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How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have traded them around the world.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have traded them around the world.
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have traded them around the world.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have traded them around the world.
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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They did the Monster Slash
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Hear ye, hear ye!
Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...
Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...
<i>Dendrogaster nike</i>
Parasitic crustaceans can evolve into some pretty funky forms and they have been featured multiple times on this blog. These crustacean...
dailyparasite.blogspot.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Hear ye, hear ye!
Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...
Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...
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Opsin genes drive speciation in corals. New paper by Matias Gómez and Carlos Prada shows divergence in G-Protein coupled Receptors such as Opsins drive the formation of new species across depths. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Speciation across depth gradients in reef corals
Nature Communications - Here, the authors explore mechanisms associated with common depth distributions in sister lineages of corals. They document sequence divergence for proteins related to...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Opsin genes drive speciation in corals. New paper by Matias Gómez and Carlos Prada shows divergence in G-Protein coupled Receptors such as Opsins drive the formation of new species across depths. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🐈 What's TikTok good for? Examining which arthropods are hunted by cats.
🌍 Social media have become an increasingly useful resource in ecological research.
🪲 We now know that cats kill arthropods from 14 different orders.
🧪 Study:
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌍 Social media have become an increasingly useful resource in ecological research.
🪲 We now know that cats kill arthropods from 14 different orders.
🧪 Study:
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Social media highlights the overlooked impact of cats on arthropods
The impact of domestic cats on vertebrate biodiversity is unequivocal; however, we still know little about their effects on arthropods. By analysing over 17,000 photos and videos from social media p...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🐈 What's TikTok good for? Examining which arthropods are hunted by cats.
🌍 Social media have become an increasingly useful resource in ecological research.
🪲 We now know that cats kill arthropods from 14 different orders.
🧪 Study:
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌍 Social media have become an increasingly useful resource in ecological research.
🪲 We now know that cats kill arthropods from 14 different orders.
🧪 Study:
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Political attacks on universities are eroding academic freedom, and that threatens the global research collaborations behind major scientific breakthroughs.
There’s a positive correlation between protections for academic freedom and the quality and quantity of STEM research.
buff.ly/YGGZ4m4
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There’s a positive correlation between protections for academic freedom and the quality and quantity of STEM research.
buff.ly/YGGZ4m4
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Research breakthroughs often come through collaborations − attacks on academic freedom threaten this vital work
Academic freedom grew strongly after World War II, with greater university funding, protections and autonomy, yet global data now shows a decline.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Political attacks on universities are eroding academic freedom, and that threatens the global research collaborations behind major scientific breakthroughs.
There’s a positive correlation between protections for academic freedom and the quality and quantity of STEM research.
buff.ly/YGGZ4m4
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There’s a positive correlation between protections for academic freedom and the quality and quantity of STEM research.
buff.ly/YGGZ4m4
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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
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🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 NOAA's Teacher at Sea program - Online Application: Opens 11/19/25 and Closes 12/12/25. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/teache...
Teacher at Sea Program
NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program offers educators a unique opportunity to join NOAA scientists aboard an ocean research vessel as a member of the science team.
www.fisheries.noaa.gov
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 NOAA's Teacher at Sea program - Online Application: Opens 11/19/25 and Closes 12/12/25. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/teache...
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Nope. The headline should actually read “Astronomers using ML discover quasars acting as lenses”
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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The title, the words, the framing matters. The public is entitled to know how Trump has crippled the #NIH & American research enterprise. Also, as a woman, no matter what your education, title or accomplishments are, you will be denigrated & called a DEI hire.
🧪 justthenews.com/accountabili...
🧪 justthenews.com/accountabili...
Anti-Trump media gadfly at NIH put on paid leave for 2nd investigation since pandemic: director
The face of the resistance in NIH, dubbed "radical leftist" by unnamed HHS official, shared essay valorizing those who "break the law" and recommending "acts of noncompliance," but Director Bhattachar...
justthenews.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The title, the words, the framing matters. The public is entitled to know how Trump has crippled the #NIH & American research enterprise. Also, as a woman, no matter what your education, title or accomplishments are, you will be denigrated & called a DEI hire.
🧪 justthenews.com/accountabili...
🧪 justthenews.com/accountabili...
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A paper in Nature Biotechnology presents CellWhisperer, which uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data. go.nature.com/3XqzItR 🧬 🧪
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A paper in Nature Biotechnology presents CellWhisperer, which uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data. go.nature.com/3XqzItR 🧬 🧪
Reposted by Misha Matz
Offsets are such a bloody stupid idea. The idea of equivalence is false. Pretending to conserve species and habitat while simply carrying out business as usual. Anyone who works in the conservation space knows this 🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Biodiversity offsets failed to protect habitat in NSW. Now federal Labor is about to make the same mistakes, critics warn
Offsets were meant to be a last resort for mitigating environmental damage from development projects, but rapidly became the default
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Offsets are such a bloody stupid idea. The idea of equivalence is false. Pretending to conserve species and habitat while simply carrying out business as usual. Anyone who works in the conservation space knows this 🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Great new paper by the amazing @noahleith.bsky.social and his colleagues! 🌎🧪🦑
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Carryover Effects on Reproduction Can Buffer Against Mortality‐Driven Population Declines at Elevated Developmental Temperatures
We show that hotter juvenile temperatures can increase adult fertility in an emerging model insect system. These reproductive benefits may be crucial for insect populations to avoid extinction during....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Great new paper by the amazing @noahleith.bsky.social and his colleagues! 🌎🧪🦑
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🧪 Cotton facilitates long-distance seed dispersal through bird nests: a mutualistic relationship?
www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
Cotton facilitates long-distance seed dispersal through bird nests: a mutualistic relationship?
Cotton (genus Cossypium) fibres, which grow naturally in bolls around the seeds of cotton plants, have been used for centuries to produce fabric. The presumed natural function of cotton is that these ...
www.authorea.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
🧪 Cotton facilitates long-distance seed dispersal through bird nests: a mutualistic relationship?
www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
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🍂 🏛️ 👿 🧪 US Congress Bill to Prohibit Funding for Research with China
Proposal bars funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students; bill is retroactive - interactions in previous 5 yrs could cause ineligibility for future Federal funding
Proposal bars funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students; bill is retroactive - interactions in previous 5 yrs could cause ineligibility for future Federal funding
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🍂 🏛️ 👿 🧪 US Congress Bill to Prohibit Funding for Research with China
Proposal bars funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students; bill is retroactive - interactions in previous 5 yrs could cause ineligibility for future Federal funding
Proposal bars funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students; bill is retroactive - interactions in previous 5 yrs could cause ineligibility for future Federal funding
Reposted by Misha Matz
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A federal judge ruled Donald Trump cannot demand that UCLA pay a $1.2 billion settlement that would have restricted academic freedoms. bit.ly/3JV8Cbg
📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social
📸 Jules Hotz
📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social
📸 Jules Hotz
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Evidence of domestication syndrome associated with urbanization in racoons. 🧪
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Evidence of domestication syndrome associated with urbanization in racoons. 🧪
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Bloody Hell
Watch this.
🧪If @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is called a "radical leftist" then all of us in science are. She was put on leave b/c she criticized the Trump administration. She sees the chaos, destruction & waste on the inside of the NIH.
Speaking up is risky, yet necessary. Via IG.
Watch this.
🧪If @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is called a "radical leftist" then all of us in science are. She was put on leave b/c she criticized the Trump administration. She sees the chaos, destruction & waste on the inside of the NIH.
Speaking up is risky, yet necessary. Via IG.
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Bloody Hell
Watch this.
🧪If @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is called a "radical leftist" then all of us in science are. She was put on leave b/c she criticized the Trump administration. She sees the chaos, destruction & waste on the inside of the NIH.
Speaking up is risky, yet necessary. Via IG.
Watch this.
🧪If @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is called a "radical leftist" then all of us in science are. She was put on leave b/c she criticized the Trump administration. She sees the chaos, destruction & waste on the inside of the NIH.
Speaking up is risky, yet necessary. Via IG.
Reposted by Misha Matz
Open access link to new study in Science magazine:
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology.
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology.
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology
Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Open access link to new study in Science magazine:
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology.
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology.
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Misha Matz
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
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“The sharp rise in younger women wanting to leave the US has created a large gender gap btwn them & their male counterparts.
Today’s 21-percentage-point gap btwn younger men (19%) & women (40%) wanting to leave the US is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend.”🧪
Today’s 21-percentage-point gap btwn younger men (19%) & women (40%) wanting to leave the US is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend.”🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“The sharp rise in younger women wanting to leave the US has created a large gender gap btwn them & their male counterparts.
Today’s 21-percentage-point gap btwn younger men (19%) & women (40%) wanting to leave the US is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend.”🧪
Today’s 21-percentage-point gap btwn younger men (19%) & women (40%) wanting to leave the US is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend.”🧪
Reposted by Misha Matz
A tour de force expose of those trying to smother us in anti-science propaganda. Michael Mann and Peter Hotez are leaders in confronting the anti-science crowd. They describe their own experiences and name and shame the organizations and individuals involved and how we can defeat them. Read it. 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A tour de force expose of those trying to smother us in anti-science propaganda. Michael Mann and Peter Hotez are leaders in confronting the anti-science crowd. They describe their own experiences and name and shame the organizations and individuals involved and how we can defeat them. Read it. 🧪
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🍂 👿 ‼️ 🧪
Jenna Norton, an outspoken signer of the Bethesda Declaration. was welcomed back to work by being placed on Administrative Leave (for No Disciplinary Reason).
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
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I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.
TikTok video by Jenna
www.tiktok.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I must have watched this Mars Pathfinder video dozens of times as a young kid. Part of my formative space memories 🤩
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youtu.be/r7RkqYtcLYY?...
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youtu.be/r7RkqYtcLYY?...
Mars Exploration Rover Animation HD
YouTube video by JPLraw
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I must have watched this Mars Pathfinder video dozens of times as a young kid. Part of my formative space memories 🤩
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youtu.be/r7RkqYtcLYY?...
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youtu.be/r7RkqYtcLYY?...