Reminder: wind turbines are safer and more affordable for American families, for the environment and wildlife, and they don’t rely on Middle East shipping lanes. And yeah, they also don’t cause cancer! (3/3🧵) #WindPower #EnergyIndependence #FossilFuels Sources: climatepower.us/news/fact-ch...

💀 IS FOREVER EMOJI BATTLE #2026MMM Round 1 🐮🆚🐭:🐭🍽️👶🏼/🐮🌊🐭/🏆🐮 🐐🆚🦦:🏜️💨🦦/🦦➡️🪨/🏆🐐 🐬🆚🐀:🌋🐕🐀/🐀🏊‍♂️🪨/🏆🐬 🦭🆚🦘:🏌️‍♂️🦭😴/🦘🏖️😬/🏆🦘 🐯🆚🐹:🪄🐹🙂/🐯🍽️🐹/🏆🐯 🐂🆚🐁:🐁🍽️🌾/🦶🐁😰/🏆🐂 🐺🆚🧥:🐺🧥🐧/🧥😡🐺/🏆🧥 🐪🆚🦇:〽️🦇🐀/🦇🆙👋/🏆🐪

WOW WHAT A NIGHT! Baiji Wild Dromedary Camel Stellar's Sea Cow Thylacine Aurochs Saudi Gazelle Yallara Sea Mink ADVANCE! Join us WEDNESDAY for the THAT'S SO METAL DIVISION! #2026MMM

#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamSeaMink Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social

No!! 😢 RIP Falkland Island Wolf 🐺 #TeamCanid #NotAWolf #2026MMM

Such Southern Hemisphere birds would have been unknown to the Sea Mink but he would have no doubt thought they were the Northern Hemisphere's flightless bird the Great Auk! #NotAPenguin another Anthropocene extinction (Iglésias & Fournier-Sowinski 2024). #2026MMM #BonusArt @veppart.bsky.social

Last up of the Night: #7-seed Falkland Island Wolf (Dusicyon australis) vs. #10-seed Sea Mink (Neogale macrodon)! #2026MMM

#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamYallara Art by Mary C. Freisner @maryfreisner.bsky.social

YALLARA OUTLASTS CARIBBEAN MONK SEAL!!! #2026MMM #QuestsForOil #NatureBurns #Upset #InMoreWaysThanOne

UP NEXT: 4th-seeded Caribbean Monk Seal (Neomonachus tropicalis) vs. 13th-seeded Yallara (Macrotis leucura), a special collaboration between @mammalssuck.bsky.social & yours truly #2026MMM

Wild Dromedary Camel OUTLASTS NZ Greater Short-Tailed Bat!! #2026MMM

Next Up: #2-seed Wild Dromedary Camel (Camelus dromedarius) vs. #15-seed NZ Greater Short-Tailed Bat (Mystacina robusta) #2026MMM

BAIJI DEFEATS MARTINIQUE GIANT RICE RAT!! #2026MMM

UP NEXT: 5th-seeded Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) vs.12th-seeded Martinique Giant Rice Rat (Megalomys desmarestii) #2026MMM

#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamThylacine Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social

Thylacine DEVOURS Little Swan Island Hutia!!! #2026MMM

Next Up: #6-seed Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) vs. #11-seed Little Swan Island Hutia (Geocapromys thoracatus)!! #2026MMM

#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamSaudiGazelle Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social

Saudi Gazelle OUTLASTS Japanese Otter!! #2026MMM

NEXT UP: 8-seeded Saudi Gazelle (Gazella saudiya) vs. 9-seeded Japanese Otter (Lutra nippon) #2026MMM

#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamAurochs Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social

Aurochs OUTLASTS Bramble Cay Meloymis! #2026MMM

Next up: Aurochs (Bos primigenius) vs. Bramble Cay Meloymis (Melomys rubicola)!!! #2026MMM

#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamStellersSeaCow Art by Valeria Pellicer @veppart.bsky.social

Stellar's Sea Cow DE-SEATS St Kilda House Mouse #2026MMM

UP NEXT: 1st-seeded Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) vs. 16th-seeded St Kilda House Mouse (Mus musculus muralis) #2026MMM

TONIGHT is ROUND 1 of the Extinction is Forever Division of species lost in recent decades & centuries due to the actions, and inactions, of humans. #HumanImpacts #Anthropocene #2026MMM

In the last two weeks, 1% of new NSF awards were in biology. Just one grant of 97. One. Biology in the US is on hold until there’s a regime change.

I just had a lovely conversation with the founder of The Spark Bird Project. If you are a birder, they want you to share your story: "Your spark bird story is the story of the bird / book / person / moment / experience that got you hooked on birding." www.spark-bird.org/home

🚨Abstract deadline for ABS 2026 is quickly approaching (March 23)! Join us at our annual meeting this summer in gorgeous Cincinnati. All the cool kids will be there 😎 Details and submission here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2026/abstrac...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

I say, with the voice of experience, that breast cancer sucks but modern treatments are astonishing. Canceling this research is an act of cruelty.

This Caturday, meet the black-footed cat. It’s the smallest wild cat in Africa, only growing ~8 in (20 cm) tall & weighing ~4.4 lbs (2 kg). Nevertheless, its hunting success rate is 60%—and has a recorded kill rate of 10-14 prey per night. Photo: Patrick Ch. Apfeld, CC-BY-3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Here's the latest call for proposals from the Morris Animal Foundation @morrisanimal.bsky.social. Lots of options, including a new opportunity for established investigators interested in #cancer, #aging and #longevity. www.morrisanimalfoundation.org/article/morr...

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

It's time! Today we tap for #BackYardSugarBush2026. It's warm (+3C) and sunny, and the trees are calling to me. Here's my little sugar bush: 4 sugar maples in a line along the side of my back yard. Time to tap! 1/2

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

We warned you Islamophobic policies would eventually affect your rights too. “Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters”

It's hard times for nervous systems, and I’m seeing a lot of fear-driven behavior in academic spaces. Marshall Ganz recently said in office hours: “Decisions I make out of fear usually don’t go well. Ones I make out of hope usually do.” Grateful for folks choosing hope with Science in Solidarity.

If nothing else comes of the @ucscscicomm.bsky.social #2026MMM tournament, at least we determined that if you keep choosing the losers, you have a bad... wait for it... preydar. 😏 @mmmletsgo.bsky.social, please consider this our formal (and collective) job application.

"The $7.3 billion National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH’s largest institute, is also feeling the effects. At a recent public meeting, Deputy Director Doug Lowy noted the NOFO approval process now requires 16 steps. He joked that it’s now more complex than a 1929 Rube Goldberg design for a can opener"

No Kings Day is two weeks away and we’ve already surpassed the total number of events from October’s historic protests. Join us in the streets again on March 28 for the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

All cats are scientists, I will not be taking questions at this time.

#2026MMM if you liked the art tonight, and you'd like to support the art team who made it, you can find it available as stickers in the Erminea shop: ermineainc.org/shop/

If you're a US-based scientist but have not been to a @standupforscience.bsky.social rally or contacted your lawmakers or otherwise defended science then please read this blog post. We need to defend science, not for our own self-interest/funding, but because its many gifts belong to society.

"Oh, it's OK. Congress passed the NIH budget. We'll be fine." NO! WE WILL NOT BE FINE! Multi-year funding, banned words screening, and OMB slow walks are strangling research. Read this 👇 and call your senators and representatives. GET IN THE FIGHT!

Do you (or have you ever) worked with natural history collections? Are you trans or non-binary? If you said "yes" to both of those, @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and I want to hear from you! Please consider filling out our survey and please share with others! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐛🦕🦴🌿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...