🦈 #shark @jakebuehler.bsky.social writes in @newscientist.com about the rediscovery of Gogolia filewoodi, the sailback houndshark, a species not seen by scientists since 1973. www.newscientist.com/article/2493...

Punctuated equilibrium, a concept introduced by paleontologists in 1972, reimagines evolution’s tempo as a stochastic burst rather than a steady beat. A new model finds support for their theory in both molecular and fossil data. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports www.quantamagazine.org/the-sudden-s...

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Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org

Take a deep breath. You’re using oxygen to free molecular energy from the food you eat. But not all organisms on the planet live or breathe this way. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/the-cells-th...

Who knew a fish could express "What the fuck was that?" with such ease.

"We are ruled by fathers who have never changed diapers" is becoming my go-to description of the present crisis.

So sad that my former colleague Ed Baig had to write this story for AARP. 6 Things You Can Do to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country After Traveling. In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals because of their content and editorial processes, he isn't doing his job, let alone upholding his constitutional oath,"[…] "He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

im not texting my friends about BOMBING YEMEN

Iguanas may have arrived in Fiji via ultra long accidental cruises. by @jakebuehler.bsky.social I love this esp because in @restingdinoface.bsky.social 's new book she talked about OTHER species who may have made this sort of a journey. www.sciencenews.org/article/igua...

This is Arya. She has maple syrup eyes and is, of course, a very good girl.

Partisan views of Twitter (X) – have shifted, with Republican users’ views of the site growing more positive and those of Democratic users becoming more negative. The share of Republican users who said the site is bad for American democracy fell from 60% in 2021 to 21% in 2023.

YOU FOOLS. YOU LET MOOSE.

Visited the Burke Museum in Seattle last weekend, so here’s a short thread on some of the paleo stuff I thought was interesting:

I guess my only real issue with Moana 2 is that fruit bats are (notably) not carnivorous. Like…it’s in the name.

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These two pics were the most viral thing I ever posted to Twitter, so in the interest of reposting our bangers, here is my turtle Stu, whom I “rescued” from the local grocery store.

"For the first time, Ethiopian wolves have been documented feeding on the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker flowers. This is the first large carnivore species ever to be documented feeding on nectar." Sweet tooth: Ethiopian wolves seen feeding on nectar www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/swee... #wolves

Monterey dorid central this morning at Setchell in the Saanich Inlet. Yay lemons! #nudibranch #UnderwaterPhotogtaphy 🦑

Jordan Peterson: (sobbing in the most insane jacket you’ve ever seen) Men evolved to take out the trash

I’m located in a rural, drippy corner of Washington State, and spend a lot of time hiking in my region’s exquisite National Parks and Forests. I also dabble in nature photography, so you’ll be seeing that from time to time!

Alright, folks. Here is a starter pack of science writers and communicators that I enjoy following. I hope it's useful! #SciComm 🧪 (I know I must have forgotten/missed a lot of folks when compiling this. Please forgive me!) go.bsky.app/7Z8u31b

its Gettin Round Seasone

We went to Hokkaido, Japan to see these guys last year and they are the size of a fire hydrant

uh oh #WIP #SciArt #Stanleycaris #isoxys #Blender3D #3Danimation #paleoart #cambrian #reef

Bluesky is not an echo chamber. Some people here love the character of Tom Bombadil in LOTR: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, some people merely like him a lot, and still more don't offhand know who he is but when you explain are like, oh yeah, that guy, that guy was alright. So we have all kinds here.

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

To those who recently started following: hello! I’m a science writer and journalist on the weird critters and natural history beat (though I do branch out from time to time). Salamanders to sequoias, sauropod spines to snake sex, that kind of stuff.

Wow. So I didn’t really use Bluesky for the last 7-ish months, and I popped back on here to find an explosion of followers. More than I ever had at the other place. Welcome! I’ll do some introductory posts (skeets? we still calling them that?) later today. I think I’ll be here more often now.

Monet, but make it autumn in the quietest rainforest in the U.S. Hoh Rainforest, October 22, 2023

[werner herzog voice]

Some fossils make you go WHOA at first sight and this is one of them: an ancient grasshopper nest with 50 intact eggs. It's the first fossil grasshopper nest ever found! Discovered at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon, it offers a peek at insect reproduction 29 million years ago 🧪

Spotted trunkfish move like submarine helicopters 👜🐟🚁 www.instagram.com/reel/C18Lks6...

Part of why healthy people aren't afraid to get sick is- they think if they do develop long-term issues, they'll be able to go & get treated by doctors who will work day and night to fix them (as it was on House, M.D.) & don't realize there's a 99% chance they'll be told they just have anxiety

A favorite genre of vintage New Year greetings: Little Hungover Guys who absolutely wrecked. Plus one drunk moon. I'm guessing these are probably 1910s or 20s. Not sure.

I spent two years manually scrubbing decades old code for that nonsense. When someone says "There was such a fuss about Y2K, and in the end nothing happened" I say "Yup. You're welcome."

now imagining the alternate reality in which Linnaeus used his native Swedish instead of Latin, and all of the animals' scientific names sound like Ikea furniture

I actually hear people say Merry Christmas less now and it’s not because the woke mob is stopping anyone it’s because people assume when you say Merry Christmas to the girl at the grocery store it doesn’t mean “hey merry Christmas” but instead it means “YOU’RE FUCKIN WRONG. YOU BETTER SAY IT TOO.”

🚨 Don't eat uncooked snake! Your eyes & lungs can be parasitized by pentastomids, which are a CRUSTACEAN. Adults lack so many features that they weren't believed to be arthropods at all until their DNA was sequenced (and sperm morphology, but that was not widely accepted). Yet, they are! #Crustmas 🧪

That's some gnarly headgear there, you viper, you. Thanks to @jakebuehler.bsky.social for unpacking a new theory about them and being a pleasure to edit for @sciencenews.bsky.social #nature 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/liza...

A Triassic whale, before there were whales. Concept sketch of the huge Shonisaurus popularis. This was done as a request of patron Leelan Lampkins As a Patron in certain tiers you can suggest a species for me to sketch like this every three months www.patreon.com/serpenillus 🐡🎨🧪 #paleontology

as a Christian (who loves the magnificently Jewish/Buddhist Cohen so deeply I have one of his books tattooed on my arm!!!), few things are cringier than Christians’ lack of reading comprehension about this song A) it’s not ours, we are guests in this house B) it’s so OBVIOUSLY about fucking??????

Thankful to mushrooms for eating all the dead trees