Dr Michelle @Drosmel@qoto.org

That's it!

#Antifa #Antifascism #Fascism

I can't remember if I posted this rant already. Somewhere someone is teaching all science students to use the stupidest slide.

The slide says:

This is huge for Who fans. The first and third episodes of The Dalek Master Plan have been found.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/tv/news/doctor-who-episodes-missing-daleks-master-plan-b2937732.html

A taxidermy fish in the #NottNatHist Museum picked for display 😬

@GeorgeTheGorilla

#fish #taxidermy

I have finished the temperature blanket panel for 2025! This is a decade-long project. Each stripe represents the local daily high temperature in farenheit: red is 90s, orange is 80s, yellow is 70s, and so on.

To capture the entire winter and summer seasons, the first bottom row actually starts on November 1st of the previous year, and the numbers are placed on January 1st of the labeled year, and it continues up from there.

#crochet #FiberArt #ClimateDiary

A perfect Goniatite fossil with its internal flotation chambers and their divisions clearly visible. Like a spiral staircase decending to the the depths.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#3GoodThings Weekend Edition'

1. Grandmother-in-Law's 100th birthday party yesterday
2. Survived the time change
3. Remembered I had some leftover Detroit-style pizza that I can have for lunch

This short story, written in older and older English as it goes on, rightly went viral!

How far can you understand it?

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english#_

#English #Language #Bookstodon #Linguistics

And now, for extra comprehension challenge, there’s Beowulf rendered in Gen Z English

“There was Shield Sheafson, canceler of many tribes,
A high-key shredder of mead benches, flexing all over foes.
This dragger of the hall-troops had come far.
A smol bean to start with, he would glow up hard later on
As his powers got fire af and his rizz went viral.”

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gen-z-beowulf

#English #Language #Bookstodon #Linguistics

The best part of having a doctorate is any time someone asks me to do something I don’t want to do, I write “absolutely not” on a post it and say sorry can’t I have a doctor’s note

Pleased to finally share this fun collab that began at #Ento23 @cedricaumont.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy presented & I had seen NCBI annotated some cockroach genomes as "contaminated." Turns out NCBI & I were wrong (much more fun). Horizontal transfer of an #AntimicrobialPeptide across insects bit.ly/DrsHGT 1/🧵

Yes, but what if the Battle of Hastings was fought in the 100 Acre Woods?

#winniethepooh #hastings #history #humor #humour

Moth? Moth!

Here's the NZ endemic moth, the appropriately named Exquisite Carpet, *Asaphodes adonis*, which I just uploaded to #iNaturalist. It's known only from NZ's South Island.'

It's always a treat to find these.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/341348871

#mothodon #moths #Lepidoptera #nz #entomology

🇨🇦 Let’s build the talent economy in Canada!

#Canada #talent #immigration #economy #cdnpoli @canada https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/canada-scholarships-international-students