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I'm teaching about prison conditions in my sentencing class this week, and I'll never not be stunned by this picture of a group therapy session in San Quentin.

How can any therapy work under these conditions?

Thorny oysters (family Spondylidae) are more closely related to scallops, but resemble oysters in many ways due to a shared lifestyle of living cemented to surfaces. The shell spines they have are a defensive adaptation to make it harder for shell drilling/peeling/crushing shells to access their shells. The spines also attract other life forms (epibionts) to live on their shells, which serve as camouflage! #ClamFacts

Well done comrades 👏

“Eli Lilly CEO says insulin tweet flap “probably” signals need to bring down cost”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/eli-lilly-ceo-says-insulin-tweet-flap-probably-signals-need-to-bring-down-cost/

shout out to paleolithic people for petting those wolves, you did us a solid

I love when I can get a heron to fill the frame. My #nikon AF-S 300/4 continually punches above its weight.

Gabrielle Union wearing 2008 Elie Saab for the #London premiere of Strange #World.
#Photography by Morgan Lay.

So Saturn has this moon Iapetus. Besides being a really fun word to say, this moon is pretty cool. And not only because it's made primarily out of ice. It has a striking appearance with the leading hemisphere taking a reddish-brownish coloring; the rest is icy white.

But it gets better... Iapetus has this weird equatorial ridge, 1,300km long and up to 13km high. No idea how they got there!

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

#Saturn #Iapetus #Cassini #Space #Science #Astrodon

Honestly the kind of chaotic energy I aspire to. Hbomberguy is like some kind of trickster spirit.

There was no treatment for this at the time, so Pulaski’s parents would have been able to decide if he should be raised male or female. As a woman, he would have a hard time marrying and having children, but as a man, he could have an outstanding military career, and no one would ever know.

At least until 2019.

More about Pulaski in my post here:

https://dirtysexyhistory.com/2022/10/11/casimir-pulaski-intersex-hero-of-the-revolutionary-war/

This silver watch case is shaped like a skull - the jaw hinges down to reveal the dial. The skull is decorated with a floral pattern and a scene on the forehead featuring Adam and Eve with the snake. 17th cent. (Louvre, Paris) #MementoMori #skull #MementoMoriMonday #histodons #horology #time #history

Look closely at the center of this image. You probably noticed the bright spot in the center, the central protostar. But did you notice the dark band in front of it? That’s the protostar’s accretion disk, created as material swirls around it.

The material within this disk can sometimes clump up, forming the beginnings of planets. But the protostar will absorb many of these before they can mature.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

when was the last time you searched for images of medieval snails? 🐌

Tens of thousands of grad students, postdocs and other academic workers are striking, including at my PhD alma mater, UCSC. They want higher pay because the rent is too damn high and they don't make enough to cover it. 90 percent of academic student employees and over 70 percent postdocs are rent-burdened. I was one of them. I stand with these folks in their effort to get paid a fair wage!
https://lookout.co/santacruz/ucsc-cabrillo/story/2022-11-14/uc-santa-cruz-grad-students-strike

A quick #introduction post - I'm a micropaleontologist of #Radiolaria at the Australian National University #anu , where I manage the International Ocean Discovery Program #IODP for the Australian and New Zealand Consortium #ANZIC.

I also love painting in my free time and raising the profile of #WomenInSTEM

#science #micropaleontology #scicomm #ScientificOceanDrilling

I learned of the bearded reedling today and I would kill for it without question