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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is such an important point. Also: pangolins are the perfect animal. I love them so much I almost can’t stand it.
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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 07/03/2025
if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I had to bring this here because it’s so good
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Matt Wilkins @mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com · 08/03/2025
I was honored to speak at the MN #StandUpForScience2025 rally yesterday abt the need to shift science outreach focus from informal settings to formal K-12. Invigorating to gather w so many concerned abt anti-science efforts in the US! Thanks for your leadership @standupforscience.bsky.social👏👏👏
hundreds of concerned Minnesotans gather to show solidarity for science
A postdoc who was fired from her government post 3 weeks into her work (for no reason) speaks from the steps of the Minnesota State Capitolprotesters hold up signs saying
Our Future Depends on Science
Science-it just may save your life
and Mad Scientist
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”
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Jon from Stated Clearly @statedclearly.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Science is (ideally) the careful collection and documentation of observations, and an honest, ongoing debate about what those observations most likely mean. Lab coats optional.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I think at this point if you’re not getting censured by congress it’s probably a sign that you’re simply not going hard enough
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘
"Scissor Graph" showing men overtaking women in proportional representation in sciences after doctorate
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I really didn’t want this to be true. But it is. HHMI funding is all private. There is no good reason for this program to be pulled.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/02/2025
We’d all love for climate science to be apolitical. But it’s not—and can’t be. This book explains why. Eye-opening and highly recommended! For the short version, read: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A book cover for "Scientists as Prophets" by Lynda Walsh.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 04/02/2025
@matthewherper.bsky.social explains how we know that vaccines do not cause autism. www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/v...
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Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism
Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve almost certainly read that before — but often without a full explanation of how we know it to be true. Here's how we know.
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
One of my biggest pet peeves is the phrase "dig for fossils." Fossils really need to be on or at the surface to be found, and that means that what we have found is a teeeeeeeeeny little portion of what's out there. Isn't that exciting? www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...
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Scientists Think the World's Oldest Dinosaur Fossils May Still Be Awaiting Discovery
We just have to find them... and that might be a problem.
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Amanda L. Townley @evophd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Please share far and wide! @ncse.bsky.social is hosting Montana Science teachers for a free climate science PD in a few weeks! K-12 teachers invited!
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I definitely do not send my kids to school to “provide [my] children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation” anyone else?
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This feels important.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/01/2025
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Very chilly week here, so got some suet pellets as well as peanuts. Steller's had to pause to sort out how to get more in their beak. #ThursJay #birds #becurious
photo of a steller's jay standing on gravely ground. they are facing the camera looking slightly down. they have two suet pellets in their beak.
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Keep this place The Good Place!
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
You could think it's not a big deal to say "biological change over time" instead of "evolution," but you'd be wrong.
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Meera Subramanian @meerasub.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
There's @katharinehayhoe.com on the cover page of the Climate/Environment section of @elpais.com! Reminding us that no one person or government can stop the fight against #climate change. And China? They installed more solar in the last yr than the US ever has.
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Katharine Hayhoe, climatóloga: “Solo el año pasado, China instaló más paneles solares que EE UU en toda su historia”
La jefa científica de Nature Conservancy y profesora en Texas considera que “ninguna persona ni ningún Gobierno” puede detener la lucha contra el cambio climático
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Jocelyn Benson @jocelynbenson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I became a law professor, a Secretary of State, and a candidate for Governor — all with the tools that a public education gave me. Let’s give every kid in Michigan a strong education — no matter what zip code they’re born in.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 29/01/2025
If you need a break from terrestrial news, please join me on a trip 200 million miles from earth for some clues about how life began. (Gift link) nyti.ms/3Cu9gsr
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Life’s Building Blocks Lurked Inside NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Samples (Gift Article)
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I say this with love to my friends in science who don’t know what to do right now: think about kids playing soccer. We can all just chase the ball & try to kick it at the same time. (It may even go in the direction we want it to!) But we can play better, together, if we know our positions.
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a group of young children are playing soccer on a lush green field
Alt: Little kids playing soccer on a green grassy field. It’s chaotic.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
ANYWAY, sorry, here's a bird. Pause and regard the bird. The bird is happy, for the bird has found a peanut. May we all find the small joy of finding a tasty snack today. (photo by me)
Bird! A blue jay. Sitting on a bent branch of a dogwood tree, the branch mounded with snow, the dappling of late day sunlight behind. The blue jay is in the left of frame, facing right, its tuft slicked back and catching the golden light. In its mouth -- er, it's beak, is the beak its mouth, or is the mouth inside the beak okay never mind whatever -- IN THE BEAK is a peanut. A treasure. A prize. A little snack. The blue jay looks quite pleased at what it is found in the snow -- taken before a squirrel could get it. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New newsletter! It’s almost Sunset Day, social media is a mess (though @bsky.app is not), and I’m looking for a new lesson partner… is it you? eepurl.com/i8F6ro
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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a man in a leather jacket and tie is talking to someone .
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Okay I'm going for a walk to go touch some moss. Go find some moss, everyone. Touch it and whisper to the tardigrades inside your hopes and dreams.
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@katharinehayhoe.com is a beacon of realistic optimism.
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Okay. This is *Mars.* we have a 360 image of *Mars.* Science is so forking badass.
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Ingrid (she/her) @ingridmiera.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Equity is in everything that we do. #EduSky
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Darcy Pattison @darcypattison.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
For those who need a NON-POLITICAL fake news story to discuss with kids. #kidlit #digitalliteracy #edusky #tlsky #truthmatters
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Photos like this make me understand why people used to think that Earth was surrounded by a heavenly sphere of stars. It feels like you should be able to reach out and touch it.
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BIteScis @bitescis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hello world! We're BiteScis, a 1.5-person operation that provides totally free, totally editable, and totally awesome science lessons to teachers. Check them out at bitescis.org! #EduSky #SciEd
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joy from inside out is doing a yoga pose and smiling .
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