close with a juvenile western terrestrial garter snake
#herps #reptiles #snakes
A close up photos of a juvenile Western terrestrial garter snake laying on a busy forest floor
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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bertonemyia.bsky.social
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! 🎃👻
Is that a pumpkin or a spider butt? The marbled #orbweaver is all decked out for fall and the spooky season (though, really, this lovely lady was very shy and harmless)!

#Araneidae: #Araneus marmoreus
#Arachtober
A large round marbled orange rump faces the camera. Radiating out from it are 8 striped legs. An orange marbled orbweaver spider sits on a white background facing the viewer. It has small eyes and spiky striped legs. An orange marbled orbweaver spider sits on a white background facing to the left. It has small eyes and spiky striped legs.
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
curiocritters.bsky.social
The Common Evening Brown is #Mumbai 's quintessential urban butterfly. Found everywhere, and in all habitats, it flies after dusk, frequently entering 🏡 attracted to artificial 💡

This particular individual with torn wings likely escaped the jaws of a prowling 🦎

#butterfly #urbanwildlife
November 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Reposted by Javed Ahmed
somegadgetguy.com
Replay crew! LONG show this week, but fun chatter about the OnePlus 15 and some of our fave SPOOKY movies! somegadgetguy.com/2025/10/27/s...

#SGGQA 418: OnePlus 15, Meta Layoffs, Apple Flops, and Scary Movies!
#SGGQA 418: OnePlus 15, Meta Layoffs, Apple Flops, and Scary Movies! – PJ POD
Last Monday of the month, RIGHT BEFORE HALLOWEEN! Some news to cover as we wrap the month off, and I was hoping we could spend some time chatting about scary movies for the season. Let’s get …
somegadgetguy.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
How about some spiky spiders tonight? This one is Micrathena acuta, a spiny orbweaver found in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. It is believed that the spines serve as a defense from birds and even predatory wasps.
Cuyabeno Reserve, 2024
A spider with an orangish-gold cephalothorax and a pale colored abdomen with two large spines sticks out in opposite directions from the abdomen. The spider is sitting on a leaf.
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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minisanctuary.bsky.social
It’s very hot & humid. The sheep lay in the shade, alongside the cool troughs

Please join us on Patreon for £1: patreon.com/user?u=85237...

Please subscribe on YouTube, for free: youtube.com/@minimotleys...

Our just-giving page: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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#animalsanctuary
August 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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mariannedenton.bsky.social
Yesterday’s benefit from my Vitamin D infusion.

Lorquin's admiral
(Limenitis lorquini)
🌿
A butterfly with its wings folded up showing the ventral side with alternating patterns of orange and white perched on a willow leaf in a riparian area From Wikipedia: The Lorquin's admiral has brown-black wings, each with a row of white spots across it. Its forewings have orange tips. Wingspan: 47 to 71 mm; females are generally larger than males.
August 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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retrotechdreams.bsky.social
StarCraft (1998)
June 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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photosteve.bsky.social
A fledgling red-shouldered hawk and their parent caught in a bit of a Lady and the Tramp situation 🍝
#birds #raptors
A red-shouldered hawk fledgling and their parent sharing a meal of intestines, both birds have the long thin red meat in their bills
June 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
curiocritters.bsky.social
Among the more ubiquitous of the world's feathered folk, the humble house sparrow (Passer domesticus indicus) adds a dash of life to the mundanity of the life urbane, with it's cacophony of chirps and cheeps, no matter which part of the world one may find it in.

#birds #urbanwildlife #nature
July 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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cathey.bsky.social
#InsectThursday #Bee #Insects 🐝💛🌿 #CosmosChallenge2025 #EastCoastKin #Garden #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #NaturePhotography
A bee gathering pollen from a yellow cosmos flower surrounded by green leaves and a small white cosmos bud.
June 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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adventurousautumn.bsky.social
I've never had such luck with dragonflies!
#insects #nature #photography
June 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Reposted by Javed Ahmed
somegadgetguy.com
Give us a share and come join the chat! The show is LIVE! www.twitch.tv/somegadgetguy

SGGQA 401: Xbox and AMD, Apple iCloud Lawsuit, Fairphone 6 Leaks, Google Trains AI on Youtube Content

Let's get our tech week started right!

#tech #technology #technews #podcast
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June 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM