i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Over 2,000 hectares of Congo Basin rainforest are destroyed EVERYDAY, while indigenous communities fight to defend it.

It’s time African leaders act to protect our forest 👉 act.gp/44NIOph

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

The oVert Project, spearheaded by @floridamuseum.bsky.social, provides open access to a 3D scan collection containing 10,000+ vertebrate specimens covering over half of all amphibian, reptile, fish, and mammalian genera! 🧪

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VqL...

www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

NCBI is very slow right now, to the point that it is impossible to check a sequence using its accession number. I hope it is just high traffic as it says!

"CLEANING" THE OCEAN USING NETS IS A DANGEROUS IDEA.

The Ocean Cleanup is using boats & a net to collect ocean plastic (left). I've circles all the animals trapped in their early prototypes (right).

There are better ways to solve the ocean plastic problem... 🧵
#INC5 #PlasticsTreaty #PlasticTreaty

An oldie from Inktober 2018: trilobyte

Please share this Summer 2025 PAID INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY w/ undergraduate students! Bee-HERO gives students the chance to study bee parasites/viruses at the Centre for Honey Bee Research in Uppsala, Sweden. See 🧵 and Bee-HERO website for details - www.sacredheart.edu/academics/co... 🧪🐝