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nyr @nyr027.bsky.social · Aug 1
Id'ing spiders at work and took some photos I really like.
Lots of spider claws (frequently need to know how many there are to distinguish between certain families) w/ a video to give some sense of the dimensionality.
Looking at them here they feel almost embryonic, peaceful.
Also cool crab spiders.
thomisid / crab spider Cephalothorax coloured like a glowing ember; abdomen alabaster with dark, seemingly random accents. Crab spiders have such distinctive eyes: small and widely distributed but deeply pensive to my mind; although they're hard to make out in any of the photos I took, and in our key they're identified simply by proportion of the legs after a few other families have been ruled out. I think this is my first cribellum. If I'm right, I'm pretty sure this was a dictynid. This is the underside/ventral view. The cribellum should be the small small white triangle positioned just away from the light-coloured spinnerets that are at the tip of the abdomen in the top right. Not all spiders have one, but those that do can produce so many silk threads of such small diameter (on the order of tens of nanometers) that it is often combed out by the back legs and in the process develops a 'woolly' consistency, in contrast with the threads produced by spinnerets used in weaving the webs that are commonly associated with spiders. I can't find too much information about the purpose of this kind of silk, except that due to how fine it is the intermolecular forces are so plentiful, and collectively so strong, that no liquid glue is required. Also that some species use it to create trophic eggs (which are used for feeding young rather than reproducing). philodromid / running crab spider Very intimidating-looking spider. Feels like a creature from another world. Flat, sleek and broad cephalothorax, dark orange brown with a seeming pulse of light within the crest of each lateral half. Its eight eyes somewhat reminiscent of the thomisid, but presumably adapted for the habits of a more active hunter, gathered at the front, but each still quite small. Long legs (even the back ones, which in thomisids are reduced), the same orange-brown as at the heart of the cephalothorax, with sparse but thick setae. A narrow, modestly patterned abdomen, a truer brown with beige highlights. Underside/ventral view of the philodromid / running crab spider The cephalothorax and abdomen are approximately the same size. From this view (the specimen simply inverted) we see the pedipalps the same darker brown as the abdomen.
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angus.bsky.social
I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.

He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
Mamdani's Executive Order Number 1, as described in the post.
January 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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emilyesfraser.bsky.social
“A bunch of well-off men who are not very affected by politics making fun of people who very much are is the short story of how we got here.”

Glad to see multiple outlets covering this Jon Stewart moment

www.jezebel.com/jon-stewart-...
Splinter: Jon Stewart Is a Symbol of America's Crumbling Democracy
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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danmcquillan.bsky.social
Thesis: people who are still on the AI hype-train are correct in sensing a systemic restructuring of the political and cultural order and are responding to it in ways that we have all been conditioned to do i.e. to desire our own repression.
January 1, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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olivia.science
I wasn't going to post this rant as I'm kind of sick of this & because of this, but I'm also I guess exhausted facing this often alone at home: the sniggering at women academics who have opinions even from other women, although often non-academics, and mostly from men on the dimensions of our 1/n
Page 109 Another science is possible by Isabelle Stengers Page 110 in https://hcommons.org/?get_group_doc=1003678/1700760973-AnotherScienceIsPossible_A-IsabelleStengers.pdf
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
🥹🥹🥹
*gently wavy antenniforms*
#InverteFest
January 1, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
www.theverge.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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pamkeenwilliams.bsky.social
The 3 amigos: Great Blue Herons (GBH)
A very windy day with a harsh chill in the panhandle, FL today
for these nest building GBH's
#birds #shorebirds #seabirds #waders #om1
January 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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lordtrilobite.bsky.social
Just before the end of the year. Here's my finished #Ankylosaurus magniventris skull sculpture, 3d printed at 1/6th scale. Sculpted in #Blender.

#SciArt #Paleoart #Paleontology
3D printed skull sculpture of Ankylosaurus magniventris. Facing right. 3D printed skull sculpture of Ankylosaurus magniventris. Facing diagonally left towards the camera. 3D printed skull sculpture of Ankylosaurus magniventris. Facing left with mouth wide open. 3D printed skull sculpture of Ankylosaurus magniventris. Facing right.
December 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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avesbrasil.bsky.social
Japu-pardo - 🎵 Jeremy Minns
December 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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adolfont.github.io
This Brazilian woman hates AI
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Day 30 of my 2025 Favorites: That time I learned the fun way that social pseudoscorpions (Paratemnoides) can take down a live goddamn yellow jacket 😳

They caught it, held it down until it exhausted. I'm still kind of flabbergasted, months later. Incredible teamwork. 🤎
#InverteFest
Yellow jacket on a board, with the little grabby claws of several pseudoscorpions reaching out of a crack below it, holding it down from both ends
December 31, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
please look at this spider called a "Queensland Ultraflat" (pic by Marten Stevens)
photo of Queensland Ultraflat, a very flat black and white jumping spider which lives under bark. photo by Marten Stevens
December 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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lolajovan.com
When your husband knows just what to get you for xmas - megalodon teeth! Holy cats in a basket! These puppies are heavy! I can hardy wait to frame them…

#megalodon #love #fossils #sharkteeth #bestgift #ourhouse #presents
A pair of genuine megalodon teeth in my hand
December 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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mudron.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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banditelli.org
Damn that is some good pelican action. Living their best pelican life. #birds
December 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
iDigBio is STILL proudly displaying their very own genAI chatbot on the homepage of their website, next to a bunch of text about how their vision is to safeguard biodiversity and natural history collections. Please make it make sense.
mossworm.bsky.social mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 4d
I promise I'll talk about something else soon but I'm so deeply deeply furious to see scientists playing around with genAI like it's no big deal, as if they do not know better than anyone else in the world how dire the climate situation is. I wish them a lifetime of shame.
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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bsby-social-vczbk.bsky.social
december 27
December 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
🥹
#EmotionalSupportSpood #InverteFest
Tiny lumpy brown jumping spider in a little cave-like crevice of magnolia bark, peering out. She's a little too big for the cave and it's very silly and cute
December 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
If you're an artist coming over from Twitter because of this bullshit they added, first of all:

Really genuinely sorry they fucked you like this & I think it's extremely reasonable to be crashing out HARD right now

Second: I'm gonna offer Bluesky tips and encourage ppl to share starter packs here
rj-palmer.com RJ Palmer @rj-palmer.com · 8d
Man its like just so invasive and gross feeling to see "Edit Image" appear over other people's images. Musk decided to give us the only kind of gift he can for christmas, sickening disappointment. Best of luck out there folks.
tobey(peter parker) from spidersman looking at the edit image button but then puts on glasses to see the text actually says fuck artists. Though technically it should be the other way around because spidersman can see better without glasses now if youve seen the movie you'd know that. Also sam raimi ripped off his spidersman movie idea from james cameron, justice for big jim
December 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
posting just so I don't forget the name of this fantastic animal again: the land snail genus Whittenia is doing the horrible (said with deep and pure love) Nipponites heteromorph thing with its shell. maybe the worst shell on a currently living thing I've ever seen (I love it)
drawing of an extinct Nipponites ammonite, with a highly irregular shell shaped like a knot photos of Whittenia vermicularis snail shells by Foon et al 2017. they are irregularly coiled and worm-like in their shape
December 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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dave-wise.bsky.social
One year exposure of the sun passing over the white pines, Greenfield Centre, Upstate NY, made with a tin can camera onto photo paper. White arcs show sunny days, dark arcs show overcast days. Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#solargraphy #pinhole #photography
The daily arc of the sun is shown for the period of one year, showing as white lines on sunny days and dark lines on overcast days, there are silhouettes of white pine trees and the overall colour cast is green/blue.
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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louistonehill.bsky.social
Place theory is a theory of how our interactions with a space creates our identities, and how non-place theory (a space that does not produce identity) specifically applies to social media, and this post does a really good job at explaining it in detail
December 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
I don't know what it is about this photo, but it really makes this cuttlefish look like a muppet to me.

🦑📷ajhg (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
An Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Ascarosepion apama) facing towards the camera. It is on a slight angle pointing towards the left. Both eyes are visible and facing forward, and its W shaped pupils give it a dopey look. Its arms are pointing downwards, except for its two centre arms which bend halfway down and then point up. They are wavy and make it look they sort of look like the cuttlefish is rubbing its hand together. The others point down and then curve back. Its outer two arms are thicker and are on a slight outward angle, The outer arms are yellowish green with some green and blue. Its gin is olive green. The rest of the cuttlefish is dark red with some orange. Its papillae are raised, give it some frills on the top of its head and mantle and wrinkles all over its arms. There are large rocks in the background.
December 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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tuexplorer1.bsky.social
Reposting b/c I had the incorrect ID the 1st time. This jelly is Crosotta. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 883 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET
December 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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wholereality.bsky.social
A favorite from earlier in the year.
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#photography #closeup #naturephotography #macrophotography #macro #lichen #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #nature #light #bokeh
This is a macro photograph of bright orange lichen growing on a purple-tinted branch, shot against a black background. The lichen shows distinct cup structures.
December 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM