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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
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MS Biology, MPH, MS Cybersecurity |
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scuba-licia.bsky.social
Stubby season is here in the Pacific Northwest and this chonker is showing some big feelings about being photographed by turning white and burying itself in the sand!

This color change is super hard to photograph, let alone light, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.

#marinelife
Stubby squid burying itself in the sand Stubby squid burying itself in the sand
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Sword
An RNA Molecule that looks like a sword. Evolved using genetic algorithms.
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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crampell.bsky.social
Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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New rock drop

www.livescience.com/space/mars/o...
Odd-looking rock on Mars is totally alien to the Red Planet, Perseverance rover finds
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our ...
www.livescience.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Reposted by Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
tuexplorer1.bsky.social
Maybe Gonatus, but this one looks weird. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Has anyone checked if Shutterstock is ok?
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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We used to just call them moisture vaporators, back when we used to hang out at Tosche Station.

news.mit.edu/2025/ultraso...
Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air
MIT researchers designed a device that quickly recovers drinking water from an atmospheric water harvesting material. The system uses ultrasonic waves to shake the water out of the material, recoverin...
news.mit.edu
November 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Grok why the crops dying

Grok please adjust sunlight 10%

Grok please
Elon Musk suggesting surround the planet with solar blocking satellites
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
drnereide.bsky.social
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Admire the extraordinary view of Pluto's nightside!

It stares back at us from the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt in a view we’ll never forget.

Credits: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24111...

🔭 🧪 #planetsci #histsci #science

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Black disk of Pluto edged by a thin, glowing halo—sunlight sneaking through its wispy, layered air from 4.9 billion km away. A slim crescent at the top catches Sputnik Planitia’s flat nitrogen ice and the sharp, icy ridges of Tenzing Montes. By New Horizons, 2015.
November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
kencaldeira.com
Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same.

And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.

@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.

ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
Two largest causes of death in the US are heart disease and cancer, but the media focuses on homicide and terrorism.
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Reposted by Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
climateofgavin.bsky.social
Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.
Time series of annual GISTEMP data from 1880 onwards with an estimate for 2025 based on Jan-Oct data showing that it will be cooler than 2024, but probably a little warmer than 2023.
November 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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A full, multi-trophic ecosystem based on icthyosaurs and archosauromorphs.

🧪🖥️🧬 #EvoSky #PaleoSky

phys.org/news/2025-11...
Oldest oceanic reptile ecosystem from the Age of Dinosaurs found on Arctic island
More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of S...
phys.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
crvscience.com
I guess the true upper limit for RNA preservation isn’t known since we’ve only been doing it for ~15 years? Really cool tho Ancient RNA has a nice ring to it.

🧪🖥️🧬 #EvoSky #Genomics

www.sciencealert.com/yuka-the-woo...
Yuka The Woolly Mammoth Just Gave Us The Oldest RNA Ever Sequenced
A woolly mammoth that lived and died nearly 40,000 years ago has given us a spectacular scientific first, millennia later.
www.sciencealert.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Importance of using single copy genes in phylogenomics

phys.org/news/2025-11...
Which came first: The sponge or the comb jelly? Scientists weigh in
In the world of phylogenetics, there's team sponge and team comb jelly. Which creature roots the animal tree of life—the simple sponge or the more complex comb jelly—has stirred fierce debate among ph...
phys.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Reposted by Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Behold the atmospheric river rolling into California today.. a firehose of moisture wrapped into the rotation of an extratropical cyclone. 🌀🌧️🌧️🌧️
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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🧪🛟 #PublicHealth #EpiSky

“Pant’s math shows how the numbers would play out: An 86% decrease of the mosquito population in Burkina Faso, with the fungal method.”

news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/12/f...
Want to eradicate malaria-bearing mosquitoes? Try fungus, this researcher says
A Northeastern postdoc has created a mathematical model that demonstrates how a fungal solution could control malarial mosquito populations.
news.northeastern.edu
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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🧪 #EvoSky #EcoSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals - Nature
Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g3-stro...
G3 (STRONG) GEOMAGNETIC STORMING CONTINUES, G4 (SEVERE) STILL EXPECTED published: Thursday, November 13, 2025 22:36 UTC G3 (Strong) geomagnetic conditions have been observed over the last couple periods. With the impending arrival of the 11 Nov CME later today, elevated geomagnetic storm levels is likely to carry over into 14 Nov (UTC day).
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Inflation is fine

Also inflation:
Last US penny minted
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Reposted by Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
stsci.edu
The demand to use #NASAWebb shows no signs of slowing! For its fifth year, researchers around the world submitted a record-breaking 2,900+ proposals.

The types of requests show astronomers are ready to answer even bolder scientific questions: https://bit.ly/4nYC0LS 🔭 🧪
Illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope at the right with its gold, hexagon-shaped primary mirror and multi-layer sunshield. At left is a representation of its 18 primary mirror segments, which takes up about two-thirds of the view. Each segment is outlined in yellow and contains a different Webb image, artist’s concept, or spectrum (graph). The images display dying stars puffing off layers of gas and dust, spiral galaxies, planets, and deep fields of space spattered with fuzzy white galaxies. Three yellow, orange, and red wavy lines appear atop everything else, running left to right. The backdrop shows filaments of red gas and dust, white and blue stars, and distant galaxies, all against the black background of space.
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
inaturalist.bsky.social
Based on these photos, some experienced spider-identifiers are suggesting that the individual here might be the species Schenkeliella spinosa.
A brown and cream spider with spikes on its abdomen crawls across a leaf.
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reposted by Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
secondnaturemb.bsky.social
Polar bears are experts in relaxing. Nothing like a good kelp bed in the sunshine. #Mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
A polar bear lies on his back in a deep bed of brown kelp next to the blue water of Hudson Bay. He stretches his right arm up over its head. A polar bear lies on his back in a deep bed of reddish kelp and smiles in the sunshine, showing off his canines. A polar bear stretches out on his back in a deep bed of brown kelp in the sunshine.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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elife.bsky.social
For most of us, our physical and mental abilities decline as we age.

Scientists are examining tool use, a technically challenging activity, to learn how ageing affects our close relatives, chimpanzees, something we know very little about.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Well at least the time-polished format of a good Predator movie still works.
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Reposted by Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬
coralmorphologic.bsky.social
Gliding over a forest of quadricolor anemones in the Coral Morphologic coral museum #coralmorphologic #miami #coralcity
November 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM