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Sporothrix brasiliensis is spreading worldwide, posing a epizootic risk to cats and zoonotic risk to humans. 🧪 #vetmed www.sciencenews.org/article/dead...

Fabulous news: #Cervical #cancer #mortality trends following #HPV #vaccination in England, 2001–24. Vaccines are a powerful way to prevent devastating cancers that kill young adults. We know this for #HBV too… let’s follow suit. 💪💉🧪 @thelancet.com @qmul.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We depend on cooperation for society to function. Despite how it may feel often (we constantly underestimate strangers’ willingness to cooperate), given a common task, two-thirds of people will choose to cooperate on it. 🧪 Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec9483​

New study on the evolution of primate cognition, brain size, sensory and motor functions, prompted by "recent work showing fishes perform as well as primates on various cognitive tests." 🐟🦍🧪 Great to see such broad comparative perspectives driving research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus). From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #scicomm #butterflies #Monarch #MonarchButterfly

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What does it actually take to build and maintain a durable research and innovation ecosystem? #ScienceHistory offers some clues, but it doesn’t fully prepare us for the influence of modern headwinds. But, looking at what China's progress does provide a more current example. (1/10) 🧪

Scientific figures can strongly influence how research findings are interpreted. This ‘How to’ Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour outlines a practical strategy for creating figures that communicate clearly across audiences and scientific contexts. go.nature.com/3R00b1t #Academicsky 🧪

The BRAIN Initiative has changed neuroscience, yet there is still a lot we don't know about the brain. BRAIN Initiative Director John Ngai shares a roadmap for the next decade and what's needed to achieve the next human health breakthroughs: https://bit.ly/4nVbmVP #studyBRAIN

Largest octopus bloom in 75 years inspires film. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🐙 Florida to end international export of manta rays for aquariums..The policy follows public outrage last year after a viral video showed the capture of a manta ray, destined for an aquarium in Abu Dhabi, off the coast of Panama City Beach. ⏬ www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/05/14/f...

a little flamboyant cuttlefish! 🦑🐙🐡

Smithsonian Fish Curator position announcement! Note the application dates of May 12 – June 2, 2026. Should be posted here tomorrow: trustcareers.si.edu#js-careers-j...

15 Minutes of Great Barracuda at the Neon Goby Dentist (Site 2) | 5.6.26

NASA’s new Lunar Environment Structural Test Rig (LESTR) is changing the game! 🧊 Unlike traditional tests using liquid cryogens, this "dry" rig mimics the Moon’s -388°F nights without the cost or complexity of liquid nitrogen. Safer, cheaper, and ready for the lunar South Pole! 🚀 1/4

"Yippee!" 🦑📷Xavier Mas (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

Do octopus brains work like humans’ — or is there another way to be smart?

I recently had the pleasure of visiting @upenn.edu & the University of Illinois Chicago to present our latest results developing glutamate sensors that can image multiple neurochemicals 🔬✨ This work helps us understand collective neurotransmitter release during synaptic transmission.

My god. What have we done.

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

New preprint: Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 New tech from @blobology.bsky.social & others at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, which @ispizua.bsky.social and @elliottabe.bsky.social used to gain insight into 3D structure of locomotion & courtship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - April 2026 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1RJ5m... #Art #SciArt

anjo da noite 🍃 esse é um louva-a-deus-de-coroa do gênero 'Vates', encontrado durante expedição no parque nacional do Viruá uns anos atrás uma das minhas fotos mais legais de todos os tempos, nunca antes postada, debutando nessa nova edição do livro de artes do #InverteFest 🖤 #fotografia

Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Happy 36th Anniversary, Hubble! 🎂 Since its launch on April 24, 1990, the Hubble telescope has been our premier window to the stars. From over 1.6M+ observations to rewriting science textbooks, its legacy is truly out of this world. Here’s to 36 years of wonder! ✨ #Hubble36 #NASA #Space 1/4

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/c... The new deep-sea atlas underscores Beijing’s interest in ocean mining, its military ambitions and its claims to disputed waters.

New from Scientific American #Fossil giant #Octopus ‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas | Scientific American share.google/9FtfjrmaIkDC...

Squid strikes a pose 👀🦑🍑 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #spanishhogfish #cephalopodsofcoralcity #strikeapose

Article about the study: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... The paper itself: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... One of the scientists involved: @ceph-whisperer.bsky.social 🦑📷Rachael Feord, Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, Rachael Feord

A fish eater: Erenna is a genus of deep-sea siphonophores; these deep-sea hunters are pescatarians and eat only fish. They rely on bioluminescence to mimic the behavior of tiny copepods, luring fish into range for stinging and snacking. Filmed at 918 m during the 2024 #SEPacificSeamounts expedition.

More Springy-art! It's a dark rainy day here so I need me some spring-like art to cheer me up. #Spring #Bird #Birds #EnglishRobin #Gouache #Art #Painting

#FrenchPolynesia A study (see comment below) of #coralreef @ #Moorea found that after 2019 #coralbleaching event, live #coral coverage dropped 58%, and branching coral *BECAME HOLLOW* probably from "tiny mussels and fungi" that "mined the coral interior." phys.org/news/2026-03...

Optical clearing & time-lapse fluorescent imaging of Live mouse Brain (up to 800 μm of depth)🤯 An acute olfactory bulb slice(P11) loaded with GCaMP6f (Ca2+ sensor) was imaged with #2PM at a depth of 150 μm during clearing with SeeDB-Live👹 #NatMethods 2026 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Remarkably Realistic #Marine #Invertebrates Made of #Glass Surface at the Mystic Seaport #Museum. #Blaschka #GlassArtists #MarineLife #Art Link for more information and amazing photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/blas...

Hello! I am a commission artist and hobbyist bug illustrator that enjoys fun colors, weird shapes, and trying new things. Check out my Ko-fi for commission listings, or for other inquiries reach out to me at [email protected]

the mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors. humans have 3. we see roughly 10 million colors and think that's impressive. the mantis shrimp is sitting there processing a visual reality so hyperchromatic that scientists genuinely aren't sure what it's like to be one. #addOcean

I love how reef squids are just so silly. Silly little guys 🦑📷Frank Krasovec (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct. Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...

(Very) belated post but super jazzed to have my undergrad research thesis (and first ever publication) published at the Journal of Insect Behavior with @ceph-whisperer.bsky.social and @alexcnkingston.bsky.social! Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt I started working on this drawing half a year ago as a part of the #BirdWhisperer challenge, but I got very busy around that time and only finished it recently. It is far too late for the official posting date, but I am glad I completed this one!

“Male Andrea cuttlefish (Doratosepion andreanum) – quite drab to human eyes – use their birefringent arms to literally twist light, creating a highly conspicuous signal precisely tuned to cuttlefish vision.” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-l... 🧪 🐙 🦑

@bd-stew.bsky.social explaining the Report on the 2025 Octopus Bloom 👇

A New Way to Flirt: Dazzle Potential Mates With Patterns Invisible to Humans www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/s...

Today's frog is the horned marsupial frog. And its kids.

It is getting harder to see it these days, but I always hold on to this quote from Samwise in LOTR: "There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."

The Devonian Period Dunkleosteus didn’t have teeth but instead exposed jaws that self sharpened like two knives every time they opened and closed their mouth. Illustration from my book DINOSAURS 📚🦕 grab yours here: a.co/d/jiarhqN #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs #fossiladdict #evolution