If you don’t recognize the name, she discovered what the sun ☀️ was made of. My understanding is that before her work, some thought that the sun might be a superheated ball of iron?

It’s here! Such a thrill to hold the book in my hands: “The Communicating Scientist” with my illustrations inside. It’s the kind of book I wish I had when I was a PhD student, and I’m glad to have it as a reference as a communications professional #SciComm 🧪 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I look at old Sunday page comics and the amount of room they were given to work on and tell stories and then I look at the 3 panel family shlock on a single page of the daily paper now and i cant help but be crestfallen at how little art and storytelling are valued in our society.

usually when i go on a tropical trip the most memorable thing i see is a bird but on @jerthorp.bsky.social's retreat last week it was the most beautiful fish i have ever seen in my whole life while swimming in a pool under a waterfall

Ella Al-Shamahi's piece today in the @wapostopinionsplus.bsky.social is remarkable. She found evolution and felt that she would lose everything else. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

If you're a journal or publisher using institutional email addresses to verify the identity of authors or reviewers, you'll want to read this story by @joelving.bsky.social.

I’m starting to think responsible research assessment organizations like @dorassessment.bsky.social and CoARA should specifically add statements about generative AI to their declarations.

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

Mere DAYS until the other place is totally 💯 fixed! 🫠 And robotic taxis 🤖🚕 and a rocket 🚀 that will go to Mars, too!

Is there anyone who has not been directly personally touched by federal policies? Are there people just blissfully watching it happen to everyone else?

Amazing 15th century illustrations Long thread on some images from the German 1491 Ortus Sanitatis from the University of Sydney Library @sydney.edu.au Source (do have a look !): digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/1... @ebdonana.bsky.social I start with crayfish @drecrevisse.bsky.social

📢Dear beloved authors all. Please include the ISBNs for your titles on your websites. I regularly request that our library system buy your books & it's a real pain in the backside to have to track down the metadata info for your stuff. Thx! 📚💙 #SupportYourLibrary #IndependentBookstores

How ghost crabs 👻🦀 run so fast 🏃: At top speed, they push with their trailing legs (L if crab running R) like a vaulter's pole, leaping into the air! Their leading legs (R if crab running R) don't "step". They use those legs like skis 🎿, bouncing off the sand! doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

"The researchers were told that unless scientific journals had already returned proofs — the final step in the academic publication process — the studies would be subject to a new review process, the two employees said."

Yes, Google is comically bad now in multiple ways, but I still like today's doodle of photosynthesis.

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

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The North Melbourne Kangaroos women’s team is on a winning streak in the #AFLW. At the rate they are going, they could topple the Australian 🇦🇺 football records set by the men’s teams. One of the longest winning streaks in ALL OF SPORT is not out of the question. www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/14...

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison. TikTok(2k): 139 Instagram (22k): 719 Tumblr (13k): 12k Bsky (52k): 22k

Today in, "People cheat for the smallest things." This was a competition with no cash prize, just a trophy and recognition from a community. But people took the time to cheat bye finding rocks and grind them down into a preferred shape. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Hoopla: streaming movies, TV, music, comics, and books. Got it just by getting a local library card. Libraries are AWESOME and AMAZING things!

This is (partly) why organizations like @ncse.bsky.social have advised scientists to steer WELL clear of debating creationists for DECADES 📆. www.talkorigins.org/faqs/debatin...

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By my count, at least 7 universities have fired faculty or staff for social media posts about Kirk. Clemson, University of Mississippi, U of Tennessee, Newport News, Cumberland University, Middle Tennessee State, UT Knoxville Add to the thread if I've missed some

Oh this is very cool #MathNerds

I got a press release titled "Why Dentistry Needs Disruptors". I haven't opened it yet, but here are my guesses for what it could mean: 1)Your teeth are online and you pay a monthly fee to use them 2)"NFTeeth". Someone else owns the idea of your teeth but you can still use them.

Hypothesis: The ratio of items in cutlery and dish sets were set 70 years ago, when eating habits were very different. Which would explain why I’m always short on bowls and spoon while looking at the plates and knives cutting my shelves and drawers

🧠 trilogy on cognitive enhancement: Charly (1968) Awakenings (1990) Limitless (2011)

Science teacher here: can’t imagine anything worse for learning than an “answer machine”, which replaces research, investigation, deep thought, creativity, and craft with a simplistic and frequently incorrect snippet.

‘You’re putting students at a disadvantage if you don’t use gAI in your classroom’ I TEACH FUCKING HISTORY. AND COMICS. AND DISABILITY STUDIES. WHY DO I NEED TO REPURPOSE MY CLASSROOM INTO AN OPENAI TRAINING ARENA

"My 'bend the knee and kiss the ring' editors have fired me" ✊ "So please subscribe to my Substack" 😖

Hate that when I get a job, my organization's Microsoft account gets to demand that I change my PIN.

Every bench scientist’s review of Alien: Earth episode 5, “In Space, No One…”: “NO FOOD OR DRINK IN THE LAB!” 🥼

On this, the 26th anniversary of #BreakawayDay, we remember the brave souls on Moonbase Alpha, lost when it blasted out of Earth's orbit from an atomic explosion.

There is another chance for me to tell people about @okbjgm.bsky.social ‘s laugh out loud funny, weird, love letter to comics and science fiction. It proves you can overcome anything with good characters and smart writing. SF fans don’t deserve to be treated this well. Yet we were.

My current institution, an HBCU, was about 70% white and 20% Black in fall 2024 (PDF, pg. 3: bluefieldstate.edu/wp-content/u...)

Long measles. When I started teaching pathophysiology, I was surprised how many viral infections had rare bit severe effects years or decades later.

Never mind that making knowledge is different than 10 years ago, it's different than 10 *months* ago. (Sometimes 10 *days* ago.) Departments need to review their tenure guidelines now to recognize that things that were "hard but doable" may now be closer to "impossible."

#PredatoryJournals just look different. But the biggest difference in #GraphicDesign was that PDFs from legitimate journals were much more likely to be made with Adobe apps. PDFs from predatory journals much more likely to be made with Microsoft Office. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

I'm just trying to sign a business document, Adobe

This is fun in that ,speaking from experience, AI cannot produce trustworthy answers to any of these three questions 😌

Interesting how "This tech is here to stay" arguments about AI imply that it is some sort of failing on your part for not using it. There are plenty of exiting technologies that I do not use and nobody spills ink and column inches over it.

TFW a TV show's creator likes your post about the show:

you’re welcome - archive.org/details/the-...

cysteine is listed in some references as a polar amino acid, in others as a nonpolar amino acid. Um. Any proper biochemists or molecular biologists want to help me out and make a case for which category it should belong to?

Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ?? 🦑 🌊 🌿