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Jake Buehler

@jakebuehler.bsky.social
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Science writer, hiker, diver. I'm into reef fish, conifers, & hot peppers. I write about weird lifeforms, natural history, & wildlife conservation. He/him jakebuehler.com

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 21/09/2026
The DNA in your cells has a much more complicated backstory than you might think. To convey this, our art department gave stop-motion a try:
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 21/09/2026
Nearly half of your genome is a wild drama: mobile, repetitive, disruptive, even viral. These unruly fragments are connected to the evolution of everything from moths to wombs. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/how-virus-li...
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How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution | Quanta Magazine
Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites or genetic junk.
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How does the cytoskeleton hold together as chromosomes and cells are wrenched apart during mitosis? Biophysicists found that it is made of a self-healing material. Read @jakebuehler.bsky.social. And admire fabulous art by Ada Shen www.quantamagazine.org/what-breaks-...
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What Breaks a Cell’s Ribs Can Make It Stronger | Quanta Magazine
The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it manage the strain?
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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I think you could use some singing mice today. 🧪 Thanks, @jakebuehler.bsky.social! www.sciencenews.org/article/sing...
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Singing mice puff up air sacs to make their sweet songs
To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any other animal.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley). Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
@jakebuehler.bsky.social on a cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life. it can't even metabolize food, what is it even doing... www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-mi...
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A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life | Quanta Magazine
The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.
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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Flying out to Chicago tonight for #SciWri25! Looking forward to reconnecting with fellow science writers and editors, many for the first time since the 2023 meeting in Boulder.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
elections should follow mario rules
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🦈 #shark @jakebuehler.bsky.social writes in @newscientist.com about the rediscovery of Gogolia filewoodi, the sailback houndshark, a species not seen by scientists since 1973. www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
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Long-lost sailback shark rediscovered after more than 50 years
The rare sailback houndshark, which has an unusually large dorsal fin, was first described by scientists in 1973. That was the last record of its existence, until now
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 28/08/2025
Punctuated equilibrium, a concept introduced by paleontologists in 1972, reimagines evolution’s tempo as a stochastic burst rather than a steady beat. A new model finds support for their theory in both molecular and fossil data. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports www.quantamagazine.org/the-sudden-s...
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Every SpongeBob Frame In Order @esfio.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Season 2 Episode 18 - Frame 993 out of 2685
Season 2 Episode 18 - Frame 993 out of 2685
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David Grimm @david-grimm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org
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‘Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Odd animals arose at least 12 separate times
Findings speak to the dramatic impact ants and termites can have on mammalian evolution
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 23/07/2025
Take a deep breath. You’re using oxygen to free molecular energy from the food you eat. But not all organisms on the planet live or breathe this way. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/the-cells-th...
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The Cells That Breathe Two Ways | Quanta Magazine
In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Who knew a fish could express "What the fuck was that?" with such ease.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"We are ruled by fathers who have never changed diapers" is becoming my go-to description of the present crisis.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
So sad that my former colleague Ed Baig had to write this story for AARP. 6 Things You Can Do to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country After Traveling. In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip www.aarp.org/travel/trave...
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6 Things You Can Do to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country After Traveling
In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip
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Dr. Melanie Bergmann @melaniebergma18.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals because of their content and editorial processes, he isn't doing his job, let alone upholding his constitutional oath,"[…] "He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ
At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2025
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
im not texting my friends about BOMBING YEMEN
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Iguanas may have arrived in Fiji via ultra long accidental cruises. by @jakebuehler.bsky.social I love this esp because in @restingdinoface.bsky.social 's new book she talked about OTHER species who may have made this sort of a journey. www.sciencenews.org/article/igua...
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The mystery of how iguanas crossed the Pacific Ocean may be solved
The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.
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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
This is Arya. She has maple syrup eyes and is, of course, a very good girl.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Partisan views of Twitter (X) – have shifted, with Republican users’ views of the site growing more positive and those of Democratic users becoming more negative. The share of Republican users who said the site is bad for American democracy fell from 60% in 2021 to 21% in 2023.
Chart shows partisans are increasingly divided over whether misinformation, harassment and civility are major problems on Twitter.
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Sara Hates Hockey @helmerroids.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
YOU FOOLS. YOU LET MOOSE.
A road sign that says DO NOT LET MOOSE
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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Visited the Burke Museum in Seattle last weekend, so here’s a short thread on some of the paleo stuff I thought was interesting:
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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I guess my only real issue with Moana 2 is that fruit bats are (notably) not carnivorous. Like…it’s in the name.
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Every SpongeBob Frame In Order @esfio.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Season 1 Episode 37 - Frame 2438 out of 2669
Season 1 Episode 37 - Frame 2438 out of 2669
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 24/11/2024
These two pics were the most viral thing I ever posted to Twitter, so in the interest of reposting our bangers, here is my turtle Stu, whom I “rescued” from the local grocery store.
Chinese softshell turtle being held like a hamburger Chinese softshell turtle
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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
"For the first time, Ethiopian wolves have been documented feeding on the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker flowers. This is the first large carnivore species ever to be documented feeding on nectar." Sweet tooth: Ethiopian wolves seen feeding on nectar www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/swee... #wolves
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Sweet tooth: Ethiopian wolves seen feeding on nectar
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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Monterey dorid central this morning at Setchell in the Saanich Inlet. Yay lemons! #nudibranch #UnderwaterPhotogtaphy 🦑
A cute yellow Monterey dorid showing its brown tipped rhinophoresTwo yellow Monterey dorids tucked up beside each other with two legs of a nearby leather star reaching toward them. A plump yellow Monterey dorid showing its two rhinophores up front and its brachial plum tufting up in the back. Two yellow Monterey dorids snuggled up while a nearby leather star paws its way along the top mud branch.
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ceej @ceej.online · 21/09/2024
Jordan Peterson: (sobbing in the most insane jacket you’ve ever seen) Men evolved to take out the trash
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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I’m located in a rural, drippy corner of Washington State, and spend a lot of time hiking in my region’s exquisite National Parks and Forests. I also dabble in nature photography, so you’ll be seeing that from time to time!
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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Alright, folks. Here is a starter pack of science writers and communicators that I enjoy following. I hope it's useful! #SciComm 🧪 (I know I must have forgotten/missed a lot of folks when compiling this. Please forgive me!) go.bsky.app/7Z8u31b
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birdrightsactivist @probirdrights.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
its Gettin Round Seasone
a glorious round robin who is so handsome it is magnificent brings u to ur knees
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A cassowary sitting in the shade of an umbrella on the beach
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We went to Hokkaido, Japan to see these guys last year and they are the size of a fire hydrant
A Blakiston's owl sits on a snowy stream bed waiting to catch a fish. It's as big as a fire hydrantScenic photo of area around where we saw the owl. Snow covered mountains with a small stream in the foreground. Rustic house just visible in background.
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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
uh oh #WIP #SciArt #Stanleycaris #isoxys #Blender3D #3Danimation #paleoart #cambrian #reef
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Bluesky is not an echo chamber. Some people here love the character of Tom Bombadil in LOTR: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, some people merely like him a lot, and still more don't offhand know who he is but when you explain are like, oh yeah, that guy, that guy was alright. So we have all kinds here.
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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
To those who recently started following: hello! I’m a science writer and journalist on the weird critters and natural history beat (though I do branch out from time to time). Salamanders to sequoias, sauropod spines to snake sex, that kind of stuff.
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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Wow. So I didn’t really use Bluesky for the last 7-ish months, and I popped back on here to find an explosion of followers. More than I ever had at the other place. Welcome! I’ll do some introductory posts (skeets? we still calling them that?) later today. I think I’ll be here more often now.
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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Monet, but make it autumn in the quietest rainforest in the U.S. Hoh Rainforest, October 22, 2023
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Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
[werner herzog voice]
Frogs are screaming - we just can't hear them
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Some fossils make you go WHOA at first sight and this is one of them: an ancient grasshopper nest with 50 intact eggs. It's the first fossil grasshopper nest ever found! Discovered at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon, it offers a peek at insect reproduction 29 million years ago 🧪
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29 million-year-old grasshopper nest found intact with eggs, study says | CNN
Scientists discovered a fossilized grasshopper egg pod filled with eggs that could be unlike anything paleontologists had ever seen before, according to a new study.
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Spotted trunkfish move like submarine helicopters 👜🐟🚁 www.instagram.com/reel/C18Lks6...
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 09/01/2024
Part of why healthy people aren't afraid to get sick is- they think if they do develop long-term issues, they'll be able to go & get treated by doctors who will work day and night to fix them (as it was on House, M.D.) & don't realize there's a 99% chance they'll be told they just have anxiety
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Pigeon Dreadful @pigeondreadful.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
A favorite genre of vintage New Year greetings: Little Hungover Guys who absolutely wrecked. Plus one drunk moon. I'm guessing these are probably 1910s or 20s. Not sure.
Illustration of a man in striped pajamas, looking rumpled, sitting on a bed with sheets hanging off, untucked. Clothes are strewn about the room. Pictures on the wall are crooked and an umbrella is stuck on a hanging light fixture. Pants are hanging from the umbrella with hems sitting in a wash bowl full of water. He is a wreck. Just a mess.Fancy lad is passed out drunk on the floor of a riding stable leaning against a barrel with a horse leaning over him tending to him.A man in a robe with his head wrapped in a bandage, hungover and distressed, being tormented by little devils with pitchforks and horns.A table with emplty champagne bottles and glasses in front of a window. Through the window you can see a big full moon face that looks a bit drunk. He's got a wonky eye a reddish nose and he's smoking a cigarette lol.
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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 01/01/2024
I spent two years manually scrubbing decades old code for that nonsense. When someone says "There was such a fuss about Y2K, and in the end nothing happened" I say "Yup. You're welcome."
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