They’ve survived dinosaurs, ice ages, and asteroid impacts But they might not survive us. 🐢🌍 Sea turtles have been around for 100 million years. Now, plastic and rising seas threaten what asteroids couldn’t destroy. 🧪 #SciComm youtube.com/shorts/iICbS...

Here's me at 17, dressed as Jane Goodall for our AP bio class costume day

“Silvia, why did Jane’s passing hit you so hard?” Let me tell you a story. In 2002, when I was 16, as I was finishing middle school in Catalonia, our teachers asked us to come dressed as ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ We were having a photoshoot for our end-of-year magazine 🧪 🧵

Could a comet from another solar system be flying past us right now? ☄️🧪 Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever spotted in our solar system. It’s an icy traveler that likely formed in a distant star system and has been drifting through space for billions of years.

Happy birthday to us 🎂 The #MonmouthU Urban Coast Institute turned 20 this year and Tony MacDonald has been our director from the start. Watch as Tony looks back on some of the UCI achievements he’s most proud of. 🌊🧪 youtu.be/zfaRNBCW4AA

Sea turtles outlived the dinosaurs, surviving 100 million years of change. 🌊 Now, in just one century, they’re at risk... because of us. Read their story: 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/jKeHI0h

What if the first primates didn’t evolve in the tropics But in a cold snap? After a massive heat wave 56 million years ago, Earth over-cooled, forests vanished, and only the adaptable survived. That struggle gave rise to us. 🌍 Watch the story → 🧪 #SciComm youtube.com/shorts/Nvs1t...

"Mom, I changed my mind. I don't want to be any of those other things [I used to say]. When I grow up, I want to be a Scientist like YOU." I'm not crying, you're crying... I was also 5 when I made that choice! 🧪

My 5-year-old knows that I was upset this week. So he chose this book to bring home for the weekend from the school library. He knows I’m never sad when I read about dinosaurs! 🦖🦕 🧪 #SciComm

By popular demand, here’s a video I made explaining the tools and techniques I use for shark tooth fossil hunting. This is my first experiment with Meta video editor so please excuse rough edits. 🧪🦑🌎🦈

We need more Jane Goodalls. Not just to study nature, but to make us fall in love with it. To remind us that data alone won’t save a planet, only care will. The torch is ours to carry. 🌍🐒 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/i6hUQ9J

Who will inspire the next generation? 🌍 Storytellers once made me fall in love with nature & all its creatures Now I want to do the same: share stories that spark wonder & care That’s why I launched the Climate Ages YouTube channel. I'd love it if you followed us! 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/kpGaXJc

This world gonna FAFO with the plankton blooms. Those tiny beings so many think don't matter? They're the ONLY thing keeping us safe from things like terminal venting of methane from Mariana Trench (to name but one completely FO source). And that's before we get to the remainder of the systems.

Earth’s thermostat doesn’t just cool things back to normal it can overshoot. ❄️ New research shows how plankton, oxygen, and nutrients once pushed the planet into deep freeze, locking Earth in ice. 🧪 #SciComm PS. It'd mean the world if you followed my new Youtube Channel youtube.com/shorts/3hOFS...

An icon! One of her kind 😔

Sadly, Jane Goodall has died. But her legacy - in conservation and chimp studies - will live on. 🧪

I’m in tears that we lost Jane Goodall. Since childhood, she was my hero: a scientist who listened to nature. She showed us that science is more than data. It’s empathy, connection, responsibility. Thank you, Jane. You taught us how to care. 🌿 📸 Wikimedia Commons 🧪 #SciComm

Hello, I’m Silvia, Founder of Climate Ages, a platform that explores how Earth’s past helps us understand today’s environmental crises. Join 12,000+ subscribers to learn the science that explains our past and shapes our future. 🌍 🦕 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/SZI6S7k

Earth’s thermostat doesn’t always steady the climate, sometimes it overreacts. ❄️ 🌍 New research shows how plankton, nutrients & oxygen once pushed the planet into global ice ages. The overlooked piece of the carbon cycle that froze Earth: 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/KkuFFCb

When dinosaurs went extinct, Earth’s rivers changed forever. 🌍🦖 Forests spread, roots locked the soil, and landscapes flipped in an instant. Life doesn’t just adapt to Earth, it engineers it. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/WZ2glyJ

But modern art makes no sense…

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid ended the dinosaurs But their disappearance didn’t just change life, it changed the land Without them, forests spread, rivers stabilized, and Earth’s landscapes flipped We’re the ecosystem engineers now What world will we leave behind? 🧪 buff.ly/4KhsAJk

The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership 🧪🌎

11,000 years ago, Earth’s “freezer” broke. Approximately 340 billion tons of ancient carbon escaped into the air, warming the planet even faster. Sound familiar? The same thing is starting again today. 🎥 Watch the story: youtube.com/shorts/UPqKG... 🧪 #SciComm

🧪Mastodons didn’t just live in the cold; they marched with the climate Ancient DNA reveals waves of migration north and south, each leaving a genetic signature across the continent Their resilience ended when ice and humans closed in Today, species face the same pressures youtube.com/shorts/wgcIA...

I love Science Fiction almost as much as I love Science. But let’s be honest: it tricked us about the future. Cities of flying cars and hologram billboards? Please, let's aim for: 🌳 Shade trees 🚲 Safe bike lanes 🚇 Mass reliable transit 🏢 Human-scale housing The future should be livable. 🧪

The ocean is more than water, it’s a memory bank. 🌊 A new study shows 10 million years of ocean records align with climate models: once Earth balances out, the poles warm far more than the tropics. Our future is written in the waves. 🧪 #SciComm

Plenty of important science stories happen in communities where some people, for a variety of valid reasons, might be hesitant to talk to journalists coming from (the) outside, writes @willvh.bsky.social, in this story with @johnvaillant.bsky.social @mariaparazorose.bsky.social and others. 🧪

🌊 Oceans today feel alive with fish and coral. But for over 100 million years, much of the deep sea was more like a suffocating swamp. Scientists found the clues in Yukon rocks, and life still thrived in the chaos. Full story at buff.ly/MYAmPqI. Follow for more science stories! #SciComm 🧪

Imagine tearing out 3/4 of a kid’s animal encyclopedia that’s what past climate change did to life on Earth. The pattern is clear: when greenhouse gases spike, life changes forever. And today, we’re the source of that spike. #SciComm 🧪

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TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth

At 9, Ridhima Pandey sued her govt for climate inaction proving kids don’t wait to lead. 🌐 She’s since joined strikes, fought air pollution & spoken on global stages. That’s why I joined Our World 2050: to amplify 1M children’s voices & turn future anxiety into hope. (📸 UN 2019) 🧪#SciComm

Oysters once kept Florida’s rivers clear each filtering up to 50 gallons a day. Today, their reefs are struggling. A scientist is digging into buried oyster shells to uncover their past power & guide restoration. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/djcz1pN

This thought really stood out to me. A better way to make changes. “Coalitions are what really stood out to me. Stop asking one audience to move a mountain; ask three audiences to each move a rock. Trust builds when no one carries the load alone.”

Science is built on long, peer-reviewed processes. Misinformation? Often just opinion wrapped in emotion. So why does the latter still travel faster? I listened to Michael Sheldrick’s From Ideas to Impact, and found lessons every scientist can use. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/knXKagW

Nice piece on the saga of North American mastodon from @climateages.bsky.social! Also, why you should care about this sort of science, even if mastodons aren't your groove. 🦣

Ancient DNA from mastodons reveals they weren’t just roaming the Ice Age these giants migrated with warming and cooling climates. Expanding north when forests returned, retreating south when ice advanced. Their story of resilience and collapse has lessons for today. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/Ut9PO3w

I have a PhD, but… 🪼 I just Googled a word I used 150 times in my dissertation… for the second time this week 🦕 I mis-IDed a dinosaur I’ve talked about plenty in my lectures… and a 5-year-old called me out on the mistake 🧪🧵

I’m a Paleontologist Here’s the most important tip I can give you: Pick a favorite dinosaur and learn two facts about it Why? Because sooner or later, you’ll meet a child with a dinosaur book (or an obsession) You’ll ask about their favorite They’ll tell you why And then, you’ll share yours 🧪 🧵

Bookmark this, my fellow scientists! 🧪

I’m 39. I’ve grown in academia. Left academia. Built a platform read by tens of thousands. Battled burnout. Moved countries. Raised two kids (well, working on it). And turned storytelling into impact and income. 🧪 🧵

At 14, William Kamkwamba built a windmill from junk to power his home. Kids imagine what adults call “unrealistic” but that’s where breakthroughs begin. I joined Our World 2050 to amplify 1M children’s voices and turn future anxiety into hope. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/LTQehX6

The harsh reality is that it is really hard to study the atmosphere on a planet 400 trillion kilometers from Earth. That's, uh, a billion times as far as the Moon. The amazing thing is that we're getting close. The answers are almost in reach! 🧪🔭 www.trappist.one#about

An intriguing study of Earth-size planet Trappist-1e was overshadowed this week by Mars news (and...other things). Most Earth-size planets in our galaxy orbit red dwarf stars. Trappist-1e offers our best chance to learn whether such planets can support life. 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Lessee here ... something something #FossilFriday ... ⚒️🧪🦕🦖 Galeamopus says hello! A close cousin of Diplodocus, this one is first to greet visitors to the Cincinnati Museum Center, with a juvenile standing beside it. Somewhere in the distance, a loooong way behind the tail, lurks Torvosaurus.

Could a distant supernova have cooled Earth and shaped human evolution? Sediments show traces of stardust (iron-60) from 3–2.6 million years ago, coinciding with an ancient cooling. Cosmic coincidence, or cosmic cause? 🌍 Read more: buff.ly/T1AXssC 🧪 #SciComm

This is not hyperbole. Nor fear mongering. Nor acceleration thinking. This is science, replicated & peer-reviewed, which is as good as we have managed in our species history. A 101 eco-sci class is baseline. There is no excuse for ignoring the facts of the past... the reality of our cycles.

183 million years ago, Earth’s climate lurched. Oceans lost oxygen, species vanished, and 4,700 gigatons of methane burst from the seafloor more carbon than all human emissions since the Industrial Revolution. The Jurassic has a warning for us. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/wbeBjRE