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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026

Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons theonion.com/fall-canceled-after-3-…

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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Wow that's a cool urchin! 5800m @nautiluslive.org dive 7.10.26 #MarineLife

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Shumpei Maruyama @shumpeim.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Excited to share that my postdoc work is now out @cp-cell.bsky.social! A collaborative work with co-lead author Catherine Henderson and others in the lab of @pcleves.bsky.social A deep look into how algae form symbiosis with corals and anemones. 🧵 (1/7) www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Co-option of lysosomal machinery shapes the evolution of the intracellular photosymbiosis supporting coral reefs

Corals harbor intracellular algal symbionts in specialized organelles that enable them to build diverse reef ecosystems. Corals and other cnidarians have repeatedly evolved this symbiosis through the ...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/06/2026

Media: "This heatwave is unprecedented" All the experts who've spent the last five decades precedenting it:

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

One more talk from my lab today at #Evol2026. Postdoc @calebcbutler.com will be presenting on our collaborative project with @raulgoch.bsky.social searching for conserved mechanisms of cnidarian symbioses. Come hear more about this exciting project.

Screenshot of conference app with talk information.

“One Symbiont, Two Symbiont, Red Symbiont, Green Symbiont: Searching for Shared Mechanisms of Symbiosis in Two Functionally Convergent Symbiosis”

Monday at 5pm in Room 21.

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 02/05/2026

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

A three panel comic done in mostly a blue-purple ink. Frame 1: The artist, a tired person with their hair in a bun and a bag on their shoulder standing in the awning of a bus shelter. There's an ad on it that says "STOP HIRING HUMANS", above a woman whose face has been replace with the word "AI".
Frame 2: The bus comes, it's wrapped in an ad that also says "STOP HIRING HUMANS." The artist has a blank look.
Frame 3: A plane has now arrived above the bus and the human. It's carrying an ad banner that also says "STOP HIRING HUMANS".

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

And here is the nepenthephile crab Geosesarma malayanum (the photo credit is 2 posts down, I thought it would get more deserved attention if the actual photo was visible) 🧪🦀

An adorable crab which is mostly dark purple with claws tipped in red. It is peeking out from the rounded mouth of a carnivorous plant, which also has spiky leaves

Photo: Francesco Tomasinelli

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Pegushi 🔜 SacAnime Summer AA153 @pegushi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🥺 It’s my birthday this week, can a girl get a retweet and show me your favorite fish???

5 ticket shaped cards in a pink theme, depicting a mermaid, sea turtle, clownfish and pom pom crab

5 ticket shaped postcards in a gold and black theme, depicting a gulper eel, oarfish, anglerfish, mermaid and vampire squid

5 ticket shaped postcards in a blue and starry theme, depicting flying fish, sunfish, moon fish, whale shark and eagle rays.

5 ticket postcards in a woodsy camping theme, depicting a Sturgeon, American Eel, fly river turtle, rainbow trout and northern pike

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

6 bad doodles with text under each one.
horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab.
shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style.
crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes.
shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away.
crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped.
horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.

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Hassan Salem @hassansalem.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

How specific are heritable symbioses? And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species? We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hannah Reich @hannahgreich.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It's that time of year again! I'm looking for suggestions of 'emerging' model organisms for my #CellBio course's final proj: Organism nomination form here (links to blog on proj info): forms.office.com/r/v8zYgqVe8W #cellbiology #biology #academicsky #microsky #archaeasky #protistsonsky 🧪 (1/n)

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Lab Christmas party last night had a surprising star… Motsenbocker was the life of the party. Made sure to supervise the white elephant exchange as well.

A man holds a box in front of a Christmas tree, inspecting it. Behind him is an Orange car perched in a folding chair next to other on lookers

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Day 3 #Invertober2025 - Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) 🟢 #SciArt #invertebrates

semi realistic drawing of a giant green anemone, a bright green circle with a small anus like central mouth and hundreds of tiny bright green tentacles around it, on a black background.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 29/09/2025

New today: We're petitioning NSF to revert GRFP eligibility criteria to last year's terms, to avoid pulling the rug out from under the earliest of early-career scientists who had every reason to think they'd be able to apply this year. Sign and spread the word! laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Early in the pandemic I spent 2 terrible weeks in isolation, unable to breathe or walk across the room. Expecting my temp. to spike, & knowing that then I'd have to go to the hospital. Worrying I was dying. In the middle of this anti-vax bullshit, I thought it was worth saying what it felt like:

Poem titled "Gnawed." The text of the poem reads:

Gnawed

Kalends of April, 2020

I can feel the rat,
dark and angry,
buried
in the furrows of my chest,
trying hard to pull apart
the fiber of my breathing.
Twisting. Writhing.
Clawing
with a feral-hearted hatred
at the bonds that sinew
soul to skin.
I cannot walk across the room without
the rasping of its teeth
along the inside of my ribs,
or speak without it screaming
in the shallows of my breath.
I can only lie beyond
the borders of my life,
checking the thermometer
a hundred times a day
as all the while
I am being
eaten
from the inside out.

– John Wyatt Greenlee

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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

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Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

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Dr. Caleb C. Butler 🦠🪸 @calebcbutler.com · 31/08/2025

Out of town for a concert and the cat camera has fallen and/or been knocked down successfully 👍

Image of Wednesday, a domestic short hair cat with black fur, above the camera's POV and staring directly down at the camera.

Image of Pete, a domestic long hair cat with a sort of grey mask on his face and various grey spots on his mostly white fur. Pete is loaded up a few feet away on the floor from the camera looking directly at it. Several cat toys like a banana and a ball are surrounding him since the cat's toy box is right there too.

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It’s crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went “wow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thing” And if you tell random people about it they go “no, that doesn’t seem true” and just refuse to believe you

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

You’re not the only one who feels like you’re losing your mind. Everyone I talk to has said this to me. This world is taking a toll on all of us, even those who are trying not to pay attention. Let this connect you to other people in solidarity rather than isolate you.

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🚨🚨We’re hiring a postdoc!🚨🚨 Min two year contract; start in 2026 (flexible) & contribute to this project focused on understanding the link between bleaching recovery and disease in cnidarians!! Opportunities to work on side projects too! Deadline Nov 1! Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem

fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu

opportunities – Symbiommunity Lab

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Dr. Caleb C. Butler 🦠🪸 @calebcbutler.com · 01/08/2025

🚨 Wednesday has successfully yoinked Pete's blanket 🚨

Pete, my long hair domestic cat thats mostly white white some grey splotches looking very concerned inside a pet crate inside a car. There is a blue blanket underneath him. Behind him, with a separator in the crate, is my partner's cat, Wednesday, a black short hair domestic cat. She's just looking to the side, much less concerned than Pete.

Now Wednesday has stolen Pete's blanket and sits on it while Pete is mostly now on the plastic crate bottom. Both have annoyed looks on their faces from the hours of car time.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/07/2025

My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October. So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.

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NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker

Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter): Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/07/2025

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 03/07/2025

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I am making a Starter Pack for people who are looking for PHD STUDENT POSITIONS in the biological sciences! If you wish to be added, please respond directly to this post saying you want to be added. I need at least 5 people to create the pack. Please share widely!

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I am making a Starter Pack for people who are looking for POSTDOC POSITIONS in the biological sciences! If you wish to be added, please respond directly to this post saying you want to be added. I need at least 5 people to create the pack. Please share widely!

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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Anthropogenic climate change will likely outpace coral range expansion #corals www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 27/06/2025

In one boxer crab 🦀 species, the anemones ONLY live on the crabs. The anemones on each claw are clones. If a crab loses one, they rip the anemone in two, and the anemones grow back. If a crab has none, they will fight another crab to steal one. doi.org/10.7717/peer...

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Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft

Crabs of the genus Lybia have the remarkable habit of holding a sea anemone in each of their claws. This partnership appears to be obligate, at least on the part of the crab. The present study focuses...

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

**Join us!** 2 year #postdoc in algal (photo)physiology Multidisciplinary project as part of the @icelabumu.bsky.social Postdoc Programme 🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/p... 📆 18 September 2025 📍 @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, Sweden @umeaunimarine.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌎

underwater cartoon scene, with pink algae on the bottom and the text: join us! postdoctoral research in algal (photo)physiology. Deadline 18 September 2025

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Dr. Caleb C. Butler 🦠🪸 @calebcbutler.com · 26/06/2025

Always very heartwarming when I get an email from a physics or chemistry journal encouraging me to submit to their journals after the were impressed by my work in *checks notes* phylogenetics.

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a close up of a man 's face with a sad look on his face .

Alt: Gif: Close up of Kenan Thompson's face with a normal expression suddently scrunching up in a confusion/annoyed manner.

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Additionally, I am creating a Starter Pack for early career scientists who are looking for postdoc positions! Let me know if you want to be included 🥰

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by @rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.

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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 16/06/2025

Considering the absurd week-end we just had, let me present you an absurd creature with a no less absurd name for #MolluscMonday 🦑 The Anadon's babakine (Babakina anadoni), a sea slug living in the Atlantic. Quite uncommon but a really cool guy, simply grazing on hydrozoans, as we should all do 🌊 🌿

Dorsal view of a specimen of Babakina anadon. The body and foor are bright pink, while the structures covering the surface of the body (cerata) shows deep blue and yellow hues, with pink tips.
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A specimen of Babakina anadon, crawling on the sea floor. The body is bright pink, while the structures covering the surface of the body (cerata) shows deep blue and yellow hues, with pink/red tips.
Credit : Corine Picard

Front view of a specimen of Babakina anadon on the sea floor. The body is bright pink, while the structures covering the surface of the body (cerata) shows deep blue and yellow hues, with pink/red tips.
Credit : David Blin

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Spidercat 🕷️🐱 @spidercat.io · 13/06/2025

New iNat update just dropped: forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-th... TL;DR yeah they fucking bungled their PR here, and maybe they're backpedaling without admitting it. things are not as dire as they once seemed. #inaturalist #inat

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What is this - iNaturalist and generative AI?

Hey everyone, I have some very very good news! @procyonloiter and I just had a 3-hour in-person talk with @loarie and I am delighted to say that it has completely alleviated my concerns around this ...

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Jürgen Strassert @strassert.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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