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Statement from Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee:

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

Stadsdichter van Amsterdam, Marjolijn van Heemstra, schreef dit heerlijke gedicht in het Parool.

De levensbespiegelende gesprekken tussen Har en Jet zijn een hilarische verademing, en een goede remedie tegen het geruis van alledag,. Luister en schater.

harenjet.nl

Friday Flyday! Here’s a bee-mimicking robber fly (Laphria) feeding on a honey bee it has killed.

#FridayFlyday #Diptera #nature #insects

Qatar is uitgeschakeld en kan zich eindelijk volledig richten op de mensenrechten

One of my favourite display cases in the new #Insectarium of #Montréal . The #beetles are so beautiful!
It took countless hours by the #entomology technicians to pin the specimens and to create this masterpiece. The other display cases are just as impressive :)
#biodiversity
(I work with a fantastic team)

Via Menno Schilthuizen on Twitter: Why do so many animal species have genitalia? Sanne van Gammeren flash-froze fruit flies in the act to see if she could solve this question. Her study was published today in
@PeerJLife
peerj.com/articles/14225

Kirby's 1802 book titled Monographia Apum Angliae (A Monograph of the #Bees in England), attributes the name of the bee to the Rev. Goodenough with the following Latin explanation:
A viro Reverendo S. Goodenough, LL. D. Ca¬nonico Windsoriensi, Botanico summo tum et in Entomologia lynceo, nomen suum haec Apis mutuatur.
…roughly translated as:
This bee is named after the Reverend Samuel Goodenough, LL. D. Canon of Windsor, Chief Botanist of the time and in #entomology very sharp-sighted.

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Dr Sarah Kachovich 🌊🚢🐚🔬🏔  
Happy birthday Esther Applin (middle)🎉 🥳🎊 —in 1921 Esther suggested that #microfossils could be used in stratigraphy, but was ridiculed: “Gentlemen...

RT @denistrubetskoy
Guten Morgen aus Kyjiw.

Exakt 17 Stunden ohne Strom, Heizung, Wasser und fast ohne Empfang in meiner Wohnung.

Ab 7 Uhr Ortszeit geht es zum Teil wieder.

Denke vor allem an Menschen in Städten wie Charkiw, die mit dieser Realität viel länger direkt konfrontiert sind.

Question: is labeling a picture in your message as "sensitive content" also a way of improving the performance of the server, by alowing it not to be fully loaded until it is clicked on?

Are you unfamiliar with the terms #STED, #PALM, #STORM, #SMLM, #MINFLUX, & #MINSTED, but would you like to learn more about these #superresolution #microscopy technologies🔬? If so, then you should check out #StefanHell's #Lindau presentation 🤓 Enjoy👉 mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/r

Dit akelig prachtige en actuele gedicht schreef Mark Boog 10 jaar geleden al in NRC next.

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