szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

A tiny asteroid harmlessly lit up the sky in Canada on Nov. 19 – and astronomers saw it coming. It was detected 3.5 hours before impact, and then @nasa’s Scout impact hazard assessment system calculated where and when it would enter Earth’s atmosphere. http://go.nasa.gov/3GDaO2Y
#NASAJPL

I am not a professional photographer, just someone who takes far too many pictures when out on walks/hikes. (Stone carving is my thing).This is an American Mink. It walked up to me to about 3 feet (1 meter) as if to ask why was I in the woods. It then hustled back to an abandoned Beaver house and continued to check me out. A staring contest! Cute little critter, wish I was that good looking.

I think the shift by the general public to Mastodon may be historically significant beyond just social media because it's a shift away from centralization and back towards distributed services. I'm hoping this trend continues in general for Internet services.

I used to be an annual pass member at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), and one of the perks was getting to skip ahead of the general admission line for day passes.

Showed up one day to see a new exhibit, and got assaulted by a Karen who was absolutely furious that I "skipped her and her whole family" in the general admission line.

She got escorted away by security in front of her family, and I got a bunch of free shit.

10/10, would skip in line again. Renewing next time I go.

I love a snuggly dog 🥰

If you were unfortunate enough to e-file your US #tax using HR Block, Taxact or Taxslayer, your most sensitive financial information was nonconsenually shared with Facebook, where it was added to the involuntary dossier the company maintains billions of people, including people who don't have Facebook accounts.

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Found out....my Lola is an Angel! 😉

Today, the number of peer-reviewed articles that use data mediated by GBIF reached 8,000(!) 🤩

A huge thanks to all the more than 1,900 institutions sharing data—and to researchers using data in their work! 👏

#opendata #biodiversity #FAIR

Hoping to encourage some #ThickTrunkTuesday delights so I share this fine lady who has lost their cloak and now stands cold in her thin green slip.
#Trees #Nature

Timeline of a new Mastodon user:

Day 1: this sucks servers are confusing and why is my feed empty

Day 2: why is there no quote tweet this is dumb

Day 3: mastodon better make some changes if it wants to compete with tw_tter

Day 7: hm, people are really nice here

Day 10: loving the no ads and real conversations

Day 15: THE WORKERS MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND EXECUTE CAPITALISTS

#TwitterMigration

22 November 1934 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Judic Vischjager, was born in #Amsterdam.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 12 November 1942 in a transport of 758 #Jews deported from #Westerbork in German-occupied #Netherlands.

Together with her brother Jacob she was among 707 of them murdered in gas chambers right after selection made by SS doctors.

#history #Holocaust #Nazi #Germany #ww2 #WorldWar2

Of course swamps are also important for biodiversity and I would welcome people to share their photos and stories of why they love swamps too!

For more information around swamps in folklore and a historical perspective, I recommend SWAMP: Nature and Culture by Anthony Wilson.

If you want to know more about their functioning and importance as carbon stores, I recommend checking out our paper from earlier this year (shameless self promotion: (Davidson et al. 2022 ERL)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac63d5

It’s that time of year again, when some companies think about giving their staff holiday gifts. If you’re thinking about it, here’s a list of good gifts to consider:

1. Cash

That’s it. That’s the list.

This is for all you #MedievalCats lovers. And also any #ButtLickingCats lovers also. Wasn't hard to find #Manuscripts with these cats.
#Medievalists #Histodons

Caught Radar at the end of a yawn!
#BlindCat #BlindCatsOfMastodon #catsofmastodon #dailycat

We biology geeks may sound elitist when we use scientific names instead of common names, but we're really just trying to avoid this:

For #thicktrunktuesday here is a kauri from the northern regions of New Zealand's North Island. Imagine all the carbon stored in its above ground biomass.