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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 2d

Just found this image of the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption in Iceland that I've never shared before. Being in the presence of this volcano and feeling the intense heat of the Earth on my skin was genuinely the best experience of my life and its not even close. #photography

An erupting volcano. A black spatter cone with a gap in the front has lava fountaining out, hundreds of feet into the air, smacking against the cone, and flowing along a snaking lava river toward the camera. A plume of gas rises into the air with mostly cloudy sky in the background.

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 2d

New radiotherapies for cancer are so hot right now--on this week's @science.org podcast, with Bob Service www.science.org/content/podc...

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 5d

Ahhhh, just let is all out. Sighing FEELS good--but is it good for us? This week on the @science.org podcast, Maria Novaes-Silva talks about the science of sighs and how these big inhalations change the mix of molecules on the surface of the lungs. Listen here www.science.org/content/podc...

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 12d

"I wasn't, I was, I'm not, I don't care." Our exploration of books on death continues with What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife w/ Robert Garland and Angela Saini this week on the @science.org podcast. Listen here 🎧 : www.science.org/content/podc...

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 13d

So many blood tests are checking for specific proteins in the blood -- what if we could watch them all the time? This week on the @science.org podcast: A look at the potential of continuous protein monitoring w/ Zakiya Whatley and Jane Donnelly.
Listen here 🎧 : www.science.org/content/podc...

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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 14d

Awkward as it might look, sideways locomotion might have fueled the diversification of crabs and allowed them to conquer new habitats. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 15d

The best of fall science books on the @science.org podcast with books editor Valerie Thompson (definitely worth adding a few of these to your holiday shopping list!)

www.science.org/content/podc...

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 16d

On the latest @science.org podcast, food policy researcher Ben Belton discusses what appears to drive drone use in agriculture and how drones might make farming more productive and sustainable.

Listen here 🎧 : www.science.org/content/podc...

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 20d

Vaccinating against group B streptococcus (GBS) during pregnancy has been a long time coming, this week on the @science.org podcast w/ Leslie Roberts. Listen here 🎧: www.science.org/content/podc...

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John Travis @john-travis.bsky.social · 23d

Here's an unlikely story that combines a fake neuroscientist, multiple lawsuits, Jeffrey Epstein, optical illusions, Nobel laureates, and the most famous picture of DNA. Another wild @science.org yarn with exclusive details from Jon Cohen www.science.org/content/arti...

After bizarre journey, prized history of molecular biology archive finds new home

Science History Institute makes public multimillion-dollar collection, including Rosalind Franklin’s famous DNA image, assembled by fake scientist

www.science.org

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 25d

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful #Celtic glass bracelets found in the surroundings of Bern, Switzerland. Dating around 200 BC.
To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone.

Bernisches Historisches Museum.

🏺 #archaeology

A row of colorful ancient glass bracelets in blue, yellow, green, and brown, each with different patterns, displayed against a black background.

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 27d

This week on the @science.org podcast, weird rings of DNA called extrachromosomal DNA may help hard-to-treat cancers like glioblastoma resist drugs w/ Elie Dolgin. Listen here 🎧:
www.science.org/content/podc...

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Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social · Aug 23

I made some short explanations of Ancient Greek Pottery shapes for my classes:
✨Part 1: common shapes✨

Ancient Greek pottery: part 1, common shapes

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Federico Sánchez Quinto @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great podcast by @rpocisv.bsky.social and colleagues from Science @science.org about our recent publication about recovery mitogenomes from Basin of Mexico Columbian mammoths. Its a not miss! 👇

Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · Aug 28

What we can learn from a mother lode of Mexican mammoths w/ @rpocisv.bsky.social this week on the @science.org podcast
Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · Sep 4

This week on the @science.org podcast: Creating connections with strings and wings w/ Christine Elliott (or how music can bring people and bugs together)
Listen here 🎧
www.science.org/content/podc...

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · Sep 3

It turns out that the heavily polluted Tijuana River also pollutes air in the surrounding neighborhoods. In the latest @science.org podcast @kprather.bsky.social talks about ways to clean the air and water w/ Nazeefa Ahmed

Listen here 🎧: www.science.org/content/podc...

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Ollie Fern @whalefern.bsky.social · Aug 30

a four-second emotional journey from "the heron looks so lovely in the peaceful morning light" to "I guess I knew on some level that their tongues must be very long and pointy. but I didn't, like, viscerally understand it until now." 🪶

a great blue heron flying over a still lake with white water lilies

the heron flies closer, and it becomes clear that its beak is open, its tongue poking out

in the morning sun, the heron's long pointy red tongue seems to glow

closeup of the heron's open mouth, showing its long pointy red tongue

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Aug 30

Happy weekend!

From c. 3,600 years ago, here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙

Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC.

National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

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#Archaeology

My photo shows a blue spherical bead in the form of a hedgehog curled up in a defensive ball displayed on a grey background. It is made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material with a shiny blue glaze. The hedgehog’s face, ears, feet and tail are shown in relief, and the quills are represented by black dots painted over the surface of the bead. A hole for threading runs through the sphere - it can just be seen on the right hand side of the bead. The hedgehog’s long ears suggest this is a desert hedgehog. Desert hedgehogs may have symbolized rebirth because they reappear after hibernating underground in winter. Dated c.1985 - 1650 BC. On display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · Aug 29

From the @science.org podcast series on books about death and science, this month we hear about how animals understand death and grief w/ @susanamonso.com and #AngelaSaini

Listen here 🎧
www.science.org/content/podc...

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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · Aug 29

Heads up: @science.org is looking for a new research #editor based in the US or UK to handle papers in #InfectiousDiseases (e.g., #virology, #microbiology, #parasitology) & #microbiome research! This is an amazing opportunity, so don't delay! Applications are due 22 SEP!

recruiting.ultipro.com

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · Aug 28

What we can learn from a mother lode of Mexican mammoths w/ @rpocisv.bsky.social this week on the @science.org podcast
Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · Aug 27

On the latest @science.org podcast: Complexities of mapping dengue in Latin America w/ Talia Quandelacy.
Listen here: 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...

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Fernando Villanea @fervillanea.bsky.social · Aug 21

Our paper on the evolution of MUC19 in humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans is finally out today in Science!

This has been a six-year effort by 13 authors to weave together 3 separate but related evolutionary stories around this one gene (more on thread 🧵).

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

The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection

We study the gene MUC19, for which some modern humans carry a Denisovan-like haplotype. MUC19 is a mucin, a glycoprotein that forms gels with various biological functions. We find diagnostic variants ...

www.science.org

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