A big win for one of California’s smallest native mammals 🎉 The CA Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously today to declare the Pacific pocket mouse a candidate species under the California ESA, granting protections for them as the state conducts a yearlong review. Read on ➡️ bit.ly/474L4Iz

Goodall transcribes field notes by lamplight in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park c.1960

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Great article linking Web origins w/ AI today: "Hard to imagine a big tech company agreeing to share the world wide web for no commercial reward like Cern allowed me to. That’s why we need a Cern-like not-for-profit body driving forward international AI research."

🐍🦎 We're all familiar with snakes, but have you heard of legless lizards? Join Collections Manager Nefti Camacho behind the scenes in the Museum's Herpetology Collection and learn the similarities and differences between the two species!

The cutest!!! Sea snail larvae are just adorabubbles 🥹 #marineplankton 🦑

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

When & where have species of bats, rodents, & shrews been collected across the 54 mountains of the Madrean Sky Islands? Damien Rivera in our lab led this effort to find out! New preprint "Uncovering historical small mammal biodiversity among the Madrean Sky Islands" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Beauty of a figure!!

Bargibant’s Pygmy Seahorse. #AGoodPlace Video credits: www.instagram.com/reel/C5iNmVf...

'Here, we detail the biological, environmental and experimental factors that can affect circadian rhythms of mice and provide recommendations for designing and reporting experiments for in vivo metabolic studies.' www.nature.com/articles/s42...

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

At Cerro Pelon, the monarch sanctuary.

#teamPeach #booMelons

Thank you for the write-up @johnhawks.net in particular for dedicating space to explaining mucin structure and function. The gene from Denisovan to Neanderthal to modern mucus open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...

🧵 Here is SS 433, the first identified microquasar. It is about one of the most exotic star systems known, a binary star microquasar consisting of a stellar-mass black hole and its companion, a giant star. The star is about 30 solar masses, ... ➡️ www.desy.de/news/news_se... 🔭 🧪 #cosmology

'In order for AI to be scientifically useful, it needs to be scrutinised to the same standard as other scientific findings. This requires that the scientific community can reproduce your AI model or, indeed, further develop it, leading to greater understanding and interoperability'

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Sagui centrál! Crew of Black-tufted-ear Marmosets (Callithrix penicillata) at my uncle-in-law's house outside of São Paulo last week 🙏🏻

Morning #bird A little baby broad billed hummingbird is waking up in Madera Canyon, AZ. #birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography

Explore the Cactus Mouse (_Peromyscus eremicus_) genome!

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Do not organize conferences in the US with an expectation to invite international scientists. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

Shubinator's got em! Let's go

This video starts with a wide view of the Milky Way and then zooms into a visualization of data from simulations of orbital motions of gas swirling at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit around Sgr A*, the SMBH at the core of our galaxy. ➡️ www.eso.org/public/unite... 🔭 🧪 #galactic

Because everyone on #blueskyy needed this... 😊

The Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, Texas contains a colony of 1.5 million Mexican free-tail bats, the largest urban colony in the US. It's a maternity colony, where momma bats give birth & raise their pups. Some adaptations they have to high-density living: (📷: Imagine Austin)

5 successive nights of Mars and Regulus. Time to bid farewell to the pair and welcome the #SummerSolstice in four hours! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

Phylogeny of vertebrates, 2017 #evolution

Scientists are nerds, so when a new transposable element was found to move big chunks of fungal genomes around & also between species (horizontal gene transfer), they called them 'Starships' and the enzyme that mobilized them are 'Captains'. To explore strange new worlds! 🍄🧬🖖

Dudley’s running!!!

@debpaul.bsky.social @jcolella.bsky.social @mikecove.bsky.social @katderieg.bsky.social @lexifrank.bsky.social @dannyibaneziv.bsky.social @drfirefly.bsky.social @klphelps.bsky.social @speer.bsky.social @n8upham.bsky.social @omys-omics.bsky.social @soltislab.bsky.social

YES, all of these, let's do more www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

While US science drifts toward isolationism, Europe opens its doors: ‘MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to researchers worldwide—any nationality, any career stage.’

The otter keeper gave this baby otter a sock to keep warm. She later turned it into a onesie with holes for the hands, feet, and tail

Thank you to all the Genetics TeaMMM folks: @n8upham.bsky.social @fervillanea.bsky.social @lucasrocm.bsky.social @carloschalicothere.bsky.social @elinork.bsky.social @afogel29.bsky.social @elliecat.bsky.social #2025MMM

Camera traps in the polar desert: This short video of a muskox feels like it comes from another age. Truly impressive! Taken at CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada, our biodiversity monitoring area. 🌿 #wildlife

When people start talking about your public land like it’s just a commodity on a balance sheet remember this…once places like this are gone there’s no going back.

Next Up: 2-Seed SUN BEAR (Helarctos malayanus) vs. 8-Seed GELADA (Theropithecus gelada) #2025MMM

How did your brackets do after last night's Sweet Sixteen round? @mmmletsgo.bsky.social is wasting no time, the Elite Trait round is TONIGHT.

Sharing my "Large Language Model tools for R" guide with updates after new developments and a mention in the posit blog. luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/ - ggpal2 - pangoling - more curated reading materials on coding with LLMs # rstats

Happy (Spring) Equinox! 💚🌱💮🐰🥚

GELADA OUTLASTS EASTERN GREY KANGAROO!!!! #2025MMM

Eastern Gray Kangaroos have unique genetics influenced by human-made structures! A study by Urbanek et al. shows that elevation & urbanization can impact their gene flow, highlighting the need to consider both factors in conservation planning #2025MMM #RIP link.springer.com/article/10.1...

BUT there are NO hoofed marsupials because when they are born at a VERY early stage of development... they have to commando crawl to the mom's pouch so they have to have grippy front legs... hooves would never be favored by selection! #2025MMM

A group of Eastern Gray Kangaroos 🦘in Queensland's Sunshine Coast has a unique genetic signature that suggests this area may have been a safe haven for them during ancient climate shifts. 🌏 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #2025MMM

Geladas live in multilevel societies w/core units that can form teams/ bands/ communities (small -> large). Snyder-Mackler et al. (2014) used STRs & mtDNA & found that associations among females persisting across generations drives team & band formation. doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #2025MMM