From robotic surgery performed 7,000 miles away to the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease, 2025 has been a year full of medical breakthroughs. Here are seven of the biggest innovations in the health and science space this year. abcnews.go.com/Health/groun...

Now that Putin's Russia controls the entire United States government, can we finally show a little bit of respect for the Baltic states? They were right all along. Their societies have held up well under pressure.

My best Turtle shot of 2025 and it ain't close! #Photography #Nature #SantaBarbara

Melt #ICE. Anyone arrested by any masked officers, define the arrest as invalid, and set them free.

Gotta say it again. This is pretty great! #Iowa

Chemist Alice Ball died #OTD in 1916. The first Black woman to earn a Master's in Chemistry, she developed the Ball Method & it became the standard treatment for leprosy worldwide for >2 decades. BUT, just a year after her discovery, others took credit for her work. #WomenInSTEM (1/3)

Exactly! Don’t forget, while DOGE might no longer exist as a formal entity, the actions taken continue by other tRump administration departments.

Never forget this: The forces undermining our democracy, rigging our economy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. We must keep fighting in 2026 and beyond.

Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

For 2026, we predict: 🔬More world-changing discoveries 🧑‍🎓More brilliant minds joining us 🤖More smashing robots What's your 2026 prediction? 🧪⚙️🌱🔋 #ChemicalEngineering #Biotechnology #CambridgeUniversity  📸: Nathan Pitt, Mia Perez-Villa and CEB

New paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social, led by HIGH-SCHOOL student Serene Park! We studied a moth that migrates from the Great Plains to the Rocky Mts (and back) each year and tested if they are harmed more by extreme heat or low O2 🧪🌍🐙 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A superb summary of why our investment in fundamental science fuels stunning advances in medical treatments 🧪

What happens when corporate hype (neé lies‽), gullible media, and media malpractice combine? A #Deextinctiom #Misinformation malstrom 🧪 🐺

“The share of US counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles—the number doctors say is needed to achieve overall protection for the class, known as ‘herd immunity’— has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%”🛟🧪

The Lorentz Transformation #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪

Fragments of non-local iron pyrite and heat-fractured stone tools were recently discovered at a 400,000 year old site in England suggesting that Neanderthals were making fire much earlier than previously thought! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In another 2-3 weeks, my latest book goes off to the printer. STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide, later in 2026 from Yale University Press. 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #freshwater

"When you're in the middle of seeing the curve start to go up, we just don't have any sense of where it's going to stop…. That's the big concern in most of the medical communities right now." 🛟🧪

I wrote in @contingent-mag.bsky.social about how a chance encounter with monsters in the archives led to my two books on monsters, science, exploration, maps, and culture. 1/🧵 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #archives #libraries #arthistory

Yes, Stranger Things 5 is inspired by real science! 🧪 The show’s wormhole concept comes from real physics equations that allow theoretical shortcuts through spacetime, often called wormholes.

This week is a great time to relax, reflect, and read some of the best science stories of the year! Our favorites take you from holistic coverage of the #LAfires from air, land, and sea to breathtaking video of the Myanmar quake. Special appearance from Batman. 🧬💻 🧪 eos.org/articles/our...

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Neurologist Sarah Tabrizi is leading the clinical effort that generate the first gene therapy to treat Huntington’s disease. She’s part of Nature’s 10 for 2025. 🧪

Using existing technology, we can significantly reduce our home emissions. I'll post the financial analysis when the Dec. electricity bill arrives, but so far the net cost of operation for the heat pumps & induction appliances with gas backup has been comparable to mixed gas & electric.🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

I guess it's time for the traditional end-of-year thread? Of the science stories I wrote in 2025, these are three of my favorites:

M6.0 #earthquake near east coast of Honshu, #Japan. This is an aftershock following the M7.6 mainshock on Dec 8. Here's the signal on my Raspishake in Herne, Germany, which is 9000 km away from the epicenter. The seismic waves arrived 12 mins after origin time. ⚒️🧪

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch🛟 🫁💊🧪 Tech companies force employee nicotine addiction for unproven productivity gains.

In periods of collective anxiety, such as a war going on around, people are going to be seeking solitary solace. That is going to include pornography consumption as a coping or self-regulation strategy. The correlations are as grim as it gets. 🧪 Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

M6.0 #earthquake near Honshu, Japan (14:26:56 UTC). It still amazes me how neatly it is recorded a few minutes later by our @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in #Horsham, #England! #gelogy #science 🧪⚒️

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Ticker timer simulator 🙂 #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪 sites.google.com/view/hookean...

This paper by Vasilyak and Shubralova makes an interesting observation that ELVES #TLE seem to be more likely to occur near tectonic plate boundaries. However, with just 37 events, I'm skeptical of the statistical significance of their results which isn't addressed in the paper at all. 🧪🧵

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🧪 As we approach the new year, @ChicagoBotanic is resolving to rebuild some mussels 💪

🦣 ❄️ Cold never bothered them anyway! 🧪

So that's #365Minerals over and done with. It's been eight(!) years since I did the first #365Minerals over on Twitter - it was inspired by #365Papers. I'm glad that this time around I could use my own photos of specimens on display in the NHM! Thanks for following! 🧪⚒️💎

Nov. Electrification Update: We saw a significant decrease in energy consumption & emissions in Nov '25 (752 HDD) b/c we did not use an gas for heating despite it being colder than Nov '24 (604 HDD) or Nov '23 (595 HDD for 24 days). 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Forensics: Fraud. 40 years on the job. Former CBI forensic scientist accused of mishandling evidence to be arraigned. 🧪 www.denver7.com/news/crime/former-cbi-forensic-scientist-accused-of-alleged-mishandling-of-dna-evidence-set-to-be-arraigned-tuesday

Yes, I am bracing for that. My Dec. electricity bill will show a large increase. But that is not inherent to electricity or renewables for energy. It's a function of the poor choices that PJM has made in managing capacity & transmission additions. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 seia.org/blog/we-need...

On the last day of 1808, Gay-Lussac's "Memoir on the Combination of Gaseous Substances with Each Other," Mém. de la Soc. d'Arcueil 2, 207 appeared. It advanced Dalton's idea of atoms, and rejected Berthollet's variable proportions. #ChemSky 🧪 Read it here: web.lemoyne.edu/giunta/gaylu...

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” ~Carl Sagan~ Every #NewYear reminds us that we are part of the cosmic cycle of birth and transformation. #HappyNewYear everybody 🔭 🧪 #universe 1/2

Food mimicry occurs in Aristolochia rotunda (📷: wp-polzin CCBYNC4). The flower emits the same chemicals as those secreted by bugs (Miridae) when predators kill them. Chloropidae flies, which feed on dead bug fluids, are lured into flowers → pollination. #Diptera #Aristolochiaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Canada's Quakes of 2025 New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are (most of the time) seismically quiet. During 2025, 126 #earthquakes occurred in these #Atlantic provinces. The largest was M2.4 in central NB. A typical year - see zones 4/5 in: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pu... ⚒️🧪🇨🇦

🧪 The current administration is hell-bent on returning us to this era. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

On Albert Einstein’s study wall hung portraits of three men. One was Isaac Newton, the second was James Clerk Maxwell. The third might come as a surprise... #chemsky #chemistry #Iteachchemistry 🧪 substack.com/@periodicmus...

Ahahahahaha - imagine getting invited to a predatory conference based on a joke paper I wrote for a predatory journal. @seismatters.bsky.social please notify Ian. 🧪 #MedicineCabinets

Nearly finished my thesis, submitted another paper, had some postdoc interviews in various countries, and even got a job offer...... I've accepted the offer, but not ready to announce the postdoc just yet until I have a few more details sorted. Soon! 🤫⚛️🧠🩻🧲🧑‍🔬🧪 (But we will be moving in 2026! 🤞)

Nov. Gas update: We reconnected the gas on Nov 16, '25 but didn't use any gas heat until Dec 1, '25. We thus had a total of *7* months with 0 gas use & an 8th with just 0.1 MCF. The HVAC heat pump covered all our heating in that time, avoiding an estimated 35.9 MCF based on historic use. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋