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Merry Dutch Christmas! 🚲🌲
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Merry Dutch Christmas! 🚲🌲
This is fun:
Black-casqued hornbill
Indri
Lowland streaked tenrec
Common basilisk
Giraffe
Black-casqued hornbill
Indri
Lowland streaked tenrec
Common basilisk
Giraffe
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is fun:
Black-casqued hornbill
Indri
Lowland streaked tenrec
Common basilisk
Giraffe
Black-casqued hornbill
Indri
Lowland streaked tenrec
Common basilisk
Giraffe
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
September 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
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Congratulations to @clarewatson.bsky.social, whose Hakai Magazine story on an inventive scheme to cleaning up ghost fishing gear is going to be included in this year's anthology of Best Australian Science Writing:
hakaimagazine.com/news/using-t...
www.linkedin.com/posts/clare-...
hakaimagazine.com/news/using-t...
www.linkedin.com/posts/clare-...
Using Trash to Track Other Trash | Hakai Magazine
An Australian organization is taking “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to heart with its ghost net clean-up program.
hakaimagazine.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Congratulations to @clarewatson.bsky.social, whose Hakai Magazine story on an inventive scheme to cleaning up ghost fishing gear is going to be included in this year's anthology of Best Australian Science Writing:
hakaimagazine.com/news/using-t...
www.linkedin.com/posts/clare-...
hakaimagazine.com/news/using-t...
www.linkedin.com/posts/clare-...
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One like, one clam fact
One like, one opinion about how to solve climate change.
1 like, 1 housing opinion
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
One like, one clam fact
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I laughed at this video for like 2 minutes straight last night and now you get to
July 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I laughed at this video for like 2 minutes straight last night and now you get to
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The 2025 AP Biology Exam scores:
5: 19%; 4: 24%; 3: 28%; 2: 21%; 1: 8%
5: 19%; 4: 24%; 3: 28%; 2: 21%; 1: 8%
June 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The 2025 AP Biology Exam scores:
5: 19%; 4: 24%; 3: 28%; 2: 21%; 1: 8%
5: 19%; 4: 24%; 3: 28%; 2: 21%; 1: 8%
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Excited that my JAMA Pediatrics article with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @bhrenton.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social and others is now published. It turns out that permissive firearm laws aren’t great if you want to reduce pediatric firearm deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US
This study attempts to measure excess mortality due to firearms among US children aged 0 to 17 years after the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court decision (2010).
jamanetwork.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Excited that my JAMA Pediatrics article with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @bhrenton.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social and others is now published. It turns out that permissive firearm laws aren’t great if you want to reduce pediatric firearm deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Concern over pollinator decline has increased interest in ‘pollinator-friendly’ plants. Annual seed mixes are often grown in parks & gardens, but the choice of plants included is generally based on anecdote. Here we build an evidence-base for plants that are good for pollinators and people.
An evidence-based approach for selecting and testing suitable #plants to use in annual seed mixes to attract insect #pollinators
Lucy Witter @ndevere.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
📢 #PressRelease: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Lucy Witter @ndevere.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
📢 #PressRelease: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
June 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Concern over pollinator decline has increased interest in ‘pollinator-friendly’ plants. Annual seed mixes are often grown in parks & gardens, but the choice of plants included is generally based on anecdote. Here we build an evidence-base for plants that are good for pollinators and people.
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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
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My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium would recognize me and swim over to say hi when I visited her exhibit ❤️🐠
A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home!
TO BE CONTINUED…
A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home!
TO BE CONTINUED…
May 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium would recognize me and swim over to say hi when I visited her exhibit ❤️🐠
A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home!
TO BE CONTINUED…
A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home!
TO BE CONTINUED…
Couldn’t help taking a slow motion video of a mayfly’s gills during our stream lab.
April 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Couldn’t help taking a slow motion video of a mayfly’s gills during our stream lab.
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There are so many ways one could provide context for this data.
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government
For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
There are so many ways one could provide context for this data.
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
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Remember the shark-riding octopus? youtu.be/F9osYO9VRlg?...
I made a comic about it (which is also about argonauts because they're the best; here's an article I wrote if you want to know more about the cowgirls of the sea: octonation.com/should-you-p...)
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I made a comic about it (which is also about argonauts because they're the best; here's an article I wrote if you want to know more about the cowgirls of the sea: octonation.com/should-you-p...)
🦑🐡
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Remember the shark-riding octopus? youtu.be/F9osYO9VRlg?...
I made a comic about it (which is also about argonauts because they're the best; here's an article I wrote if you want to know more about the cowgirls of the sea: octonation.com/should-you-p...)
🦑🐡
I made a comic about it (which is also about argonauts because they're the best; here's an article I wrote if you want to know more about the cowgirls of the sea: octonation.com/should-you-p...)
🦑🐡
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I love all the inhabitants of our pond - newts, tadpoles (frogs & toads), pond skaters, dragonfly & damselfly larvae, whirligig beetles, snails - but my absolute favourites are the #caddisfly larvae who live inside mobile homes made of leaves, plant stems, and other pond debris! #wildlifeponds 🌿
April 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I love all the inhabitants of our pond - newts, tadpoles (frogs & toads), pond skaters, dragonfly & damselfly larvae, whirligig beetles, snails - but my absolute favourites are the #caddisfly larvae who live inside mobile homes made of leaves, plant stems, and other pond debris! #wildlifeponds 🌿
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NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
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Oh my god. They deported a man who an immigration judge had declared was "more likely than not" to face persecution in El Salvador ... to El Salvador, during the big March 15 AEA flights!
They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."
They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."
April 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Oh my god. They deported a man who an immigration judge had declared was "more likely than not" to face persecution in El Salvador ... to El Salvador, during the big March 15 AEA flights!
They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."
They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."
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The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine.
youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU
youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU
Don Beyer Speaks About Trump's NSF Censorship on the House Floor
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
youtu.be
February 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine.
youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU
youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU
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The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) is the closest living relative to the extinct thylacine.
They're an insectivore marsupial native to Australia that base almost their entire diet on termites. They're endangered, and rate at 8.7 Quokkas on the cuteness scale.
But wait, THERE'S MORE!
They're an insectivore marsupial native to Australia that base almost their entire diet on termites. They're endangered, and rate at 8.7 Quokkas on the cuteness scale.
But wait, THERE'S MORE!
September 2, 2024 at 12:03 AM
The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) is the closest living relative to the extinct thylacine.
They're an insectivore marsupial native to Australia that base almost their entire diet on termites. They're endangered, and rate at 8.7 Quokkas on the cuteness scale.
But wait, THERE'S MORE!
They're an insectivore marsupial native to Australia that base almost their entire diet on termites. They're endangered, and rate at 8.7 Quokkas on the cuteness scale.
But wait, THERE'S MORE!
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In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
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That's actually the opening to the mantle cavity. Their mantle isn't their head but their torso.
Cephalopods don't have the head-torso-limb body plan like we do. Instead, they have the torso-head-limb body plan.
See these horrifying but educational drawings by @dannastaaf.bsky.social
Cephalopods don't have the head-torso-limb body plan like we do. Instead, they have the torso-head-limb body plan.
See these horrifying but educational drawings by @dannastaaf.bsky.social
December 15, 2024 at 5:46 PM
That's actually the opening to the mantle cavity. Their mantle isn't their head but their torso.
Cephalopods don't have the head-torso-limb body plan like we do. Instead, they have the torso-head-limb body plan.
See these horrifying but educational drawings by @dannastaaf.bsky.social
Cephalopods don't have the head-torso-limb body plan like we do. Instead, they have the torso-head-limb body plan.
See these horrifying but educational drawings by @dannastaaf.bsky.social
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Remember that type 1 and type 2 errors go the same order as the boy who cried wolf.
Type 1 - villagers believed there was a wolf (effect) when there wasn't.
Type 2 - villagers didn't believe there was a wolf (effect) when there was.
#StatsSky
Type 1 - villagers believed there was a wolf (effect) when there wasn't.
Type 2 - villagers didn't believe there was a wolf (effect) when there was.
#StatsSky
November 23, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Remember that type 1 and type 2 errors go the same order as the boy who cried wolf.
Type 1 - villagers believed there was a wolf (effect) when there wasn't.
Type 2 - villagers didn't believe there was a wolf (effect) when there was.
#StatsSky
Type 1 - villagers believed there was a wolf (effect) when there wasn't.
Type 2 - villagers didn't believe there was a wolf (effect) when there was.
#StatsSky
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Compared to EM trees, AM trees may be better adapted to thrive under the effects of global warming.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Chari et al. November 2024 In Global Change Biology
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Chari et al. November 2024 In Global Change Biology
Long‐Term Soil Warming Drives Different Belowground Responses in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal and Ectomycorrhizal Trees
Using a 20-year-long soil warming experiment, we found that the belowground responses of temperate forest trees to warming varied depending on tree mycorrhizal type. Specifically, trees associating w...
doi.org
November 23, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Compared to EM trees, AM trees may be better adapted to thrive under the effects of global warming.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Chari et al. November 2024 In Global Change Biology
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Chari et al. November 2024 In Global Change Biology