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Leonie Moyle
@speciationlab.bsky.social
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Into evolution, genetics, reproduction. Immigrant (actual, and from the bird site). She/her.
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speciationlab.bsky.social
mislaid species — the latest "tortured phrases” in scientific publications?...
jacksonwryan.com Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 12h
🧪 Here's a science mystery to start the year.

Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?

Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?

nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...
Red YT wtf circle around the black and white image of a fish with a big black eye. It's a predaceous chub.
January 12, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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lizhicks.bsky.social
Not apocalyptic looking at all
January 9, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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cygnusplantxray.bsky.social
Gratuitous X-ray microscopy imaging, a "bouquet" of developing soybean flowers.
@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
@danforthcenter.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Roundleaf sundew leaf. One of the #carnivorous plants we have here in #newfoundland, Canada. #botany #plant
Photo of a roundleaf sundew leaf at dusk. The leaf is green and is covered in tiny red hairs. Each hair has a drop of sticky liquid at the tip. The background of the photo is dark.
January 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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peterheadcbe.bsky.social
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...
www.nature.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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punkrockscience.bsky.social
Joining a research project mid-cycle like:
Screenshot of a twitter post from @kramerposts. “It's not my circus, but... I am a man with a sense of obligation and duty. Very well. I will care for these monkeys. I will raise them as if they were my own.”
January 4, 2026 at 4:17 AM
speciationlab.bsky.social
evergreen
January 3, 2026 at 6:42 PM
speciationlab.bsky.social
😬🥔
January 2, 2026 at 8:07 PM
speciationlab.bsky.social
amsterdam, NYE 2025
a glowing canal under golden lights and a night sky
January 2, 2026 at 10:45 AM
speciationlab.bsky.social
christmas moon over koenigssee
a crescent moon hangs over its faint reflection in a Berlin lake
December 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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rossbrooks.co.uk
Happy Christmas! 🎄🎅

'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship' - Charles Darwin, 25 December 1831. 🍾

thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... #Christmas #histsci #histbio 🗃️
Christmas on HMS Beagle
Charles Darwin spent Christmas day of 1831 in Devonport awaiting favourable weather for the departure of HMS Beagle. Darwin wrote in his diary for the voyage: Christmas day is one of great importan…
thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
speciationlab.bsky.social
christmas trifle 2025
two bright bowls of trifle, with fresh red currants, in front of our Christmas tree
December 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
speciationlab.bsky.social
Weihnachtsmorgen, Berlin
Christmas morning: a black cat sits expectantly next to wrapped gifts, under a decorated Christmas tree.
December 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
speciationlab.bsky.social
winter solstice, Potsdam
a bright gold christmas star glows in the foreground, with a lit cathedral and riesenrad in the dusk behind
December 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
speciationlab.bsky.social
hand ball event
December 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
speciationlab.bsky.social
riesenrad, Berlin
a Ferris wheel turns above the Alexanderplatz weihnachtsmarkt
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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3rdreviewer.bsky.social
Have you ever wondered: just how strong *is* the evidence for Muller's ratchet on mtDNA?

Well, wonder no more!

(Project led by Yu Mo, with @smishra677.bsky.social and @yadirapga.bsky.social)

"No molecular evidence for Muller's ratchet in mitochondrial genomes"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
No molecular evidence for Muller's ratchet in mitochondrial genomes
Muller's ratchet predicts that non-recombining genomes can accumulate deleterious mutations, though molecular evidence for it is rare. Previous studies have tried to detect ratchet-like behavior in mi...
www.biorxiv.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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shakespeare.lol
O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Thinking of all the colleagues and friends I have who are connected to Brown University. What a devastating day for Brown, and for all of us.
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Hello, Susan
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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henryporterbsky.bsky.social
Christmas spiders (Austracantha minax). Photos by Lee Murphy & Zartok. #SciArt #NaturePhotography
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Illustrations of snow crystals as "actually observed and sketched with the aid of the microscope”, from the 1863 book Snowflakes: a Chapter from the Book of Nature — https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/illustrations-of-snowflakes-1863/
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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annaghughes.bsky.social
I don't want your spotify wrapped I want to know what were your top 5 intrusive thoughts this year
December 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM