Pupping season is winding down as summer begins, but the harbor seal spectacular is just getting started!
After giving birth, harbor seals will linger at the rookery as mothers bond with their pups and teach them the ways of the water. The little ones follow in mom’s flipper-steps, learning important life skills like hunting, galumphing, and riding waves onto the beach for a well-deserved nap. It’s tough work, but somebody’s gotta do it! 🦭
Harbor seals are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, a key U.S. law that protects seals, whales, otters, and other beloved aquatic species from harmful human activity.
If you venture out for some seal spotting this summer, stay quiet and keep a distance of 50 yards. It’s more than just the right thing to do–getting too close to marine mammals like harbor seals can mean big fines and even jail time for a law-breaking human!
So mellow out, settle in, and enjoy your day on the bay with the chill vibes of a sleepy harbor seal. 🏖️☀️
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People leaving comments on my posts about Indigenous knowledge as a science and its relationship with Western science like, "I know Indigenous knowledge is extremely valuable and important, but I only trust verified science." You're just racist. I'm not going to be polite.
Today, many scientists acknowledge the troubling attitudes that have long plagued research projects in Indigenous communities [...] But some Indigenous groups feel that despite such well-intentioned initiatives, their inclusion in research is only a token gesture to satisfy a funding agency.
That's you. You only want tokens for optics. You can't say, "I respect Indigenous knowledge but—" No, you don't respect Indigenous knowledge. Western science is not the only "real" science and your attempts to argue otherwise are racist. There is no argument.
It's like I'm talking to a wall. All the time when I discuss my work as a wildlife & fisheries biologist, I discuss what I have learned directly from Indigenous people in my everyday work yet it's so clear that so many people hear that and think I'm bringing it up for what reason? To appear somehow progressive?
Has everyone just believed this whole time that I bring it up for optics?
Everyone nods, "of course he mentions Indigenous people," because they believe it would simply look bad for me if I didn't.
In fact Indigenous knowledge is a constant topic of conversation and point of reference when I discuss my work as a scientist who uses Western science because my work is useless without it.
I work with endangered species which are endangered solely due to continual colonial violence against people and the land. I can follow the Western scientific method all I want and publish 100 papers on how to fix salmon populations—and get nowhere without Indigenous knowledge and sovereignty.
Indigenous knowledge is not an afterthought to reference as back up to Western science. Believe it or not, we can and should lead any number of scientific projects with Indigenous knowledge.
You need to change how you regard Indigenous knowledge on a fundamental level.
bagele chilisa's book 'indigenous research methodologies' was published in 2019, btw. it's focused on decolonizing current western research practices, but obviously to decolonize you have to understand how and why indigenous sciences deserve consideration in the first place, and what counts as evidence when we look at a body of research.
State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden bo
CW for seclusion, abuse.
A school in New York confined disabled Native children in wooden boxes. Indigenous children and disabled children have a long history of experiencing mistreatment and harm in schools. Everyone deserves an education free from seclusion and restraint.
For more information on the harms of seclusion, check out the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint.
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The Heartstopper webcomic’s first update dropped on September 1st 2016. Today, on April 11th 2026, the story has concluded.
I don’t quite know how to put all of my feelings into one letter. Heartstopper means more to me than words can express, but I’ll try my best.
Heartstopper has defined the past decade of my life. It started as a fun side project and quickly grew into something much bigger, eventually becoming my career. Despite that huge and unexpected change, making the Heartstopper comic feels the same to me as it did on day one. When I sit down to make Heartstopper, I feel at peace. When the world feels so scary and difficult, I have been able to return to Heartstopper, and everything feels okay again for a little while.
Nick and Charlie first appeared as supporting characters in my first novel, ‘Solitaire’. In Solitaire, Nick and Charlie represent the idea that hope, love, joy and connection can persist and thrive despite the trials and tribulations of being alive. So maybe it’s ironic that Nick and Charlie have come to represent this in my own life. They have brought me joy. They have given me purpose. They have given me everything, really. And I’m so grateful for every moment I have spent with them.
Heartstopper is profoundly special to me. Which makes it extremely hard to say goodbye.
But it is time. I always knew that Nick going to university would be the end point of the story. And despite how sad I am to be bidding farewell to these characters, I am so, so proud and excited to have made it to the end and concluded the story exactly the way I wanted to.
Any webcomic creator can tell you that making a webcomic requires a heavy amount of determination and endurance. To draw a page almost every day for the past ten years has required a lot of sacrifice and a lot of energy. But every moment was worth it. And now that it is complete, Nick and Charlie’s story can be experienced from beginning to end, for the rest of forever.
I wouldn’t have made it here alone. From the very start, Heartstopper’s readers have offered so much support, love, community, conversation, and enthusiasm. Knowing that there are people out there who love these characters just like I do has given me the strength to keep going. I’ve also had the support of many colleagues, friends, and family members, who’ve all helped in different ways at various points in the past decade. Thank you so, so much to everyone who has been here for the journey.
I have no idea what I’ll make next. For now, I’m taking a break. And I know that Nick and Charlie won’t simply vanish. I expect I will always return to drawing them and writing about them, probably in smaller ways, for the rest of my life, as long as my body allows.
Nick and Charlie will forever be in my heart, hand in hand on a beach somewhere.
Look at this muppet (Paradoxophyla sp., maybe a new species? we aren't sure yet). Just look at his hilarious face. This is not the face a frog is supposed to have. What are you doing with that NOSE?¿?¿?
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It's our last Show and Tell Saturday of the month! I've acquired far too many types of glue in an effort to attach silicone to fabric - hopefully something sticks :) What's new in your world this week?
Also my insulated lunch box broke and I’m really good at holding grudges and wasn’t about to break my Target boycott to get a new one, so instead I spent two nights making a new one.
These are both so good - I'm so fond of anything with a space theme, so your lunch box is wonderful! Great job on the socks as well they look very cozy :)
After ten years of dreaming, eight years of government support, six years of fundraising (we needed $50,000,000!), and five years of construction, the Paul Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital finally saw its first patients on February 14th.
13 babies were born at the MCOE that day. Several were admitted to the NICU, the first in Sierra Leone's history. The MCOE is already radically transforming the kind of maternal and infant care available in eastern Sierra Leone.
Five thousand babies will be born at the MCOE this year. 5,000 more will be born there next year, and the year after that, and the year after that--hopefully for decades. The healthcare workforce of the entire nation will grow stronger because the MCOE is a teaching hospital training the next generation of Sierra Leonean nurses, midwives, and doctors.
The heroes of this story are those caregivers along with the Ministry of Health, PIH, and the hundreds of skilled laborers who worked together for years to build the hospital despite so many challenges. But if you're supporting this project directly or indirectly (by buying good store socks or soap), thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I'm OBSESSED. Honestly I don't think this lichen could go any harder if it tried. Color? Contrast? Texture? Variability? She's go it all! This foliose, tripartite lichen is native to the tropical forests of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It has large, round, ruffly (faveolate-reticulate, if you wanna get technical) lobes that grow in bunches up to 40 cm wide! The upper surface is bright green when wet and gray-blue-green when dry, the medulla is bright yellow to orange, and the lower surface is a mix of yellow, brown, and black, spotted with yellow pseudocyphellae (holes in the cortex that expose the medullary layer). It produces lots of pedicellate apothecia, which have red-brown to black discs surrounded by wavy yellow-green margins. Y. coronata was previously described as Pseudocyphellaria coronata, but was renamed to honor the late lichenologist James Murray after molecular sequencing revealed it to inhabit a distinctly separate clade. And I am embarrassed to admit it took more more than a hot minute to figure out that Yarrumia contained "Murray" spelled backwards.
Recognizing a member of the subgenus Rhizocarpon is pretty easy. That bright yellow-green thallus comes from the presence of rhizocarpic acid, and is truly unique amongst lichens, along with the distinctive black prothallus and black, angular apothecia. But trying to tell the individual species of the Rhizocarpon subgenus apart? That's a whole other story. Basically every paper and description for this species I have found says there is variation and overlap between R. riparium and other members of the group. So R. riparium might not even be like, an actual thing. But this isn't really a concern for YOU, the nonlichenologists out there. Afterall, the most stable characteristic to identify R. riparium from look-alikes appears to be a greenish pigment in the hymenium of the apothecia, only visible in microscopic cross-section. And I doubt y'all will be doing a lot of that. So I will just be happy if you go out and see a lichen like this and go "Oh look! A Rhizocarpon! Isn't she gorgeous???" To do so, head to your nearest high-elevation (1370-3535 m), sun-exposed, siliceous rock and take a gander. Shouldn't take you long to find one.
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When hurricanes hit coasts, they bring with them incredible storm surge, which puts buildings right in the middle of ocean waves. To understand how to better protect against those conditions, engineers use facilities like the Directional Wave Basin to create smaller-scale versions of hurricanes. (Video and image credit: Practical Engineering)
Although we are most familiar with the white, branching lightning caused by electrical discharge between clouds and the ground, there are many types of lightning. This fortuitous image captures two: tentacled red sprites and ring-like ELVES. (Image credit: V. Binotto; via APOD)
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