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Vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech halted a large U.S. trial of their updated COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults aged 50 to 64, saying enrollment in the trials had been too low to generate the needed data. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

Decent day for birds around #DavisCA yesterday - see observations at @inaturalist.bsky.social here www.inaturalist.org/calendar/phy... #birds

We’re at teen art club again 😎

Your GARch Madness FINal Four!

The crew of Artemis II is making our country proud. This is just the start of a new era of Moon missions and I couldn’t be more excited.

NASA launched four astronauts on a trailblazing trip around the moon. When Artemis II goes behind the moon, the astronauts will lose contact with Earth for about 40 minutes. cbsn.ws/4sLZMO6

Cool: "In Point Reyes, a National Park Service scientist has made an incredibly rare find." Michael Reichmuth "photographed a group of newly hatched California giant salamanders in the wild for the first time." www.sfgate.com/national-par...

So very proud to sit with my 7 and 9-year-old children tonight and watch the Artemis II team’s historic launch into space! 🚀 Inspiring! American innovation and genius in motion!

Experts at our institute have developed best-practice methodologies for conducting field trials which include gene edited/precision bred crops, including wheat in particular 🌾 The John Innes Centre guidelines for precision-bred plant field trials are published here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

It's coming up on time to design a new shirt for late April to keep this here ship afloat. Skype a Scientist merch must have an educational component or pro-environment message. Must be cool as hell. I am trying to decide whether to go terrestrial or marine with this one. Hmm.

Delighted to share our JIC guidance for precision-bred plant field trials. Field experiments link controlled research and real-world agricultural performance, and by sharing our insight and methodologies we aim to support compliant trial delivery within the new regulatory framework.

Seriously cool video...

Here’s a thread of some of my favorite snakes. This is definitely a very venomous snake and not a fish. 📸Nick Hobgood

We are going to see an accelerating tide of these admissions and conversions as the coming weeks and months pass. And the job of those of us who have opposed Trump for years is to resist saying "I told you so," or "you knew better," but rather to say "thank you for seeing the light"...

That's a little on-the-nose, AI.

Cats, bats & weasels have a special little flap doo-hicky at the outer base of their ears that is called the "cutaneous marginal pouch" although most know it as a 'Henry's pocket.' Let's talk about what it is, what it does & why it may be related to the exceptional hearing of these animals.

Join botany professor Dr. Joyce Onyenedum on a guided tour of primary growth in plant shoots, the developmental foundation of plant structure. #PlantScience #Botany #SciEd

Through anatomy, development, and evolutionary examples, the video explains how stem cells in the shoot apical meristem generate tissues, organs, and diverse vascular arrangements that shape plant form. Watch the video:

Does anyone know if this is common in (young) eucalyptus? I have a number of potted eucalypts that show these callus/gall-like structures at the base of the trunk with new shoots. @eucalyptaus.bsky.social?

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1675: It really helps to love what you do. If you don't, then there are lots of far easier ways of dying poor.

This is Daisy. She helped her human make the bed today. Through moral support. 13/10 (IG: daisyneverhelps)

I have written a couple of threads 🧵 on "classic" #PlantScience papers. I always tag them with #PlantScienceClassics , but will also compile them here in this thread: 👇

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A new generation of advanced reactors in development could signal the dawn of a new nuclear age. https://to.pbs.org/47yaEqx

“Cleaning up” plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with giant nets will skin the sea raw, and plastic will continue to come. “Cleaning” the garbage patch has never been about healing nature. It has always been about cleaning our shame.

Some totally awesome updates from grant-witness.us All of my funding curves and more in an easily useful form! grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🧵 1/7

My funding dream (one of them) as a non-profit scientist is to have enough money that I can poach really good scientists from institutions/lab groups that don't appreciate them

I'd like to introduce you to Panulirus ornatus, the ornate rock lobster. They're native to the Indo-Pacific, with a large range centered on New Guinea & the Great Barrier Reef near Australia. They're a member of family Palinuridae, the spiny or rock lobsters. So why so colorful?

We are still feeling the effects of some of the carbon dioxide from the Titanic, from the first Model-T, from the first steam engine. This chart is the most important chart in climate policy and yet most folks don’t know about it. Carbon dioxide is forever.

🔊 Looking for a Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution to join my lab 🦠 🥼Main duties: Research (AMR + microbiome) + lab assistance. ⏲️ Post duration: 30 months 🗓️ Closing date for applications: 20th April 2026 💰 Salary: ~£35k Details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/2a3v66y7 Please share!

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

When I was a young shy undergrad, I had to ask where in the lab to find the salmon sperm I never thought it would end up in soap

Back in Wonderland for another 2 week stint. Cramming in a month's worth of progress and hangin out with the crew. LFG.

Experts say the key to securing critical rare earth minerals may not lie simply in opening new mines, but also in reusing what has already been extracted. cbsn.ws/40Rxe9F

NEW: Global Assessment of Migratory Freshwater Fishes @worldwildlife.org www.worldwildlife.org/publications... “Vital freshwater fish migrations are collapsing; hundreds of species need urgent, coordinated cross-border action” Please share!

Guys looks at this baby snail 🥲 Baby sea snails (called veligers) often sport large angel-like wings, which they use to glide through the oceans before landing in a permanent home.

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

Nice footage of the protests, plus it’s accompanied by one of my favorite songs

Broomrapes of the World, published by Kew, out now. Years of fieldwork, collaboration, observation and passion went into these 600 pages. We hope it will inspire others to enjoy these beautiful plants:

ウミウシマステ2種類発注しました🫧 需要あることを願って！ I made some masking tape featuring nudibranchs found in shallow waters in Japan 🫧 Sorry, but for now it will only be available for sale within Japan.

🐡 Celebrate #SciArt this March and snag some great deals while the sale lasts! Bring a little marine science into your day—wear your favorite fish as earrings, send them as postcards, or explore other species on totes and stickers. bluebeehivestudio.etsy.com

Lots of pollinators out on the blackthorn today! Mostly too high up for me and my camera but I did manage to capture a few portraits including this Mining Bee & Sweat Bee 📸 I’m thinking these are Andrena fulva & Lasioglossum calceatum but second opinions are welcome 👀

Fun workshop coming up in Roscoff. You can learn building your own low-cost microscopes. Smart DIY Microscopy for Marine Biology 3-5 June 2026 🔬🌊🦠 Application deadline April 02 www.sb-roscoff.fr/en/workshop-... @embrc-france.bsky.social @gdrimabio.bsky.social @sbroscoff.bsky.social #EnderScope

Andrena minutula - Miniature Mining Bee Absolutely covered in celandine pollen 🌼 📍 Port Meadow, Oxford

We have 2 cool shirts! I have to sell them out by early April for 2 reasons: 1) 5 of my family members are staying in the Skype a Scientist stockroom in mid-April 😅 2) I need to fund our mural project which starts the first week of April! They're soft! They're cute! Get a shirt! SquidFacts.net

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, responsible for around 0.5C historical warming. But it is very short lived. Unlike CO2 it acts as a "flow" rather than stock pollutant, with impacts based on the rate of emissions rather than cumulative emissions.