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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

submitted 11 hours ago • 59 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 3 days ago • 165 comments

OMG

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Went for a hike, spotted five koalas sleeping in trees. All of them looked more or less like this.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This endless article by Forrest Wickman about one particular birdsong in the Charles Angels movie is an absolute masterpiece. He talks to the director, the animal wrangler, several scriptwriters, the guy who wrote the "Shazam for birds" app…. So many quotable lines! slate.com/culture/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

submitted 12 days ago • 293 comments

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

submitted 14 days ago • 119 comments

I'm not gonna do better than that.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Surprise, y’all! See you in Hyde Park

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my biggest one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

Toy echidnas are the most appropriate place to hide eggs

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Loading up echidna data!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This is brilliant.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Faculty senates at Rutgers University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have passed resolutions calling for the creation of a mutual-defense compact. chroni.cl/4cBFrnu

submitted 36 days ago • 25 comments

WATCH: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park react to Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook San Diego County. The elephants formed an "alert circle" meant to protect the young and the entire herd from any threats, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

submitted 36 days ago • 61 comments

YEEEEAAAAHHHHH

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

The image shows a Pomarine Skua/Jaeger being taken by an Estuarine Crocodile on an island off Queensland, Australia, believed to be the first time such behaviour has been recorded. The article includes several other examples of #seabirds being predated. www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-worl...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Seconded.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Post a movie from the year you turned 18

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that: 1. Climate change is real 2. Vaccines work 3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤 🧪

submitted 43 days ago • 29 comments

SING IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS

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I designed a project alongside my dad—he did the words, I did the art. Science fiction concepts that make your spaceship game than just a heist/western/sports drama with beautiful chrome details. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: living through historic times fucking sucks.

submitted 48 days ago • 8 comments

www.fastcompany.com/91291997/din...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

And now for some good news: Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to Fiji doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

submitted 56 days ago • 12 comments

The Warhammer 40k subreddit dedicated to the subfaction of blood-soaked superhuman berserkers is going zero tolerance on homophobic and transphobic commenters, because Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows.

submitted 56 days ago • 72 comments

You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

submitted 61 days ago • 308 comments

#WorldFrogDay is also the first day of #Spring 🐸 Let’s dump some frogs #sciart

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

A new "homepage" for this August's (7-10th) International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology online conference, full of details and links: www.xcdsystem.com/icvm/program... 26 May abstract submission deadline, BTW.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

‘which came first, the pun, or the research project?’ academics, head hung low, whispering ‘the… the pun’

submitted 64 days ago • 24 comments

Flying foxes over the Fringe Festival

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.

submitted 139 days ago • 33 comments

This is why all NIH-funded scientists simultaneously trying to diversify their science funding portfolios is not a real solution.

submitted 72 days ago • 5 comments

This project has started a long time ago, but in a galaxy not too far away… Happy to share this new study with @taphonomist.bsky.social looking at the functional morphology and biomechanics of the Rancor. Warning! Nerdy sci fi, palaeo & biomechanics thread following! jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i...

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change." New for @undark.org undark.org/2025/03/06/o...

submitted 76 days ago • 5 comments

Helmeted hornbills are known for their violent head-butting—but how does their skull withstand the impact? Unlike other birds their craniofacial joint is massively reinforced locking into place like a puzzle. New study reveals a skull built not to flex but to endure Schindler et al buff.ly/7FJjheJ

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

I’m really good at making posters 💅 @standupforscience.bsky.social @amandastherrien.bsky.social if you have any requests for the Philly rally, let me know so I can have them done by Friday!

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments