Did you know? Brown bear cubs are born the size of a chipmunk! #Science #Strange #Scicomm #Nature #Animals #Podcast

NEW EPISODE! Box #Jellyfish and Yams. Sure, seems like a #strange combination but they are weird. Box jellies carry a potent neurotoxin but what's so odd about Yams? These particular ones have learned a trick no other asexually reproducing plant has. 🧪 #Scicomm #Science #Nature #Podcast #Ocean

Cuteness overload.

Just a heads up: It’s okay to not be okay.

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

In 1859, Richard Carrington observed the 1st solar flare--an eruption so powerful it spawned brilliant auroras & knocked out telegraph lines around the world. We have Carrington's drawings but, amazingly, there was no known picture of the man himself--until now. 🧪🔭 academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art...

A community science project needs your help to document light pollution in the U.S. Midwest. Just look up! 🧪 www.kcur.org/environment-...

If an educator made a difference in your life be sure to track them down and tell them. We're all out here blindly sending kids off into the world hoping the message sinks in. You have no idea how much it means to us when someone reaches out decades later to say they remember.

Just what we needed today. Enjoy.

NEW EPISODE! Vampire #bats are the only #mammal that doesn't develop aversions after eating bad food. Scientists keep calling the Harlequin bug a new species over and over and over again. Common side-blotched #lizards mating strategies are Rock, Paper, Scissors. #nature #podcast #scicomm #science

A beautiful Tritonia (nudibranch) from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 600 #CliffReefs #MarineLife

Chocolate tube slime mold. #Newfoundland, Canada. #myxomycetes #fungifriends

Some good news.

Double sun dogs yesterday.

Cave bears! Listeners will understand.

NEW EPISODE Lots of AMAZING #nature in this show. Using #barnacles to narrow the search for Malaysian Airlines flight 370. A #wasp that purposefully starts massive #ant brawls to locate a #butterfly. The Polar Bear: #Winter Survivalist. #Science #Podcast #Scicomm #Weird #Animals #Ocean

Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish. . 🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

A memo was released by ICE instructing agents to violate the U.S. Constitution. ICE told officers and agents that they can forcibly enter homes without warrants signed by judges. The memo was from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, was shared with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) by two whistleblowers.

NEW EPISODE! • #Wasps that turn cockroaches into Zombies • #Animals that farm their own food • Brittle stars are covered in millions of eyes #Nature #Scicomm #Science #Podcast #Ocean #Farming #Ecology #Weird #Strange #Biology #Insects

It got real cold here last night and it will get even colder. We got close to -20° F last night and we could hit a windchill of-50 tomorrow. Came into work this morning and noticed this aspen tree cracked open due to the cold. #mnwx #cold #winter #minnesota

Supposed to get down to -20 tonight in our home state of Minnesota. All we have to say about that is...

Nothing to see here... 👀 2024 National Wildlife Photo Contest Honorable Mentions 📲: https://ow.ly/pcsz50XUab2 📸 Yuan Minghui 📝 Hunstman spider on bark lichens in Xishuangbanna, China

More #kakapo matings - another from Whenua Hou, and Te Kākahu/Chalky Island is off the mark! That's particularly exciting, as it's our low-intensity management site. Whenua Hou: Tumeke 💚 Gulliver Te Kākahu: Rimu 💚 Jack #conservation #parrots A

White-booted Racket-tail at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #colombia #birds #hummingbirds

More aurora tonight at Loch Calder, far north of Scotland

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." -MLK As always, Dr. King's message is right on time. Today calls on all of us to hear his wisdom and put it into action.

NEW EPISODE! •A weird look at the smallest animals on Earth (hint, they are related to jellyfish) •Fruit flies rotate their noses to hear. •The Bat-Moth Arms Race for survival. The natural world is marvelous and strange. Come join us! #Nature #Podcast #Strange #Ocean #Bats #Scicomm

Birdability is hiring an Outreach Program Coordinator. This part-time, remote, grant-funded contractor role will help lead the expansion of the Birdability Outreach Program into rehabilitation hospitals& outpatient programs serving people w/ spinal cord injuries. Info in link #birding #accessibility

Sharing this amazing winter Blue Sky with BlueSky.

NEW EPISODE! #Rats have been seen catching and eating flying #bats. #Birds use group mass defecation on predators until they die. The fish cannon sounds cruel but it helps migrating #fish safely fly over tall dams. Come listen! #Podcast #Science #Scicomm #Nature #Animals

NEWTS!!!!!!!!!

NEW EPISODE! Botulism, the rarity of blue in nature and #birds decorating their nests with scat. This episode is all over the place! #podcast #nature #science #scicomm #biology

NEW EPISODE! #Mushrooms as computer parts. 100,000 Cannibal #ants living in a nuclear bunker. #Bats that catch and eat birds while flying. So much goodness this week! #nature #podcast #scicomm #science #birds #bioelectronics #weird #strange

NEW EPISODE! Learn how some animals see without eyes. Why are pufferfish poisonous? And, wildly, what happens if you put your head into an active particle accelerator. #Strange #Podcast #Science #Scicomm #Nature #Fish #Physics

NEW EPISODE! Carrion #Beetles, #Fish that can climb cliffs and predators that use static electricity to find their prey. We live in a wild world, come find out about it. #Nature #Podcast #Strange #Wild #Science #Scicomm

APHA and other leading medical, health and patient advocacy groups issued a joint statement on the alarming changes made to the CDC autism website. #SpeakForHealth vist.ly/4fexk

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

How do you track an animal that weighs 0.5g? With #WildlifeTech that weighs almost nothing at all. The #BlūMorpho is the smallest wildlife transmitter ever deployed on a #MonarchButterfly built in Cape May, NJ. Tiny tag, huge leap for migration science. #ScienceInMotion #WildlifeConservation

#Educators LEAN INTO "Six-Seven". Preempt your students. Play it up. Be goofy. ALWAYS make a big deal about it. Do it before then can. NOTHING makes something uncool faster than adult joining in.

NEW EPISODE! The newly discovered Spider Megacity has over 111,600 spiders! Learn about it! After that...The Pronghorn! Why are they so much faster than any predator that could possibly chase them? #Science #Caves #Spider #Scicomm #Podcast #Nature #Pleistocene #Strange #Weird #Mammals

This feels appropriate.

NEW EPISODE! Good fun this week. Cyclopses, Cave Lions and a snake that's both venomous AND poisonous. #Snakes #Oddity #Strange #Pleistocene #Extinction #Weird #Science #Scicomm #Podcast #Nature

NEW EPISODE! The Bizarre Vampire Squid! The Deadliest River in the World! Extinct Pleistocene Megafauna! #Science #Ocean #Ecology #Podcast #Weird #Scicomm #Strange #Cephalopod #Extinction #Animals

Check out our Halloween episode! #Nature #Podcast #Weird

NEW EPISODE! The massive penis of the Serotine Bat. It's a lot to take in. A palm tree that both flowers and fruits completely underground. The fastest moving predatory appendage in the animal kingdom. The jaws of the Trap Jaw ant closes at 143 mph. #Insects #Bats #Flowers #Science #Podcast

NEW EPISODE! "By the Wind Sailors", bizarre colonial creatures of the sea. Giant Bird Eating Spiders. The stuff of nightmares. The Ringing Rocks of Pennsylvania, a geological marvel. #Ocean #Birds #Geology #Scicomm #Science #Weird #Strange #Podcast

NEW EPISODE! The new identity of a frog puzzling the scientific community for 80 years. The Binturong, the bizarre bearcat that smells like buttered popcorn. Victoria tells us about the truly strange Sea Hares and her mom's research connection to them. #Science #Podcast #Frog #Ocean #Scicomm

NEW EPISODE! The strange phenomenon of social yawning. Are yawns really contagious? The Bone Collector Moth. When its a caterpillar, it creates a disguise by gluing dead bodies to itself. Yikes. Brand new research showing that sharks can make sounds! #Sharks #Spiders #Weird #Scicomm #Podcast