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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

this may be the pinnacle of my science communication career

How to make a cephalopod. (With cartoony drawings)
1. Remove limbs. (Smiling human with dotted lines at shoulders and hips)
2. Attach to lips. (Human with flat mouth expression, just head and torso. Arms and legs are floating above with arrows pointing from them to lips)
3. See? It works. (Smiling human cephalopod with arms and legs around mouth. Drawing of an octopus shows anatomical similarity.)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Our brains have a huge energy demand (seen figures for 20% body's total energy). That can be a problem during periods of extreme environmental change and increased survival pressures, which might be why the size increase of our brains slowed down. 🧪 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Temporal trends in brain mass across the genus Homo. (A) Boxplots of absolute brain mass across time suggest an increase from Early to Middle Pleistocene populations. Plot supports a transition from directional to stabilizing selection in brain size among Homo populations over time. Grey error bars represent standard deviations; red error bars represent 95% confidence intervals; red dots and solid black lines denote mean and median brain size, respectively.

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☀️ @vamospeat.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

happy thursday enjoy jinkx monsoon dragging jk rowling to the depths of hell and back

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I thought this statement was a little over-the-top, especially when the video first stared, but OMG keep watching. I don’t know this guy or his animations, but now I want to. That was like a wonder bath for my brain.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but there’s just something about critters noshing on one another that leaves me gobsmacked. And nothing does it like the comb jelly Beroe [Thread 🧵] 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkN...

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

If you want to boycott industries associated with the Trump administration, stop buying tuna. The tuna industry is the central lobby behind the decision to sell Pacific Islands Heritage National Monument for commercial fishing. Tuna should have the same reputation as Tesla.

leatherback turtle caught collaterally in tuna seine

a pod of dolphins trapped in a tuna seine

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

~600 seeds packs have been distributed throughout Fishtown, Kensington, & Port Richmond. Putting together the next batch, with the PA ecotype seeds for the poster series today. It's not solving everything, but adding more insect habitat to urban ecosystems while educating? Worthwhile I think.

Huge-ass bags of seeds, next to teeny tiny little bags of seeds, next to a stack of "plant native plants" posters, with the words "take one and plant" on the bottom. Also there are posters in teh background that have had clips attached to them.

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

While this should be obvious... Transgenic: An organism with genes from another species, often inserted for scientific research or agricultural improvements. Transgender: A person whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The spawning system has been donated to a local university but I hope to still be involved with it going forward. Still funny to see it on skates.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If you have an iPhone and don’t want Apple AI monitoring/reading/learning from every single app you use, you need to make these changes (not just for Signal). 🧪

Heads up from National Lawyers Guild: if you have an iPhone, you have to turn off Siri or Apple Intelligence so it’s not monitoring/reading/learning from your Signal messages.

Go to Settings—> Apps —> click Signal —> toggle Apple intelligence or Siri setting to off (“learn from this app”)

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Chocolate chip oatmeal Mount Olympus FTW!

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Shloop 𓅃 @bugwizardshloop.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’ve found a ton of Instagram insect sellers who slap “sustainably sourced”, but never seem to elaborate what they mean by “sustainable”. Curious! So I checked their pages to see what I can find. This one didn’t even try to hide it. You can see labels stating origin country and collection date. 1/9

A bio of an insect seller. Particularly, it writes, “…sustainably sourced critters and art…”

An Instagram post of the seller mentioned in the first photo. It features various specimens of beetles, stick insects and lanternflies. Some of the specimens have labels of their origin country and collection date.

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𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖𝕔𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 @sugarkat.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio. Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 04/12/2024

What are the best starter packs you’ve found?

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Very thankful today for the community that is forming here. I thought it gone when Tw1tter fell but it is clearly rising from the ashes.

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm not positive but I think this is a cousin to that tap dancer:

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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 27/11/2024

Reformatting this whole thing. Blocklist for Hugging Face, the AI company that's proudly stealing your tweets

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I hope federally funded scientists are preparing for large scale, bad faith attacks by Musk and his troll army. It’s pretty clear the DOGE operation is going to take snippets of grant proposals and papers, present them out of context, and direct weaponized harassment of individual people.

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Two examples of the opposite response to the unknown coral disease that killed the 1.0 version of the spawning system. These are from the kenti/bifaria complex and should grow in a corymbose morphology but instead grow arborescent?

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

In addition there was a distinct shift of the microbiome towards Mycobacter, Coxiella, and Clostridia, similar to what is suggested here: www.nature.com/articles/ism...

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Two weeks worth of algal growth in the spawning system. Over the past year there was a distinct shift from a coralline algae dominant environment to an Ulva/Bryopsis/hair algae environment. I suspect this is from iron overload similar to what is discussed here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A little garden pond I built to give the local amphibians a place to stay. Really helps wash away the stress of the day.

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Need to bite the bullet and start working on my first two lectures for the spring semester but fighting a mild case anxiety paralysis regarding my return to academia. Curses!

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A picture from the praziquantel bath demonstrating the bizarre “clubbed” appearance that arborescent corals develop when infected by the unknown coral disease. Many of these were preferentially predated by rabbitfish but did not revert to a normal phenotype following rabbitfish removal.

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The same coral post baths in praziquantel and imidacloprid, now demonstrating significantly more normal growth. Upon reintroduction to the spawning system, this normalized growth regressed.

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Another coral that typically develops in an arborescent pattern, here with a bizarre polyposis appearance. In addition, this coral was noted to be predated by rabbitfish but did not alter its phenotype post removal of said fish.

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

More examples of the same phenotype. The lack of branch growth and axial polyp overgrowth makes me wonder if this isn’t a disease centered in axial polyps which fail to have growth extension and thus develop skeletal overgrowth.

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

An example of the unknown coral disease in question. Note the lack of significant branching, over abundance of radial corallites, and blunted overgrown axials. This phenotype was seen across multiple species and genuses.

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Party Tegastes @dorkusregis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My land-based coral spawning system (version 1.0), fell prey to an unknown contagious coral disease and what appears to be excess iron build up. An unexpected job change (for the better) derailed it as well. I’m hopeful that version 2.0 solves all of that in 2025.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/11/2024

Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪

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