The news about moss spores surviving in space is one of my favorite stories of 2025…amazing. 💚 🛰️ 🤩

"For centuries, engineers have turned to nature for inspiration." Read Carl Zimmer's exploration of "How Inventors Find Inspiration in Evolution" here! https://ow.ly/U6Js50Xt7tm

This is what Jupiter looks like in the infrared. Its hot, lower atmosphere shining through the cooler cloud layers above. You show me Jupiter and I'll show you a planet that wants you dead.

Oh my goodness - forgot to post these of the HALLOWEENIES! 😀🍂🎃🐾🌭🥰 #dachshunds #hounds #hounddogs

Full time, TT position in Biological Anthropology at Santa Clara University: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879320...

Short article I wrote* on recent advances in the story of early Homo sapiens is now available online! *commissioned as accompanying BBC Human series, although tbh I did not love their Neanderthal episode :-( www.sciencefocus.com/science/huma...

Listening to soundscapes from Simon was a somber and moving example of how our natural world is changing around us, in so many ways. Such an informing and moving interview for my @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social series ‘Symphony of the wild’ @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today. A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

For your Friday, another stunning view of the cosmos from JWST—this time of jets of plasma blasting out from a newly formed star. It looks like a painting.

I love when random pics pop up - an adult male white-necked #jacobin (Florisuga mellivorais), aka the great jacobin or collared #hummingbird; I took these in Northern Honduras, 2016. 💚🇭🇳💙🥰 #birds #birdwatching #hummingbirds #wildlife

New position announced: Assistant Professor - Environmental Change, Resilience, Precarity, and Justice in Archaeology/Bioanthropology at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 👇 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05077?fbc...

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My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15. apply.interfolio.com/171196

Hear, hear Agustin 💥👊💥(@anthrofuentes.bsky.social) Good op-ed piece in @science.org 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amazing find - with insightful comments by U.C. Berkeley archaeologist and Mesoamerican expert, @rajoyce.bsky.social #archaeology #Belize #Mesoamerica #anthropology www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...

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Hi folks. I'm not from the US, but I find what's happening to science over there right now absolutely *appalling*. If you're working in the sciences, I can't imagine the dread you're probably feeling. I can't do much. But I write a science newsletter, so I can, maybe, do *something*... 1/

A long and depressing piece, but the answers are all in there: high school and college writing are not going to be destroyed by AI unless teachers and professors let it or help. They will only be revived by structuring classes around process and paper.

We will certainly miss your excellent reporting and familiar voice, @jackspeer1.bsky.social! Congratulations on your @npr.org retirement and best of luck with the next chapter! 🎉 Interview with @ari-shapiro.bsky.social here: knpr.org/npr/2025-07-...

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

Thanks for this useful video @etobias-musiced.bsky.social; like SO many, I got the "AI created a podcast of your paper" email. And I had an auto-payment of $299 from my bank for a "premium account" which doesn't exist. I deleted my Academia.edu account & will file a fraud charge via my bank. Ugh. 😡

If you can, please help my friend as she supports her partner through his #cancer journey. Any little bit will help towards the daunting costs they are facing. Please support this GoFundMe by donating or sharing—> gofund.me/cebbec69

Okay, folks, here you go. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

…noticed the first #fireflies (technically firebeetles!) in the backyard on June 6 (last year was June 10). Tonight I counted about a dozen in our small urban yard - no pesticides! #Lampyridae #Coleoptera #beetles #insects 🥰💡🪰✨🌳🏡 💚 mdc.mo.gov/discover-nat...

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Carnivorous plants have evolved over and over again through millions of years. And while some get big, none have ever reached Audrey II size. In my latest for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, I look into why. 🌱

A view of Mars, taken yesterday.

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

"Even if Colossal had managed to reproduce the dire-wolf genome, that would be very different from reproducing a world in which a vanished creature might thrive." Extinction is not something you can ctrl+Z By @brookejarvis.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/m...

… at first I thought these downy #woodpeckers (#Dryobates pubescens) were adults, but once I zoomed in with the camera I realized what was going on: mama on the right, fledged chick (still getting fed) on the left. She’s using suet from our feeder. Lucky random capture! 📷🐣 #birds #birding

"Clearly, certain body size/shapes and strength patterns are specific prerequisites in some sports, especially at elite levels. But at those levels, the vast majority of people, regardless of sex or gender classification, could not make the cut." americananthro.org/present-tens...

Good piece by @cbo.bsky.social 👇📚

Has International Day of Biodiversity inspired you to get the skills you need to make a difference? We have places available for Sept 2025 start on our MSc Biodiversity and Conservation @sheffielduni.bsky.social - I'm happy to answer questions! #BiodiversityDay www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate...

The idea of capuchins (like Ross's monkey Marcel in Friends) running off with infant howler monkeys at first seemed weird and sort of cute to me. But it doesn't end well for the infant howler monkeys... 🧪 #primates #animalbehaviour #zoology #monkeys www.livescience.com/animals/monk...

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…wrapped it all up today with 122 final grades tallied and entered. 🎉 Now just the fun stuff remains: dept celebration and Arts & Sciences commencement tomorrow and university-wide ceremony on Sat. Whew, that was a l-o-n-g semester, right?! 🫩❤️‍🩹👍🎓

I was interviewed by Colorado "All Things Considered" about how potential cuts to public media will affect its infrastructure.

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The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶

Why are they trying to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs? #WithoutNSF the US would not be at the forefront of science innovation in the world. #SaveNSF #StandUpForScience www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

We asked how behavioral diversity & agonistic behaviors relate to group size in wild capuchins. We analyzed >65,000 behavioral scans collected over 15 yrs on 214 capuchins (8 groups) & controlled for # inds sampled. We found behavioral richness, diversity & agonism was higher in larger groups.

This looks great (especially as I always thought I was partly that thing in the title!). 👇 📚 ✍️ #learning #education #psychology #anthropology

Now THAT's a tribute! Thank you for writing this wonderful piece @adampjohnson.bsky.social, for our dear friend, mentor, colleague @jontheanthroman.bsky.social - in celebration of his upcoming retirement. Beautifully done!❤️ ✍ 🎉 #anthropology #biologicalanthropology #science anthropology365.com/.../.

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Why are humans social creatures? An ASU primatologist looks to evolution and other mammals for answers news.asu.edu/b/20250421-w...

Baron & Beatrix say, get outside today if you can! 💚☘️🌿🐾🎾⛅️ #spring #dachshunds #hounds

What Is Dimethyl Sulfide, the Chemical Potentially Found on Exoplanet K2-18 b? www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

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The K2-18b paper is now up as a preprint (to be followed by the final paper soon) arxiv.org/abs/2504.12267