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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Walking through the urban crow roost at 4am and seeing THOUSANDS of sleeping crows despite the noise of the city was one of the coolest things I've ever experienced. I'm delighted that I got to write about it for @highcountrynews.org #scicomm 🪶🧪

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I've got a new essay in @highcountrynews.org, all about giant green anemones and how much I adore them. #scicomm 🦑🧪

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Had one of those moments where I thought SURELY everyone must know about the frog genus Mini, home to tiny frogs Mini mum, Mini scule, and Mini ature, only to text several friends and realize this isn't common knowledge. So now you, dear BlueSky friends, get to learn too. 🐸 🧪

The XKCD Lucky 10,000 comic, about how for each thing everyone supposedly knows by the time they're adults, each day there are approximately 10,000 people in the U.S. hearing about it for the first time. The second panel usually shows someone asking about diet coke and mentos and their friend saying oh man, come on, we're going to the grocery store. In this one, diet coke and mentos has been replaced with The Mini frog genus, and the grocery store has been replaced with Madagascar.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I haven't seen enough Juneau Icefield Research Program on hype on BlueSky! Are you a student interested in polar science? Are you a researcher imagining future field work? Are you an educator looking to teach the best and brightest? JIRP is for you! Deadlines are soon! www.juneauicefield.org 🧪⚒️

Nine people standing in a row in front of a vast glacier with jagged mountains in the distance

Woman standing on a rock in front of a glacier running through a wide valley, with dark moraines and arcuate ogives on the surface of the ice

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Today's #scicomm / science question: what are your favorite science/ecology/climate words? For their beauty, their utility, their awe-inspiration, or simply because they're fun to say? 🧪🦑 Some of mine: solastagia (neologism), pyrocumulonimbus (awe+beauty+horror), albedo (important+fun to say)

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elmo is wearing a chef 's hat and holding a glass of orange juice

Alt: elmo is wearing a chef's hat and saying that's a big word for elmo

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Science and marine life folks! Does anyone on here study sea anemones (or know someone who does)? I'm particularly interested in talking to someone about the biomechanics of their tentacles and stinging cells. 🧪🦑

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a close up of a sea anemone with a lot of tentacles

Alt: a close up of several sea anemones in different colors (white, yellow, brownish orange) waving their tentacles

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

WHAT (this paper isn't new, it's a decade+ old, but also still WHAT WHAT WHAT) 🧪

screenshot of a scientific paper heading, reading: contributed papers. giant green anemones consume seabird nestlings on the oregon coast. authors: Lisa Sheffield Guy, Lisa Bullis Habecker & Gretel Oxwang

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 16/09/2025

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

reading a study about coyote diets, and my condolences to the person who had to do this part: "Prior to extraction, we homogenized the scat (hand-mixing it from outside of the collection bag for 10–15 s)" The scat was dried out at this point and they presumably were wearing gloves, but still 🧪

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

walking up to my computer sideways in a slight crouch, eyes averted, trying to trick myself into writing

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Currently reading a study about mesopredator (raccoon, coyote, skunk) cognition and please enjoy this photo of a raccoon in a box scientists built for it to press buttons in (study is Stanton et al, Variation in Reversal Learning by Three Generalist Mesocarnivores) 🧪

a black and white image of half a raccoon's face VERY CLOSE to the camera

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2025

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This is your regular reminder that Jacobin pigeons exist, and they ARE coming to steal your husband 🪶 (photo via WikiCommons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_...)

a ridiculous looking pigeon. It is mostly white with a few dark feathers on its wing and tail, and a few golden feathers in its ruff. Its ruff is the bizarre part—it has fluffy-looking feathers sticking out all around its neck in a collar that makes it look like it's wearing a Elizabethan ruff.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A thing I've noticed while reading about urban animals is that squirrels, unlike other animals, are often framed as study participants rather than subjects. I love it so much. 🧪🐿️

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a squirrel is standing in a pile of leaves on the ground

Alt: a squirrel pawing at leaves on the ground as if it's panicked it forgot where it put that acorn

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I understand that bears are large, but I saw bear poop today that was approximately two+ inches in diameter and I am perturbed

An array of cylindrical turds; the photo completely fails to communicate how big they were

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Rattlesnakes apparently only need 500-600 calories a year??????? @ologies.bsky.social blowing my mind today

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Important update: I have done a Very Scientific survey of friends and family and 11/11 people are familiar with lemurs. So I don’t know what was up with this book. Then again, my friends and family are all, like me, nerds…

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The First Lego League is a competition that schools from all over the place compete in. As part of the competition they need to consult with an expert. A lot of clubs use our program to make that connection. This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The book I’m reading just explained how to pronounce the word lemur. Are most people unfamiliar with lemurs? Is my childhood animal nerdery skewing my perception here?

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a group of lemurs are standing on a wooden fence with the word orbo on the bottom

Alt: A group of ring tailed lemurs hopping over a seated lemur on a wooden fence

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

never over the fact that the Latin for thrush is turdus, which means we have birds with deeply stupid and silly names like Turdus migratorius 🪶 #birds

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a bird with a red beak is standing on a grassy hillside

Alt: an American robin hopping along a grassy lake-edge

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If you’re chronically ill, wildfire smoke will likely harm you more than disabled peers. Having air purifiers is a great way to reduce flares. An air monitor can help ensure they’re working well! The AQI where I am is 151, but my purifiers are keeping PMs below 10!

Photo of an air monitor showing AQI of 151, pm 2.5 of 6, voc of 0.947, co2 of 706 and temp 21.9

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Related: does anyone want to hire me to write a story about these sled dogs and their rangers. If I had to go to Alaska to meet them OH NO THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Where did I go wrong that this isn't my life

A ranger has picked up one of the Denali sled puppies to show it off to the puppy cam and it has decided it must lick their face immediately

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I was just informed that Denali National Park has a sled dog puppy cam and you might also need this information www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

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Webcam: Sled Dog Puppies - Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

why oh why is this chapter taking me eight million years to write

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Long shot, but is there anyone on here who studies (or knows someone who does) historical animal populations in cities? Particularly non-domesticated animals (rats, raccoons, squirrels, etc.) in the 19th and 20th centuries. Would love to interview you for a book chapter I'm working on! 🧪 #histsci

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Today I learned that there is a pigeon breed named the Antwerp smerle, and saying that out loud definitely brought a smerle to my face (image via wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An...

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

when will I learn to wear long sleeves when I pick berries 🌱

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Do not give this woman a dime of your money. 1. Do not watch the new show. 2. Do not stream any of the movies (yes, that includes Fantastic Beasts) 3. Do not buy any of her books. She has a pen name Robert Galbraith. www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

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J.K. Rowling uses 'Harry Potter' wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

just accidentally played a recording of coyote vocalizations over a Perfume Genius track and it worked BEAUTIFULLY, why isn't this a real thing

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

ok gardening folks, what are your favorite (preferably vegan/veganizable) recipes that use a ton of parsley? Mine made it through the winter and is starting to bolt and I hate just tossing what I trim. 🌱

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How do we fight this? Where are they drawing data from? Can that be found with FOIA? Can we pressure the entities they’re getting data from? Who has standing to sue? This is so dangerous it has to be stopped before it gets further…

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Darren Incorvaia @megadarren.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“De-extinction” is to biodiversity loss what “Mars colonization” is to climate change—wishful thinking that is at its core impossible but nevertheless sucks up attention and resources from actual solutions to these crises (which, ultimately, might be the whole point)

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story. Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.

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Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal

The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Reminder: photos of protests & you want as many people as possible to see & share them? Alt text If you want to add context about a cool sign someone was holding in a pic? Alt text If you want to be part of the fight against the elimination of disabled ppl from work & public life? Alt text

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Took myself on a field trip to Salt Creek Recreation Area on the Olympic Peninsula today—my first visit since ~2012—and while I knew Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit the region hard, it was astounding to see how much a difference it made. 🧪🦑 1/

rocky tidepools at the ocean's edge. The rocks are covered in many kinds of seaweel, mussels, barnacles, and limpets, and there are purple sea urchins in the pools

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2025

Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

reading about urban carnivores and "the highest density recorded for raccoons is an astonishing 333 individuals per km2 (estimated for an urban park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida)"🧪 WHAT WERE THEY ALL STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER OR SOMETHING

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

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a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .

Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm looking up some potential books to buy for research purposes and, uh, I think I'm going to skip this one

A screenshot of a book review that reads: For whom was this book written? The author does not say, so we will have to guess. Apparently, it is aimed at a nontechnical audience which would include sanitarians, some teachers, and local administrators. The writing is very simple, no data are exposed for analysis, and few questions are raised.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Good - this is *exactly* the frame we need. We cannot do science in a bubble. Good science cannot happen under fascism. We must accept our part in the bigger fight.

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Writers of Bluesky: what are your tips & tricks for residencies? Open to any & all suggestions: what to bring, how much to plan, how to not burn myself out in the first three days, etc. etc. I get to head to Centrum for two weeks (!) in April and am both excited and slightly overwhelmed #booksky

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Ok I know this is plants 101, but it is still magical to me that plants can take sunlight and air and create NEW MATTER. Come ON This brought to you by the fact that I have a bunch of cilantro in a glass of water and they grew! Their stems! 🌱

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Liz Weinberg @eaweinberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I am reading about all the places coyotes have been tracked super near humans without being noticed (hanging out under a bush next to a post office! Near a pool entrance!) and I want so badly to have a magical coyote detector. WHERE ARE THE FRIENDS

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