How can plumage colors function as social signals in American herring gulls? 🧪 Thanks so much to Molly Hill & @liamtaylor.bsky.social for sharing this awesome behavioral research with me

this sucks

I throw my ants up in the air sometimes saying aaaayo gotta let go 🧪

Honestly this is perhaps the piece of media that most succinctly encapsulates my feelings about AI

Looooook at these lil mongooses they are doing science! 🧪

Look at this fantastic goldenrod crab spider that decided to hitch a ride on my backpack

Hey so quick question NASA - Does "non-reimbursable" mean you are asking people to work for free or ...? 🧪 "NASA is seeking up to 10 partners for non-reimbursable Space Act Agreements to share the stories behind, and insights into, multiple NASA missions"

Plant and/or fungi experts - what on earth is this?? Spotted on Vancouver island in second growth forest. Had similar vibes as ghost pipe but obviously that’s not what it is 🧪

Om nom nom

A weird pet peeve about the deadliest animals: Mosquitoes themselves kill 0 people; the 760k deaths are from mosquito-borne disease. But the 600k attributed to humans is only violent deaths. Human-borne germs (HIV,TB,flu,Covid) kill millions per year, so humans are far & away the deadliest animal🧪🦠

An update on the American Diabetes Association drama 🍿 The editorial being handed out that got some scientists kicked out? Went from a few hundred views and downloads in May to >90K 💥💥💥 Can we make that number go up more? diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

I have to say it does seem like it used to be a bit easier to get published in Nature 🧪 This study has an N of 1, that 1 subject is also the author, AND he remains anonymous - "for reasons which may be self-evident." Amazing.

Hey science friends - does anyone have access to this (excellently titled) review? 🧪

So we know that most life on Earth has some kind of circadian rhythm/biological clock, but what about super deep sea creatures at the hydrothermal vents that haven't seen the sun ever/ in at least hundreds of millions of years? If they do have a clock, a) what is it entrained to and b) to what end?🧪

This is super interesting - I never thought about whether you could vaccinate animals without an adaptive immune system 🧪

From floral perfumes to pheromones, scents structure ecosystems in ways we are just beginning to understand. As human activities muddle these channels of chemical communication, scientists investigate the consequences for plants, pollinators, and other creatures🧪 My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social

So I'm volunteering with a local bat counting group and I received an email that began "Happy June! Bat season is upon us." Anyway from now on I will only be responding to emails that begin this way. 🧪🦇

Whoever was in charge of naming birds really needed to get a grip 🧪

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“Academic science is not only about productivity, it is also about deep understanding, exploring creative solutions and training critical thinkers to be the next generation of researchers.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I made this meme some years ago and it just popped up in my phone photo memories and… welp.

Please help me spread the word about my course! Share and tag interested friends and colleagues. Thanks! 🧪🌍🦑🦈

Where can I buy fun/dumb/nature-y T shirts about like frogs or weird bugs or mothman that are actually made by artists and not gen AI stuff

For millennia, humans have been using decoys to lure birds to particular places, usually to eat them. But decoys can also be used for conservation: Artists & scientists are creating realistic fake birds to attract puffins, terns, and other seabirds to restored nesting sites. @biographic.bsky.social🧪

Guys this is so cute 🧪 The death camas plant (unsurprisingly) is super toxic, including the pollen and nectar. Since it still needs to be pollinated, that's a huge problem. But ONE bee species has somehow evolved to tolerate these toxins & they may even help protect the bee's eggs from parasites

"Understanding the affective lives of animals is actually one of the coolest and most difficult questions there is in science.” -Daniel Weary @science.ubc.ca In order to study animal happiness, researchers have to check that the intervention is actually enjoyable for all the animals in the study.🧪

“Last year, a court in Nairobi sentenced two Belgian teenagers to one year in prison, with an option of paying a fine of 1m shillings, after they were found with about 5,000 live giant African harvester queen ants packed in tubes.” 🧪 Conservationists/ moms: no, we have ants at home!

It’s gardening season! Do your friends and neighbors know about the positive ecological impact we can have by planting native plants?? Help get the conversation started with our Native Plants t shirt! (Modeled by our buddy @wowthanks.bsky.social) Get one at squidfacts.net

Fuck fuck fuck fuck There’s still hope for them - if you know folks or organizations that do financial support for environmental journalism please get in touch with them. They’re not dead, they’re seeking additional financing. WE CANNOT LOSE ANOTHER SCIENCE PUBLICATION

editors hate her for this one weird trick (excessive use of the em dash)

Tiny bug fren (blue green sharpshooter)🧪 Why are they called sharpshooters? Because they fling pee droplets away from themselves at high speeds using a special structure called an anal stylus. Do they carry some (plant) diseases? Sure. But so does a toddler and we still keep them around so

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

Date: I thought you said you worked in Finance? What's up with your 15 year old beater car?! Entomologist: Finance? Date: Entomologist: Oh, I see what's happened here.

I just love flies pretending to be big scary wasps Happy #invertfest to all who celebrate 🧪

Is it still #invertfest? Got lucky enough to see these fun oak treehopper nymphs. Does anyone know why they evolved into little spiky Mondrian-looking dudes? 🧪

Et tu, Sci-Hub?? 🧪

I read "environmental noise" and immediately assumed this was a follow up to the study about how mosquitoes are repelled by Skrillex. (It is not that kind of noise) 🧪

👏👏👏 Giving money to science is good, actually.🧪

Why does New Zealand get to have all the cool stuff?? Both in terms of these gorgeously weird fungi and also the (presumably) delightful humans that make a fungus of the year contest 🧪

Honestly so refreshing to see a politician that’s not cartoonishly evil?? Love this for nyc

This is in no way a criticism of the researchers, but it's pretty bleak that we have to say "falling MMR vaccination rates could cost the US $1.5 billion a year by 2030" Like "literal babies will die from an easily preventable disease" isn't sufficiently important? 🧪

Cool new study -- they used historical water and well water fluoride levels across Wisconsin counties, and linked these to IQ and cognition from age 16 all the way to age 80. Guess what they found? No association between fluoride levels and cognition - at any age www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

We found this amazing earwig at a bug light last night. This one is a male, they typically have larger pincers. There is not much info available about the genus so I'm not sure why he has those strange protrusions from his abdomen. (Ancistrogaster sp.) Intag Refugio, Ecuador

Was having a relatively productive day but then my iPhone macro lens arrived and now it is BUG TIME. This lil friend is a silver spotted tiger moth. They’re native to BC and as caterpillars, they mostly eat conifers (idk how you eat something that hard/spiky when you are basically a tube of goo?) 🧪

The year is 2026. Finally, one newspaper is bold enough to ask the question on everyone’s minds: Are women people? 🤦‍♀️

Love love opening a scientific paper with a quote🧪 "Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share." An inspirational start to a paper about peeing in space!

I feel like this is an example of why we need better science communication. The title is attention-grabbing and the outcome measures sound very science-y BUT here is the thing: Nowhere in the paper do they provide an objective definition of what ultraprocessed foods are. Let's take a look: 🧪