Could these strange and under-studied fungi help forests regenerate after wildfires? Had a fantastic time chatting with mycologists @mofisch.bsky.social, Matt Traxler, and Karen Hughes for this article. 🧪

Tsetse biology is WILD y'all. Females give live birth to one HUGE larva at a time which can WEIGH AS MUCH AS THE MOTHER HERSELF. The babies get this big by drinking a milk-like substance produced by the mother while they're still in utero.As upsetting as that miracle of life video from health class🧪

Amazing case report on tea intoxication🧪 "The longer he drank Earl Grey tea, the more intense the muscle cramps became... After 5 weeks, muscle cramps had spread towards the hands and the right calf." Sir why are you still drinking 4 LITERS of EarlGrey a day if you know it gives you muscle cramps??

coolcoolcool im sure this will not be a problem for like...the fabric of our society or anything

Okay so I have a Following feed and a Science feed - is there a filter I can use to see science content just from the people I follow?? 🧪

Sooooo the horrors persist but fortunately so do the woods. Look at this teeny tiny birds nest fungus I found this weekend. The “eggs” are peridioles - little capsules of spores - that get launched out of the cup when they are hit by a raindrop 🧪🍄

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Absolutely adore this Australian Geographic article that describes the coastal taipan (one of the most venomous snakes in the world) as "extremely nervous." Like, me too, buddy. 🧪

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Urine tests reveal "substantial" consumption of ethanol by wild chimpanzees.🧪 Previously, researchers assessed ethanol levels in ripe fruits & how much of these fruits the chimps typically ate to estimate that they consumed ~1.5 drinks a day. BUT directly demonstrating alc consumption was trickier.

10/10 scientific diagram 🧪

In humans, body temperature is strictly controlled, deviating only a degree or two from the standard 98.6 (although today's average human temp may actually be slightly lower), but many mammals are more flexible. I loved learning about heterothermy in lots of weird little mammals for this piece 🧪🦊

While searching for a bird evolution paper, I came across @currentbiology.bsky.social's amazing Quick Guide to Bird Genitalia. In my mind a quick guide is like how to change a tire, so I love the idea of an emergency requiring immediate instruction on bird genitalia. Don't @ me ornithologists 🧪

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🧪 Braided Science in action! 🤝🌿 Our new paper on Indigenous-centered archaeology field schools is out in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology. Deep graditude to the Kalispel Tribe for the partnership that made this work possible! See #openaccess article link: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

These birds eat poop, but only sometimes. Why? Poop-eating, or coprophagy, is super common in the animal world, but it's not well understood in birds. Researchers in Germany documented 1422 "excretion events" in alpine choughs (a member of the crow family) & found major seasonal differences 🧪

Guys I think I finally figured out what the finance bros have been talking about all these years

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What can marshmallow-snarfing raccoons teach us about the adaptability of urban carnivores?🧪🦊 @zoology.ubc.ca researchers investigated raccoons' inhibitory control - essentially, the ability to control an immediate impulse in order to achieve a goal. Here, raccoons were shown a clear cylinder...

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We've all heard the "rule" that evolution favors promiscuous males and choosy females. But not always! Researchers found that in black coucals (pic below, since I'd never heard of them!) females had steeper Bateman gradients than males i.e. a greater fitness gain for each additional mating partner🧪

"We show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles." 👎🧪

Disco slugs (for science!) This sea slug steals chloroplasts from the algae it eats, making it one of the few animals that can do photosynthesis. But what kind of relationship does the slug have with these organelles stolen from a different kingdom of life? 🦑🧪

If being smart helps mice survive, why haven't they all evolved to be supersmart? In a new delightful paper from @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social, scientists set up miniature mouse societies to study how differences in the ability to innovate are maintained in a population.🧪

Super interesting piece on "involuntary parks" by Annelise Giseburt. 🧪 From the Hanford Reach National Monument to the Zone Rouge, land polluted by explosives, toxic chemicals, or radioactive waste now serves as a refuge for wildlife - kind of. Giseburt explores the uncertain futures of these parks.

Oh no the guys that are brutalizing people and gassing children in Minneapolis got their feelings hurt. Super sad.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Just as I have always suspected

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Hello science friends - does anyone have access to this paper? Thanks! 🧪 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

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Hey can any rodent folks tell me why this rat appears to be waiting to be let into my house?? He’s been there for at least half an hour & doesn’t seem to be eating anything, just hanging out. Seems like weird behavior for a rat?? 🧪🦊

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This is such an astonishingly bad take I don’t even know where to start?? During my PhD and my time as a science journalist I have spoken to a LOT of scientists. Almost every single one has more ideas than they have the time or funding to pursue. Please do better @vox.com 🧪

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Ah yes the classic strategy to make America healthy again by failing to protect babies from infectious disease. 🦠🧪 I’m not surprised that these folks don’t care about science or children’s health but like… to what end?? Surely the vaccine costs less than hep b treatment?? What is the point of this?

Big news about the Toronto Subway Deer! Dug up in 1976 Torontoceros hypogaeus is a prehistoric cervid known only from 1 incomplete specimen. Originally classified as a caribou relative, ancient DNA analysis now suggests it belongs to the genus Odocoileus which includes mule deer & white-tailed deer🧪

Artificial light at night (ALAN) can be bad for bugs - Pacific field crickets exposed to ALAN during development laid fewer eggs & produced fewer viable sperm as adults. But why? Like us, insects have natural rhythms of melatonin production, which can be disrupted by light. 🧪🪲

This is cool as hell 🤩

Researchers change the locations of spider mite "bathrooms," shedding light on important aspects of social evolution.🧪🪲 It seems logical that having a designated place to poop is a key part of group living, from invertebrates to humans. But it can be tricky to demonstrate this empirically.

Browsing through some aquatic ecology papers (as one does) & the authors casually toss in the term "crayfish plague." As someone with a strong (unhealthy?) interest in weird diseases I had to learn more. Apparently, crayfish around the world* are getting absolutely obliterated by this pathogen🧪🦠

Did you know that some fungi are CARNIVOROUS? There are lots of species that do this, but I think Arthrobotrys oligospora is especially bonkers. These fungi sense when their prey (nematodes) are nearby by eavesdropping on the chemical signals that the nematodes use to communicate with each other 🧪🪲🍄

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I love unserious Google Reviews of places especially if they involve weird/niche history. Wager Island, in southern Argentina, has 3.4 stars - almost all the reviews are cheeky references to the 1741 wreck of the HMS Wager, e.g. "Crashed my ship here. Had to eat my fellow sailors. 2/5"

Truly there was never a point in this sentence where I could have guessed what the next word would be🧪

Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.

This is an Eastern Cape giant cycad. This specimen at Kew Gardens is the world's oldest potted plant* & it is older than the United States. I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿