RIP Jane Goodall 🙏 Her Trump description: "I see the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he’s competing for dominance with another"

“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas." Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Harvard Observatory

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Doing my talk at #ibac25 together with my research assistant 🤣

Octopuses fall for the “rubber arm” illusion, just like us. Learn more: scim.ag/40xyT4y

The police album "Syncronicity" is still among the best and most sophisticated pop/rock albums produced the last 50 years.. Prove me wrong 🤷

I am very proud to be one of the authors on a new book about bioacoustics that has been published today. Open access so you can download it for free. share.google/XIiFAJXq2kja...

Probably many of them. And that's horribly sad. What have we become, as a country?

Orcas rub each other’s backs with seaweed to slough off dead skin. Learn more: scim.ag/3Gai9t6

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump/Musk is cutting NASA budget to a degree that has never been seen. The science section is facing a cut of 50 percent! This section is also responsible for monitoring Earth and thereby global warming.. 19 active projects are cancelled and billions of taxpayer dollars are thereby wasted

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

🚨We’re hiring a postdoc in Woodland Phenology & Climate Change at Uni Southern Denmark!🚨 Combines fieldwork (Sweden & Denmark), remote sensing (drone/camera) & genetics to study phenological response to climate. Link: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com.mcas.ms/hcmUI/Candid... Pls share!

When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

If Females Could Get Pregnant, There’d Be An Abortion Clinic On Every Coral theonion.com/if-females-c...

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors... Being silent won't protect you.

"… it is the words and actions of all members of the scientific community … that form the collective voice of science …," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4hR6ux0

A new #ScienceReview provides a preview of what the Arctic region may look like in a warmer world. https://scim.ag/41rrYuF

Can animals have emotions, and do they actually express them? We finally got round to making an English version of the article about @ebriefer.bsky.social 's TV documentary work: uniavisen.dk/en/from-farm...

Zebra finches produce intralaryngeal laminar flow whistles during panting New from Coen Elemans' group 🐦 ZBs emit high pitch "heat call": 🐦 a w histle produced by *larynx* (not syrinx) 🐦 **But** too quiet for them to hear! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

I’ve signed this letter to the Royal Society Someone engaged in an all out attack on science should not be a member of the Royal Society www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Cancer research budgets down 85%, clinical trials on vital HIV and malaria treatments ended overnight, but we did manage to update Google maps. This is what *winning* looks like. 🙄

Just published in @science.org: A World Less Safe & Secure We examine how the US withdrawal from @who.int will: * limit US leadership to protect public health & * challenge WHO governance in facing global challenges. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower

Every disaster movie starts with scientists being ignored. Good thing we’re not doing that.

This tigress has reclaimed the ancient fort within Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve and made it her home. Protection, prey, peace, and prosperity have been key factors in the tiger recovery within India, according to a new Science study. Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/42yn5Ra

not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

I sleep with a bat under my bed in case someone breaks in and wants to learn about echolocation

THIS is to be committed to Memory and shared widely

Of course my first real post here need to be about the paper I, together with @ebriefer.bsky.social recently published in @science.org ;-) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...