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Leah Shaffer

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Science writer, mostly puttering about the garden. she/her

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It's almost painful to watch any movie with competent goverment agents or officials. I can't even enjoy cornball shit like Independence's Day anymore.

10.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Put your hands on your belly and enjoy how soft and warm you are – marvel over the world turning over within, the brilliant meat clockwork"

10.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter | Caitlin Moran My daughter is about to turn 13 and I’ve been smoking a lot recently, and so – in the wee small hours, when my lungs feel like there’s a small mouse inside them, scratching to get out – I’ve thought a...

This piece by Caitlin Moran has this amazing paragraph:
www.filmsforaction.org/articles/cai...
β€œStay at peace with your body. While it’s healthy, never think of it as a problem or a failure. Pat your legs occasionally and thank them for being able to run...

10.03.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
a painting from Michelle Banks is a lovely watercolor print that reads: The ALGORITHM THINKS YOU COULD TRY HARDER

a painting from Michelle Banks is a lovely watercolor print that reads: The ALGORITHM THINKS YOU COULD TRY HARDER

Shoutout to @artologica.net who can offer gorgeous art for #Neuroscience #VascularScience #MedSky and computer science (if you enjoy sinister messages from The Algorithm) And, of course, #PsychSky. www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

10.03.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Biodiversity and Conservation @ MVRL We develop novel algorithms for monitoring environmental changes and biodiversity at a global scale. Our work focuses on using computer vision and remote sensing techniques to track changes in ecosystems, monitor species populations, and support conservation efforts through automated analysis of imagery from satellites, webcams, and other imaging sources. Recent research includes unified embedding spaces for ecological applications (TaxaBind), language-driven hierarchical species distribution modeling (LD-SDM), global and local entailment learning for natural world imagery (RCME), and probabilistic masked multimodal embedding models for ecology (ProM3E). We also work on cross-view contrastive masked autoencoders for bird species classification and mapping (BirdSat), and improved canopy vertical structural diversity mapping across varied topographies using deep learning techniques.

not for art but for actually doing the science: a bunch of #ComputerVision tools for #Biologists #ScienceSky πŸ§ͺ mvrl.cse.wustl.edu/areas/ecology/ #ConservationScience from @jacobsn.bsky.social lab

10.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
SMART - Servier Medical ART Servier Medical Art provides you with thousands of professionally designed medical elements for your presentations and your scientific publications.

Medical art for #MedSky smart.servier.com

10.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Bioicons - high quality science illustrations Bioicons contains free science illustrations for biologists, chemists, machine learning under permissive CC0, CC BY or MIT License.

for #ChemSky bioicons.com

10.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
BioArt BioArt

#NIH still has it's free art up, hope it survives the great purge bioart.niaid.nih.gov 🩺πŸ§ͺ

10.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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All Silhouette Images on PhyloPic Browse all the free silhouette images in PhyloPic.

www.phylopic.org/images 🌿

10.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Along with hiring graphic designers and illustrators (it's fire sale prices) there are many tools to help you provide your own illustrations for scientific graphics. I'll drop a few here in 🧡 #ScienceSky πŸ§ͺ
You can find illustrators via the many many amazing posts of #SciArt feed.

10.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Fuck the ring, Patsy, where can we get some decent booze in this shithole." (hip checks an elf into the creek).

10.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, you have time to listen to the "do, do, doo, baby baby" parts? I simply have my AI agent listen to the "doo, doos" and the "baby, baby," while I do my 5 a.m. yoga.

10.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Last night I saw the fire spreadin' to
The palace door
Silent majority weren't keepin' quiet
Anymore

10.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Uncle Tupelo- Effigy
Uncle Tupelo- Effigy YouTube video by Red Hot

Who we burnin?
Who we burnin?
in effigy

quick, gonna need a creepy children's choir version of this song to blast at the remnants of the east wing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmhf...

10.03.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly this, Roald Dahl was antisemitic but also
A. Is dead
And B. Didn't use his money to fund vile propaganda against Jews.

So it's not a case of someone being a piece of shit but making good art. It is a POS using money to hurt people and rehash the same shitty, boring art.

10.03.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today in, data centers are not going to make it

10.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

She wandered off, sir.

10.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘€

09.03.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pinky the Cat [ORIGINAL] converted in HD
Pinky the Cat [ORIGINAL] converted in HD YouTube video by AtomicGPS

Any new CEO must understand one thing: #Bluesky is the Pinky the Cat of social media and we will bite your groin, and you will need a rabies shot. I accept you as you are and await my fate, should I be honored with the position. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgT...

09.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't actually know how to CEO which MAKES ME THE PERFECT CEO

09.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Put me in coach! I will run a classy joint.

09.03.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It's not over until everyone gets to punch Live Nation in the face. Or they can just be broken up into 1000 venue operators. Either works for me.

09.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of homer simpson says i sleep in a big bed with my wife Alt: Homer Simpson says he "sleeps in a big bed with my wife" in response to sad Milhouse divorced dad and his sad racecar bed
09.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a barbie doll making a funny face and saying ew . Alt: a close up of a barbie doll making a funny face and saying ew .

this happened to me when I called my college roommate to get to know her (1999!) "I like ska and punk what kind of music do you like?" and she said, "I don't really listen to music."

09.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"i sad" would be an accurate name for modern phones

09.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of people standing on a porch with the words well , pitter patter let 's get at er . Alt: a group of people standing on a porch with the words "well , pitter patter let's get at er" the common catchphrase of the Letterkenny hick squad

wait, have you not seen Letterkenny yet? Gotta watch Letterkenny

09.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Neko Case - "John Saw That Number" (Full Album Stream)
Neko Case - "John Saw That Number" (Full Album Stream) YouTube video by ANTI- Records

a different John, holy to the Lord www.youtube.com/watch?v=foqU... May the Johns walk among us in the days of monsters and miracles

09.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Famous John Brown mural that is in the Topeka State House, he looms over everyone like a human storm. Righteous fury incarnate, come on home.

Famous John Brown mural that is in the Topeka State House, he looms over everyone like a human storm. Righteous fury incarnate, come on home.

I increasingly see John Brown everywhere nowadays. People take his avatar, people evoke his religious fervor. Do you feel that moral injury, that rage? That's a gift from John Brown. He walks among us.

09.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Grab a hand, y'all, and hop up. We're taking the moral high ground back. Bill Clinton Dems shall give way to the new class of John Brown Dems.
Moral clarity in action and leadership is the way forward.

09.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ€”

09.03.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0