Vaccinating against group B streptococcus (GBS) during pregnancy has been a long time coming, this week on the @science.org podcast w/ Leslie Roberts. Listen here 🎧: www.science.org/content/podc...

Here's an unlikely story that combines a fake neuroscientist, multiple lawsuits, Jeffrey Epstein, optical illusions, Nobel laureates, and the most famous picture of DNA. Another wild @science.org yarn with exclusive details from Jon Cohen www.science.org/content/arti...

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful #Celtic glass bracelets found in the surroundings of Bern, Switzerland. Dating around 200 BC. To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone. Bernisches Historisches Museum. 🏺 #archaeology

This week on the @science.org podcast, weird rings of DNA called extrachromosomal DNA may help hard-to-treat cancers like glioblastoma resist drugs w/ Elie Dolgin. Listen here 🎧: www.science.org/content/podc...

I made some short explanations of Ancient Greek Pottery shapes for my classes: ✨Part 1: common shapes✨

Great podcast by @rpocisv.bsky.social and colleagues from Science @science.org about our recent publication about recovery mitogenomes from Basin of Mexico Columbian mammoths. Its a not miss! 👇

This week on the @science.org podcast: Creating connections with strings and wings w/ Christine Elliott (or how music can bring people and bugs together) Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...

It turns out that the heavily polluted Tijuana River also pollutes air in the surrounding neighborhoods. In the latest @science.org podcast @kprather.bsky.social talks about ways to clean the air and water w/ Nazeefa Ahmed Listen here 🎧: www.science.org/content/podc...

a four-second emotional journey from "the heron looks so lovely in the peaceful morning light" to "I guess I knew on some level that their tongues must be very long and pointy. but I didn't, like, viscerally understand it until now." 🪶

Happy weekend! From c. 3,600 years ago, here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙 Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me #Archaeology

From the @science.org podcast series on books about death and science, this month we hear about how animals understand death and grief w/ @susanamonso.com and #AngelaSaini Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...

Heads up: @science.org is looking for a new research #editor based in the US or UK to handle papers in #InfectiousDiseases (e.g., #virology, #microbiology, #parasitology) & #microbiome research! This is an amazing opportunity, so don't delay! Applications are due 22 SEP!

What we can learn from a mother lode of Mexican mammoths w/ @rpocisv.bsky.social this week on the @science.org podcast Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...

On the latest @science.org podcast: Complexities of mapping dengue in Latin America w/ Talia Quandelacy. Listen here: 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...

Our paper on the evolution of MUC19 in humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans is finally out today in Science! This has been a six-year effort by 13 authors to weave together 3 separate but related evolutionary stories around this one gene (more on thread 🧵). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This week on the @science.org podcast--the role of the immune system in endometriosis w/ @meredithwadman.bsky.social 🎧Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Spent the start of my week learning all about spectral bats, huge, carnivorous creatures who are shockingly sweet. Read (and watch!) what 3 months of monitoring a family of four showed us about the home lives of the tropical bats: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

The administration is pushing to reduce animals in experiments—what are the alternatives? w/ @meagancantwell.bsky.social @sarareardon.bsky.social on the @science.org podcast. LISTEN HERE: www.science.org/content/podc...

On this week's @science.org podcast: Why chatbots lie to us w/ Melanie Mitchell and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing? w/ @sarareardon.bsky.social & @meagancantwell.bsky.social Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Anglo-Saxons with West African roots: DNA analysis of 7th century burials reported in @antiquity.ac.uk today reveals long-distance connections reached across continents and cultures. Read about it @science.org:

In the latest from the @science.org podcast series of books on science and death, we hear about the fate of virtual you after physical death w/ @tamigraph.bsky.social www.science.org/content/podc...

I traveled to Guinea to find out what U.S. budget cuts mean for the fight against malaria. Here's my story in @science.org - with powerful photography by Marta Moreiras. www.science.org/content/arti...

This week on the @science.org podcast: Why anteaters keep evolving w/ @david-grimm.bsky.social, and how giant whales get enough food to live w/ Ashley Blawas LISTEN HERE: www.science.org/content/podc...

There are 3 types of Celosia: plumed, wheat and cockscomb. Mine is plumed. The entire plant is edible and has many nutrients. It's used in soups, stews, side dishes, cake decorating and as pseudo-cereal. Preflowering leaves taste spinach-like.(1/3)🧵🌱 #Gardening #Bloomscrolling #Nature #Photography

#FindsFriday! Pottery vessel with five handles and remnants of a string, found in a Neolithic well in Altscherbitz, Saxony, dating 5100-5000 BC. Multiple intact vessels have been discovered within the well. They may have been intentionally placed there ...🧵 1/2 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

Were Neanderthals hypercarnivores or merely munching on maggots? This week on the @science.org podcast w/ Melanie Beasley www.science.org/content/podc...

This week on the @science.org podcast, @richardastone.bsky.social‬ talks about his latest visit to Ukraine and the scientists working there to give the country a technological edge www.science.org/content/arti...

New aspirational Pazyryk tattoo design just dropped over at @antiquity.ac.uk:

Honestly, this 8.8-mag quake and tsunami seems a fabulous demonstration of the capabilities that the US, Japan, and others have marshalled to protect their citizens. This doesn't just exist. It has to be built and maintained.

Early universe’s ‘little red dots’ may be black hole stars | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🔭🧪 @science.org

Should robots eat other robots? This week on the @science.org podcast w/ Philippe Wyder www.science.org/content/podc...

🚨Published today in @science.org. I join 8 scientists from 7 countries to warn that the world is sliding backwards from the promise of a mine-free future. 5 countries bordering Russia are withdrawing from the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty—& we/nature will pay the price. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A selection of pottery vessels from the #Neolithic Schussenried culture, which was prevalent in southwestern Germany. Aren't they beautiful? Dating ca. 4,000 BC, From the Federseeried, Lake Federsee. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology

Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteria. Check out the latest @science.org podcast w/ @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social & #WestonWhitaker www.science.org/content/podc...

Great news! UNESCO adds Minoan Palace sites in Crete, Greece, to World Heritage list! Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos and Kydonia, are six archaeological sites dating 1900 to 1100 BC, representing the Minoan civilization, a major prehistoric Mediterranean culture 🏺 📷 by me #Archaeology

This week on the @science.org podcast—the evolutionary history of the Greenland sled dog w/ producer Elah Feder and researcher Tatiana Feuerborn LISTEN HERE! www.science.org/content/podc...

This is a great award & the winning entries are always inspiring and fascinating. Enter the @aaas.org @kavlifoundation.org Science Journalism Awards by Aug. 1 sjawards.aaas.org

The number of satellites in Earth orbit is doubling every 18 months, which is hugely damaging to astronomy, near-Earth space and the upper atmosphere. We need a new approach to space environmentalism, writes @e-astronomer.bsky.social in his @science.org column. 🧪🔭☄️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

as the wise @nicolechung.bsky.social suggested I've just set up a monthly donation to my local food bank, and I'm gonna see if I can start volunteering there again. it ain't much but it's somethin

Happy #InternationalPolychaeteDay! There are over 13000 polychaete species that have been described – so take a moment to appreciate these segmented worms. Most of them are marine worms, often living in the benthic zone, and they are stunners! www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33543710

One more fun one from the latest episode of the @science.org podcast! @spoke32.bsky.social joins to discuss the role of women in prehistoric societies featuring one of my favs, Neolithic Çatalhöyük—a city founded 9000 years ago www.science.org/content/podc...

Cozy couch cat

In the latest from the @science.org podcast series of books on science and death, we hear about the fate of virtual you after physical death w/ @tamigraph.bsky.social www.science.org/content/podc...

I love the @cpsc.gov's annual fireworks safety video. I look forward to it every year.

This week on the @science.org podcast -- harnessing the principles of squid skin to make stretchy, color-changing materials www.science.org/content/podc...

The nature of Neolithic society is one of the most debated topics in archaeology–a debate that's almost impossible to settle w/ conventional methods alone. Now, new DNA data from a site in Turkey called Çatalhöyük points to a significant role for women: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

It's not so often you get the chance to cover an entirely new impact of global warming. But here one is: climate make more earthquake.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

I heard the call for more cat content. Here's one of mine snuggled up as I work. She is my loviest.