#NewSpecies!
New lizardfish from #japan just surfaced:
Synodus autumnus
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/440EC599-5E6A-51A0-8A9B-1262C8599C72
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1243.147259
#ZooKeys #SynodusAutumnus
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishfriday #ichthyology #lizardfish
#NewSpecies!
Ormosia neillii
A newly discovered #fabaceae from #ecuador!
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0531E23F-3FD0-5CC6-BFA3-BAD28D4AE41B
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.256.147923
#PhytoKeys #OrmosiaNeillii
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #wildflowers #flowers #wildplants #plants #wildlife #fabaceae
Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, AT&T High Seas Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.
All the pixels, none of the risk of sea sickness, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569
I don't "assert dominance" but have been known to assume mating postures to trigger courtship. Also totally uninterested in road kill -- if it can't lay eggs, don't want it.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/23/this-cartoon-is-entirely-false/
On the topic of diy hrt, & who’s often left out of the conversation
Hi hi. This pride month, can there be actual convos about how fucked it is that people interested in testosterone replacement therapy, & other androgens, can’t obtain it without a prescription unless they wanna go to jail for a minimum of 4 years?
I know it’s bleak & grim. But it’s very important to discuss, imo, if we want actual trans rights. T should be descheduled. We should be saying this loudly, even if you personally don’t want it or have nothing to do with it. & this should be kept in mind when saying “just do diy hrt.” To be able to do such without majorly risking your entire livelihood is a privilege. A major one. Please try to think abt those who can’t risk it.
& in the meantime, TALK ABOUT IT!!! Inform people that T is a controlled substance, bc a shocking amount of folks don’t know this. Make a slogan, openly voice that ur in favor of people having bodily autonomy including when it comes to using anabolic steroids, tell someone you know who’s on a 5 year long waitlist with an endocrinologist just to avoid a prison sentence that u love them & wish the world was better to them.
( anyone arguing abt how risky other forms of hrt are to diy please fuck off. I’m well aware of this, & you’re not the center of this conversation. transmasc & intersex people get talked over & ignored entirely in far too many conversations for me to let my replies be another one of those instances. )
( fuck it, tags for visibility, this is an issue I care deeply abt. #diyhrt #hrt #trans #transmasc )
#NewSpecies!
New sea slug from the #yellowsea just crawled in:
Pseudobornella qingdaoensis
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B7FCCAAF-DFD7-5A81-ADA0-B2EF6C9CAA80
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1241.155540
#ZooKeys #Pseudobornellaqingdaoensis
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #nudibranch #slugs #seaslugs
The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.
Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.
That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).
Freedom is always worth fighting for.
On a eu un visiteur sur le balcon, ce joli scarabée non identifié. environ 3cm de long. Il est venu se reposer quelques instants sur le tronc du citronnier avant de repartir.
Edit, on me dit que ça pourrait être une cétoine, Protaetia morio
Este señor se rifó. La neta está bien chido que cuando le piden ejemplos de socialismo diga lo que dijo.
Biologist
Love old tech and anti-authoritarian praxis
RISC and singlecore CPUs
#runbsd
Lots of body no worky Just a puppy