@elfzie.bsky.social
Exploring, learning, moving more & more into watercolor painting and string and wind instruments, Western, Native - sitting at the feet of great teachers.
Inspired to act meaningfully, especially on environmental issues, justice.
Love people and nature.
Inspired to act meaningfully, especially on environmental issues, justice.
Love people and nature.
I hope these portraits are somehow saved. They are so important.
Tornado damage endangers paintings of Black trailblazers from St. Louis
Over a hundred portraits of successful Black St. Louisans cover boarded-up windows along Page Boulevard and nearby streets, but tornado damage has put the paintings at risk.
www.stltoday.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I hope these portraits are somehow saved. They are so important.
Sending them to other countries for asylum after all they've been through to get here. Meanwhile, our economy is unable to fill jobs that many of them would have been happy to fill. Idiocracy.
Trump administration seeks to cancel thousands of asylum cases, saying applicants can be deported to third countries
ICE has filed more than 8,000 requests to toss out asylum claims in immigration court, asking judges to send immigrants to third-party countries.
www.cbsnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Sending them to other countries for asylum after all they've been through to get here. Meanwhile, our economy is unable to fill jobs that many of them would have been happy to fill. Idiocracy.
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👀Behind the paper!👀
🌳By climbing into the canopy and studying trait variation across species and forest layers, author Leonardo Ziccardi explains how the emergent trees of the Amazon are dynamic strategists💡
Read it here👇
buff.ly/PnMrVkX
🧪🌍
🌳By climbing into the canopy and studying trait variation across species and forest layers, author Leonardo Ziccardi explains how the emergent trees of the Amazon are dynamic strategists💡
Read it here👇
buff.ly/PnMrVkX
🧪🌍
Leonardo Ziccardi | Trait coordination reveals the fast-slow plant economics spectrum along the vertical canopy profile in central Amazonian forests
In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post we get into the roof of rainforests as the author Leonardo Ziccardi guides us through the unique world of ancient Amazonian trees from the article &…
functionalecologists.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
👀Behind the paper!👀
🌳By climbing into the canopy and studying trait variation across species and forest layers, author Leonardo Ziccardi explains how the emergent trees of the Amazon are dynamic strategists💡
Read it here👇
buff.ly/PnMrVkX
🧪🌍
🌳By climbing into the canopy and studying trait variation across species and forest layers, author Leonardo Ziccardi explains how the emergent trees of the Amazon are dynamic strategists💡
Read it here👇
buff.ly/PnMrVkX
🧪🌍
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New reconstruction of DAN5 cranium (Gona, Ethiopia) supports complex emergence of Homo erectus🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A mosaic contemporaneous with or postdating emergence of H. erectus craniodental complex ~ 1.6 Ma implies intricate evolutionary transition from early Homo to H. erectus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A mosaic contemporaneous with or postdating emergence of H. erectus craniodental complex ~ 1.6 Ma implies intricate evolutionary transition from early Homo to H. erectus
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New reconstruction of DAN5 cranium (Gona, Ethiopia) supports complex emergence of Homo erectus🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A mosaic contemporaneous with or postdating emergence of H. erectus craniodental complex ~ 1.6 Ma implies intricate evolutionary transition from early Homo to H. erectus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A mosaic contemporaneous with or postdating emergence of H. erectus craniodental complex ~ 1.6 Ma implies intricate evolutionary transition from early Homo to H. erectus
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The star that created Pa 30 blazed like the Sun for billions of years. It collided with a companion star. It exploded & was partly destroyed. But it persisted, creating a beautiful, glowing cosmic dandelion (modeled here).
Let this star be an inspiration. 🧪🔭
keckobservatory.org/dandelion-su...
Let this star be an inspiration. 🧪🔭
keckobservatory.org/dandelion-su...
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The star that created Pa 30 blazed like the Sun for billions of years. It collided with a companion star. It exploded & was partly destroyed. But it persisted, creating a beautiful, glowing cosmic dandelion (modeled here).
Let this star be an inspiration. 🧪🔭
keckobservatory.org/dandelion-su...
Let this star be an inspiration. 🧪🔭
keckobservatory.org/dandelion-su...
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Many stars shine. Some explode. And, in very rare cases, a star can HALF-explode.
The nebula Pa 30 is the result of a half-exploded star. Its zombie corpse keeps energizing it, creating a firework shape that closely resembles a high-altitude nuclear explosion (right). 🧪🔭
arxiv.org/abs/2512.03140
The nebula Pa 30 is the result of a half-exploded star. Its zombie corpse keeps energizing it, creating a firework shape that closely resembles a high-altitude nuclear explosion (right). 🧪🔭
arxiv.org/abs/2512.03140
December 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Many stars shine. Some explode. And, in very rare cases, a star can HALF-explode.
The nebula Pa 30 is the result of a half-exploded star. Its zombie corpse keeps energizing it, creating a firework shape that closely resembles a high-altitude nuclear explosion (right). 🧪🔭
arxiv.org/abs/2512.03140
The nebula Pa 30 is the result of a half-exploded star. Its zombie corpse keeps energizing it, creating a firework shape that closely resembles a high-altitude nuclear explosion (right). 🧪🔭
arxiv.org/abs/2512.03140
Orbiting a nearby pulsar (dead star?), strange impact.
This Lemon-Shaped Planet Has an Atmosphere Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Ever Seen
The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere rich with carbon and helium, which is unexpected on this hot planet roughly 2,000 light-years from Earth
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Orbiting a nearby pulsar (dead star?), strange impact.
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I'm ✨obsessed✨ with this new image of Phobos over Mars by @andrealuck.bsky.social 😱
More info and 🧩 below.
🔭🧪 #art #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar
More info and 🧩 below.
🔭🧪 #art #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar
December 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I'm ✨obsessed✨ with this new image of Phobos over Mars by @andrealuck.bsky.social 😱
More info and 🧩 below.
🔭🧪 #art #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar
More info and 🧩 below.
🔭🧪 #art #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar
Lucky baby chubb, great mama! 💕❤️
This Mama Polar Bear Adopted a Young Cub—and You Can Track the Family as They Wander Around the Hudson Bay
The rare event marks the 13th known instance of adoption within this well-studied group of polar bears living in the western Hudson Bay area
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Lucky baby chubb, great mama! 💕❤️
Good things happening in St. Louis for children and rescued wildlife. 🙂
St. Louis Zoo to expand preschool, add animals in revamped kids space
The $51 million Destination Discovery remains under construction and is on track to open by late summer.
www.stltoday.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Good things happening in St. Louis for children and rescued wildlife. 🙂
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ICE = Gestapo 2.0
December 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
ICE = Gestapo 2.0
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Oxygen feels essential to life.
But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/pn0A04F
But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/pn0A04F
That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything (And Made Us Possible)
How life survived a planet-changing chemical shift billions of years ago
medium.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Oxygen feels essential to life.
But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/pn0A04F
But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/pn0A04F
Erzsebet Korb (Hungarian)
(Budapest, 1889-1925, Budapest)
Alterego, 1920
oil painting
This painting, created by Erzsébet Korb in the 1920s, [when]
.. Freud, .. in.. 1919 essay titled The Uncanny .. brought the concept of the doppelgänger back into fashion.
A Celebration of Female Artists, Susan M.
(Budapest, 1889-1925, Budapest)
Alterego, 1920
oil painting
This painting, created by Erzsébet Korb in the 1920s, [when]
.. Freud, .. in.. 1919 essay titled The Uncanny .. brought the concept of the doppelgänger back into fashion.
A Celebration of Female Artists, Susan M.
December 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Erzsebet Korb (Hungarian)
(Budapest, 1889-1925, Budapest)
Alterego, 1920
oil painting
This painting, created by Erzsébet Korb in the 1920s, [when]
.. Freud, .. in.. 1919 essay titled The Uncanny .. brought the concept of the doppelgänger back into fashion.
A Celebration of Female Artists, Susan M.
(Budapest, 1889-1925, Budapest)
Alterego, 1920
oil painting
This painting, created by Erzsébet Korb in the 1920s, [when]
.. Freud, .. in.. 1919 essay titled The Uncanny .. brought the concept of the doppelgänger back into fashion.
A Celebration of Female Artists, Susan M.
Grossly, incompetently mis-calculated the tax credits to benefit the well-off in Missouri at the expense of the rest of Missouri's residents. He doesn't really care bc he calculates he doesn't need their votes. 🤮
Missouri faces budget crunch as capital gains tax cut hits harder than expected • Missouri Independent
The capital gains tax cut passed this year by Missouri will cost far more than expected and shrink state revenues, a new estimate shows.
missouriindependent.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Grossly, incompetently mis-calculated the tax credits to benefit the well-off in Missouri at the expense of the rest of Missouri's residents. He doesn't really care bc he calculates he doesn't need their votes. 🤮
Breakthrough of its time - adding art to photography.
Little Red Riding Hood - Saint Louis Art Museum
Little Red Riding Hood
www.slam.org
December 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Breakthrough of its time - adding art to photography.
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Science took a massive hit this year.
A crippled #NIH =
1. Incomplete studies that could lead to next gen treatments
2. Unfinished clinical trials that put patients' lives at risk
3. Brain drain w/ China as new leader
4. Fewer next gen scientists get trained
🧪 theconversation.com/this-year-ne...
A crippled #NIH =
1. Incomplete studies that could lead to next gen treatments
2. Unfinished clinical trials that put patients' lives at risk
3. Brain drain w/ China as new leader
4. Fewer next gen scientists get trained
🧪 theconversation.com/this-year-ne...
‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives
US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies and programs, and a generation of researchers.
theconversation.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Science took a massive hit this year.
A crippled #NIH =
1. Incomplete studies that could lead to next gen treatments
2. Unfinished clinical trials that put patients' lives at risk
3. Brain drain w/ China as new leader
4. Fewer next gen scientists get trained
🧪 theconversation.com/this-year-ne...
A crippled #NIH =
1. Incomplete studies that could lead to next gen treatments
2. Unfinished clinical trials that put patients' lives at risk
3. Brain drain w/ China as new leader
4. Fewer next gen scientists get trained
🧪 theconversation.com/this-year-ne...
So much for law and order - this is a direct violation of the law established pertaining to these files.
Top Trump administration official defends partial release of Epstein files
He also defended the decision to remove several files related to the case from its public webpage, including a photograph showing Trump.
www.stltoday.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So much for law and order - this is a direct violation of the law established pertaining to these files.