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Science Furs @scifurs.bsky.social · Jan 7
Attending @ane.boston ?

Check out the #STEM panels!

Thread below ⬇️

#FurriesInSTEM #STEMFurs #ANE2026
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baphijmm.bsky.social
There’s also:
Macaque Crash Course
Friday February 13, 2026
3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Hosted by @wyrarollo.bsky.social (I think?)
getoutthefloat2026.sched.com/event/2DM7U/...
Get Out The Float 2026: Macaque Crash Course
View more about this event at Get Out The Float 2026
getoutthefloat2026.sched.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:42 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Attending @nordicfuzzcon.org?

Furscience Panel: The Good, the Bad, and The Furry
Theatre Stage Valhalla
Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 11:10-13:00 (GMT+1)
nfuzz.co/event/L8HMSY...

#FurriesInSTEM #STEMFurs #STEM #NFC2026
Programme - NordicFuzzCon 2026
Explore the events and programme for 2026.
nfuzz.co
February 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Attending @motorcityfurrycon.org?

Check out the #STEM panels!

Thread below ⬇️

#FurriesInSTEM #STEMFurs #MCFC2026 #MCFC26
February 7, 2026 at 7:23 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Attending @getoutthefloat.com?

Check out the #STEM panels!

Thread below ⬇️

#FurriesInSTEM #STEMFurs #GetOutTheFloat2026 #GetOutTheFloat
February 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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zebra-north.com
My furry friend's work has been published in Nature! I even helped a tiny bit! (Only converting some file formats, but I'm counting it) 🔬📰🦓
February 7, 2026 at 5:46 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature
A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic...
www.nature.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:37 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis - Nature
A survey of the reconstructed gene set of the last eukaryotic common ancestor shows a consistent link between Asgard archaea and the origin of numerous, functionally diverse eukaryotic genes, dem...
www.nature.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes - Nature
Analysis of eukaryotic gene sequences using a relaxed molecular clock methodology indicate that eukaryotes emerged 3.0–2.25 billion years ago as a result of mitochondrial endosymbiosis with complex ar...
www.nature.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:33 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
The Ocean Equity Index
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Ocean Equity Index - Nature
The Ocean Equity Index provides a systematic, twelve-criteria framework to assess and improve equity in ocean initiatives, projects and policies, producing structured data that guide evidence-bas...
www.nature.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Lasing of a cavity-based X-ray source
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lasing of a cavity-based X-ray source - Nature
Lasing with multi-pass gain is achieved in a diamond-based X-ray cavity at the European XFEL, opening a path to next-generation X-ray science.
www.nature.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:28 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Functional motifs in food webs and networks | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Quantum benchmarking of high-fidelity noise-biased operations on a detuned Kerr-cat qubit | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
The dynamics of cooperation in asymmetric public goods games | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The dynamics of cooperation in asymmetric public goods games | PNAS
When people collaborate in groups, they routinely face collective action problems: for the group effort to succeed, individuals need to cooperate d...
www.pnas.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Behavioral tuning of spider silk thread stiffness circumvents biomaterial trade-offs | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Behavioral tuning of spider silk thread stiffness circumvents biomaterial trade-offs | PNAS
Biological polymers often face a trade-off between stiffness, strength, and extensibility: Materials that are strong and stiff tend to be brittle, ...
www.pnas.org
February 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
If anyone attending @scotiacon.bsky.social has access to the panel schedule and wants to let me know what (if any) STEM panels are happening so I can make a thread, it would be appreciated!

~ @sodalitejatholo.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
scifurs.bsky.social
Attending @fursquared.com ?
Check out the #STEM panels!

Thread below ⬇️

#FurriesInSTEM #STEMFurs
February 1, 2026 at 11:32 AM
scifurs.bsky.social
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Original research article in next post
Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter
We live in a dark, dark, world.
www.yahoo.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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britmycolsoc.org.uk
Funding for new arts projects focused on fungi - up to a maximum of £5,000. Open to artists from all disciplines and all geographic locations, to help encourage all sectors of society to engage with & learn about the world of fungi! Find out more: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/massee-arts-...
Recipients of the Massee Arts Grant 2023. Left image: Anna Dumitriu surrounded by materials in a creative studio. Right image: Jenny Ashby at a potters wheel.
January 29, 2026 at 1:11 PM
scifurs.bsky.social
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean - Nature
A global atmospheric microplastics dataset is compiled, and comparison with size-aligned microplastic models in the literature indicate that fewer microplastic particles are emitted into the atmospher...
www.nature.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:25 AM
scifurs.bsky.social
An X-ray-emitting protocluster at z ≈ 5.7 reveals rapid structure growth
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An X-ray-emitting protocluster at z ≈ 5.7 reveals rapid structure growth - Nature
Discovery of a protocluster at z = 5.68, merely one billion years after the Big Bang, suggests that large-scale structure must have formed more rapidly in some regions of the early universe than previ...
www.nature.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:21 AM
scifurs.bsky.social
Social movements are transformative agents for biodiversity conservation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Social movements are transformative agents for biodiversity conservation | PNAS
Civil society has long been a catalyst for social change by reshaping structures, influencing values, and challenging power dynamics; however, its ...
www.pnas.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:15 AM
scifurs.bsky.social
Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain | PNAS
In the human brain, the allowed patterns of activity are constrained by the correlations between brain regions. Yet it remains unclear which correl...
www.pnas.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, researchers have developed a targeted combination therapy that has successfully AND completely ELIMINATED KRAS-driven pancreatic tumors in experimental models. Tumors regressed COMPLETELY with NO recurrence OR major side effects. Let’s talk about that!
January 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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skidarstudios.bsky.social
Any #geology nerd friends wanna take a whack at what this crumbly green stuff is in the clay layer of this soil horizon profile?

Rosario Beach, Deception Pass WA
Mysterious green patch in a band of clay Soil profile with layers of sand, silly clay, rocks and roots Zoomed out Soil profile with layers of sand, silly clay, rocks and roots
January 29, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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Reentry and disintegration dynamics of space debris tracked using seismic data | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reentry and disintegration dynamics of space debris tracked using seismic data
The risks posed by reentering space debris continue to grow as Earth’s orbit becomes more crowded. Currently, responses to uncontrolled reentries are hampered by an inability to reliably track spacecr...
www.science.org
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM