100 years ago today America's first prima ballerina was born. Maria Tallchief, member of the Osage Nation.

First American to dance with the Paris Opera Ballet.
First American to perform at the Bolshoi Theater.
Refused to change her #NativeAmerican name.

www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

The Peasant Dance https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/the-peasant-dance-1568

What an amazing woman and researcher! www.sciencenews.org/article/mara...

You can preorder here

Look what the caterpillar dragged in! Advance copy of Insectopolis. In stores May 13th #entomology

Germany currently installs around 2 GW worth of (on shore) wind power generators *per year*. That's more than a large nuclear power station unit, at a small fraction of the cost.

If used systematically at large scale, renewable energy is incredibly cheap.

🧪⚛️ #RenewableEnergy

I was just looking this up. 3.36 ppm higher this year compared to last. 🌊🧪

gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

Since these were both eensy-weensy (maybe 1/4 inch? Fingertip for scale) I'm putting them together here. Red sponge dorids (Rostanga pulchra) like the one on the left are always this little. San Diego dorids (Diaulula sandiegensis) are usually >=1 inch when I see them! This one's a baaaaaby!

Your feel-good post of the week: these 5th graders are campaigning to make the stonefly the Michigan state insect. Such a great choice! 😀👏🍎 www.fox17online.com/news/local-n...

Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology.

And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.

Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....

These spiders slingshot themselves at prey, using webs under tension 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2024...

Paid science internships! 🧪🌎

“Spheroids” are the bright bulges at the centres of galaxies. This research shows they are formed by intense starbursts (periods of rapid star formation) following mergers of galaxies in the early Universe 🧪🔭

www.theguardian.com/science/2024...