People tried to scam insurance by dressing up as a bear and wrecking luxury cars.
"Investigators then took the video to biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to also look at the video. The biologists said, 'it was clearly a human in a bear suit.'"
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This but for spiders 🥺
Oh I love this!
Trapdoor
#myart #insect #spider #pattern #digitalart
“I’m an artist what am I going to do during the socialist transition” you will be making super awesome mosaics on the bus stops and train stations next question
Ok but seriously reading the manual of any specialized equipment your character uses should be common practice for researching a role
Okay so why was I the only one in the theater tonight who gasped when Ryan Gosling ran a centrifuge with two tubes in the whole thing, sitting right next to each other? Sorry was I the only scientist in the film society theater tonight??
Skyfall is happening, and it will get to Mars in a totally new way.
Last summer, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Virginia company AeroVironment unveiled their Skyfall mission concept, which would send a fleet of tiny helicopters to explore the skies of Mars. 🧪 #PlanetSci
Jesus fucking Christ I guess I've got to find another candidate to support
Colorectal cancer rates are going up among people under 50, and are increasing fastest among folks in their 20s and 30s.
But some insurance companies are giving the run around to people under 45 trying to get colonoscopies, sometimes even when their doctor recommended one.
My latest.
Took a few minutes to talk about my experience in the academic job market and the advice I have for people in/preparing for job hunting. Also, my favorite quote from Uncle Iroh (Avatar the Last Airbender) 🧪
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“Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention”
“Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.”
A tarantula sitting on a bed of her own webbing as seen from the top. The tarantula has dark blue legs, an emerald green carapace and a dark red abdomen
I think this is one of the most beautiful species of tarantula. This is a young adult Dolichothele diamantinensis female. Several years ago I got three spiderling siblings and all three turned out female!
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
(Published Dec. 2025)
tax him harder and twice on Tuesdays
Abandon scarcity mindset that keeps harmful people in your spaces and you will see very quickly how much room you create for genuinely good, hardworking, kind people to thrive. It’s like weeding a garden and helping struggling buds have space to breathe.
An EXTREMELY helpful thing folks can do, if they live near a federal courthouse, is volunteer for Habeas Dockets. Docs in habeas cases aren't viewable online by default. But they are at courthouses. This site makes them available/searchable for free. Helps lawyers a lot
habeasdockets.org/volunteer/
let's start simple: why all the goddamn sniffing?
His remark about the self being a late western civ invention? Chinese civil service candidates have been tested on philosophical texts 2000 years ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...
When did your obsession with hot toxic women begin?
Los Angeles Marathon nonbinary champion receives no prize money
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
Please note most federal grants *required* information on how the grants would benefit underserved or understudied groups. If you applied for a grant, you *had to* include something that would speak to diversity and equity.
A species of gut bacteria that proliferates as mice get older plays a part in their cognitive decline, a new study in Nature finds.
Researchers determined that the bacterium interferes with signalling along sensory nerves that connect to the brain.
🧪🧠 #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Two black lady beetle with large orange spots and bright blue eyes, having sex beetle style on a bit of blackened pine bark
Suddenly it's lady beetle season again
#BugSex
This is one of 2025's best movies. But you won't get to see it compete at the Oscars.
It's called Nobody, and it earned almost $250 million on a $10< million budget. A future is coming for small, risky films — with or without the Oscars. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-film-t...
A macro photo looking down into a multi-petaled, yellow flower with a moth in the flower's dark yellow center. The moth has a fuzzy gray thorax and cream-colored wings with pink edging. There is also a very small green plant bug in the upper left, peeking from behind a petal.
Photobombing is a constant problem in macrophotography
(Heliolonche pictipennis moth in the Mojave Desert last weekend; green mirid plant bug going "Oh heyyy" in the upper left.) #BugSky 🌿🐙📷
We counted 1500 measles cases as of the end of last month. Guess who else is starting to rear its ugly head- Mumps.
It has been detected in ~34 people across 11 states.
Symptoms show up a few weeks after exposure in the form of fever, heads & swollen salivary glands.
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First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪
