Brian D. Wade
@astrobrian.bsky.social
Father, husband, and scientist. Interested in astrobiology, evolution, microbes, and all things space exploration. he/him/his
Jury convicts Minnesota man of faking Purple Heart, POW medals in 'stolen valor' scheme to steal VA benefits
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Jury convicts Minnesota man of faking Purple Heart, POW medals in 'stolen valor' scheme to steal VA benefits
A federal jury convicted a Minnesota man of “stolen valor” after faking Marine service and using forged documents to collect $146K in VA benefits.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Jury convicts Minnesota man of faking Purple Heart, POW medals in 'stolen valor' scheme to steal VA benefits
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Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Early Career Scientist Awards 2026
Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
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The SSE Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach program provides up to $1000 USD for a variety of evolution education & outreach projects, workshops, and events. Submit your proposal by March 2nd! shorturl.at/I8HqO
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The SSE Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach program provides up to $1000 USD for a variety of evolution education & outreach projects, workshops, and events. Submit your proposal by March 2nd! shorturl.at/I8HqO
Water-driven Accessible Potential Karstic Caves in Hebrus Valles, #Mars: Implications for Subsurface Habitability
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November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Water-driven Accessible Potential Karstic Caves in Hebrus Valles, #Mars: Implications for Subsurface Habitability
#astrobiology
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#astrobiology
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Your enemies are counting on you to lose hope. Despair is one of their greatest weapons, for it leads you to stop fighting for yourself. Hold on to hope, no matter how hard it is, and refuse to join your enemy in bringing you down.
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Your enemies are counting on you to lose hope. Despair is one of their greatest weapons, for it leads you to stop fighting for yourself. Hold on to hope, no matter how hard it is, and refuse to join your enemy in bringing you down.
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A real president does this.
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A real president does this.
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation
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#academicSky
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Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation
Millions of researchers could be affected by a “dramatic distortion of citation counts” likely caused by flaws in how the academic publishing giant Springer Nature handles article metadata, accordi…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation
#academicSky
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#academicSky
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Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period
#paleobiology
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#paleobiology
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Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period - Nature Geoscience
Low carbon dioxide levels during the last glacial period enhanced photorespiration in trees across North America, indicating a decline in land plant productivity, according to measurements of clumped ...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period
#paleobiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#paleobiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems
#microbes #ecology #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #microSky
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#microbes #ecology #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #microSky
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Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems - Nature Reviews Microbiology
The cryosphere remains one of the least-understood microbial ecosystems on Earth, but as climate change accelerates, cryosphere microbial communities will have an increasingly prominent role in Earth’...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems
#microbes #ecology #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #microSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microbes #ecology #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #microSky
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Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition
#microbes #ecology #microSky
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#microbes #ecology #microSky
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Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition - Nature Microbiology
Mathematical modelling and experimental tests reveal principles that govern displacement of a resident strain by an invader in microbial communities.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition
#microbes #ecology #microSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microbes #ecology #microSky
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Breaking news: A UPS cargo plane with three crew members on board crashed shortly after departing Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.
A shelter-in-place order was issued for all locations within five miles of the airport. https://wapo.st/49lird1
A shelter-in-place order was issued for all locations within five miles of the airport. https://wapo.st/49lird1
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Breaking news: A UPS cargo plane with three crew members on board crashed shortly after departing Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.
A shelter-in-place order was issued for all locations within five miles of the airport. https://wapo.st/49lird1
A shelter-in-place order was issued for all locations within five miles of the airport. https://wapo.st/49lird1
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OTD in 1977 Carl Woese and George Fox redrew the tree of life. They proposed a third “urkingdom”—the “archaebacteria”—in addition to eukaryotes and bacteria. Woese later called this taxon “Archea.”
AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s.
🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡
AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s.
🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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In a World Series for the ages that went back and forth again and again, Will Smith delivered the biggest swing of all for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“You dream of those moments,” Smith said after the 4-hour, 7-minute thriller. “I’ll remember that for forever.”
https://to.pbs.org/47SaBGi
“You dream of those moments,” Smith said after the 4-hour, 7-minute thriller. “I’ll remember that for forever.”
https://to.pbs.org/47SaBGi
11th-inning homer lifts Dodgers over Blue Jays to become first repeat World Series champion in 25 years
In a World Series for the ages that went back and forth again and again, Will Smith delivered the biggest swing of all for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In a World Series for the ages that went back and forth again and again, Will Smith delivered the biggest swing of all for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“You dream of those moments,” Smith said after the 4-hour, 7-minute thriller. “I’ll remember that for forever.”
https://to.pbs.org/47SaBGi
“You dream of those moments,” Smith said after the 4-hour, 7-minute thriller. “I’ll remember that for forever.”
https://to.pbs.org/47SaBGi
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Tucked in and ready for flight ✅
Our two spacecraft for NASA & UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory's ESCAPADE mission have been successfully encapsulated into the rocket fairing. This is the last time they'll be seen on Earth before their mission to Mars.
Next stop: The launch pad. 🚀
Our two spacecraft for NASA & UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory's ESCAPADE mission have been successfully encapsulated into the rocket fairing. This is the last time they'll be seen on Earth before their mission to Mars.
Next stop: The launch pad. 🚀
October 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Tucked in and ready for flight ✅
Our two spacecraft for NASA & UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory's ESCAPADE mission have been successfully encapsulated into the rocket fairing. This is the last time they'll be seen on Earth before their mission to Mars.
Next stop: The launch pad. 🚀
Our two spacecraft for NASA & UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory's ESCAPADE mission have been successfully encapsulated into the rocket fairing. This is the last time they'll be seen on Earth before their mission to Mars.
Next stop: The launch pad. 🚀
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A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA:
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October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA:
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NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
#NASA #SaveNASA
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#NASA #SaveNASA
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NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
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October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
#NASA #SaveNASA
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#NASA #SaveNASA
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Oxygen isotopic evidence that Gale crater, Mars, was home to an Early Hesperian water reservoir that underwent significant evaporation
#Mars #astrobiology
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#Mars #astrobiology
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Oxygen isotopic evidence that Gale crater, Mars, was home to an Early Hesperian water reservoir that underwent significant evaporation | PNAS
Simultaneous measurements of HDO, H218O, and H216O in water evolved during pyrolysis
of powdered rock samples acquired by the Curiosity rover withi...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Oxygen isotopic evidence that Gale crater, Mars, was home to an Early Hesperian water reservoir that underwent significant evaporation
#Mars #astrobiology
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#Mars #astrobiology
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
#BasicResearch #scienceSky
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#BasicResearch #scienceSky
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
#BasicResearch #scienceSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#BasicResearch #scienceSky
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Melissa was a Category 5 hurricane, the highest level, when it made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica. It was the strongest to hit the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. https://to.pbs.org/4oFSl8G
3 things to know about Hurricane Melissa
Melissa was a Category 5 hurricane, the highest level, when it made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Melissa was a Category 5 hurricane, the highest level, when it made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica. It was the strongest to hit the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. https://to.pbs.org/4oFSl8G
Carbon Reduction Powered by Natural Electrochemical Gradients under Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Conditions
#OriginsOfLife #PrebioticWorld
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#OriginsOfLife #PrebioticWorld
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Carbon Reduction Powered by Natural Electrochemical Gradients under Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Conditions
Energy metabolism at the emergence of life has been the topic of intense theoretical and experimental study. Alkaline hydrothermal vents (AHVs) may have facilitated energy transfer and carbon fixation...
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October 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Carbon Reduction Powered by Natural Electrochemical Gradients under Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Conditions
#OriginsOfLife #PrebioticWorld
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#OriginsOfLife #PrebioticWorld
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Coffee-driven #deforestation is making it harder to grow #coffee, watchdog group says
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Coffee-driven deforestation is making it harder to grow coffee, watchdog group says
In Brazil's coffee-producing areas, more than 42,000 square miles of forest have disappeared over about two decades, says Coffee Watch. Deforestation leads to drought, which harms crop yields.
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October 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Coffee-driven #deforestation is making it harder to grow #coffee, watchdog group says
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