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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 10h

Hmm, I didn’t expect this kind of reaction, tbh. Studying species response to global warming is my job, actually.

Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 21h

Fascinating. Just want to point out that finding a first-generation hybrid does not necessarily mean the two species are going to merge - often, backcrosses and late-generation hybrids are still unviable, e.g. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 🧪🌎

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 23h

Warming temperatures aren’t just melting ice, they’re merging ecosystems. 🪶🐳🧪

As habitats shift, species that evolved thousands to millions of years apart are coming into contact again, creating wild hybrid offspring like the “pizzly bear” and the newly spotted “grue jay”.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Masterclass in decisions-based evidence making

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 1d

Best-presented argument I ever read on this subject: why USA must stop gerrymandering, and how open.substack.com/pub/jaimehar...

The Cancer Eating at Democracy

I’ve long believed that the singular cancer in our democracy is political gerrymandering. It’s the reason Congress doesn’t work the way it should.

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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 5d

This may be the best response to much of the junk science being pushed by the trumpies in the US. 🧪🌎🐟⚒️ #TeamFish

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 5d

UCalgary is awesome! Check out these opportunities, Geo Sky! ⚒️ 🧪

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 7d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 12d

🦋 Colours that protect

A global experiment with 15,000 paper 'moths' showed camouflage works best in darker places or when rare, while bright warning colours help more where predators are fewer.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

#SciComm 🧪 #Evolution

Global selection on insect antipredator coloration

Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...

doi.org

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Svasti Haricharan @svasti.bsky.social · 18d

The papers that HHS cites to bolster their claim appear to have convinced many people that this is a legit scientific observation. But the citations actually show no correlation between Tylenol use and autism. PSA: Don't believe something because someone provides a citation. Go read the cited paper🧪

David Nauen @mengdie.bsky.social · 18d

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>77 million votes. Today the big reveal on autism: Tylenol. "I'm making these statements from me, I'm not making them from these doctors." youtu.be/esKFMCb_hYU?...
The viewer comments below the video are the only glimmer of hope.

LIVE: Trump makes an announcement on autism

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 20d

OMG it is really happening en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_(2...

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 22d

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 21d

Intense ivory poaching has led to the evolution of tusklessness in some African elephant populations, which might reduce poaching, but also happens to be an X-chromosome–linked dominant trait that is lethal to males #EleFunFactFriday #TheMoreYouKnow 💫 🧪 🐘

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ivory poaching and the rapid evolution of tusklessness in African elephants

Intensive ivory poaching during a period of civil conflict caused the rapid evolution of tusklessness in an African elephant population.

www.science.org

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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 22d

Hi Canadian friends! Want to help prevent what’s happening to science south of our border from happening here??
Hope the answer is YES…
Assuming it is, it took me about 2 mins to fill out and send this pre written letter #ArmchairActivism #AcademicSky 🇨🇦 🧪

CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 22d

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science.

Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.

Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 22d

A paper in Nature suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

go.nature.com

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 22d

Booze is in our genes, since before primates were primates www.science.org/content/arti...

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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 22d

The Ig Nobel awards for science that makes you laugh then think are back. Highlights this year include the preferred pizza of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort, the physics of perfect pasta dish and a man who documented the growth of a fingernail for 35 years! 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research

The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

www.nature.com

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Henning Dekant 📎 @quaxquax.bsky.social · 24d

A clean energy source I did not have on my bingo card. 🧪
newatlas.com/energy/elect...

Electricity through osmosis: Japan opens landmark osmotic power plant

Imagine generating power not from sunlight or wind, but from the simple mixing of fresh and salt water. This is the quiet promise of osmotic energy, a renewable energy source generated where river mee...

newatlas.com

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 24d

Cannot recommend 2bRAD enough. Mega robust, less than $10/sample (incl library and seq) linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/art...

A 2b-RAD parentage analysis pipeline for complex and mixed DNA samples

Next-generation sequencing technology has revolutionized genotyping in many fields of study, yet parentage analysis often still relies on microsatellite markers that are costly to generate and are cur...

linkinghub.elsevier.com

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Angela Marusiak @planetaryquakes.bsky.social · 24d

The OWWG has a new home at workforce.psi.edu/owwg/ ! We also have a new mailing list hosted by PSI. You can subscribe by sending a message to [email protected]. Thank you to PSI for hosting our new webpage and mailing list!
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Ocean Worlds Working Group (OWWG) - Workforce

The 2023 Decadal Survey [Origins, Worlds, and Life, p. 568] recommended that “NASA should develop scientific exploration strategies, as it has for Mars,...

workforce.psi.edu

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 24d

[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]

Mars Curiosity Rover wheel pendant necklace in sterling silver. Including the hidden Morse code message 😎

🔭🧪🐡🎨

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 27d

Sounds like mosquitos evolved to go for a typical human.

Wim Meijer @wimgmeijer.bsky.social · 27d

What do mosquitoes like?

People who recently drank beer were 44 percent more attractive to mosquitoes than people who abstained..

Mosquitoes also liked people who used cannabis and people who had slept near another person the previous night…

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www.sciencenews.org/article/avoi...

Want to avoid mosquito bites? Step away from the beer

A Dutch music festival turned into a mosquito lab, revealing how beer, weed, sleep and sunscreen affect your bite appeal.

www.sciencenews.org

Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 29d

This sound parsimonious (one life’s origin instead of two) except how did it make through Earth’s conditions during late heavy bombardment? It would take 1000s of life-packed comets to establish it here. In which case life must be pretty much everywhere where there is/was liquid water… hmm

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Shanil Virani @shanilv.ca · Sep 10

I hear you—but here’s why this is huge: we know *how* microbes can evolve into sentient life. That’s just #evolution. What we don’t know is how life _begins_ from organics that we see everywhere. If Mars had life, it means that leap happened twice in one solar system. That’s the *real* BFD. 🔭🧪

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ah. I was confused by the analogy with swifts who, with their short broad skull, don’t glean (afaik) but specialize in hawking.

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Lara K. Mahal @glycocode.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Jutras Lab @jutraslab.bsky.social · Sep 6

Our lab manager search is live! 👇
Please like and re-post
#MicroSky

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/re...

Northwestern University hiring Research Lab Manager 1 - Jutras Lab in Chicago, IL | LinkedIn

Posted 8:17:05 PM. Department: MED-Microbiology-ImmunologySalary/Grade: EXS/6Target hiring range for this position…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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