“'I have to say that I’ve noticed good news is not as popular as bad news' [Sara Konrath] says. Recent science supports her assertion: a 2025 study found that negative & alarming articles about children are more likely to go viral than nuanced...stories" www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 🧪

What’s happening to science in the US now? In the future? 20% fewer grad students at MIT sums it up well Our future is fewer scientists, patents, cures, discoveries Less growth, less progress, less knowledge

“'I have to say that I’ve noticed good news is not as popular as bad news' [Sara Konrath] says. Recent science supports her assertion: a 2025 study found that negative & alarming articles about children are more likely to go viral than nuanced...stories" www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 🧪

WHO has declared the #Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). First time this has been done without consulting an emergency committee. Extraordinary move that speaks to how concerning the facts on the ground look right now

17th May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia - #IDAHOBIT. The date commemorates the World Health Organisation’s decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its classification of diseases. We don’t need a cure.

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Nice 2 see that @oikosjournal.bsky.social remains a truly visionary ecological journal publishing at frontiers of the field I was not even aware of Everts et al (2026) Interplanetary frontiers: terraforming from an invasion science perspective 🧪🔓 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I've been looking into the Ebola outbreak today and this news, just broken below, is genuinely quite serious. Uganda says it has detected a fairly rare strain of the virus, which last caused an outbreak in 2012. Ebola does not spread as easily as covid but still concerning.

Nice 2 see that @oikosjournal.bsky.social remains a truly visionary ecological journal publishing at frontiers of the field I was not even aware of Everts et al (2026) Interplanetary frontiers: terraforming from an invasion science perspective 🧪🔓 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Fascinating article about the nature photographer who inspired Sir David Attenborough 🐧📸🧪 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Fascinating article about the nature photographer who inspired Sir David Attenborough 🐧📸🧪 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

US-Behörden blockieren medizinische Studien www.deutschlandfunk.de/wissenschaft... 🧪

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Una proteína desvela el episodio de sexo y procreación más antiguo entre especies humanas

The worlds largest invasive animal making headlines once again: „The Fight to Euthanize Pablo Escobar’s Hippos in Colombia“ @nytimes.com Giftlink 🎁 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/w...

„The MAGA movement was never a populist uprising. It was a mafia operation wrapped in a flag“ open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

The worlds largest invasive animal making headlines once again: „The Fight to Euthanize Pablo Escobar’s Hippos in Colombia“ @nytimes.com Giftlink 🎁 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/w...

Let's talk about the surprising world of trout vision & what it says about how these aquatic hunters find prey. We start with a literal 'fish eye lens', which in trout is spherical, magnifies objects on the edge of their visual field by 3X. Like inverse telescopes, magnifying /peripheral/ vision.

Amazing thread on how science works and that sometimes we get things wrong – but it’s part of the process and eventually someone will notice and fix the errors in our understanding of the world 🧪

Amazing thread on how science works and that sometimes we get things wrong – but it’s part of the process and eventually someone will notice and fix the errors in our understanding of the world 🧪

Every day there's another news item destroying the reputation and standing of the once stellar US science and research system. Seems we are not far away from the moment when not a single well qualified junior researcher from abroad will want to go there anymore 🧪

Fun fact: climate change and its consequences will continue to dominate the news no matter how hard autocratic leaders and complicit media orgs try to ignore it

Looking back I think Craig Venter was one of the reason why being an undergraduate student in Biology suddenly felt kind of cool and relevant in the year 2000 🧪🧬

J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome 🧬 Dies at 79 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/s... @nytimes.com giftlink 🎁

AI creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and here is the most statistically typical result.” Human creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and now I’m so sick of it, I’m gonna go invent Impressionism.”

Scientists have long pulled DNA from water and soil, but they have only just started to see the air as a source of genetic information go.nature.com/4tUdRcA

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

What kind of person thinks „this is how we make America great again“? 🧪

By far the most common and dangerous logical fallacy is one I rarely hear mentioned, which is, "Everyone who disagrees with me has been brainwashed by propaganda." The assumption, "informed, clear thinking will always lead to 100% agreement on my exact position" is EVERYWHERE.

Mind blowing numbers 😳🤯 Unimaginable how devastating this level of brain drain is going to be for public and environmental health 🧪

Mind blowing numbers 😳🤯 Unimaginable how devastating this level of brain drain is going to be for public and environmental health 🧪

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Great interview @tilojung.bsky.social w/ @eosnos.bsky.social On billionaires, yachts and the world of the ultra-rich www.youtube.com/live/7MRbQ_D...

This is important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…its members “believe deeply in the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years,” such as the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power.”

Watch this space & spread the word. New @idiv-research.bsky.social synthesis working group & fellowship (ie Sabbatical) calls coming these days. Great funding opportunities to collaborate with researchers in and visit @idiv-research.bsky.social

This is particularly ironic if you consider that the need to keep troops healthy and ready-to-fight has been a key driver for medical innovations for centuries. How somebody so averse to science and history like Hegseth can be tolerated in such a position is mind-boggling 🧪⚕️

Geomagnetic 🧲 and visual 👀 cues guide seasonal migratory orientation in the nocturnal fall armyworm, the world’s most invasive insect 🐛 @elife.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/109... 🧪🔓

Geomagnetic 🧲 and visual 👀 cues guide seasonal migratory orientation in the nocturnal fall armyworm, the world’s most invasive insect 🐛 @elife.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/109... 🧪🔓

This is particularly ironic if you consider that the need to keep troops healthy and ready-to-fight has been a key driver for medical innovations for centuries. How somebody so averse to science and history like Hegseth can be tolerated in such a position is mind-boggling 🧪⚕️

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

ICYMI Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails 🧪 @nature.com arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Shall we promote harvesting and consuming invasive species as a mangament strategy? Oficialdegui et al are skeptical: Demystifying invasivorism as a management strategy @pnas.org 🧪🌍🎣 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🔓

One of the superpowers Trump, Hegseth, RFK jr et al possess is that they absolutely don’t care how ridiculous they appear to normal people with a brain

Almost half of European freshwater fishes 🐟 at risk of extinction, new IUCN Red List reveals 🧪 iucn.org/press-releas...

‚The First Amendment prohibits the government from retaliating against a religious institution for the exercise of its faith. The Free Exercise Clause does not contain an asterisk that reads “unless the pope criticizes a war the president started.”‘

Almost half of European freshwater fishes 🐟 at risk of extinction, new IUCN Red List reveals 🧪 iucn.org/press-releas...

The Natural History Museum Stuttgart is seeking to fill a position as Curator / Researcher (m/f/d) in Ichthyology Permanent, full-time (80–100%) Remuneration in accordance with TV-L E13 Application deadline: 17/05/2026 ➡ Further information: https://t1p.de/3svwg

New study 🧪🔓 Weather forecasts r becoming more important as the climate heats up. Published while Trump is axing NSF, NOAA & NASA remote sensing. Shows again that these autocrats are only interested in filling their pockets while everyone else shall die in a flood 🌊 or a heatwave 🥵 Infuriating