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bittelmethis.bsky.social
Wild animal & National Geographic Books author ('26). Latest science-y kids' book: MOUNTAIN ('24). Science Writer @ Nat Geo, NYT, WashPo, etc. Prev: KSJ @ MIT, Nat Geo Explorers. Always looking for story tips about science/animals! He/him.
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Kolponomos is so cool. It was a bear-like carnivoran that pried shellfish off rocks and crunched them up about 20 million years ago. (art by Lucas Lima) eartharchives.org/articles/kil...

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Did this actually happen, or did I dream it? A few weeks ago, @radfordu.bsky.social invited me to give a 🧪 talk, and I used it as an opportunity to tell a story I'd never told before... a story about the cosmos, snow leopards, atoms, and ultimately, about the interconnectedness of all things.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

😆

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Go do this, and then send me the papers! 🧪

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Good morning, please have a nice bug. #invertebrates #BugADay #Bugsky *Rosy Maple Moth in the Pine Barrens

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Holy smokes. Reading the tea leaves here, as a longtime reporter on NASA's Artemis program: Jim Free leaving implies major changes to Artemis. This many leaders from NASA Marshall in Alabama leaving also bodes ill for the Space Launch System rocket, whose design and construction Marshall oversaw.

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Portrait of a weevil #WeevilWednesday Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador

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🚨🧪👇

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I once got to interview flight attendant Joan Berry Hale, survivor of the 1960 Eastern Airlines crash in Boston Harbor. As rescue crews paddled out to the wreckage, they kept trying to put her in a life raft & take her ashore. Hale wouldn't leave the craft until all the injured were accounted for.

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Whoa, so interesting!! 🧪 #birds

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great googly moogly #sciart

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Dear NSF scientists and staff: If you're looking to talk to a journalist about what's going on at the agency, please reach out (from a non-governmental phone/computer) via signal @jonlambert.12

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Do I know anyone out there who does science/nature book reviews? Please re-skeet! 🧪🦊🦉🦑🐍

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Bueller? 🧪

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Know I shouldn’t, but kiiiinda wanna eat

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High praise coming from the author of RISE OF THE ZOMBIE BUGS!!! Thanks, @laminda.bsky.social! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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“Love at first bite?” Deep-sea anglerfish female (right) and parasitic male (left)

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In some species, teeny tiny males fuse their bodies to that of the much larger females. Eventually, their circulatory systems merge, and he literally becomes part of her. The male's only purpose, so far as we know, is to supply her with sperm. And multiple males may latch on at once. #valentines ❤️🧪🦑

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😍😍😍😍😍

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Anybody out there working on pseudoscorpions? I'd love to write about them! 🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

The Great Prince Of The Forest

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A group of turkeys is known as a rafter. Though this may be one of those group names the internet loves but which scientists do not actually use, like "shiver of sharks", "parliament of owls", "prickle of porcupines"...

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