Planet's wonders
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My analogue-twin parades as a somewhat-famed molecular biologist. I/ME/MY
what's the catch?
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December 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
what's the catch?
kitty say "no"
Recent estimates suggest that roughly 60% of the nation’s cats and dogs are obese, and hundreds of thousands have diabetes. GLP-1 drugs for pets could be the next frontier for the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs.
Could Weight Loss Drugs Turn Fat Cats Into Svelte Ozempets?
GLP-1 drugs for pets could be the next frontier for the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs.
nyti.ms
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
kitty say "no"
Today's unremarkable insight: Mars has a carrying capacity of zero.
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Today's unremarkable insight: Mars has a carrying capacity of zero.
This just appeared out of nowhere in the corner of a slide in a PowerPoint presentation I'm completing. What does it mean?
November 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This just appeared out of nowhere in the corner of a slide in a PowerPoint presentation I'm completing. What does it mean?
Beautiful photo - but $700 million!
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Admire the extraordinary view of Pluto's nightside!
It stares back at us from the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt in a view we’ll never forget.
Credits: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24111...
🔭 🧪 #planetsci #histsci #science
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Admire the extraordinary view of Pluto's nightside!
It stares back at us from the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt in a view we’ll never forget.
Credits: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24111...
🔭 🧪 #planetsci #histsci #science
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November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Beautiful photo - but $700 million!
Great work!
November 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Great work!
Finally, a great place to roost!
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Finally, a great place to roost!
That explains those funny colours
"Remarkably, the bacterium that makes methylenomycin A and pre-methylenomycin C lactone -- Streptomyces coelicolor -- is a model antibiotic-producing species that's been studied extensively since the 1950s. Finding a new antibiotic in such a familiar organism was a real surprise." 🧪
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
That explains those funny colours
I've got legs! I've got legs! www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Before Building Their Retirement Home, They Had to Relocate 174 Legless Lizards
A pair of retirees needed to remove protected slow worms from the property before they could break ground on their $3.2 million home in the English countryside.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I've got legs! I've got legs! www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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What appears to be a single Borg-like #perovskite crystal is an intergrowth of repetitively “twinned” crystals that have formed striations and very complex faces. How? See comment. Photo from Mindat-link in ALT.
Vote perovskite below
#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
Vote perovskite below
#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
September 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
What appears to be a single Borg-like #perovskite crystal is an intergrowth of repetitively “twinned” crystals that have formed striations and very complex faces. How? See comment. Photo from Mindat-link in ALT.
Vote perovskite below
#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
Vote perovskite below
#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
don't remember, don't know how that even is. all the better!
FLASHBACK: Remember that time Ann Coulter thought she was a guest at Rob Lowe’s roast, but they dragged her for filth instead?
Bully getting bullied.
Bully getting bullied.
September 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
don't remember, don't know how that even is. all the better!
There actually is a Harvard in Florida (Harvard
Florida 32619) but no one lives there😂
Florida 32619) but no one lives there😂
Idiot proclaiming no vaccines for children in Florida is…a Harvard grad?
Gotta say, too many Harvard grads are seriously embarrassing to the notion that Harvard is a “good school”.
Gotta say, too many Harvard grads are seriously embarrassing to the notion that Harvard is a “good school”.
Anti- vax promoter of dangerous health misinformation, Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo, a disciple of charlatan RFK Jr, gleefully reports that Florida will end all mandates to vaccinating children -a public health calamity in the making!
Note to Harvard:Your degrees are on his wall. Do something!
Note to Harvard:Your degrees are on his wall. Do something!
September 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
There actually is a Harvard in Florida (Harvard
Florida 32619) but no one lives there😂
Florida 32619) but no one lives there😂
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The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have published their Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, setting a great example for other academic societies. 🌏🧪🌐
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
ATBC Code of Conduct
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have published their Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, setting a great example for other academic societies. 🌏🧪🌐
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Oh god, that cat is cited more than I am! www.science.org/content/arti...
How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat
“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics
www.science.org
September 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Oh god, that cat is cited more than I am! www.science.org/content/arti...
Funny how times have changed. Just watch movies from any decade you like until 2000.
August 31st / September 1st
August 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Funny how times have changed. Just watch movies from any decade you like until 2000.
Definitely in my top 5 planets and famed by a Paul McC & Wings song
Venus. 0400UT 31 August 2025. Handheld. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotohour
August 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Definitely in my top 5 planets and famed by a Paul McC & Wings song
I picked strawberries to make some extra cash when I was young, but wrecked my back. No one ever thanked me 🥲
Workers are harvesting lettuce on CA's Central Coast. "Lupe" tells us that they work more than 8 hours this day. She tells us that you can see how the workers rotate breaks in this video. One crew is taking a break while the other two are working. #WeFeedYou
August 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I picked strawberries to make some extra cash when I was young, but wrecked my back. No one ever thanked me 🥲
PreFucCool. They do do a job on my fennel. Smart adult females finding the right plants.
August 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
PreFucCool. They do do a job on my fennel. Smart adult females finding the right plants.
wow - not taking away from the immensity of the gas ball, but I get a round array of b&w polymers when I leave my electric razor shavings in toilet water for several hours. Try it. NB. I'm a bit autistic, so forgive me.
Have I told you today that I love Jupiter?
(Image from the incredible JunoCam)
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(Image from the incredible JunoCam)
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August 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
wow - not taking away from the immensity of the gas ball, but I get a round array of b&w polymers when I leave my electric razor shavings in toilet water for several hours. Try it. NB. I'm a bit autistic, so forgive me.
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Have I told you today that I love Jupiter?
(Image from the incredible JunoCam)
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(Image from the incredible JunoCam)
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August 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Have I told you today that I love Jupiter?
(Image from the incredible JunoCam)
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(Image from the incredible JunoCam)
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Good thing that a pterodactyl did not swoop down and yank out the big one
Ducklings swarm perceiving the guardian as a safety instinct.
August 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Good thing that a pterodactyl did not swoop down and yank out the big one
Looks like convulsions to me
August 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Looks like convulsions to me
This is a flying spaghetti monster (seriously), but you can call it Bathyphysa conifera. Apparently they are about as smart as a stupid dog (or cat), which places them neck and neck with some humans I know. It's Thursday people! I digress.
August 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is a flying spaghetti monster (seriously), but you can call it Bathyphysa conifera. Apparently they are about as smart as a stupid dog (or cat), which places them neck and neck with some humans I know. It's Thursday people! I digress.
This is a black and rufous elephant shrew Rhynchocyon petersi. Very cute and they don't (can't) bite. So very okay for the nervous and thin skinned.
August 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This is a black and rufous elephant shrew Rhynchocyon petersi. Very cute and they don't (can't) bite. So very okay for the nervous and thin skinned.
that's what freezers are for. I've got two of em (freezers that is)
What do you mean the Domino’s in this college town closes at midnight
August 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
that's what freezers are for. I've got two of em (freezers that is)