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"the light arriving from the stars was younger, too, the birds dreaming in the tree cavities were the birds of the past, growth rings had vanished from the trees in which they slept" #SundaySentence from Transcription by Ben Lerner openlettersreview.com/posts/transc...

Transcription by Ben Lerner — Open Letters ReviewA review of the new novel by “The Topeka School” author Ben Lerneropenlettersreview.com

Had mammogram, Dexa scans at hospital today. Got excited when among patients and staff I spied ONE other person masked...'til I saw it was below her nose...oh well. Onwards. What I'd do without @michael-hoerger.bsky.social's data, encouragement, #CovidCautious community, I don't know. #stillmasking

#WindowsOnWednesday with the Street Signs of Lucca #aofoto

Splendid... A wall of windows, a bathing bird, a man with a sign for legs. Hope your day is a little surreal. #WindowsonWednesday #windows #WindowsWednesday #WednesdayWindows #WallsOnWednesday #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Reflections #AbLeg #YEG

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves Minoan jar with octopus motif (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). 📷 #photography #ancienthistory #museum #bronzeage #minoan #octopus

"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing." #SundaySentence, Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami.

Flipper is in my office monitoring my progress on HIGHWAY FULL OF NIGHT

Feeling joy at the news that corporate Nueva Pescanova's plans for a large-scale octopus farm in Gran Canaria, Spain, are finally shut down. This follows years of international global activism (my role was small to be sure but done with love for octopuses)!! #octopus #animalwelfare #animalrights

Victory! Plans for World’s First Octopus Farm AbandonedHundreds of thousands of octopuses will be spared from a life of misery.www.peta.org.uk

They want to deport a Cambodian refugee whos been here since infancy. This is the antithesis of justice. www.wpri.com/news/immigra...

‘Keep Chansareth Home’: Advocates protest outside as ICE detains longtime Providence residentAs a longtime Providence resident reported for his scheduled ICE check-in Wednesday afternoon, advocates gathered outside the Warwick field office to protest his imminent deportation.www.wpri.com

When House Republicans say some words about the Smithsonian and then quite spectacularly fail to understand anything about them: "in the museum's current telling, history is just an ongoing power struggle between oppressors and the oppressed." #museum #museumstudies #anthropology #Smithsonian #DOGE

Smithsonian too focused on 'oppressors and the oppressed,' say House RepublicansIn a House DOGE subcommittee hearing, GOP representatives excoriated the director of the National Museum of American History, following a White House report earlier this month that also criticized her...www.npr.org

So, you see, smoke travels in both directions and every other direction What matters is that we help each other and tackle climate change as humankind www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Smoke from U.S. wildfires affecting air quality in B.C.Wildfires south of the border are responsible for “much” of the smoke that has prompted an air quality warning in one region of B.C., according to officials.www.ctvnews.ca

Rare! Exposed on #Caturday, Polly, an under-the-bed cat. Only seen by two humans in the past 12 years.

Hey colleagues and friends in the animal-ethics sphere, these pieces coming out of @panworks.bsky.social (where I'm a Fellow) make for great reading, most recently this one from Emily Major. #animals #possum #nature #wildlife #animalcruelty #ethics #conservation #NewZealand

This speech is quite literally an impeachable offense. The President is trying to undermine faith in US elections and to delegitimize the elections of public officials.

Do birds enjoying flying? What a great question, and here, a basically non-invasive experimental approach to provide an answer. Research by Jorg J.M. Massens et al. #birds #birding #animalemotion #animalemotions #animalstudies #anthrozoology

Wishing all birders an excellent new week! #birds #birding #nature

My #sundaysentence this week is from the NYT, quoting this man on the failed math of book reduction: “Every book I own, I need.”

I'm home and grabbed the whole 126 frame Baby Turtle Sequence. You can see the coot takes 2 opportunities to grab it, but then also puts it back, so decide for yourself. 🪶

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For #FossilFriday, meet the oldest known "righty" in the animal kingdom & the earliest animal with a head: Spriggina floundersi. It measured just a few centimeters long & favored its right side, according to research led by @amnh.org's assistant curator of invertebrate paleontology Scott Evans 🧪