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Lisa M.P. Munoz
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Science communicator: Passionate about science, family, endless forms most beautiful...and Swiss chocolate. Author of WOMEN IN SCIENCE NOW (https://amazon.com/Women-Science-Now-Strategies-Achieving/dp/0231206143) via
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I feel seen.
Though this has been me virtually every day for months.... usually just end up not posting anything. 😮‍💨
rheisman.bsky.social Rebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · 4h
I've been sitting here for several minutes waffling between typing something that acknowledges the current horrific things happening in this country and something about the bird stories I'm working on this week. I give up. Happy (?) Monday.
January 26, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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dianakwon.bsky.social
Looking for sources for a @nature.com story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!
January 26, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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THE MUPPET SHOW Returns With Delightful Full Trailer, Reveals Guest Star Maya Rudolph nerdist.com/article/the-...
THE MUPPET SHOW Returns With Delightful Full Trailer, Reveals Guest Star Maya Rudolph
The first, delightful full trailer for Disney's The Muppet Show trailer teases the possibility it could be a pilot for a full reboot.
nerdist.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:50 PM
lisampmunoz.bsky.social
Something fun and uplifting in dark times!
January 23, 2026 at 9:02 PM
lisampmunoz.bsky.social
Judged a high school science fair last night. And favorite thing I heard from the students when asked if anything surprised them: "We were so happy and surprised we got data!"
Simple but powerful...the beauty of the scientific method. If you build it, the data will come. 😁 🧪
January 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
Writing is thinking

Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
January 18, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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saveourseas.bsky.social
A spectacle to behold, in the shallows, hugging this island, we see broad cowtail rays and mangrove whiprays - and looking with a close eye, few juvenile blacktip reef sharks weave between the rays.

Footage by Sebastian Staines.

#saveourseasfoundation #sharksandrays #conservation #videography
February 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Amyloid plaque can build up in body organs other than the brain. The resulting diseases — AL amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis and more — cause much suffering.

✍️ Amber Dance

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Amyloidosis: Beyond Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Amyloid plaque can build up in body organs other than the brain. The resulting diseases — AL amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis and more — cause much suffering.
knowmag.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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The world feels rough right now

So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.

🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
January 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Monica Rosenberg has been interested in the brain-mind interface before she even knew it was possible to study it professionally. For her innovative research on attention, she is a co-recipient of the #CNS2026 Young Investigator Award. Read a new Q&A with her: www.cogneurosociety.org/threading-to...
Threading Together Attention Across Human Cognition
CNS 2026 awardee Monica Rosenberg researches attention, including developing brain-based predictive models to gain insights into cognition.
www.cogneurosociety.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:27 PM
lisampmunoz.bsky.social
This just out in Nature 🧪👇
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
If you are interested in modern scientific fieldwork and AI, my book on the topic will come out, hopefully next year, with a different perspective on the issue (that yes we still need scientists in the field!):
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‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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jesshebert.bsky.social
Here are the child vaccine recommendations as of November 2024. Keep them with you, advocate for your kids, get the vaccines they need to stay healthy and promote immunity for the whole community. #Health #CDC #vax
This is a full Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule. It is quite extensive. If you are in need of a direct text translation of the whole document, please DM @jesshebert for assistance. This is a timeline depicting the Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule. It is quite extensive. If you are in need of a direct text translation of the whole document, please DM @jesshebert for assistance.
January 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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#OTD in 1818, Mary Shelley's 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯; 𝘰𝘳, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘶𝘴 was first published.

The title compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay.

#literature #litsky #booksky #scifi #gothic #HappyNewYear
A split-image composition with a warm brown border, featuring two panels side by side. On the left, a classic oil portrait painting of Mary Shelley as a young woman. She has dark hair parted in the middle and styled with soft curls framing her face, and wears an off-the-shoulder black gown with a low neckline. She sits against a dark, moody background with rich red drapery, gazing calmly at the viewer with a serene expression. On the right, the front cover of the novel "Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The design is predominantly black with white and gray tones, featuring the title in large bold white uppercase letters at the top and the author's name at the bottom. Centered is a dramatic engraved illustration showing a tormented, muscular creature reclining in despair on the floor of a gothic laboratory, one arm raised to shield its face, while Victor Frankenstein stands in the background holding a long torch or staff, illuminated by light streaming through an arched stained-glass window.
January 1, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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“There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than a distant image of our tiny world. …it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
theplanetaryguy.bsky.social Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 26d
Open up this picture fully.

Then look at the surface of Mars.

Then look up to the top right.

Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.

Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.

That's Earth.
A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.
December 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Oh my goodness, that's amazing! and wonderful!
paulguinnessy.bsky.social Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · Dec 22
Women made up 21% of faculty members in US physics departments in 2024, up from 16% a decade earlier. The percentage of women faculty members in the nation’s astronomy departments rose from 19% in 2014 to 25% in 2024. #academia #womeninscience #faculty
Upward trend in percentage of women physics and astronomy faculty in US
physicstoday.aip.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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scurry.bsky.social
Writing is thinking - a short but memorable thread.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Dec 16
I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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cogneuronews.bsky.social
From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his #CNS2026 YIA talk:
www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio...
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Taking Action Seriously in the Brain: Revealing the Role of Cognition in Motor Skills
Samuel McDougle, a CNS 2026 YIA recipient, studies both how people build motor skills through mental functions like “motor working memory."
www.cogneurosociety.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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columbiaup.bsky.social
Give a gift that lasts beyond the season. Our new releases bring bold ideas, rigorous research, and fresh perspectives to readers who care deeply about understanding the world. A holiday gift with purpose. buff.ly/bJDmkZ1 #HolidayGifts #ReadUP #GiftBooks #BookLovers #AcademicBooks #IdeasMatter
Promotional graphic promoting new releases by published by Columbia University Press. It features a set of six book covers, and offers a 20% discount with code GIFTS at cup.columbia.edu.
December 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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RIP Rob Reiner
a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying have fun storming the castle
Alt: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is saying "have fun storming the castle" - from Princess Bride
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December 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting.

-pure heroism.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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❤️❤️❤️
#scicomm
annemarie.bsky.social Anne Marie Conlon @annemarie.bsky.social · Dec 11
What's the best science gift you ever got? 🔭🔬

We asked @nature.com readers for their faves. They include the geneticist inspired by slicing up cow eyeballs she was given as a child, and the former head of the Canadian Space Agency who got a telescope for Christmas in time for the Apollo 8 mission
The gift that shaped my career in science
Nature asked about your most memorable scientific gifts. You delivered.
www.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Let's share it wide: these rocks need a home! #geologists #geology
geology.bsky.social Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · Dec 11
Here's a long shot: a big orphan pebble collection from the USGS, yours if you can take and treasure it. See alt text
California Conglomerate Clast Collection Seeks New Home Conglomerate clasts were collected from 279 sites by Vic Seiders and Brett Cox for their report, "Place of Origin of the Salinian Block, California, as Based on Clast Compositions of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Conglomerates," USGS Professional Paper 1526 (https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1526/report.pdf). This is an extremely important comprehensive collection. Localities are principally in or near the Salinian Block in western California, but cover from Anchor Bay (Stewarts Point quad, 4,281,400N, 462.390E) to Cabo Vizcaino in Baja California, including a bit of western Arizona. At least one locality, on Highway 92 near Pilarcitos Creek (site WO-268, Woodside quad, 4,149,080N, 555.710E), is now inaccessible, having been encased in Caltrans concrete. In the mid 1990s, when the USGS closed their rock storage depository in Menlo Park, throwing irreplaceable collections in the trash, the Seiders and Cox collection was given by Brett Cox to Kathleen Burnham for safe keeping. However, she used only one of these clasts in her own work, has no further need of them, and has run out of room to store them. The collection is entirely pebbles, size range 0.4-6.0 cm, mainly 0.4-3.0 cm, and samples were etched overnight in 5% hydrofluoric acid solution, to aid in identification. The rocks are neatly stored in boxes measuring 12" x 9.5" x 5". At present the stack is 6 by 3 by 6 boxes, which comes to 108 boxes, and the stack measures 69" x 39" x 30", roughly 47 cubic feet. The boxes are marked and numbered. One box was partially damaged, however, no clasts or markings on the box were lost. Kathleen used the Seiders and Cox locations for some of her own collection, and reports that despite their work pre-dating GPS, their sample locations are extremely accurately specified in their publication. If this collection would be useful to you, and/or you can give these rocks a home, DM me and I’ll pass on your name. clean etched pebbles from the collection Boxes of the collection, each one clearly marked and annotated
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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thoughtsstained.bsky.social
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
lisampmunoz.bsky.social
Watched "Medicine Man" for the first time in >30 years and it aged better than expected--great at showing some aspects of science! Researched the inspiration after and found this wild story on someone who thought the cure to cancer lay in shrunken heads:
magazine.atavist.com/2020/the-sec...
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The Secret Formula - The Atavist Magazine
Could shrunken heads hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Delighted that one of my Antarctic winter photos has won the 2025 Royal Society Photography Competition, Earth Science & Climatology category.

Captured during polar-night surveys of ocean conditions near Antarctic Peninsula glaciers.

royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM