#TOMORROW! The @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social hosts @laminda.bsky.social to talk about "Rise of the Zombie Bugs". It's gonna be a blast! @bschillace.brandyschillace.com

Join us for free at @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social on Thursday evening to learn why some cockroaches are simply "living, walking juiceboxes" for wasp larvae. Yum! That's Jan. 8th at 7 pm ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbyJ...

The deepest confirmed fish observation occurred at ~8,300 m. I know the shape behind it is another fish’s tail, but my brain insists it looks like the foreground fish is wearing a party hat. #deepsea #marinelife www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

It’s Never Too Late to Keep the Body You Have Right Now www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its... 😏

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

The Peptide Craze in the US. It's reckless and unfounded. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid... Today @nytimes.com @jasmine.bsky.social goes deep into the use in Silicon Valley, the supply from China, and the reasons this biohacking is popular t.co/lQXUBHNEaG

So. Look. I don’t know if now is the moment. But I wrote about the rise of the Reich. And about resistance, and history, and what we did then to keep ourselves together. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪

HEY! Want some #GoodNews? How about #weird news… weird is good, too. I tell stories about my bizarre childhood and top it off with science factoids and sometime ghost stories because why not. I put them in my newsletter. It’s free. I’m amusing. What have you to lose? subscribepage.io/schillacenews

Local-supporting, not-Amazon options for all your physical and audiobook needs!

A fun read on writing books v. film 👇 Think about some of these story-telling elements a lot when watching TV these days. rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/youre-writ... Thanks @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social

My heart wants to believe this isn't AI. A photograher is credited. Creepy!

Let's share it wide: these rocks need a home! #geologists #geology

She has a way with words!

Free book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, hosted by the Linda Hall Library: Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST) Register at link below. 1/ 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...

Wow.... Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize www.newscientist.com/article/2506...

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

💀99 WAYS IN 99 DAYS 💀 (The official countdown to 📕 release) 99 Ways to Die & How to Avoid Them is "an illuminating, hilarious, & practical guide to 99 of the most terrifying ways to die and how to avoid them from an emergency medicine doctor." 📖 pre order now: read.macmillan.com/lp/99-ways-t...

Wherever its actual birthplace, what remains of Theia is buried on the Moon and as giant undigested slabs inside Earth’s mantle.

He is so funny—the little meow at the start

Free to the interested public. Join members of the D.C. Science Writers Assoc. on Mon December 1st as we take part in a webinar with two local writers discussing their recently released books about the relationship between dogs and scientific research. Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

One more time for the fall session of Nerd Book Club! Next Weds, 19 Nov, 6pm US ET, I'll speak to @eramalam.bsky.social about her brand-new book THE CARE OF FOREIGNERS. RSVP at this page to get all the livestream links! humanhealth.emory.edu/events/livin...

Time for some performative reading.

some thoughts, with folk like Barry Lam, Ethan Kross, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michele Tugade, and Dave DeSteno in mind! @hiphination.bsky.social @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @micheletugade.bsky.social @daviddesteno.bsky.social @vassar.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mirr...

Paul Linnman eventually wrote a book about his experiences as a reporter, concentrating on the whale. He didn’t realise it at the time, but he’d been sharing the beach that day with a 24-year-old marine biologist, Bruce Mate, who’d also had misgivings

Not sure I like this new prototype Dune Stillsuit.

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Wrapping-paper that understands me.

Most science degrees never require students to learn how to communicate their work to the public. That gap fuels confusion, mistrust, and missed opportunities to protect lives. Let's change it. Sign the petition to make communication + public engagement training a degree requirement. bit.ly/3LbnfHB

🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions. 📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146... #sciencepolicy #saveNASA

Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon

Cypress Garden's water skiing troupe, 1955, Florida, US #WomensArt #Halloween #FridayFeeling !

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

💀99 Ways to Die is out on January 13th, currently available for pre-order! 📚 read.macmillan.com/lp/99-ways-t...

One thing not mentioned here, and one I believe to be of fundamental importance, is a child seeing, from the time they are born, the adults in their lives reading for pleasure.

Just in time for spooky season: DINOSAUR "MUMMIES!" Unlike Egyptian mummies, these don't have squishy bits preserved, but the rock around these carcasses had clay capturing texture of scales, a midline crest w/ keratin spikes, &, brand new, feet w/ hooves! 🧪⚒️🦕🦖 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It is likely that the Apollo 14 astronauts brought back a piece of earth that had landed on the moon as a meteorite. About 4 billion years ago, the early earth was hit by "something," and a chunk of our proto-earth landed on the moon. www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-ma...

The Woggle of Witches, Adrienne Adams, 1971.

Trying to work from home with my kids around

ICYMI: @drskyskull.bsky.social and I wrote about the physics of iridescent art artologica.substack.com/p/the-scienc... #sciart

A robot orbiting Mars captured a picture of a comet from a different solar system. How neat is that!

Correlation is not causation image: x.com/simonmaechli...