I thought that pelicans stretching their pouches over their own necks was the absolute weirdest they could look, I stand corrected

I was on a de-extinction panel at @dconscitrack.bsky.social with @dmos150.bsky.social and other amazing ppl called "We have wolves at home" And now people send me MORE stuff from Colossal, like "hey saw this and thought of u" The equivalent of "here, this tastes TERRIBLE! Try it!" 😂🤮

Did you attend our Fiber Arts Unraveled panel, or wish you had? I highly recommend this video on the science of knitting that goes into both the science of knitting, and the history of how "women's work" has intersected with the sciences www.youtube.com/watch?v=5btQ... #fiberarts

Science v Movies 2025 is finished. Time to start collecting clips for DragonCon 2026. Feel free to send your "recommendations"

Some folks missed the quiz we had up before Science v Movies at DragonCon and wanted it. Here you go! Enjoy the nonsense and the learning. Let me know what you get! stealingfromwizards.com/familiar-quiz

As per usual, @dragoncon.org was incredible and the @dconscitrack.bsky.social killed it! Thanks for letting me geek about sleep, indigo dye, and so much more! See y’all next year🐉

DragonCon Science Track: wow, these nerds have got some real zingers

More Dragon Con notes: everyone needs to appreciate this slide from @tkingfisher.com from her talk on the four sexes of white-throated sparrows at the Solve for X variety show in the Science track ( @dconscitrack.bsky.social )

Hello new followers and THANK YOU for coming to my panels at DragonCon, telling me you liked my panels, and in general being amazing. If you can please do tate and review us in the app, and make sure Science Track gets all the bigger rooms it deserves!

1. I loved this panel. 2. I was the person who live-skeeted it...and remembered just how much I love doing that.

Oh, and did you get turned away from a panel you wanted to go to because the room filled up too quickly? Please add a comment in the ratings in the app to let DragonCon know. This could help us get a bigger room in the future so that we don’t have to turn anyone away.

Did you attend a Science Track panel this weekend that you loved? Go in the DragonCon app and rate those panels! Your ratings and comments help us to know what types of panels you love and we should do more of in the future!

I can’t believe the final panel on @dconscitrack.bsky.social was packed. Thank you everyone for coming to learn about sleep. Also putting me on this panel was a personal attack 😂

Did you attend a Science Track panel this weekend that you loved? Go in the DragonCon app and rate those panels! Your ratings and comments help us to know what types of panels you love and we should do more of in the future!

The final panel of 2025 Science Track is about to start! — Go the *!#% to Sleep: Effects of Sleep Deprivation (a perfect panel for DragonCon Monday)

Just asked at the @dragoncon.org @dconscitrack.bsky.social panel "Will it Zoo" the following question was just asked... "What would you feed a Xenomorph?" And I'm going to be thinking about that question for days.

At @dconscitrack.bsky.social watching @tkingfisher.com talk about how weird birds are

Welcome to “How to Build a Sec Unit” where we answer all your questions about human/bot constructs and their existential angst. Panelist @anisotoph.bsky.social brought his original Murderbot helmet signed by THE Martha Wells.

BUTT TEETH BUTT TEETH BUTT TEETH BUTT TEETH #dragoncon @dconscitrack.bsky.social

Wild Butts of the Animal World starting off, well… exactly how we expect a @dconscitrack.bsky.social panel to start #dragoncon

It’s time for us to learn about BUTTS BUTTS BUTTS BUTTS #dragoncon

So far, my Saturday at @dragoncon.org has involved hosting the parade and a Q&A with Simon Pegg. This evening will be... very different. I'll be giving a presentation on the history of Y2K (and why it might happen again) at 10:00pm as part of Solve for X on @dconscitrack.bsky.social. #ISurvivedY2K

Well first you make it download the Fitbit app. But actually they implant them under the skin!

Concerning things Science Track audiences have cheered about at #dragoncon: (1/?) Cannibalism

This sounds like a question for @beebrookshire.bsky.social!

Oh, you bet there were pictures. Some inspiration for your mothman fics.

Did you think Monstererotica Biology was a fake panel? It is actually a completely real panel that is starting right now! #dragoncon

Hey DragonCon, it’s time for Silly-Sounding Science & Really Remarkable Results!

Not sure what you’re doing today, but over on #dragoncon Science Track we are talking nature’s greatest queer icons!

Disassemble a trilobite and put it back together. Solid bronze (with steel innards and strategic neodymium magnets) Cryptolithus bellulus with soft tissues (legs, gills, antennae, guts) reconstructed from fossil evidence by yours truly. Sound on for satisfying clicks 🤓

Excuse me, we're only semi-feral

Happy #CtenophoreDay, from the comb jelly with the sometime anus! #CtenoTakeover 🧪🪼🦑

A fancy long-jawed orbweaver bringing the bling for Arachtober 🧪🌿 #invertebrate We found this beautiful spider hiding under a leaf in Tatama National Park, Colombia. It is possible that the mirrorball abdomen might look like a rain drop and help the spider avoid predators.

"Because geese don’t own mirrors, they don’t know what they look like, and therefore when they see themselves for the first time, they register it as an unfamiliar goose." www.popsci.com/technology/f...

Love that the anatomist in me went “Oh, a mammal eh?” and started counting neck vertebrae. Most mammals have seven, two sloths and the manatee being exceptions. 🦴

Did you know there used to be camels in Oregon? Because I didn’t before doing research for my latest Live Science piece… 🧪

It seems like amazing timing, but after months of work this trans, shark person just got a published paper ON International Nonbinary AND International Shark Awareness Day! It's a trans/GnC inclusion piece: Navigating Gender at Sea https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023AV000927

The first two in a new series of Neuro art #SciArt pieces are complete and I’m feeling pleased with how they came together

Daily mammal fact: 🧪 Spix's disk winged bat has evolved to have suckers at their wing joints instead of little thumbs. This let's them suction to the inside of rolled up leaves! 📷 me, Christian Zeigler, Stanford

Yes I’m thinking the feathered structures are antennae, like in nudibranchs.

Now I want to know all about the qu’a’a’e’i’lar. What are they evolved from. Are they reptilian? Giant tardigrades? A modern version of hallucinogenia... What does their venom act on? Second question: can I have one to five as pets

Ooh, does that mean all of the appendages are a segmented snail foot? I wonder if the "feathers" are actually sense organs in this case

I will get on this asap. They are mollusks

biblically accurate butt

Now I want to know all about the qu’a’a’e’i’lar. What are they evolved from. Are they reptilian? Giant tardigrades? A modern version of hallucinogenia... What does their venom act on? Second question: can I have one to five as pets

Ever noticed how fantasy worlds have dragons, elves, and weird new snakes…but the same old rats? Why is that? My latest newsletter. https://teamtrash.substack.com/p/pests-are-where-fantasy-worlds-fail?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

For polychaete day, meet some ancient predatory marine worms that lived 20 million years ago. They hunted on the sea floor, ambushing prey from tunnels fortified with layers of mucus 🧪 https://www.livescience.com/extinct-giant-sea-worm-fossils.html