Happy World Reef Day! 🪸🐠 Misha Matz, a coral biologist at The University of Texas at Austin is proposing a radical plan to save Caribbean coral reefs from collapse. Read more: cns.utexas.edu/news/feature... Photo captions & credits below in comments @heatshok.bsky.social @texas-ib.bsky.social

More restrictions on US science. Collaboration & co-authorship w/ foreign scientists is common & accepted. Now, it’s more about what foreigner you are collaborating with, not what problem you set out to solve. There is no real guidance to navigate this. On brand. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Elizabeth Madin, a researcher at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, developed software to analyze satellite imagery and detect “reef halos” around coral reefs. These features are created by grazing fish and provide a global monitoring tool for coral reef health. 🌊🧪

Dental proteins extracted from six Homo erectus individuals who lived in what’s now China 400,000 years ago provide the first genetic evidence that H. erectus mated with Denisovans, thus illuminating a landmark moment in human evolution. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

This is good-“Universities are not corporations in need of strong CEOs.They are federations of expertise held together by norms, trust & a shared commitment to inquiry..The work of leadership..is to steward institutions where that independence can flourish” 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

I can’t believe they chose this gel picture as illustration for “genome sequencing”. None of my students would understand it. But this is how we sequenced DNA in 1990s (those gel pouring skills! I was so proud of mine) 🧪

National Scientist Day A proud scientist here. Today is National Scientist Day in Portugal. I would like to thank the Big Bang and the twists and turns of DNA that have brought me here ;) #science #DiaNacionalDoCientista #SciComm #genetics

Neanderthals were definitely tough, but they weren't necessarily dumb. Also, this story by @kionasmith07.bsky.social will make you SQUIRM. 🧪

Palaeoproteomics of Homo erectus! Really intriguing but I am also unsure what we know/understand and what it all really means. So many questions! 🏺🧪

Bending for money instead of striving for the advancement of science for the good of mankind. 🧪

Today I set out to understand how barnacle geese chicks, who launch themselves off of cliff faces hundreds of feet high within days of hatching, survive their extreme falls. Friends, I did not succeed. Let me tell you what I did find. 1/8 ⚛️🧪

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What if microscopic predator-prey interactions were like Pokemon battles with commentators? ▶️👇 Feat. amazing 🔬 footage by @jamesweiss.bsky.social! A fun series we made to get students (and everyone) curious about protists! 🧪🍎 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗗𝗖 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝘂𝗹𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 [via CDC] 🧪🥼🦠👩‍⚕️ Just happened to look up the #US CDC's advice on HPS: 🤔 "Clean up after your rodents. Avoid contact with their urine, droppings, saliva, and nesting materials." www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/p... #hantavirus #prevention #CDC

#WeekendReading: Dodd et al. about recurring marine phosphorus spikes during major Paleozoic mass extinctions, and how they might be driving anoxia. 🧪⚒️ Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70701-y​

A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dated shortly after the Sinsk event the Huayuan biota illuminates differences in the impacts of this extinction in shallow-versus deep-water settings during the first Phanerozoic mass extinction

“Scientists are no longer just defending funding. They are defending the idea that science should be independent of politics.” #Science 🧪 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In 2026, It is more important to use our tax $$ to build a frivolous ballroom than it is to preserve what used to be gold standard science for the purpose of saving the lives of US citizens. 1500 science staff have left. Only 124 remain. 🧪 archive.today/3bkSw

🧵 1/6 This 1999 #Hubble time-lapse of Uranus is a genuine piece of astronomy history. 🔭 For the first time in the modern era, it shows seasonal changes on a planet watched for over 200 years. Created by Erich Karkoschka from images taken 1994–1998.🧪⚛️ #histsci #Astronomy #Science #Hubble

It’s a good word… 🧪💩

new perspective piece about the role of reproduction in arthropod extinctions! with PhD student @sarahnalley.bsky.social and @noahleith.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cudenverclas.bsky.social

🧪🌎 another awesome recent paper bearing on CBASS usefulness @liamlachs.bsky.social @adrianahumanes.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol... (spoiler: not good for choosing bleaching-tolerant coral genets, sadly)

🧪🌎 #landscapegenomics doi.org/10.1111/eva.... @nature.org @science.nature.org Cool paper, but I’ll keep screaming into the void until someone notices: #gradientforest calculates #genomicoffset INCORRECTLY See doi.org/10.1111/1755... for demo

We’re looking for researchers in any discipline of natural history: if you have a paper coming out and you want to pitch @pbseons.bsky.social on a potential episode about it, send me a DM! #scicomm #paleosky #FossilFriday (Arsinoitherium says please and thank you!)

Rare case of validating #lansdcape_genomics predictions. doi.org/10.1002/gcb4... 🧪🌏

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

New in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com: Vegetation greenness in 2025 Global mean vegetation greenness reached a record high in the year 2025, extending the multi-decadal upward trend. Full article: www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🧪

Synchrotron and CT scans reveal the first egg from a synapsid: a well-developed Lystrosaurus embryo with an unfused lower jaw and no tusks inside a large soft shell. This reproductive strategy likely aided in its post-Permian success! 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Aging is definitely not a biological rule. Quite a few animal species don’t age and live forever until killed, like Tolkien’s elves. Great overview of animal aging patterns here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Huge thanks to #BioScience for featuring our paper "Too Cute to Be Wild" on the cover of their March issue! 🐻🧸✨ doi.org/10.1093/bios... Never thought our work on teddy bears would take us this far! 💚 with @thierrybrassac.bsky.social, N. Blanc, N. Casajus, and A.S. Tribot 👏 🧪🌐🌍🦤

🔥“Earth is warming due to human activities, this warming is already responsible for human suffering, and it can be stopped by human action. None of this is, or should be, the least bit controversial.”⚒️🧪❄️🌊 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/c...

If, like me, you can’t afford all the paywalls you encounter and you wanted to read this article, now’s your chance… @drkatemarvel.bsky.social #GreenSky 🧪

$200 billion could fund the National Science Foundation for 20 years.

Whoa - correlation / causation! It is just as possible that genetic longevity predisposition causes lifestyle pattern. Genetic load would do that.

I'm sort of off today b/c of travel but I fell down a rabbithole of trying to find past years' numbers on USDA-NIFA 🧪 funding and now I have made you this graph:

This.🔥 Writing forces you to think. No shortcuts, no vagueness, no hiding. That’s why it hurts — and why it’s the best training for the mind. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Youthful antics predict lifespan? Using machine learning & continuous recordings of #killifish behavior from adolescence until death, @brunetlab.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social find early-life behavior predicted future lifespan! Now published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 1/2

Sadly, true. 🧪

So stupid 🧪⚛️#AcademicSky

This problem is at the core of the most widely used method for predicting adaptation to future climate. Reposting in case some GEA (genotype-environment association) people missed original post. 🧪

Sargassum abundance in the Atlantic on the rise. What is it, where's it headed and how to track it in this StormCenter Short. @geocollaborate.bsky.social 🧪 www.youtube.com/shorts/LWL7K...

New blog post! 🚨 Laura Byrne presents DImodelsMulti, an R package that complements and extends the previously published DImodels. It enables the fitting of multivariate or repeated measures DI models in a user-friendly way 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

So many thoughts… 🧪⚒️🍌

🧪 #Landscape_genomics papers keep using turnover curves from #gradientforest to predict adaptation across landscape (as per Fitzpatrick and Keller 2015). Please don't! While this approach reconstructs *boundaries* between divergent states very well, it messes up the states themselves!

The Bureau of Vital Statistics is now calculating statistical confidence intervals for 100% population data. I guess they don't know that confidence intervals were created to let you know the chance of being wrong when generalizing from samples to populations. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Politics

Hmm. I think I agree! Neat idea

🧪 scientists think as they write. Writing an abstract is a great way to force your brain connect the dots: what is the main take-home message, what is still missing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNss...

Trees, like kids, mostly grow at night. But while growth cycles of children have more to do with biology, trees grow at night because of physics. 1/6 ⚛️🧪

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