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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human. 🧪

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How Jane Goodall Changed Our View of Chimps (And Humans) Forever

Jane Goodall, the world's most famous primatologist, accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human.

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La Chelle Dame Sans Merci @chelleraiser.bsky.social · 17d

I love my job 😂♥️🧪https://www.sciencealert.com/fish-buttholes-may-be-the-reason-we-now-have-fingers-study-finds

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Aug 8

ScienceAlert: 'Massive Study Links 8 Genetic Signals to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome'

'"For decades people with ME have asked to be heard, and now science is catching up."'

#DecodeME

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Massive Study Links 8 Genetic Signals to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is a debilitating and long-neglected disease that experts typically dismissed as psychosomatic for decades.

www.sciencealert.com

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Aug 6

Archaeologists have discovered the tools of a mysterious new hominin from more than a million years ago on a neighboring island to the ‘hobbit’ ancestors.

We now have two big questions to solve: Who were they? And how did they make a deep sea crossing?

www.sciencealert.com/ancient-tool...

Ancient Tools Suggest Indonesian 'Hobbits' Had a Mysterious Neighbor

The ancestors of the ancient 'hobbits' who once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores were not the only early hominins to cross deep ocean barriers more than a million years ago.

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · May 7

Hi Dani, I'm a science journalist who would like to be added as a contributor to the science feed, thanks! www.sciencealert.com/carly-cassella

Carly Cassella, Journalist at ScienceAlert

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · May 7

Since 1958, humans have visually explored between 0.0006 and 0.001 percent of the deep seafloor -- Earth's largest ecosystem.

Even if we ramp up explorations, researchers predict it could take ~100,000 years for us to see the whole damn thing.

www.sciencealert.com/weve-only-gl...

We've Only Glimpsed 0.001% of Earth's Deep Seafloor, Study Reveals

Earth's surface is mostly deep ocean, but a new study reveals just how little we have glimpsed of the floor of our planet's largest ecosystem.

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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · Apr 16

Avian influenza is a devastating setback for Patagonia’s Southern elephant seals.

It may take a century before the colony of Península Valdés returns to its 2022 numbers, says a new paper co-authored by WCS Argentina.

🌎 bit.ly/42PpTJm

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Apr 8

"It's a bit like the guy in the Chinese zoo who had dogs that he painted to be pandas. And everyone you know fell for that story."

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Did Dire Wolves Just Come Back From Extinction? Here's The Truth.

The internet is currently abuzz with talk of dire wolves – an extinct species of prehistoric wolf that used to roam North America and that was famously featured in the HBO fantasy series, Game of Thro...

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Apr 1

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica. Like a retractable roof at a stadium, the drifting structure has opened up a hidden habitat below to the elements...

... and to the prying eyes of an ROV 👀

www.sciencealert.com/antarctic-ic...

Antarctic Iceberg Breaks Away to Reveal a Never-Before-Seen Ecosystem

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a stadium, the drifting structure has opened up a hidden habitat to the elements...

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Mar 23

#blessed

baby seal lying on the ice captioned

in the glittering backlight, a fat baby seal is doing nothing special

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · Feb 25

Whenever I see Salvinia, I'm mesmerized. Not only because it's a float fern (yes, fern), incredibly beautify, also I always try my best to look at those egg beater looking hair clusters that hold up water drops so elegantly. #iamabotanist
#plantjoy 🧪🌸🌱

A bunch of floatong salvinia leaves on water

Two salvia leaves each holding water drops

A close up of how the hairs holding up water

Another close up of hair holding up water

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Feb 18

#addBirder

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Feb 18

Hi Dani, I'm a science journalist who would like to be added as a contributor to the science feed, thanks! www.sciencealert.com/carly-cassella

Carly Cassella, Journalist at ScienceAlert

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Feb 18

It's hard to imagine birds of paradise looking any flashier than they already do with their bright, elaborate plumage. But just wait til you see them under ambient UV and blue light.

They even glow from the insides of their mouths!!! 😱 🧪🦉

www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...

Most Birds-of-Paradise Are Secretly Biofluorescent, Study Finds

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye.

www.sciencealert.com

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Jan 15

In 2018, @blkahn.bsky.social said that the warming stripes graphic 'belongs in a damn museum', even suggesting that it was 'fit for the Museum of Modern Art' (see gizmodo.com/this-climate...).

Well...

Later this month, they will appear in the Museum of Modern Art: press.moma.org/exhibition/p...

This Climate Visualization Belongs in a Damn Museum

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Jan 14

A colossal ice core just drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, going back 1.2 million years.

Each meter holds ~13k years of deep, compressed history. The whole sample could extend across the Golden Gate Bridge. 🧪🌏

www.sciencealert.com/oldest-unbro...

Oldest Unbroken Record of Earth's Climate Pulled From Antarctic Ice Sheet

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years.

www.sciencealert.com

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Dec 2

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – big-headed cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100,000 years ago 🧪

www.sciencealert.com/large-head-p...

'Large Head People': Mysterious New Form of Ancient Human Emerges

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100...

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Nov 14

Imagine a time machine that could whisk you back to the age of the dinosaurs. Suddenly, you find yourself in a dense, swampy forest, with insects buzzing between flowers, ferns, and conifers.

Believe it or not, you're standing in West Antarctica.

www.sciencealert.com/first-ever-a...

First-Ever Amber Discovered in Antarctica Shows Rainforest Existed Near South Pole

Imagine a time machine that could whisk you back to the age of the dinosaurs.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · Nov 14

Here’s where you come in.

We have enough funding to bring some staff to bioGraphic, but not the whole team. We’re looking everywhere for financial support, and to bring more people over, we need to raise US $150,000.

Will you help us?

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Hakai Magazine - bioGraphic

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Sensory Ecology Lab @sensoryecology.bsky.social · Nov 12

“A native New Zealand insect that once mimicked its toxic neighbor has changed color in deforested areas, in a striking example of human-induced evolution.”

#scicomm
#sensoryecology
#mimetism

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🧪 🦗 🐙

These Insects Changed Their Entire Color Because of Humans

A native New Zealand insect that once mimicked its toxic neighbor has changed color in deforested areas, in a striking example of human-induced evolution.

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La Chelle Dame Sans Merci @chelleraiser.bsky.social · Nov 11

I spoke to space plasma physicist Jamie Jasinski about the perils of sunning Uranus 🧪

Strange Anomaly in 1986 May Have Warped Our Perception of Uranus

For decades, we've thought we had a pretty good grasp of Uranus.

www.sciencealert.com

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Apr 7

I was today years old when I found out the true meaning of honeydew 🤯

Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · Apr 7

Inspect a Southern Beech tree in NZ & you'll see long wispy hairs emerging, with clear liquid at the tip. This is honeydew, the delicious sugary poo of scale insects feeding on the tree's phloem!

This important energy resource supports a whole ecosystem, from sooty mould to native bees and birds! 🧪

A photograph of a long white waxy tube emerging from a dark tree bark surface, with a clear liquid droplet at the end.

A photograph of a yellow, furry bee feeding on the liquid droplets on the surface of a tree bark.

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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · Apr 2

Brachycybe millipede dads can cart their kiddos around like a minivan!

This genus has one of the few known cases of obligate paternal care in arthropods. Dads groom the eggs and protect them from fungal infections, desiccation, and predation. 🌿🧪🐛

A pink flat millipede is standing like an inchworm, holding a cluster of yellow spherical eggs in the "pocket" with his legs. I rolled his log over to have a look, and in response to the light and drier air, he picked up his eggs and is on his way to the underside of the log.

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Carly Cassella @carlycassella.bsky.social · Mar 27

Like me finding a warm spot in bed 🦭

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · Mar 27

We’re launching a membership program! Support our award-winning journalism with a monthly or yearly donation to Hakai Magazine—no amount is too small. Help us reach 300 new members by April 15:

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