Zaftig Parcheesi
@realcoolsolid.bsky.social
This is a Cecilia Vicuña stan account
She/they
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Great "behind the paper with @royalsocietypublishing.org" seminar - lead author of "Evidence of active sound production by a shark" discusses how she came to discover that New Zealand rig sharks can make strange noises @cassyni.bsky.social cassyni.com/events/NRzSF...
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Great "behind the paper with @royalsocietypublishing.org" seminar - lead author of "Evidence of active sound production by a shark" discusses how she came to discover that New Zealand rig sharks can make strange noises @cassyni.bsky.social cassyni.com/events/NRzSF...
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🐟 Fish Fact of the Day 🧪
All Billfishes possess a distinctive oil gland at the base of their elongated rostrum that secretes oil through numerous pores. The exact function of the oil is not fully understood, but it is thought to improve the fish's hydrodynamics.
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.224956
All Billfishes possess a distinctive oil gland at the base of their elongated rostrum that secretes oil through numerous pores. The exact function of the oil is not fully understood, but it is thought to improve the fish's hydrodynamics.
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.224956
August 7, 2023 at 9:38 PM
🐟 Fish Fact of the Day 🧪
All Billfishes possess a distinctive oil gland at the base of their elongated rostrum that secretes oil through numerous pores. The exact function of the oil is not fully understood, but it is thought to improve the fish's hydrodynamics.
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.224956
All Billfishes possess a distinctive oil gland at the base of their elongated rostrum that secretes oil through numerous pores. The exact function of the oil is not fully understood, but it is thought to improve the fish's hydrodynamics.
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.224956
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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Lots of great chemsky content in @science.org this week, including a remarkable porphyrin nanobelt from the Saywell and Anderson groups 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Lots of great chemsky content in @science.org this week, including a remarkable porphyrin nanobelt from the Saywell and Anderson groups 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The Southern US county honouring its dark past www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
The Southern US county honouring its dark past
While other places in the US are increasingly censuring how they tell their multicultural histories to travellers, one community is highlighting them.
www.bbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Southern US county honouring its dark past www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
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My good friend Cina kicks collective ass www.chemistryworld.com/news/collect...
Collective bonding continues to divide opinion
New research supports counterintuitive explanation, but debate is far from settled
www.chemistryworld.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My good friend Cina kicks collective ass www.chemistryworld.com/news/collect...
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A Kingfisher bringing up a pellet, lovely.....
Everyone posts the glamorous side to this beautiful bird, but not today! 🤣
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
Everyone posts the glamorous side to this beautiful bird, but not today! 🤣
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A Kingfisher bringing up a pellet, lovely.....
Everyone posts the glamorous side to this beautiful bird, but not today! 🤣
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
Everyone posts the glamorous side to this beautiful bird, but not today! 🤣
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
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amazing essay the @georgiastraight.bsky.social did with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social about Crips for E Sims- I think it's the biggest media coverage of our two year project and sums up well what the work has been like www.pressreader.com/canada/the-g... IDK why direct link doesn't come but here
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November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
amazing essay the @georgiastraight.bsky.social did with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social about Crips for E Sims- I think it's the biggest media coverage of our two year project and sums up well what the work has been like www.pressreader.com/canada/the-g... IDK why direct link doesn't come but here
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I didn't realize the full history of the 'action' local news genre (and its founding) until I had read this when it came out: www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/mo...
How Philly reinvented TV news and harmed Black America
A format of TV news created in Philadelphia and exported to more than 141 media markets nationwide discouraged empathy and negatively affected Black communities.
www.inquirer.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I didn't realize the full history of the 'action' local news genre (and its founding) until I had read this when it came out: www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/mo...
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“Reason” as I understand it doesn’t just mean making up reasons to reinforce cognitive bias; it means having the courage and #resilience to cross-examine assumptions with facts, logic and evidence
Americans forgot the difference between discourse, debate and polemics (invective)
#culture
Americans forgot the difference between discourse, debate and polemics (invective)
#culture
There is a logic to limiting cognitive bias on corporate teams, though, to avoid a #productivity -destroying monolith. When #leadership is aware of these, it can make for a healthier exchange (in more than one sense of the word!)
#culture #strategy
hbr.org/2022/04/make...
hbr.org/2022/03/how-...
#culture #strategy
hbr.org/2022/04/make...
hbr.org/2022/03/how-...
Make Better Decisions by Challenging Your Expectations
When we face a difficult decision, we often unconsciously set expectations — for ourselves and for others — about both the decision-making process and the outcome. Embedded in our expectations are our...
hbr.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
“Reason” as I understand it doesn’t just mean making up reasons to reinforce cognitive bias; it means having the courage and #resilience to cross-examine assumptions with facts, logic and evidence
Americans forgot the difference between discourse, debate and polemics (invective)
#culture
Americans forgot the difference between discourse, debate and polemics (invective)
#culture
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People experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs. “It feels good to ‘stick to our guns’ even if we are wrong,” researchers say. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/iXV9M2
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
People experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs. “It feels good to ‘stick to our guns’ even if we are wrong,” researchers say. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/iXV9M2
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BBC News - 'Exceptional' teen who fled war follows in footsteps of Einstein
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Swansea: Teenager who fled Ukraine war now studying space technology
Kateryna has been described as an "exceptional and brilliant student" by her lecturer.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
BBC News - 'Exceptional' teen who fled war follows in footsteps of Einstein
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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anyways am i the only one who thinks the "unstoppable force vs immovable object" question is dumb cus. isnt the answer clearly friction. itll move, it just wont accelerate infinitely. ????? hello is f=ma not the, like, third posterchild of physics (alongside me & e=mc^2) why have we forgotten that
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
anyways am i the only one who thinks the "unstoppable force vs immovable object" question is dumb cus. isnt the answer clearly friction. itll move, it just wont accelerate infinitely. ????? hello is f=ma not the, like, third posterchild of physics (alongside me & e=mc^2) why have we forgotten that
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Horrifying and infuriating is one way to describe The Yellow Wallpaper, inspired by the author's own experience with the "rest cure," prescribed for women suffering from--well, you name it. Novelist, feminist, social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, BOTD in 1860.
#booksky #writers #feminism
#booksky #writers #feminism
July 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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It’s so exciting to find a new podcast that makes me giddy with how funny it is. I can’t wait to listen to more episodes but the Tim Key one is absolute gold. Lucy’s mom, Gill, is an absolute riot. I could listen to Tim talk to interlocutors his senior for hours. It’s something to behold.
October 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
It’s so exciting to find a new podcast that makes me giddy with how funny it is. I can’t wait to listen to more episodes but the Tim Key one is absolute gold. Lucy’s mom, Gill, is an absolute riot. I could listen to Tim talk to interlocutors his senior for hours. It’s something to behold.
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Botanical artists, a thread.
🌿🌼🌿
(There are so many, this will be a first part, so stay tuned for more)
Starting with Amanda Almira Newton and a lovely avocado, a beautiful reminder of how diverse nature is.
Did you know avocado trees change sex throughout the day?
🧵 1/20
🌿🌼🌿
(There are so many, this will be a first part, so stay tuned for more)
Starting with Amanda Almira Newton and a lovely avocado, a beautiful reminder of how diverse nature is.
Did you know avocado trees change sex throughout the day?
🧵 1/20
Amanda Almira Newton (c. 1860–1943) was a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture specialized in watercolors of fruit.
She contributed to the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection with 7,600 paintings.
Here, a nice looking Trapp variety of avocado (Persea species) 🥑
She contributed to the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection with 7,600 paintings.
Here, a nice looking Trapp variety of avocado (Persea species) 🥑
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Botanical artists, a thread.
🌿🌼🌿
(There are so many, this will be a first part, so stay tuned for more)
Starting with Amanda Almira Newton and a lovely avocado, a beautiful reminder of how diverse nature is.
Did you know avocado trees change sex throughout the day?
🧵 1/20
🌿🌼🌿
(There are so many, this will be a first part, so stay tuned for more)
Starting with Amanda Almira Newton and a lovely avocado, a beautiful reminder of how diverse nature is.
Did you know avocado trees change sex throughout the day?
🧵 1/20
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Love this so much! A Philly scientist and artist (@sarahmackattack.bsky.social and @megstampede.bsky.social) have teamed up to protect our area’s biodiversity:
streetsdept.com/2025/04/23/p...
streetsdept.com/2025/04/23/p...
Protecting Philly’s Biodiversity with Free Seed Posters
Love this so much! A Philly scientist and artist have teamed up to protect our area’s biodiversity. “Long story short, we’re trying to make it as easy as possible for people to take act…
streetsdept.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Love this so much! A Philly scientist and artist (@sarahmackattack.bsky.social and @megstampede.bsky.social) have teamed up to protect our area’s biodiversity:
streetsdept.com/2025/04/23/p...
streetsdept.com/2025/04/23/p...
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I can never get over when you’re on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
October 30, 2024 at 7:11 PM
I can never get over when you’re on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
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In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
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Could not be more well-deserved! Congratulations Hahrie! 🎉 @hahrie.bsky.social
Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant
Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition
hub.jhu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Could not be more well-deserved! Congratulations Hahrie! 🎉 @hahrie.bsky.social