So excited to see this paper from post-doc work with @alexrosati.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, Margaret Bryer, et al. - including so many wonderful collaborators at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary - out in the world!! Team science is the best kind!! 🧪🐵

May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June. We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered. This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Why is NSF SBE important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience or #WithoutNSFsbe

Once again it is time to contract your representatives: The FY27 budget request for NSF (see nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...) would get rid of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Asia’s called leaf monkeys include about 55 species, including langurs, lutungs, and surilis. Slim, long-tailed monkeys with multi-chambered stomachs to digest tough plant food. Most live high in the trees. Sadly, most species are endangered due to habitat loss and hunting. youtu.be/r5EL1OULbhA

Forest #science peeps : does anyone have recommendations for a good budget lightsaber.. (ok fine, laser rangefinder) for distances of up to 80m in forests… 🧪🙏🤓

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Brilliant!!

HUMPBACK WHALE OUTLASTS HIPPO!!! #2026MMM

WATCH NIGHT CAM FOOTAGE in LINK ABOVE; WATCH DIFFERENT (sadder) DayCam Footage of Coalition Lion Pair & Croc Attack here! #2026MMM www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HUJ...

Reproductive Ecology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Foundations, Unanswered Questions, and Future Directions - Bribiescas - 2026 - American Journal of Human Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Whoa. This super super cool 🤯🧪

I have a most delightful media request: I am looking to speak to one of my ecologist colleagues who plays any of the Pokemon games about some of the Pokemon that are based on real animals, and/or what you like about playing Pokemon. 🧪🌍 #SciComm

New OA paper @royalsocietypublishing.org: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation? royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Lovely collab with @lirsamuni.bsky.social Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.

PLOT TWIST!! 🙈🫣 #2026MMM #AbsoluteCarnage

UP NEXT: #2-seed Wild Dromedary Camel (Camelus dromedarius) vs. #3-seed Aurochs (Bos primigenius) #2026MMM

File under: I wish we did not need this job but boy would I love to be the one that gets to do it 🐻

This is literally just the plot of the The Martian

Talk about validation! Bookmarking this for every time my students give me a hard time about date formatting.

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

How did the Wolf reach the Falkland Islands? #2026MMM DNA evidence shows its lineage diverged from mainland relatives 330K years ago, long before humans reached the region. The wolves may have reached the islands by rafting on debris or crossing glacial ice from Patagonia. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

What we call “weasels” is a taxonomic group that includes stoats, polecats, ermines, mink, ferrets and SOME weasels, in the genus Mustela. The rest form their own taxonomic group called the “American Weasels” in the genus Neogale (including the extinct sea mink) doi.org/10.1186/1741... #2026MMM

From their influence on forest growth to their connection with people and ecosystems around the world, this short video answers the big question: Why primates? Watch now to discover why protecting primates means protecting life itself. youtu.be/uXE9bbwZ_Wc

Is there anyone (preferably an ECR/grad student) in the wildlife sciences that would like a free 6 month membership to The Wildlife Society? I have one that I can gift. Let me know!

Last Up: #2 Lions (Panthera leo) vs. #15 Mold (Aspergillus sp.)! A #2026MMM collab between @mammalssuck.bsky.social and myself!

Plot twist: “ancient domestic cat” wasn’t a domestic cat after all. Genomics of 5,400-year-old bones from China revealed a leopard cat instead. Domestic cat (Felis catus) likely reached China via Silk Road trade only ~1,400 years ago. #2026MMM www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Full-ride and partial scholarships available for summer marine biology field research methods courses 🧪🦑🌍 www.getintothefield.com/scholarship-...

Dogs evolved to eat your leftovers! Comparing dog & wolf genomes revealed dogs have up to 30 EXTRA copies of the amylase gene (AMY2B) that helps digest starch. This is a key genomic signature of living alongside humans & table scraps for thousands of years 🐕 www.nature.com/articles/nat... #2026MMM

Next up! 6-seed Roan Antelope (Hippotragus equinus) VS 11-seed Borean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) #2026MMM

NEXT UP: No. 5 Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) vs. No. 12 Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) #2026MMM

💲MAMMALS EMOJI BATTLE Round 1 #2026MMM 🐋🆚🐿️:🐿️🪄🗑️/🐋🌊🗑️/🏆🐋 🦏🆚🦌:🦏🦌🌅/🦌↩️🦏/🏆🦏 🦒🆚😛:🦒🦵🏼😛/😛😨🏃🏼‍♂️‍➡️/🏆🦒 🐘🆚🦦:🦦👀🐭/🦦🤫🐘/🏆🐘 🦛🆚🦥:🦛🌊🦥/🦥🚣🏻‍♂️👋🏻/🏆🦛 ⚔️🆚😾:⚔️🗡️😾/😾🤕👋🏾/🏆⚔️ 🐐🆚🦧:🦧⁉️🔊/🐐😱🏃🏾‍♂️‍➡️/🏆🦧 🤓🆚🦍:🤓↔️🦍/🦍💥🌳/🏆🦍

NEXT UP: No. 4 Indian Rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) vs. No. 13 Chital (Axis axis) #2026MMM

#2026MMM MONEY MAMMALS ROUND 1 WINNERS: Humpback Whale, Eastern Gorilla, Giraffe, Indian Rhinoceros, Bornean Orangutan, Hippopotamus, Oryx, Asian Elephant Please join us TOMORROW (Thursday 3/12) at 8PM EST for Library Legends Round 1!

First Up: #1 seed Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) vs #16 seed Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) #2026MMM

NEXT UP: 2-seed Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) vs. 15-seed Beech Marten (Martes foina) #2026MMM

Next Up! 3rd seed Common Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) vs 14th seed Brown-Throated Sloth (Bradypus variegatus). #2026MMM

Bone collector caterpillar (Hyposmocoma) comes from one of Earsth's most diverse adaptive radiations with 350+ Hawaiian spp. Phylogenomics finds 9 major lineages. Yet this one is monotypic (no sister species), split from its carnivorous relatives >5M years ago. DOI: 10.1126/science.ads4243 #2026MMM

All March Mammal Madness results will be available at the LibGuide in MMMAGAZINE, text (in English & Spanish), play-by-play, and VIDEO FORM in the minutes and hours after the events happen here libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... #2026MMM

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights... youtu.be/EJ9yAV8uQ7g?... #2026MMM

Hawaiian Hyposmocoma caterpillars show near-identical “purse case” larval homes, despite evolving independently twice in rotting wood (NW islands ~15–9 Ma, main islands ~3 Ma). DNA phylogeny of 38 spp. reveals convergent design under similar pressures. doi.org/10.3897/zook... #2026MMM #RIP #2026MMM

BRACKET DROP DAY!!!! Get yours now at the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... Pick your portal: Players, Learners, or Educator! #2026MMM

ONE WEEK UNTIL THE WILD CARD! #2026MMM Pick your portal: Players: libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... Learners: libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... Educators: libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

I LOVE when science is applied to "toddler questions" like "Why is the sky blue?" or "Why is ice slippery?" Because the answers can be so SUPRISING. Let's dig into recent revelations about how ice skates work & why tires skid across black ice. First, we'll dismiss 3 VERY GOOD hypotheses as wrong.

🚨🚨🚨 Attention science communicators! 🚨🚨🚨 The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN! Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*. The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026. Apply here! forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...

So, in short, this project rocks. We've done murals before, so we know what we're doing. All we need now is help from people like you. $10 gets me some paint rollers $75 gets me a bucket of primer $150 gets me a day with a power washer ANY amount helps me pay for labor givebutter.com/KenzoMural

The toe beans on this bear are too much! 😍🙈💚

Happy Darwin Day! "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship."