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: 🧪

It’s the first lizard of spring!! As the weather warms up, common wall lizards are emerging from brumation to bask in the sun. I know they’re an introduced species but I still find them delightful. And imho they’re generally doing less damage than humans soooo 🧪

🧪 amazinggggg

The Skygest feed is actually so helpful. Highly recommend as a resource for science journalists trying to stay on top of the general firehose of new findings. 🧪

i love museum studies

Interesting paper but also lowkey brutal: Jokes eliciting whole-room laughter were rare (9%), while the majority fell flat or landed mildly, earning mostly quiet chuckles (67%) 🧪 I like to imagine this was driven by a researcher determined to provide proof that a colleague was statistically unfunny

Wake up babe new mammal just dropped

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...

Our next episode is now live! Christine interviews co-hosts Josh and Amber about their experiences as people of color in the field of animal science. This #BlackHistoryMonth, we are elevating Black voices in the field that means so much to us. Catch episode 71 on your podcatcher of choice!

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.🧪