Matthew Cobb

Twitter post from Lindsey Shmindsey (@shminsington) that says: Throwback to that time I composed a magnet poem about werewolves and it was the deepest shit I ever wrote. With a picture of a magnet poem on a fridge that says: moon drunk monster beautiful and strange howl your melancholy question and tell me which you dread more the echo or the answer

This poem is so beautiful.

Vintage black and white portrait of a smiling woman wearing a hat and a collared shirt.

12 March 1912 | Polish Jewish woman Ala Gertner was born in Będzin.

She was incarcerated in #Auschwitz in August 1943. She worked in the „Union” munition factory from where, together with other women, she smuggled gunpowder to the Sonderkommando resistance.

She was hanged on 6 January 1945.

Synaphobranchid really said "ahhhhh get it off"! Sorry ma'am, I'm afraid that parasitic copepod is committed at this point. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 531 part 2 #octoodyssey #MarineLife

Quite the life!

Yup. And when they race from trig point to trig point, they call it “orientateeering”.

Hello, I am looking for freelance writing gigs quite urgently due to being a victim - now twice - of theft. Any help is appreciated. I have written widely on games, TV shows and film for a variety of outlets - IGN, The Verge, Slate. If you have or know anything, plz DM me ASAP.

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

I'll never forget the doctor's face on that day his thermometer broke during my examination.

Peirce Island in New Hampshire was positively overflowing with nudibranchs last week. The fisheye lens really shows off the abundance of hydroids (nudi food!) and great visibility.

Prints: buff.ly/0t6h5l9

#nudibranchs #underwaterphotography #NewEngland #fisheye #photography #olympus #om1 🦑 📷

John Cazale & Al Pacino
'Dog Day Afternoon'

British Wildlife Photography Awards 2026 winners revealed An innovative underwater image of a toad in Sheffield has claimed the top prize at the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2026 after being selected from more than 12,000 entries.

The winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2026 have been revealed:

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

A planthopper. It looks like a piece torn off a leaf. It is green with a network of veins and tiny pink legs

Not a leaf 🌿🌱

I think about it much less since I retired, for some reason.

Last night, lanky, jug-eared, 1960s singer/performer Lance Percival made his way into my dream, unbidden, but I could not remember his surname. I came up with something stupid that satisfied dream-me (“Harbottle”) but eventually forced myself to wake up to find the answer. Dreams are weird, man.

Double off, Manchester Piccadilly (Submitted by Scott Johnson)
#SignalOfTheDay

A back insect with yellow markings rests on top of a container of water. It is casting a shadow with a thin body and rounded markings where its legs are.

Above and below #AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJuxtaposition #Wasp
#InsectThursday #FlyDay
#LightAndShadow #ECK #Photography #VT

Life Hack:

I was on the phone w/ an AI customer service agent that was insisting: (a) it couldn't fix the error the company had made, and (b) no live person could speak w/ me.

I then said I'd file a complaint w/ my state's consumer protection office, and I was connected to a human in <1 minute.

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

Droplet!
Number 21 (Stratford butterfly farm shot)
Not sure what this butterfly is apart from maybe a longwing
Nikon Z9 and Z 105mm
SS1/2500 F7.1 ISO3200

Picture of a gerund (not really) by Ronald Searle

4 The Gerund

Dry cat food came into UK in late 70s apparently

Would someone in Devon in 1962 have called dry cat food “kibble”? Did we even have dry cat food in the UK back then? (I can only remember tins of wet food at the time). Another snag my mind has caught on in a novel. OED has it as used for dog food from 1965 (patented in 1931). So seems unlikely.

Peter was an enormous help to me when writing about his work with Crick and their popularisation/development of G-B’s ideas.

He has a brief role in Apocalypse Now - so young!

Statue of Noor Inayat Khan, Gordon Square Gardens, London.

I'm guessing there is no actual list of experts because I was able to get it to use me...by using my own name in the post I tested. Seems more like some kind of prompt that has it find people who seem relevant. bsky.app/profile/jane...

@jonturney.bsky.social Sue ‘em!

Daily Mail Headline: Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam

Oh boy! What a headline...

Ask yourself:

"What am I being asked to believe?"

"Who am I being told to blame?"

Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.

Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵

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Now added to our #Drosophila history collection:
droso4public.wordpress.com/history/