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beebrookshire.bsky.social
Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
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The sad thing about being he resident science nerd is that when you excitedly share the name of the one species that you definitely recognize somewhere, people immediately ask what all the other species are. My dears, if I knew do you think I would ever shut up about it?! I would not.

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Why have your Roman Empire be the Roman Empire when it could be this?

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Happy Friday! It's #WorldPenguinDay so I thought I'd remind you that penguins do have knees, they just aren't where you think they should be.

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

These are some of the best writers in the business, wonderful colleagues and true science nerds, and they deserve a fair contract! (They would deserve a fair contract if they were none of these things of course. Because we all do!)

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

A distributed workforce of reporters is a GOOD thing. It means we have people in different locations and time zones who can hop on whatever comes up. Clustering us all in DC makes no sense.

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In Washington and Maine, scientists have ID’d two cases of a rare red meat allergy triggered by tick bites. What’s notable about this? These cases appear to have been caused by tick species never before linked to the allergy, called alpha gal syndrome. www.sciencenews.org/article/tick...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I want to find whichever person decided we were gonna DECK OUT churches in Easter Lilies for Easter and I want to boop them in the snoot. Strong smell. HIGHLY allergenic. Literally anyone with an allergy to anything is allergic to these. Let's put 'em on the alter RIGHT NEXT TO THE CHOIR.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

If Harvard doesn't have its grants unfrozen, humans are going to go without new treatments, people will die. Animals will too. When COVID hit I was living in Cambridge for the fabulous @ksjatmit.bsky.social fellowship. I had just seen their mouse colony... www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

We like BIG BUTTS The glutes I mean.

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As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.

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I thought I was out of the pelvis but then I came across this on @sciam.bsky.social and back in we went. For science. youtube.com/shorts/9my9-...

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Literally the only thing that looks good about this new product which is trying to "disrupt candy" is this review, which is an A+ class act of snark. www.eater.com/24408067/hor... "Hormbles Chormbles sounds like the Teletubbies trying to curse you out. "

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Ah yes, the runner's rite of spring: The first big bug flying right into your mouth.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

If I ever again need to argue that rats are not universally disgusting to all people, I will note that there are people willing to pay ~$46 for a tiny canvas that a rat has "painted" by running on it with its little rat feet. "Pawcasso" someone worked HARD on that one www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Crows are apparently better than me at math and I'm not over it. www.npr.org/2025/04/12/n...

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