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Misha Matz
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Bloody Hell
Watch this.
🧪If @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is called a "radical leftist" then all of us in science are. She was put on leave b/c she criticized the Trump administration. She sees the chaos, destruction & waste on the inside of the NIH.
Speaking up is risky, yet necessary. Via IG.
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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auditorynerves.bsky.social
Open access link to new study in Science magazine:

The emergence and diversification of dog morphology.

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology
Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.

A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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jennanewman.bsky.social
“The sharp rise in younger women wanting to leave the US has created a large gender gap btwn them & their male counterparts.

Today’s 21-percentage-point gap btwn younger men (19%) & women (40%) wanting to leave the US is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend.”🧪
Two in Five Younger Women Want to Leave U.S. Permanently Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move PERMANENTLY to another country, or would you prefer to continue living in this country? Graph (200&-2025): % Would like to move permanently to another country (US adults, Women 15-44) Graph (200&-2025): % Would like to move permanently to another country (US adults, Men 15-44, Women 45+, Men 45+) Desire to Migrate Rises Among Both Single and Married Younger Women in the U.S. Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move PERMANENTLY to another country, or would you prefer to continue living in this country? Graph: (2008-2025): % Would like to move permanently to another country (among women 18-44) — Married, Single/Never been married
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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kmichaelpollard.bsky.social
A tour de force expose of those trying to smother us in anti-science propaganda. Michael Mann and Peter Hotez are leaders in confronting the anti-science crowd. They describe their own experiences and name and shame the organizations and individuals involved and how we can defeat them. Read it. 🧪
Cover of the book "Science Under Siege" by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez showing a microscope on fire.
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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kinesinmotors.bsky.social
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jeremymberg.bsky.social Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d
Jenna Norton, an outspoken signer of the Bethesda Declaration. was welcomed back to work by being placed on Administrative Leave (for No Disciplinary Reason).

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

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I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.
TikTok video by Jenna
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November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
I must have watched this Mars Pathfinder video dozens of times as a young kid. Part of my formative space memories 🤩

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youtu.be/r7RkqYtcLYY?...
Mars Exploration Rover Animation HD
YouTube video by JPLraw
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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grimaldi.bsky.social
🧪 science feed
pettertornberg.com Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 10d
Most people study what misinformation says.

We decided to study how it looks.

Using novel multi-modal AI methods, we study 17,848 posts by top climate denial accounts - and uncovered a new front in the misinformation war.

Here's what it means 🧵

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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kinesinmotors.bsky.social
🍂 🏛️ 🧪 US Office of Naval Research Head Replaced by Rachel Riley, Former DOGE Employee

Riley was the driving force behind an attempt to lay off nearly 8,000 Federal employees. She pushed for the near-dissolution of the NIH Center for Scientific Review, which reviews grant applications
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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glycocode.bsky.social
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rachelmwheatley.bsky.social Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 15d
🔊 Applications for the tenure-track illuminate global challenge fellowships at Queen’s are now open!
Comes with 5 years protected research time, a PhD studentship, & 60k start-up. I had one of these before getting my FLF, happy to chat to anyone interested!

www.qub.ac.uk/Research/fel...
Our Illuminate Global Challenges Fellowships | Research | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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bffo.bsky.social
News you can use at your next dinner party!
The potato evolved from the tomato 9 million years ago
#RealScience #NotFakeNews #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
From @cellpress.bsky.social
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www.cell.com/news-do/pr-p...
The potato evolved from the tomato 9 million years ago
Recent Cell research covered by The Guardian, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more.
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
The 🌌Cosmic Bat Nebula🦇, entry 43 from Beverly Lynd’s Catalogue of Dark Nebula. 🧪 🔭

Thanks to everyone who pointed out that all the APOD mirrors are still being updated daily!
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
A dusty molecular cloud blocks out light from background stars and has a shape very much like a soaring bat. In this image there is a dull orange glow from within, light produced by star formation on the interior.
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
🎃The Witch Head Nebula🎃

Image Credit: NASA / STScI Digitized Sky Survey / Noel Carboni
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A glowing blue-green cloud of gas shaped like the head of. A witch in profile. It is gotten by a variety of stars in blue, orange, and violet.
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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physgal.bsky.social
Just awful. 🧪
October 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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mikeholloway.bsky.social
🧪 #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience #RFKJr #Vaccines #HHS #CDC #antivax
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ucs.org Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 15d
The hallmarks of authoritarianism are on full display in the US right now. Recognizing them—and sharing this knowledge with others—is step one for any successful effort to counter what’s happening.
What Authoritarian Regimes Do
As we speak, the Trump administration is abandoning principles of democracy and dismantling the rule of law. The willful destruction of the federal science apparatus is but one harmful and onerous asp...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social
🧪"Instead of doing some genetics & biochemistry to solve structures, we ... started with AI & used its structural predictions to design genetic & biochemical experiments. Thus, AI has helped to speed up initial discovery ... establishing testable hypotheses."

www.news-medical.net/news/2025103...
Scientists capture a near-continuous molecular movie of ribosome formation
Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs to live. But as far as how ribosomes themselves were formed, tantalizingly l...
www.news-medical.net
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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barthoekstra.bsky.social
To reduce negative impacts of #renewables (eg #windenergy) on migrating birds, we need to know *where* and how *high* they fly. Using weather radar, we mapped 6yrs of nocturnal migration over the Netherlands, revealing patterns we can use to avoid and minimize impacts:

doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 🧪🪶
Fig. 2. Maps of nocturnal bird migration across the Netherlands in spring and autumn, with the 100 km radius circles of the weather radars enclosing the onshore study area. Colors represent seasonal migration passage, converted from the original bird densities. Shaded areas mark grid cells for which over 25% of the input data, prior to filtering, were impacted by ground clutter. Migration passage in these regions may be compromised in either direction: overestimated due to remaining clutter artifacts or underestimated where terrain features partially obstruct the radar’s lower scanning angles. Fig. 1. Flight altitude distributions (in m above sea level (asl)) of nocturnal bird migration for both Dutch weather radars at a coastal Den Helder and inland site Herwijnen. Bar length denotes the proportion of migration within the respective altitude range (50 m vertical resolution). Donut charts aggregate this further to coarser 200-m classes and display the proportion of migration occurring above 1000 m (patterned). Red highlights indicate the altitude range of onshore energy infrastructure in the Netherlands, which is generally present in the lowest 200 m of the atmosphere. Donut chart proportions do not sum to 100% due to rounding. The small inset map of the Netherlands shows the locations of both radars (solid dots) and the surrounding areas up to 35 km (circles) from which altitude distributions are aggregated. Fig. 3. a, c Observed combinations of migration passage and mean wind power density, a measure of wind power potential, in North-Holland. Red circles represent average values for candidate sites and their size reflects the relative candidate site area. The grid reflects binned values of migration and wind power density, with color shading indicating the type of combination: orange = high migration passage, blue = high wind power density, dark browns and blues = both high. White lines indicate averages for wind power density and seasonal migration passage. b Spatial distribution of autumn migration (orange hues) and wind energy (blue hues) in North-Holland. Candidate wind energy sites are shown in bright red. The highest and lowest autumn migration passage sites are linked to their positions in a and c, emphasizing large differences between sites in autumn, but not in spring. Shaded areas mark grid cells for which over 25% of the input data, prior to filtering, were impacted by ground clutter. Migration passage in these regions may be compromised in either direction: overestimated due to remaining clutter artifacts or underestimated where terrain features partially obstruct the radar’s lower scanning angles.
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social
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Here is a terrific research opportunity at OIST. Basically a Principle-Investigator position that prepares advanced postdocs for tenure-track faculty positions in Japan or abroad.

Deadline is 30 November 2026.

I know OIST well - an excellent research environment.

www.oist.jp/research/bur...
Buribushi Fellowship
www.oist.jp
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
heatshok.bsky.social
Definitely, the scariest thing throughout human evolution was to be cast out of your tribe. This fear shapes our behavior to this day - without people realizing it. We are willing to uphold our tribe’s (social group, political party) values even when we 100% know they are wrong. 🧪
djzaber.bsky.social Dr. DioxiNation @djzaber.bsky.social · 18d
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"Earlier in human evolution it was far more dangerous to be alone and community provided safety as well as shared resources, therefore, avoiding being alone had an evolutionary advantage and shapes our behaviour to this day."

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The epidemic of loneliness
An official website of the United States government
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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mu-peter.bsky.social
The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It 🧪
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Scientists are a skeptical bunch — it’s in the job description. But when it comes to AI, researchers are growing increasingly mistrustful of the tech’s capabilities.
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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witchdoctor.bsky.social
#13DaysOfHalloween Day 8 is the bat flower. Resembling a bat in flight, this stunning perennial is found in the understory of tropical Southeast Asian regions. It has bat-like wings (bracts) and cat whiskers (bracteoles). Its color and faint decaying scent attract flies and beetles as pollinators 🧪
A black bat flower, with bracts that look like bat wings and cat whisker-appearing bracteoles. Photo from https://letsgrowflorida.com/products/bat-flower-plant-black-tacca-chantrieri
October 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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pecanjim.bsky.social
Here I compare the effect of state percent Hispanic and percent of state vote for Trump on state firearm murder rates. I have done this because I see our public unaware of Trump's lies about how criminal Hispanics are. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News #Hello
This scatter plot shows the relationship between state percent Hispanic, the population President Trump is saying they are so bad that they need to be gotten rid of. I think this is the weakest statistical relationship I have shown in the more than 200 I have displayed here. Now look at the next graph, the same kind of graph but comparing the last election's state vote for Trump against the state firearm homicide rate. Here you can see that there is a weak statistical relationship between the percent of the state vote for Trump in the last presidential election and the state firearm homicide rate in 2022 and 2023 together. The more of the state voters voting for Trump, the higher the state firearm homicide rate. Now, Trump and other Republicans are pro gun sales, they do what the gun industry wants which leads to a higher gun death rate in states that Trump got more votes in. So Trump's reason for going after Hispanics is just another one of his too many lies to count. Just a side note on another one of his lies, the recently cleared area next to the US capitol is being set up to build a much larger building than the proposed super luxury dining room, he clearly has plans to do more than he is telling the public. Enough written, we hare headed on a week long trip tomorrow so I want to get this posted.
October 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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idontevencara.bsky.social
Domesticated animals have pulled our heavy carts and turned our large mills for centuries. But what about the opposite end of the spectrum—what if the wheel you want to turn is so small you can’t see it?

Turns out we can harness the power of bacteria to power the world’s smallest machines.

1/7 ⚛️🧪
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
heatshok.bsky.social
🧪🌎 We have a conceptually similar method, RDAforest, just published with @kristinaleilani.bsky.social - only it is about predicting genetic adaptation across unsampled landscape doi.org/10.1111/1755...
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
📖Published📖

Patterson et al. evaluate the potential for integrated species distribution models to predict species distributions at remote, understudied locations, focusing on scenarios where no species observations are available at the projection site 🐾

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(a) A visual representation of spatial model transfer, where a model is fitted to occurrence records at a training site and predicted to a projection site where there are few or no records. (b, c) Representations of two key challenges often associated with model transfer: Environmental dissimilarity of the training and projection sites and unaccounted for spatial autocorrelation of the species distribution that can operate across different autocorrelation ranges and levels of variance.
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM