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My March sticker club sticker: the Leafy Sea Dragon. I love these fragile and fantastic friends, had to put them on my Sea Creatures theme for this year OF COURSE! You have until end of March to join my Sticker Club and get this baddie mailed to you, anywhere in the world: pepperraccoon.com

And if you think this is just some BS meme image, you can listen to the man himself: www.npr.org/transcripts/...

I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE LEARN THIS

A startling recreation of the North Bersted Iron Age warrior wearing his (not at all) ostentatious crested helmet The warrior's damaged vertebrae suggest that he wore this hat quite a lot in life © Artas Media 2019 📷 March 2026 at the #Novium Happy #FindsFriday

Reader, I googlied him

Mr Doppler, also known as Doplr to his immediate family or Doooppppleeer to passing acquaintances.

Small donations add up to HUGE acts of compassion. You can make a big difference in the lives of these wonderful rescue animals for $5 a month! donorbox.org/mmfs-donate

The image of #Mars below was taken nearly 50 years ago by #Viking 1! Wow! Perfect time to reshare this beautiful #Viking jewelry piece in collaboration with @amyraehill.bsky.social 🤩 🔭🐡🧪🎨

Be the change you want to see. In my etsy shop. Surly.etsy.com

Ooh! This will be virtual too!!! I love that she’s doing this project and want to learn more!!

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY FOR THIS (PAID!) FELLOWSHIP!

With Earth Week just over a month away, this year’s theme is "Green telescopes for the pale blue dot": how can we build and design the instrumentation and hardware that we use every day in a sustainable manner? Save the dates and join the conversation! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪

You hate the slow-turn painting reveal? Good... This one, I painted for the centerpiece of a recent tarot deck. 'Sacrificial'

New mugs are up and ready to find their new homes, including some Trans Pride mugs. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the Trans Mugs will go to our local gender affirming closet (approximately 30% of price). See them all here: rakupottery.ca/mugs Have a wonderful weekend! #trans #lgbtq

The @nationalacademies.org Awards for Excellence in #scicomm have honored some of the best thinkers & creatives I know, like @chanda.blacksky.app @neillewisjr.bsky.social @cbo.bsky.social Top award: $40,000. Deadline: April 3. Explore & apply www.nationalacademies.org/programs/NAE...

Have my science communicator friends filled out our survey yet? Please take a few minutes and help our research team understate the state of the field. #SciComm 🧪

Our Ops Lead, who is also my brother, is in charge of picking mockups for stuff off of the site we use so models get paid & I ain't gotta take 3 million pictures and sometimes you can tell he was having a lot of fun with it. (This shirt and all our other crewneck tees are 25% off until Sunday!)

It’s never been more important for scientists to break out of the ivory tower and engage with the public. I am excited to announce that I’m now booking professional development workshops focusing on public science engagement for summer and fall 2026! #Scicomm 🧪🦑🌎

LET’S GO SPACE QUEERS OMGGGGG

Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.

I remember watching a movie as a kid (was it on Wonderful World of Disney?) where pollution was so bad, you had to carry your own air and masks. There were emergency stations on street corners, like ATMs. But you had to pay.

From Michelle Park: What do a galaxy’s stellar clumps tell us about how it formed? Today’s guest author Michelle Park explores interesting properties of clumps from the FIRE simulations. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/19/f...

@chanda.blacksky.app shares how a Stephen Hawking doc inspired a working-class kid to see math as a path forward -- even if all she wanted to do is watch X-Men. Catch the clip from last night’s @soulofthestory.bsky.social 🎙️ @dattico.bsky.social #ScienceInspiration #SyFySistas

My art shop has a collection of my original landscape and nature art. Good news for buyers in the USA, your art will be sent duty paid, and art is exempt from the tariffs! folksy.com/find/shop/th... #Birds #Animals #Landscape #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #bsnm

Oh my darling local friend the Gila Monster! 😍

Picking back up with this art thread! The tule elk in Point Reyes have been the center of controversies over their management. I imagined a guardian spirit in the form of a giant three-headed and three-eyed tule elk, protecting the herds. (btw the deck can be purchased here! ptreyes.vercel.app)

"After all, science may be serious—but scientists do not always have to be." This line could also be a tag for #2026MMM #2026mmm

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

@starstryder.space giving colloquium at SESE! @seseasu.bsky.social

I have a scientist joke, but with an n of 1, it's not that significant.

Working on some Moonrise Swords earrings!

#UglyDogs If you don't want to sign up for a free account, here is a gift link via Mack. Thank you, Mack!

Wonderful new open access book on Hildegard of Bingen by Minji Lee! #medievalsky #HistSTM nursingclio.org/2026/03/18/r...

Interesting discussion underway at the #NASA DARES Task Force 2 - Community Webinar about #astrobiology

I also have to point out that the most expensive space telescope (JWST) cost about $500 million/year. We spent 1000x that much on AI development in 2025. Data collection is essential for discovery...and it's remarkably cheap compared to many other things we do routinely. 🧪

I keep seeing versions of this post, which imply a bizarre misunderstanding of how we know the world. Do people really imagine that if we'd never observed galaxies or neutrinos or exoplanets or the cosmic microwave background, we could have *imagined* these things & that would be just as real? 🧪

The loud boom heard in Cleveland and the light seen across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic... it was a meteor! GOES-19's geostationary lightning mapper picked up the brief flash of light.

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I’m so glad we had help taking out the driders this gaming session. 😻😹

IT WAS A VERY IMPORTANT CAT VIDEO

Hey #WomenInSTEM, please check out the qualifications and skills and DON'T WRITE YOURSELF OFF if you think you would be a good match. Throw your hat in the ring!

Moon mug. Hand-built. Stoneware. One of a kind. Just listed. Surly.etsy.com

My old friend the SMC!

Some better shots of the first Rufous to “grace” our yard. Took to the swing like he owned it.

I have a black hole joke but I’m not sure you’d get anything out of it

"California is pledging to put 7.5 million acres under tribal stewardship in the state’s first-ever tribal stewardship policy." Absolutely *phenomenal* news & essential. We need this, across Turtle Island, fast. We don't time. But WOW. What an amazing thing to see in my lifetime.

Something different for #TrilobiteTuesday This is an X-ray of a Chotecops trilobite from the Devonian Hunsruck slate near Bundenbach, Germany. The soft tissues were replaced with pyrite or fool's gold and are denser than the rock. The X-ray shows the denser material including legs and gills.

Join us as we talk about how stars experience exquisite beauty in their final moments.