Fuuuuuck, I’m so sorry to hear that 😞 Your health comes first though 🫂

I want cheese, but don’t want to get out of bed to get cheese: a memoir

Hegseth on dropping the flu vaccine reqt for the military: We will not force you to take it, “because your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable.”

OH REALLY?

Replace ‘flu vaccine’ with ‘abortion’ and we’ll see how ‘negotiable’ my body, faith, and convictions are.

Two salps, which are transparent except for an organ at the bottom and their translucent spine and outer surface. One has a small octopus in side it at the base; its mantle is a mottled orange and its curled tentacles are almost white.

Dude, there's no point hiding in that salp. It's transparent. We can still see you.

I think that's a male argonaut peering at us from the middle of the photo

Pic from a blackwater dive at Balayan Bay, Anilao

🦑🌿 #invertebrates #MacroPhotography

Two Mourning Doves at a bird feeder with a built-in camera. One dove is in profile, very close to the camera, and appears to be looking at it, and the other dove is further back, but also looks like it’s staring straight into the lens.

These two Mourning Doves at my feeder cam look like they just rang my doorbell because Tony Soprano sent them to collect a debt I owe.

A coaster that says: Rock the cat spa Rock the cat spa

Rock the cat spa.

four orange-brown and cream colored flower spikes growing among a layer of old, fallen oak and beech leaves. each of the thick spikes is covered in spirals of numerous flowers that stick out sideways from the stout central stem. there are no leaves, but beneath every flower there is a large brown scale. each flower is set in a cream colored calyx that turns papery and brown near its small triangular lobes. the flower is a cream colored tube with a hood-like upper lip and a diminutive lower lip which barely part.

a single flower posed on an old brown tree leaf for close inspection. the calyx and petals have been disrupted and torn to reveal the stamens and style that hide within the tubular flower. four stamens with white filaments and brown anthers accompany a thicker white style with white stigma.

view from barely above leaf litter on the forest floor, looking across at tilting bear corn stalks poking out from underneath layers of oak leaves, with a moss covered tree trunk on the right. two flower spikes are close by and in focus; others can be seen in the background. each of the thick spikes is cream colored, with spiraling columns of tubular cream-colored flowers that stick out sideways from the stalk. the flowers sit in calyces that turn papery and brown at their tips, and there is a relatively large brown scale beneath each flower. the flowers have a hood-like upper lips that barely part from the smaller lower lips. at the top of each spike are buds still developing; the flowers bloom bottom to top.

🌼 bear corn 🌿
Conopholis americana

no chlorophyll, parasitic on oaks

#nativeplants #ecoregion71

Image depicts two green sea anenomes with pink tips on the arms against a contrasting background of light green and dark green.

Sometimes, the coolest pops of colour emerge from the muck. Tides have been super low this week, so there's been lots of extra muck to poke around in.

Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

I teach bystander intervention for a living & I spend all my days thinking about building community care, breaking isolation, etc.

I wish more people understood how community banks, local grocery stores, door-to-door mail service, etc. are all tiny, but important ways that we build connections.

A photo of a wetland scene featuring various labeled wildlife species standing near water, including an American Alligator, Great Blue Heron, Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbills, Black Vultures, Great Egret, and a Limpkin against a green, forested background.

I hiked out to a sinkhole that hosts hundreds of alligators and stumbled across a rather surreal surprise: a grand gathering of #Birds.

There’s a giant magnolia tree in my yard and I’m going to pounce on the first petals this year.

“If the edibility of magnolia petals is also new information for you, I can tell you that the flavour is an interesting cross between cardamom and ginger.”

Oh noo!! I hope you’ll be back on your feet soon and that you won’t have to cancel your trip. Sending healing thoughts! 💕

😦🤬

It's National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week here in the US and I want to send out a virtual high five to all my colleagues out there, on the bench and beyond, upholding quality and delivering the lab results that are the foundation of so much medical care. Happy Lab Week, friends.

Local woman wakes up, writes an oatmeal manifesto about ridding the world of AI, surveillance, and weapons,(along with the corporations and billionaires who profit from them), makes oatmeal.

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

do not forget that we the people have the power to chart a different path than this

Late #bunday entry

Nearly 80 students forced into 400+ push-ups at school, many diagnosed with permanent kidney damage, lawsuit says A dozen families in Texas filed a lawsuit against a charter school after nearly 20 students suffered potentially life-threatening injuries in February.

Since everyone who knows my #science is sending me this article: YEP, THEM KIDS GOT RHABDOMYOLYSIS-INDUCED ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY! And their risks for Stroke, Hypertention, Reproductive Risk, Demetia, and Death (SHReDD) just skyrocketed. GOOD JOB, ASSHOLE COACHES.

www.kfyrtv.com/2026/04/17/n...

Older woman leaning over a group of small kittens who are walking up to her

It’s Mom’s second foster season and it’s clear this batch adores her

Tiny goats in tiny coats will boing away your Sunday sads.

Emergency kitten- rasslin

Looks like an ICU nurse just arrived on shift.

A photo of my left hand with all nails facing the camera. Distributed across all but my pinkie nail, I have painted (parts of) a giant leopard moth against a pale, frosty, sparkly green background.

A close-up of the thumb nail, on which I have painted the moth’s thorax, head, and first pair of legs. It’s mostly fluffy white with touches of grey. The spots on the thorax are a rich dark blue encircled by black. The legs are black with white and blue markings, and the antennae are black with a touch of blue.

A close up of the other 4 nails. In this position it becomes clear that the index, middle, and ring finger nails when lined up depict the abdomen and wings of the moth. The wings are partially spread, just enough to reveal flashes of orange and blue in the abdomen on the middle nail. The wings themselves spread across the index and ring nails, white with stark black spots and rings. The white is softened with a bit of grey shadow hinting at the venation.

Giant leopard moth mani? Giant leopard moth mani!
Hand painted in nail polish, as usual, because I enjoy suffering.

A brown bodied bird on a rock with a darker colored tail and hind end. The head is naked and grey, like a vulture, with alert dark eyes looking at the camera from the side. From CuriousSpecies on Instagram

Meet the capuchinbird (Perissocephalus tricolor), native to the northeastern part of South America.

They're a large passerine bird with a head that resembles that of a vulture, in spite of not being closely related.

But let's take a minute to talk about Capuchin friars...

(📷: CuriousSpecies, IG)

A painting of a bird beside the text "y'all have lost your fuckin' brains somewhere"

A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

A bolete mushroom with a purple velvety cap grows intwined in grass in a sunny meadow

The horrors persist but so do mushrooms