Sam Dean
@samdeanscience.bsky.social
She/herpetologist, ecologist, frmr professor; current doctoral student | Baltimorean | Unabashed pun enthusiast and ice cream appreciator.
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"The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported." via @theguardian.com
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
"The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported." via @theguardian.com
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A crazy event in the report: “Following the retreat of South Sawyer Glacier, a landslide in southeast Alaska’s Tracy Arm in August 2025 generated a tsunami that swept across the narrow fjord and ran nearly 1,600 feet up the other side. Fortunately, the fjord was empty of cruise ships.”
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A crazy event in the report: “Following the retreat of South Sawyer Glacier, a landslide in southeast Alaska’s Tracy Arm in August 2025 generated a tsunami that swept across the narrow fjord and ran nearly 1,600 feet up the other side. Fortunately, the fjord was empty of cruise ships.”
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Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
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NCAR is foundational scientific infrastructure. This is escalating the assault on climate science, and there is a direct line between this step and the loss of many human lives.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
NCAR is foundational scientific infrastructure. This is escalating the assault on climate science, and there is a direct line between this step and the loss of many human lives.
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Today's Paper of the Day is:
Examining the threat of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza to human health
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/paper-of-the-day
Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2025
Examining the threat of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza to human health
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/paper-of-the-day
Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2025
December 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Today's Paper of the Day is:
Examining the threat of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza to human health
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/paper-of-the-day
Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2025
Examining the threat of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza to human health
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/paper-of-the-day
Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2025
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Not only does Musk demonstrate unfamiliarity with hysterectomies -- and 600,000 of these procedures are performed each year in the US alone -- but it really illustrates how he sees women: not as fully equal human beings, as tools for (his) reproduction
December 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Not only does Musk demonstrate unfamiliarity with hysterectomies -- and 600,000 of these procedures are performed each year in the US alone -- but it really illustrates how he sees women: not as fully equal human beings, as tools for (his) reproduction
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Our best-selling book celebrates diversity & explains evolutionary adaptations along with messages on conservation & respecting difference, in a fun way.
Worth a look if you think your kids (ages 4-9) will enjoy learning about interesting animal characters that stand out for their weirdness.
Worth a look if you think your kids (ages 4-9) will enjoy learning about interesting animal characters that stand out for their weirdness.
December 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Our best-selling book celebrates diversity & explains evolutionary adaptations along with messages on conservation & respecting difference, in a fun way.
Worth a look if you think your kids (ages 4-9) will enjoy learning about interesting animal characters that stand out for their weirdness.
Worth a look if you think your kids (ages 4-9) will enjoy learning about interesting animal characters that stand out for their weirdness.
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Wisdom update! Her mate is back, too! Wisdom is *at least* 75 years old, the oldest living wild bird that we know of. Birds are amazing!
#birds #albatross #conservation
#birds #albatross #conservation
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Wisdom update! Her mate is back, too! Wisdom is *at least* 75 years old, the oldest living wild bird that we know of. Birds are amazing!
#birds #albatross #conservation
#birds #albatross #conservation
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
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Super useful tips & tricks for insect specimen imaging from @andrewjohnston.bsky.social! He shares how to build an affordable focus stacking system on your own.
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Super useful tips & tricks for insect specimen imaging from @andrewjohnston.bsky.social! He shares how to build an affordable focus stacking system on your own.
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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🗳️ Philly has a DA race, New Jersey is electing a governor, and the balance of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is on the ballot today.
Follow live Election Day updates here 👇
Follow live Election Day updates here 👇
Voters to choose Philly DA, New Jersey governor as polls open for election 2025
Voters will also decide the makeup of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court Tuesday.
www.inquirer.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🗳️ Philly has a DA race, New Jersey is electing a governor, and the balance of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is on the ballot today.
Follow live Election Day updates here 👇
Follow live Election Day updates here 👇
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spatialreserves.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/t... my top 10 most useful geospatial data portals list.
The Top 10 most useful geospatial data portals: Update
Visit the post for more.
spatialreserves.wordpress.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
spatialreserves.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/t... my top 10 most useful geospatial data portals list.
I saw Dr. Goodall speak in 2019 in DC. She greeted the audience in chimpanzee, showed us her childhood stuffed monkey Jubilee, and was incredibly human in sharing how she became a scientist. May we all be as good to this world as Dr. Goodall, and may she rest in power.
October 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I saw Dr. Goodall speak in 2019 in DC. She greeted the audience in chimpanzee, showed us her childhood stuffed monkey Jubilee, and was incredibly human in sharing how she became a scientist. May we all be as good to this world as Dr. Goodall, and may she rest in power.
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JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
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This assignment for Comparative Anatomy has been a big success, so I'm sharing it here!
September 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This assignment for Comparative Anatomy has been a big success, so I'm sharing it here!
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The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Tons of potential with this new product!
The authors present the "Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG): a database that combines fuel treatment data from the US Forest Service and US Department of the Interior systems of record, making them easily accessible and interpretable"🔥
The authors present the "Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG): a database that combines fuel treatment data from the US Forest Service and US Department of the Interior systems of record, making them easily accessible and interpretable"🔥
A new geodatabase of fuel treatments across federal lands in the USA - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A new geodatabase of fuel treatments across federal lands in the USA
dx.doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Tons of potential with this new product!
The authors present the "Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG): a database that combines fuel treatment data from the US Forest Service and US Department of the Interior systems of record, making them easily accessible and interpretable"🔥
The authors present the "Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG): a database that combines fuel treatment data from the US Forest Service and US Department of the Interior systems of record, making them easily accessible and interpretable"🔥
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@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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California communities can reduce wildfire damage by half. Here’s how:
Our new study "Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface" was published in Nature Communications today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/c...
Our new study "Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface" was published in Nature Communications today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/c...
Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface - Nature Communications
Wildfire risk in California’s WUI is rising. Analysis of past events shows home hardening and defensible space can reduce structure loss by up to 52%, but coordinated, community-scale action is essent...
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
California communities can reduce wildfire damage by half. Here’s how:
Our new study "Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface" was published in Nature Communications today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/c...
Our new study "Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface" was published in Nature Communications today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/c...
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Wetlands as water filters
A new study shows European wetlands remove over 1 million tonnes of nitrogen each year. Targeted wetland restoration could cut pollution to seas by up to 36% while aiding biodiversity and climate goals.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SciComm 🧪 #Wetlands
A new study shows European wetlands remove over 1 million tonnes of nitrogen each year. Targeted wetland restoration could cut pollution to seas by up to 36% while aiding biodiversity and climate goals.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SciComm 🧪 #Wetlands
The important role of wetland conservation and restoration in nitrogen removal across European river basins - Nature Water
This study evaluates the potential of wetland conservation and restoration to improve water quality and highlights the important role of wetlands in nitrogen removal across European river basins.
www.nature.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Wetlands as water filters
A new study shows European wetlands remove over 1 million tonnes of nitrogen each year. Targeted wetland restoration could cut pollution to seas by up to 36% while aiding biodiversity and climate goals.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SciComm 🧪 #Wetlands
A new study shows European wetlands remove over 1 million tonnes of nitrogen each year. Targeted wetland restoration could cut pollution to seas by up to 36% while aiding biodiversity and climate goals.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SciComm 🧪 #Wetlands
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Some frogs are thumbnail-size. But Cameroon’s Goliath frog is bigger than a whole human foot, weighing up to 3.3 kilograms. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/3VkucrG
The world's biggest frogs build their own ponds
Goliath frogs excavate meter-long pools and guard their tadpoles through the night
scim.ag
August 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Some frogs are thumbnail-size. But Cameroon’s Goliath frog is bigger than a whole human foot, weighing up to 3.3 kilograms. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/3VkucrG
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Hey folks out there who ❤️ to #CTscan things and ❤️ museums! the @amnh.org is hiring a Laboratory Manager for their Microscopy and Imaging Facility, a.k.a. the CT lab 🧪
careers.amnh.org/postings/4550
careers.amnh.org/postings/4550
Laboratory Manager
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cult...
careers.amnh.org
August 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Hey folks out there who ❤️ to #CTscan things and ❤️ museums! the @amnh.org is hiring a Laboratory Manager for their Microscopy and Imaging Facility, a.k.a. the CT lab 🧪
careers.amnh.org/postings/4550
careers.amnh.org/postings/4550
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Check the comments to follow all kinds of actual scientists studying amazing things. #science
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
August 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Check the comments to follow all kinds of actual scientists studying amazing things. #science