Sam
@samuelearnest.bsky.social
Undergraduate Senior at the University of Idaho
A future conservation biologist
Big Bird guy
I love puffins
A future conservation biologist
Big Bird guy
I love puffins
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Ewingella americana exhibited potent cytotoxic activity with selective tumor-targeting ability characteristic of facultative anaerobic bacteria...direct tumor cell killing and robust activation of host immunity, leading to enhanced T cell, neutrophil, and B cell-mediated tumor attack."
Frog gut bacterium eliminates cancer tumors in mice with a single dose
A bacterium from the intestines of Japanese tree frogs has "exhibited remarkably potent" tumor-killing abilities when administered intravenously, outperforming current standard therapies and paving th...
newatlas.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Ewingella americana exhibited potent cytotoxic activity with selective tumor-targeting ability characteristic of facultative anaerobic bacteria...direct tumor cell killing and robust activation of host immunity, leading to enhanced T cell, neutrophil, and B cell-mediated tumor attack."
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Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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NSF halves graduate fellowship awards
Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... 🧪
Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... 🧪
NSF halves graduate fellowship awards
Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year
cen.acs.org
April 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
NSF halves graduate fellowship awards
Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... 🧪
Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... 🧪
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Why do birds help predict bee richness beyond land covers? Birds complement satellites by indicating small habitat features like flowering shrubs and land management practices. Together with land covers, they add insight to wild bee conservation science. 🐤+🛰️=🐝
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🦉🧪🌎🌐
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Where the wild bees are: Birds improve indicators of bee richness
Widespread declines in wild bee populations necessitate urgent action, but insufficient data exist to guide conservation efforts. Addressing this data deficit, we investigated the relative performance...
journals.plos.org
April 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Why do birds help predict bee richness beyond land covers? Birds complement satellites by indicating small habitat features like flowering shrubs and land management practices. Together with land covers, they add insight to wild bee conservation science. 🐤+🛰️=🐝
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🦉🧪🌎🌐
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🦉🧪🌎🌐
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There's a lot of talk about Canada Geese and whether they're good and my answer is Yes.
April 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There's a lot of talk about Canada Geese and whether they're good and my answer is Yes.
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BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Pickle and cheese balls. Actually awesome. They need more flavors, I’m thinking franks red hot, buffalo, and blue cheese
March 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Pickle and cheese balls. Actually awesome. They need more flavors, I’m thinking franks red hot, buffalo, and blue cheese
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What a wonderful paper!!
Really clear results and extremely important research!!
I will use it in my classes
Congrats Thiago Gonçalves-Souza @natejsanders.bsky.social @jon-chase03.bsky.social @nickhaddad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really clear results and extremely important research!!
I will use it in my classes
Congrats Thiago Gonçalves-Souza @natejsanders.bsky.social @jon-chase03.bsky.social @nickhaddad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Species turnover does not rescue biodiversity in fragmented landscapes - Nature
An analysis of habitat fragmentation using a dataset of more than 4,000 species worldwide shows that fragmentation reduces biodiversity at all scales, and that increases in β diversity do not compensa...
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
What a wonderful paper!!
Really clear results and extremely important research!!
I will use it in my classes
Congrats Thiago Gonçalves-Souza @natejsanders.bsky.social @jon-chase03.bsky.social @nickhaddad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really clear results and extremely important research!!
I will use it in my classes
Congrats Thiago Gonçalves-Souza @natejsanders.bsky.social @jon-chase03.bsky.social @nickhaddad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Im trying to find national vegetation classification standards and I find that about half of the gov website links are down. really grinds my gears
March 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Im trying to find national vegetation classification standards and I find that about half of the gov website links are down. really grinds my gears
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President Trump made one of the biggest gambles of his presidency by initiating tariffs with no clear rationale on imports from Canada, Mexico and China. The move will further raise costs for American households and hinder economic growth, economists said.
Trump’s Latest Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China Could Be His Biggest Gamble
President Trump has offered a mix of reasons for upending global trade relations, baffling and angering America’s biggest trading partners.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
President Trump made one of the biggest gambles of his presidency by initiating tariffs with no clear rationale on imports from Canada, Mexico and China. The move will further raise costs for American households and hinder economic growth, economists said.
Diversity defends against disease, that doesn’t mean we should give disease a seat at the table.
March 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Diversity defends against disease, that doesn’t mean we should give disease a seat at the table.
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Vibes aren’t great rn
February 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Vibes aren’t great rn
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just had what is probably my last can of peach redbull, and it’s getting discontinued forever 😭 rest in piece to the single greatest beverage to ever exist
February 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
just had what is probably my last can of peach redbull, and it’s getting discontinued forever 😭 rest in piece to the single greatest beverage to ever exist
We type with two hands, we should start writing with two hands. Better yet, drawing with two hands. I mean a pencil in each hand, writing twice as fast. Beat that chat GPT
February 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
We type with two hands, we should start writing with two hands. Better yet, drawing with two hands. I mean a pencil in each hand, writing twice as fast. Beat that chat GPT
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don't you hate it when you try to type "manga" but your browser's autocomplete sends you to the wiki page for the bigfin squid, Magnapinna, the deepest living squid found as deep as 6000 meters under the sea, growing up to 8 meters long, first discovered in 1883, but the adults only first seen in—
February 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
don't you hate it when you try to type "manga" but your browser's autocomplete sends you to the wiki page for the bigfin squid, Magnapinna, the deepest living squid found as deep as 6000 meters under the sea, growing up to 8 meters long, first discovered in 1883, but the adults only first seen in—
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Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!
February 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!
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Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.
February 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.
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Here is a grape seed sized nugget of a weevil for #WeevilWednesday. This tiny friend was found on the underside of a large banana leaf. #inverts
(Subfamily Conoderinae)
Tatama National Park Colombia
(Subfamily Conoderinae)
Tatama National Park Colombia
February 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Here is a grape seed sized nugget of a weevil for #WeevilWednesday. This tiny friend was found on the underside of a large banana leaf. #inverts
(Subfamily Conoderinae)
Tatama National Park Colombia
(Subfamily Conoderinae)
Tatama National Park Colombia
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An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.