A brilliant Banksy.

New Maps of the Bizarre, Chaotic Space-Time Inside Black Holes | Quanta Magazine Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics.

Physicists are working to understand the churning region near singularities inside black holes. It may help them eventually reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. Lyndie Chiou reports:
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

3D map of exoplanet atmosphere shows wacky climate “This planet’s atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works.”…

3D map of exoplanet atmosphere shows wacky climate. "This planet’s atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works." arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Underwater illustration featuring large marine animals

A dynamic illustration featuring a pack of gannets diving erratically in a hunt for fish.

A group of various freshwater fishes swimming peacefully in a shallow river.

A kelp forest full of marine animals including coral fishes and sharks.

Today is my birthday and if you want to give me a gift, please repost my art 😊 #sciart

Using novel methods based on error-correcting codes, an undergraduate student named Anqi Li (left) and her professor Henry Cohn discovered several irregular sphere packings. https://buff.ly/42AYhrW

Richard Wright Explains How a Miles Davis Chord Inspired the Pink Floyd Song 'Breathe (In the Air)' Richard Wright explained how the Miles Davis song "All Blues" inspired a specific chord change in the Pink Floyd song "Breathe (In the Air)".

Richard Wright Explains How a Miles Davis Chord Inspired the Pink Floyd Song ‘Breathe (In the Air)’ laughingsquid.com/richard-wrig...

How the scientists of the 1960s turned the Moon into a place @inverting-vision.bsky.social

How humanity moved from ‘eternal’ to ‘bookended’ time | Aeon Essays Nothing lasts forever: not humanity, not Earth, not the Universe. But finitude confers an indelible meaning to our lives

Only recently has the human collective begun accepting the fact it is itself mortal. We now appreciate that events unfolded for aeons before us and that our species can disappear, never to return. How has this understanding changed our sense of orientation within time?

After your tea, why not learn about what makes #woodpeckers so darned cool!
Watch my brand new animated bird guide episode here youtu.be/GEQBrT-587Q?...

GM, BlueSky friends! Here's one from the archives... an early morning photo featuring Mt Baker, WA, as seen from Cattle Point, Victoria. This was taken in the half hour before actual sunrise.

#photography #sunrise #landscape #VictoriaBC #landscapePhotography

Are birds reptiles? If you're wondering whether birds are reptiles, know this: The reptile family tree is more varied and diverse than you might realize.

It's Friday and you deserve a break. Distract your brain for a few minutes with this fun explainer on how birds fit into the reptile family tree. #ornithology

Fascinating Finches: Patterns of Gene Flow in South American Siskins Multiple hybridization events in South American siskins. Although hybridization is a widespread phenomenon in birds, detecting gene flow between species (i.e. introgression) is still challenging. I…

Your daily Avian Hybrids story!

Fascinating Finches: Patterns of Gene Flow in South American Siskins
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#ornithology

Wisdom the Albatross

#WisdomtheAlbatross has hatched out yet another #albatrosschick. Simply marvellous for a 74 year old #LaysanAlbatross #MidwayIsland #albatross #seabird #ornithology #breeding #PacificOcean #plasticpollution #overfishing #risingseas

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By dismantling USAID projects, the world will be less safe. Colombia has a fragile peace and yet has been one of the primary recipients of Venezuelan migrants.

US pulling up its stakes will be self-defeating. Could end up with renewed violence in Colombia and Colombians fleeing en masse.

Visual Practice Starter Pack Resources for developing as a graphic recorder

If you read one uplifting thing today - let it be this one. A decade ago, I was briefly seconded to the Capgemini ASE…Which is like a design thinking lab for corps. I met Aaron there and his article here is a really interesting deep dive on visual practice.

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Passenger Pigeon The 100th anniversary of the Passenger Pigeon's disappearance is a poignant reminder of the need for effective conservation.

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If you want a little more time before submitting your 1000 word abstract or paper for the PAMBA Prize, you have it! Submissions for the next PAMBA meeting in Santa Barbara (April 24-26) have been extended another week, until Feb 10. www.the-pamba.com/events

Brief review of the Birdweather PUC automated recording device for birders! 👇 #ornithology 🪶 #bwpuc

Taxonomic, Functional and Phylogenetic Beta Diversity of Upland Forest Birds in the Amazon: The Relative Importance of Biogeographic Regions, Climate and Geographic Distance Aim We address the relative importance of biogeographic regions (areas of endemism), regional climate and spatial factors on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity of bird assemblages...

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#conservationscience
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Look, I’m gonna break it to you, it’s a real shame you’re hearing or reading alt text and not seeing this incredible frog. It’s just… imagine a pancake, slightly burned in an intricate kind of pattern on top. Now puff it up like it’s some kind of incredible dumpling. Now put some legs evenly spaced around the edges, with stubby digits. And put some little bronze eyes in there for good measure. Now imagine that the pancake is deeply nonplussed, as is plain to see across its very flat face. That is what this frog looks like. It is perhaps one of evolution’s greatest achievements.

Bluesky has not yet had any Rhombophryne testudo. Let’s fix that. I think it will do all of us some good. 🐸🟤

Picture of Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva (ice cream scene)

I'm not even Brazilian but I had to watch I'm Still Here for a second time today. What a masterpiece. Totally earned Oscars/Academy Awards nominations.

A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶

Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.

#ornithology
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Wide range of Earth’s species are showing a decline in diversity The loss of genetic variation means species may be less resilient to climate change and other stressors

Our long term project has finally been published - genetic diversity is lost worldwide, but we can also make a difference and conservation actions matters.
Find out more in the Science news here
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#Consgen