NEXT UP: 3rd-seed Wild Yak (Bos mutus) vs. 14th seed Zorilla (Ictonyx striatus)! #2025MMM This battle is by @chumblebiome.bsky.social!

NEXT UP: 6th-seed Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra) vs. 11th seed White-Faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus)! #2025MMM This battle is by @chumblebiome.bsky.social!

Next Up: 3rd-seed Wild Yak (Bos mutus) vs. 6th-seed Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra), written by @chumblebiome.bsky.social #2025MMM

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

NEW This may be one of the most important cases. Doe 1-26 vs. Elon Musk and DOGE Complaint: "Attempted government takeover" in violation of the Appointments Clause. www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What is the function of the elongate tail in elasmobranch #rays? A 🧵 and a new hypothesis. A paper with @juliachaumel.bsky.social in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B (shorturl.at/PmfYD) shows that the tail of cownose rays (and a few other species studied so far) has an elaborate lateral line.

The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type... 🧪🌎

This is what I keep telling myself.

One thing I do admire about Smurf culture is how each one has an equal and unique role in their society where some of them are actual jobs like Housebuilder Smurf, but then there’s a guy just called Jerk Smurf whose job it is to be a jerk and that makes me feel like I have value as well

#2025MMM Calendar!

@governor.ca.gov just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data around the Southern California wildfires. Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com

If you're able and willing to support relief efforts in Southern California, consider donating to World Central Kitchen. Their relief team is on the ground right now

M3.7 #earthquake detected 5 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA at 1/10/2025 7:02:03 AM PST This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

Prison abolition 🤝 Environmental & Health Justice

"For the first time, Ethiopian wolves have been documented feeding on the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker flowers. This is the first large carnivore species ever to be documented feeding on nectar." 🧪 www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/swee...

cis folks: one thing to know is that while there are orgs helping trans folks, the needs rn HUGELY exceed the funding they have available. want to help trans people? a real material thing you can do is donate to these orgs, especially the smaller orgs

You should include alt text with your image, BUT ALSO: the alt text should DESCRIBE what’s in the image (the words, the flow chart, the cartoon, the thing that’s pictured) or you haven’t actually made the image accessible to folks depending on the alt text.

Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time

Pssst… Bluesky gets to know FIRST… We’re bringing you #GarWeek the week of December 16!!! More info coming soon!

Why do we keep doing this dance? Science is a fundamentally human practice, which means it’s inescapably political.

Wowwww

Alright you March Mammal Madness contributors and fans! @mammalssuck.bsky.social, who is in NO WAY associated with this account, has asked if I’d be willing to create a MMM Starter Pack. So here ‘tis! Every contributor and Superfan I could find on this happy blue sky location go.bsky.app/BVUtr1g

Stuck on a writing project? Here's what I always ask myself in that situation: Emily, have you considered that you might not be very good and should abandon writing altogether and move to the woods and make candles or possibly become a nun or something?

Fun Fact Before the introduction of fluoride into water supplies, there wasn't only a lot more prevalence of tooth decay, but the diseases and health problems dental issues cause such as heart disease. Fluoride has saved not just lives but generations of people.

A very happy Werewolf Bar Mitzvah Day to all those who celebrate

Museum Detox, a network specifically for people of colour in the GLAM sector, have written a letter of solidarity with the people of Palestine and are asking for other cultural workers to sign their open letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Some deep sea corals can live for at least several thousand years

Housing people is cheaper than treating the effects of people being unhoused Free school lunches are cheaper than the consequences of children being hungry Free medical care is cheaper than the costs of people being sick Universal Basic Income increases productivity and makes people happy

Recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2024 to join me at the USDA/Mizzou! Student will be working with host-microbe interactions in the agricultural pest, Drosophila suzukii. Apps due December 1st. My email, info, and the application link can be found here: lnkd.in/gVWBBPXC

Ok well…here we go again: Flood water is *toxic*. It has raw sewage, gasoline, chemicals (especially if it's near power plants or chemical storage facilities), it can even have medical waste and radiological waste. People die from infections after contact. If at all possible don’t enter flood water

🧪📢💥We're hiring, Assistant Prof in ANIMAL BEHAVIOR!! 🐦🕷️🐸🐝🦋🐟🐁🐕🐌 This is a joint appointment in Biology (Evolution, Ecology & Behavior) and the Program in Animal Behavior. 🧪 #job #academia Apply by 11/15/23 indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20413

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Just resharing my explainer on self managed abortions in the hopes of making this stuff common knowledge. https://truthout.org/articles/learning-to-self-manage-abortions-is-key-in-a-post-roe-society/

This might be the best text I’ve ever received

I asked a Hawaiian friend where folks could donate (2/2): Council of Native Hawaiian Advancement, Alaka'ina & Kakoʻo Haleākalā: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui Hawaiʻi Community Foundation Maui Strong Disaster Relief: https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong

I asked an Indigenous colleague in Hawai'i where people can donate to and these were his suggestions (1/2): Hawaiʻi People's Fund: https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund ʻĀina Momona: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuamaui