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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Never forget:

A google search for 'are there snakes at thesis defenses', with an AI overview that starts 'Yes, some universities have a tradition of including a "snake fight" portion in thesis defenses." and then goes on to give details just lifted from the McSweeney's article.

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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Historian and MITP author Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement:

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Shall We Play a Game?

Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement.

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Given the alarming rise in alpha-gal syndrome and the still-uncertain long-term effects of even low-level exposure (heart disease, etc.) as chronicled in a recent NYT article, this is a Big Deal in my opinion. (2/2) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/n...

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It Begins as a Tick Bite and Can Be Devastating. And It’s Spreading.

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New Flash: lone star and Gulf Coast ticks can survive 1-3 weeks in your house after being brought in by a human or pet, according to new research. www.newswise.com/articles/som... (1/2)

A big fat lone star tick with its signature creamy yellow spot on its back

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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🐻GRIZZLED🐻: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals Def the biggest & most personal project of my career. Featuring artwork & foreword by Joel Sartore, as well as insights from a bajillion amazing scientists. 🧪 ❤️‍🔥I HOPE YOU LOVE IT❤️‍🔥 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...

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Grizzled by Jason Bittel: 9781426223358 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Funny, fascinating, and scientifically grounded, this charming book reveals unknown details about 50 well-known animals. Effortlessly readable, Grizzled reintroduces nature lovers to species they th...

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Here's the latest installment in my story of what it takes to drag a science book kicking and screaming across the publishing finish line. theartfulamoeba.substack.com/p/publishing...

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Publishing a Book Takes Much Longer Than I Thought

For some reason, it will take at least 22 months to publish mine

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It's no secret nonfiction book writing is hard, and there are few places to learn how to do it. If, like I was, you are terrified of writing your first book, this might provide some guidance and encouragement. I enrolled to see what I can learn too!

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

You can even easily see how it crawled there -- check out that slime trail to the right!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Today I turned in a draft of my second book So let's again share my advice for science colleagues who are considering writing a science book! www.southernfriedscience.com/considering-... 🧪

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 25/08/2025

New ones! artologica.etsy.com 🎨

two watercolor brain paintings. One says No AI only brain, the other says use your own brain

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

One of my main goals as an author is to sell enough books so they'll let me write another one. Currently, it looks like that's not going to happen since my publisher is not happy with the sales of my second book. A sophomore slump. I'm open to promo ideas & would appreciate any shares of this post!

Ad for my book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE, being on sale for 1/2 price at Barnes & Noble

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NPR @npr.org · 24/07/2025

THANK YOU to our supporters who've stepped up during this critical moment. If you haven't given, here's how you can help: 👉 1. Donate to help keep journalists on the ground: n.pr/458sOhq 👉 2. Share this post to rally friends and family behind this essential service. Every dollar counts.

"NPR is the one place I can reliably hear from voices across the social, cultural and political landscape — all of the voices that make America what it is." - Patrick B., Cincinnati, OH

“Because NPR is nobody’s puppet. NPR provides well-researched, in-depth coverage without bias (no matter what folks say). NPR is the voice of democracy.” -B lone S., Canton, MI

“NPR provides an absolutely priceless service that few others do: trustworthy reporting and explainers with no angle other than to keep the public informed.” Ashley S., Victoria, TX

“Public, free programming is critically important. It allows everyone, no matter their status in society, the ability to be filled in on politics, listen to great music and have learning accessible.” - Sean H., Melbourne, FL

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

New painting underway!

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I feel like this belongs on top of a Christmas tree

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Anna A Monaco @annaamonaco.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Pretty surreal to see my artwork on the cover of Nature Genetics! Big congrats to @julianeg.bsky.social, @stemundi.bsky.social and the others, and thank you Juliane for letting me help bring your research to life visually. www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...

The cover of Nature Genetics July 2025 issue. Digital art of a mouse paw skeletal prep on dark background, digits I to IV disintegrating into viral particles. A caption says “An endogenous retrovirus causes limb malformation”.

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

My lastest post on finishing my slime mold book, and a reader poll on the subtitle! open.substack.com/pub/theartfu...

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Now I Can Collapse for 5-8 Weeks

Slime Mold Book: Complete. Author: Elated. Subtitle: Your Input Needed.

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Today I handed in the full manuscript for The Slime Mold's Guide to World Domination. After two years of incessant deadline pressure, I feel like I can finally breathe again. Now I can catch up on all that thrilling housework and home maintenance I've been putting off for months! Also: stare at sky

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This morning, after > two years, I finished reading the very last paper for my slime mold book. In case you've ever wondered how much research it takes to write a book, here is a photo of 95% of the papers and all but three of the books I read to write "The Slime Mold's Guide to World Domination".

Two full bankers' boxes worth of papers plus eleven books

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Yesterday I disqualified a paper from research on my slime mold book for being nearly incoherent, a punishment I dubbed the "Pain Penalty". To back up my sense that this thing was not worth it, I checked the number of citations on Google Scholar: 9.

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The Slime Mold's Guide to World Domination is now 95% done! For more info, check out my latest Substack post: theartfulamoeba.substack.com/p/the-latest...

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The Latest on The Slime Mold's Guide

Book progress completion bar: 95% done

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Status Update: Still alive. Slime Mold Book Progress: *Eleven* chapters in the hole as of 4/25/25; now just one to go and I'm already a quarter of the way through it. Projected book publication is now Summer 2026. Still frantically repeating Alan Shepard's Prayer

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Here's Tusoteuthis with and without bioluminescence, from my Western Interior Seaway mural 3, painted in 2021 for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #GiantSquid #Octopus #Tusoteuthis #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

As Monday approaches, all I can say is: “Me too, Jupiter. Me too.” Here I go again!

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It might just be stuck to the bubble but it's still damn cute.

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Lovely visit with a Lampocteis. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 799 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Nudibranch, black coral, soft coral on dead black coral stalk. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 800 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife

Close up of the feathery polyps on a black coral.

Transparent soft coral growing on a dead coral stalk.

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Rebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Hi friends! My monthly email newsletter went out this morning. Subscribe in the next month and you'll be entered to win a signed copy of the paperback edition of FLIGHT PATHS, which officially comes out 3/18! buttondown.com/rheisman/arc...

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Bird of Passage: March 2025

Book giveaway inside!

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It’s #MothMonday! Let’s kick off the week with the magnificent air-shrimp, the Hummingbird Clearwing Moth! (Hemaris thysbe) Pennsylvania #inverts

A shrimp shaped moth with clear wings, green on the upper part of the thorax and tan on the lower thorax and legs, and rusty red color on the abdomen. It is hovering near a pink bee balm flower.

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

And I definitely need a print of this one.

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I low-key suggest renaming this squid Barad durensis

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I really think we need more lavender animals generally. I'm looking at you, land animals.

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Whoa. A bottom-living siphonophore! aka Sea Dandelion Basically a big gelatinous bag with stinging tentacles going off in all directions! if you are small and edible do NOT approach! Bank 9 south, #Okeanos #deepsea

brown/gold bag-like jelly with elongate stinging arm tentacles secured to the sea bottom

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

My paperback comes out two weeks from tomorrow! jaimegreen.net/book

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I saw a room decorated just like this at the House of Eternal Return at Meow Wolf Santa Fe

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It's like the world's most prolific and ephemeral gemstone factory

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

HOLT SHIT, THIS IS *INCREDIBLE*. An actual treatment for prions! That's fucking ASTOUNDING. Those things are goddamn TERRIFYING.

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Rudist bivalves! These were apparently the tribbles of Cretaceous reefs. The vase-shaped mollusks with lids appear only in the late Jurassic, take over reef-building in the Cretaceous, and then utterly disappear when the asteroid hits. 🤯 Amazing!

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We used to only know Promachoteuthis sulcus from a single specimen that looked like it had a creepy, tooth smile. (It's actually folded, circular lips) But recently we saw the first Promachoteuthis live in the wild, and its so pretty! I'm sorry we thought you were a creep!

Oral view of brachial crown of Promachoteuthis sulcus, holotype. The squid seems to have a set of dentures. The "dentures" are the circular, folded lips, of which only the upper and lower portions can be seen. The lips surround the beaks which are not visible in this photograph.

A live Promachoteuthis sulcus floating in the sea. It is pointing vertically on a slight tilt. It has a translucent white colour, except for most of its limbs and eyes which are a dark red. Its red limbs are hanging downward, but it has two white limbs that are pointing out and forming an upside down V shape. You can vaguely see organs in its mantle but it is like looking through frosted glass.

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Gotta clean your face before starting the day! Spiders don't have eyelids so sometimes they wipe their eyes with their pedipalps (short leg-like appendages in the front). It kind of reminds me of windshield wipers. #Spiders #SciComm #Inverts #Bugsky #Behavior #Cute

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This crazy thing looks like one of my kid's marble runs, halfway through construction

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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black." Couldn't get that "This Is Spinal Tap" quote out of my head while reporting this one! 🧪🎸🏴 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

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These animals evolved to be ‘ultrablack’—here’s why

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black exterior is an evolutionary advantage.

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Jennifer Frazer @jenniferfrazer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I propose renaming this work of art Tatama tatanka

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