Hi! If you’re going to @sciencewriters.org I am pleased to see you and if I am looking at your badge it is because honestly I’m super bad at faces and I only know most of you from the Internet where you icon is like a pusheen plushie. A+ for dressing as a pusheen tho if you do.

Ooh ooh. Looks like this comes out March 3, 2026 (you know, to celebrate International I Want You to Be Happy Day). On my wiiiish liiiiist.

Walking through the woods these last few weeks, I couldn’t help but feel like the trees were trying to tell me something. #trees #botany #selfhelp 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/jasonbit...

I’m supposed to fly to Chicago tomorrow for #SciWri2025. What are we thinking the odds are I make it?

I know, I know, this isn't a shark. But this little guy is important. It's a vaquita, a species of porpoise that's dangerously close to extinction (less than 20 left). But it's not too late! You can learn more about how it's still possible to save them at porpoise.org #savethevaquita #vaquita

"Please don't send me any more stinky beetles" is a pretty fun thing to write in a letter.

The wonderful writers @sn-media-guild.bsky.social have been waiting on a fair contract almost long enough to gestate a baby elephant (620 days). They have neither a contract NOR a baby elephant. All they want is a contract, to be paid for their amazing expertise.

Man, I could go for a good toad.

Hi friends, enemies, and casually contemptuous acquaintances! I'm looking for an astronomer/planetary scientist who studies late-stage evolution in planetary systems around low-mass stars. In particular, examining the question of whether Sun-like stars nom their planets up, Cookie Monster-style. 🧪🔭

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This story by @sachimulkey.bsky.social is a mix of emotions. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/c...

Hope Dangles on a string

Oh man, the cuteness. IT'S #GARWEEK EVERYBODY!!! @garlab.bsky.social

A baby scorp tonight, if needed 🤎

Love.

Everyone rn 🪶

🐻GRIZZLED🐻: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals Def the biggest & most personal project of my career. Featuring artwork & foreword by Joel Sartore, as well as insights from a bajillion amazing scientists. 🧪 ❤️‍🔥I HOPE YOU LOVE IT❤️‍🔥 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...

Seeing cuttlefish in the wild will never get old to me.

The #Vaquita Embargo lifted, 10 confirmed sightings with population stabilization with evidence of population growth! This is extremely good news heading into #SaveTheVaquita week! I'm raising funds for porpoise.org conservation programs! Limited run print available here: ko-fi.com/s/f1e1568507

Getting bunches of emails now, so I will ask again, who's going to be at #SciWri25 in Chicago next weekend? I'd love to meet up with some folks I only know from the interwebs! 🧪

Dinosaurs at dawn.

I love how the patterns match up. 😍

"Cretaceous Thriller" Sinocalliopteryx: the bird-swallowing dinosaur 🪶

I LOVE being around early career scientists. Their enthusiasm and curiosity for discovery connect with that part of me that still feels the same sense of wonder. Bless their heart, they made my day.

this is scary news but also of course they would end up with the most Björk-ass looking species

You guys, Nat Geo sent me to the world's largest cat party. And it warmed my dang heart. (Photos by Dina Litovsky.) #cats 🧪 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Here's an awesome critter for #Arachtober, a harvestman/harvester/daddy longlegs (order Opiliones). It's an arachnid that's not a spider; they don't produce venom or silk, and unlike most arachnids, can swallow chunks of solid food. This gorgeous burgundy individual was in Costa Rica. 🐙🌿 #Bugsky

Just me or does every @rachelnuwer.bsky.social story read like Sunday-night prestige TV? I mean, holy smokes.

Doing a little light reading about upside-down catfish here this morning and spotted @friel.bsky.social! (Also, love me some @pbs.org Deep Look...) 🧪 www.kqed.org/science/1922...

I SAID GOOD DAY SIR. 🪶

Whoa, what's with all the new followers? Also, hiya! You may enjoy my animal-science-themed and 100% free newsletter: jasonbittel.substack.com

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Timeline cleanse:

Moxy.

Do you like art & magic & nature & noticing things & writing them down in teeny little books? Are you in the Vancouver (Canada) area? Are you free October 25? Oh good! www.crartgallery.ca/events/#!eve...

Any Greenland shark experts care to weigh in here by chance? 🧪🦑

Our book is out (in the UK)! Ocean: From Shore to Abyss. Available for pre-order in the US, too. www.southernfriedscience.com/ocean-from-t...

Shark peeps -- is this really a greenland shark? I'm reading that the bottom teeth are more interlocking, and the nose doesn't seem right either. Mislabled? 🧪🦑 animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/sharks/...

OH COME ON

This is how I want to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

Palmetto weevil for #invertober ! Already behind on this challenge yaaay #sciart #art

Man, I love weevils.

"Every social media bargain is a Faustian one." Another great read by @beebrookshire.bsky.social on what a lot of us are feeling. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/backed-int...

My first thought is YUM but that is quickly followed by YELLOWJACKETS.

🚨 Please repost widely!🚨 I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions

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This new @inkfish.bsky.social story is WILD. 🧪 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

I've got a whole chapter on the mercurial, undefeatable coyote in GRIZZLED, with insights from @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...

"I used to drive so fucking fast to this song" might be the most perfect sentence I've read this year.