iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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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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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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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

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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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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Sort of an intentionally confused chicken vs egg situation.

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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

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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.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Awesome! Can you add me please?

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Entelodonts also probably weren’t that “hellish”, diet-wise. This story of mine from 2023 details research suggesting the undoubtedly intimidating animals probably just dined on veggies mixed with scavenging. Not true pigs, but they ate like them. No predatory pork here. gizmodo.com/terminator-p...

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Huge-Jawed 'Terminator Pigs' Unfairly Painted as Predators, Researchers Say

Ancient entelodonts are routinely portrayed as brutal carnivores, but they probably kept to the same menu as today's pigs and peccaries.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Finally, here’s the snout of an entelodont (Archaeotherium). Entelodonts are sometimes called “hell pigs” for their immense, buffalo-like proportions and wide jaws full of sharp teeth. But these were actually close relatives of early hippos and whales.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Ok last marine mammal I swear: Wimahl chinookensis, a relative of dolphins dating back about 18 million years. The fossil was found along the banks of the Washington side of the mouth of the great Columbia River.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

More marine mammals. Here’s Allodesmus, an extinct sea lion-like pinniped that was really athletic, nearly half a ton in life, and honestly a little horrifying? These guys lived along North Pacific coastlines roughly 10 to 15 million years ago.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Another fossil marine mammal unearthed in Clallam County: Sitsqwayk cornishorum, an early baleen whale. This incredible beast hails from the Twin River Quarry (Pysht Formation) even closer to home for me. Clallam County and the Olympic Peninsula has been great for paleo marine mammal finds.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

So every time I walk along the cold, stark beaches of Olympic National Park, it’s hard not to think about the supremely weird not-bear not-seal ambling around sea stacks and outcrops at low tide.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

K. clallamensis was maybe the size of a really big dog, and likely wandered the foggy, drippy beaches looking for shelled mollusks to pry from rocks and crush with their incredibly powerful jaws and teeth. It was first described from Clallam Bay, not far from where I live and explore the outdoors.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This one’s fun for me: Kolponomos clallamensis, the “otter bear”. It was an incredibly strange marine mammal from the coastlines of the Pacific Northwest during the Miocene. Neither otter or bear, Kolponomos’ appears to be a stem-pinniped, an odd, lost branch at the base of the seal et al lineage.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This is Axestemys, a softshell turtle from around the same warm time period. Some species could reach sizes quite a bit larger than modern softshells. Check out the shape of the carapace with all that bone reduction. Similar to modern softshells, which have shuriken-like carapaces.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Here’s the cranium of a Hyaenodon from around the same time period in North America. These animals were related to modern carnivores, but distinct. I’m always struck by how rugged their skulls looked; low slung and thick, with proportionally small braincases.

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Jake Buehler @jakebuehler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Here’s Hoplophoneus primaevus, which lived in North American forests over 30 million years ago. While about the size and shape of a bobcat or a small cougar (+saber teeth), it was not actually a cat. Hoplophoneus was part of a related family of now-extinct carnivores, the Nimravidae.

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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

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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

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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 rhinophores

Two 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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