Mastodawn

Looking for a delightful Middle Grade-High School book about head lice? Here you go. Honestly, I enjoyed it a lot and I am definitely not the target audience age 😀 #LiceLiceBaby https://bookshop.org/p/books/lice-how-to-survive-on-humans-berta-paramo/713087f70e172c1b

bug_gwen 🪲20h ago

Today Donors Choose is matching All requests for books by teachers! https://www.donorschoose.org/donors/search.html?matchingId=3260&canonical=filleveryshelf2026&equityFocus=true

bug_gwen 🪲1d ago

Just a shout out to KnownAgents, for building an incredibly useful tool for blocking scrapers. Traffic at an education website I maintain has been 70:30 bots to people. https://knownagents.com/

Track, control, and optimize for AI agents and bots | Known Agents

Use Known Agents to turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots crawling your website into a new growth channel for your business

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bug_gwen 🪲2d ago

a cool use of technology for a change: the first tagged monarch has returned! https://xerces.org/news/organizational-news/incredible-journey-of-monarch-xsti009

bug_gwen 🪲3d ago

Sheril Kirshenbaum 3d ago

“This is the systematic elimination of scientific stewardship at the world’s largest biomedical research funder.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/elizabethginexi/p/i-wrote-research-funding-announcements?r=1j872&utm_medium=ios #science #health #uspol

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14

How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

Elizabeth Ginexi

bug_gwen 🪲4d ago

I know that the Long S is common in historic printing and writing, but GOSH I just can't stop giggling when I read Fingular Fymptoms from Fwallowing.

bug_gwen 🪲5d ago

in which researchers learn about the function of cicada towers by putting condoms over them. (It's SCIENCE, please do not report me) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.70182

bug_gwen 🪲5d ago

The latest in a series of big busts in ant smuggling. Yes. Ant Smuggling 🐜 . Big 💰 https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenya-arrests-man-trying-smuggle-over-2000-live-ants-his-luggage-2026-03-12/

bug_gwen 🪲6d ago

Have you got a non-fiction book proposal that you need a push to get done? I highly recommend this Boot Camp: https://christieaschwanden.com/the-book-proposal-boot-camp-spring-2026/

The Book Proposal Boot Camp, Spring 2026

A workshop to help you do the work. This eight-week workshop takes place virtually, via Zoom. It is aimed at people who either have a book idea that needs more development or who have a defined boo…

Christie Aschwanden

bug_gwen 🪲Mar 10

From 2013 to 2024, Heightened risk of fatal police violence in and around reservations for American Indian/Alaska Native peoples in the United States 🤬 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2521002123

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