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Jordan T. Donini

@swflturtleproject.bsky.social
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Father, Husband, and #Herpetologist Focusing on Reproductive Ecology. Saving the world...one turtle at a time! All turtles handled with FWC State permits! Proud Owner of 1 Share of the Green Bay #PACKERS

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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tucker’s grab! #gopackgo
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Aaron Nagler @aaronnagler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today is a great day to donate to Dolly's Imagination Library.
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Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Reposting so I can remember to listen later. Pumped for this.
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Dusty Evely 🎃 @dustyevely.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Good morning! I dove into the film on Packers UDFA QB Kyron Drones. What does he do well, what needs to be cleaned up, etc. Lots of clips & some breakdowns. Enjoy! (Your hair looks great today btw) www.acmepackingcompany.com/green-bay-pa...
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Packers Rookie Film Review: Kyron Drones
This is Virginia Tech UDFA the next Malik Willis?
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Their efficacy was confirmed against LIVE viruses including Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), AND Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). The study has been published in Science Advances. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🧵⬇️
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Viral pandemics continue to threaten global health and economic stability. Despite medical advances, the absence of broad-spectrum antivirals (BSAs) prevents rapid responses to emerging viral threats. This is largely due to the lack of universal drug targets across diverse viral families and high variability among viral proteins.
In this study, we evaluated 57 synthetic carbohydrate receptors (SCRs) for antiviral activity in cellulo using pseudotyped virus particles (PVPs) from six high-risk viruses across three families: Paramyxoviridae, Filoviridae, and Coronaviridae.
Four SCRs inhibited all tested PVPs, and their efficacy was confirmed against live viruses including SARS-CoV-2, MERS-COV, EBOV, MARV, NiV, and HeV.
Notably, SCR005 and SCR007, which exhibited minimal toxicity, significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 infection in a severe animal model with a single dose.
Mechanistic studies suggested that SCRs bind viral envelope N-glycans, blocking viral attachment and/or fusion.
These results identify conserved viral N-glycans as promising BSA targets and establish SCRs as candidate prophylactic agents against enveloped viruses with pandemic potential.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Ok, we really need a list of these AI "improvements" to common phrases.
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I just published a new article about turtles in Japanese folklore and culture including folktales, yokai, ghosts, and art. I really hope you enjoy it! 🐢 open.substack.com/pub/curiouso... #JapaneseFolklore #JapaneseArt
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Turtles in Japanese Folklore and Culture
Folktales, yokai, symbolism and art
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Roxy @roxytall.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I hadn’t seen any lizards bust in from outside to steal cat food in so long that I started thinking perhaps they forgot how. Nope! An old friend from a year ago let itself inside today
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thanks to @dinograndoni.bsky.social and photographer Melina Mara @washingtonpost.com for this great piece supported by the Pulitzer Center covering our efforts to mend broken tropical frog populations and their importance to human health #amphibianresilience #anfibioresiliente bit.ly/4r1hblm
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First, the frogs died. Then people got sick.
An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.
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Julian Olden @oldenfish.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Is Facebook fueling the online trade in aquatic invasive species? Survey of hobbyists indicates that over half engage in peer-to-peer organism exchange, transport across state lines & release them into the wild. AI Podcast: open.substack.com/pub/oldenfis.... Paper: www.reabic.net/journals/mbi...
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Jerome Čop @jeromechopp.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
It definitely wasn't pretty, but THE #PACKERS WIN!!! #GoPackGo!!! 🧀
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a close up of a burning piece of paper with a hole in the middle
ALT: a close up of a burning piece of paper with a hole in the middle
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Pack’s What She Said Podcast @packswhatshesaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Drum roll please… It’s MINA KIMES. @minakimes.bsky.social joined us for the bye week to discuss the state of this 2-1-1 Packers team and why she’s still comfortable with them being Super Bowl contenders. Seriously, don’t miss it. youtu.be/r4vJ_h_dp5U?...
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Packers Bye Week with Mina Kimes!
YouTube video by Packs What She Said
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Wes Hodkiewicz @weshod.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The Packers reshaped the NFL landscape on Thursday evening when they agreed to terms on a trade for 3x All-Pro Micah Parsons. Here are five things to know about Green Bay's new defensive lineman. www.packers.com/news/5-thing...
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5 things to know about new Packers DL Micah Parsons
Three-time All-Pro shares unique distinction with Reggie White
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erin alyce @herooine.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
ope
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Jersey Al @jerseyalgbp.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
What's happening at training camp! @GilPackers and @GBPackerSean break it all down. Live Now! #Packers #GoPackGo 🧀 www.youtube.com/live/m5pjn_v...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
HOW COOL IS THIS? Researchers have developed a DENTAL FLOSS that can DELIVER vaccines THROUGH the gums, a method that could one day offer a NEEDLE-FREE alternative for vaccination. This approach effectively stimulated immunity AND provided FULL protection against a lethal strain of influenza. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Costa Rica photo dump part 1!
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Went to my first recorded WWE event ever this weekend at Saturday nights Maine event and NXT battle ground. So much fun! Some absolute banger matches! #wwe #maineevent #nxt
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Terrapin surveys last week!
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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 08/05/2025
The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4) 🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
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USGS Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center
The USGS Bee Lab supports research on native bees. As part of that program we and our co-located USFWS partners develop identification tools and keys for native bee species, take public access hi reso...
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
And in an unlikely turn of events, jellyfish are just floating underwater bird feeders In the Arctic, baby fish seek cover inside the stinging tentacles of jellyfish, but birds, having figured out the bit, now swim underwater, through the tentacles, & eat them 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
Baby silver fish hiding among the tentacles of a large white jellyfish
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Tom Grossi @tomgrossi.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Dusty Evely 🎃 @dustyevely.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Made a little Collin Oliver thread last night. Feels like a solid sub-rusher out of the gate.
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Got to hang out with legendary herp and primate researcher Russ Mittermeier. Showed him around one of my mud turtle sites and got the target species plus a couple more. He gifted me a few books and even signed his Lemurs of Madagascar book for me!
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
www.iucnredlist.org/species/1634... might seem a little trivial with all the crazy happenings, but I was able to help assess and write an IUCN redlist assessment up for Striped Mud turtles two years ago, and it just came out. Fortunately/Unfortunately we elevated their status to near threatened.
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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Established in 1964, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant specie...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Some of my students presented their work on Amphiuma as posters at SEPARC2025. And Another former student presented a talk on her finished work on Cane Toad Immune response! Very proud of this group!
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
May Interest Bluesky in some red-eyed tree frog goodness? Photos from the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica!
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Chicken Turtle with eggs!
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NPR @npr.org · 04/03/2025
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
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James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Now that’s a weeeeee little turtle
Weee tiny turtle in hand
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Pancreatic cancer killed my mom back in 2010. This rules.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
HEADLINE: Texas measles outbreak rises to 48 cases. It’s the state’s WORST in nearly 30 YEARS. There is absolutely NO REASON measles outbreaks should be on the rise. Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97% EFFECTIVE against measles. So, let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND others. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Ryan @herpbiologist.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The National Park Service runs 433 parks and historic sites, but amounts to only one-fifteenth of 1 percent of the federal budget. And the parks bring more than $55 billion to the national economy each year,. supporting about 415,000 jobs. www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...
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Feds Fire 4,400+ Public-Land Employees, Including Forest Service Workers, National Park Staff
Massive layoffs at the Department of the Interior included thousands of U.S. Forest Service and National Park employees.
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Wendy Orent @wendyorent.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is so true. Factory farming breeds lethal disease. And sometimes that disease spills into human populations. See: swine flu, 2009. And quite likely the predecessor virus for SARS-2 originated in a live wild animal farm or fur farm before coming to Huanan market. Factory farming has to stop.
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Ryan @herpbiologist.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“These firings, which disproportionately target biologists and natural resource professionals, are a direct attack on science-based conservation and the future of America’s wildlife.” www.refugeassociation.org/news/2025/2/...
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Mass Firing of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Employees Threaten National Wildlife Refuge System & Conservation — The National Wildlife Refuge Association
The National Wildlife Refuge Association is deeply alarmed by today’s Department of the Interior-wide termination of approximately 420 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees, many of whom are critic...
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A gravid Eastern Musk Turtle (stinkpot) from December! #note in progress!
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Amphiuma season continues! This big female was a super cool specimen to work up last week!
Large dark, long, salamander (amphiuma) in a white bucket.
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The Holy Trinity of #tokusatsu
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Someone asked me why sharks stick their dorsal fins out of the water. The answer is simple. Sharks’ dorsal fins stick out of the water sometimes because their fins are on top of and therefore higher than the rest of their body, and sometimes their body is near the surface of the water.
Scene from jaws with a dorsal fin sticking out of the water
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Kind of a sad #dailyturtle update… got the report from one of collaborators that the first box turtle ever marked in our first study in 2019 has passed on. ID#1- “Priscilla” was such a beautiful turtle and contributed data already to two published studies with two more on the way.
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Dusty Evely 🎃 @dustyevely.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Alright folks we're leaning into the bit. The Josh Jacobs stiff-arm gets the Wilhelm Scream treatment.
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Aaron Nagler @aaronnagler.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
He really did it.
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
These sarcastic “SEC” chants are giving me life. #GoBuckeyes
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Thassa good looking Achilles
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
#dailyturtle It was indeed #turtletime when I was able to grab this 15kg Florida Softshell over the weekend! 🐢🐢🐢
The blue sky user holding a large softshell turtle
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Tharusha Wijewardena 🐢 @turtleecology.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Same vibes! But with cat food!
Blanding’s Turtle eating cat food. Researcher is holding the turtle in her hand.
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Jordan T. Donini @swflturtleproject.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
#dailyturtle this beautiful and voracious little Central American Snapping Turtle was defining this piece of bacon in one of our traps on Costa Rica.
Little snapping turtle with a mouth full of bacon!
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