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Whenever I see Salvinia, I'm mesmerized. Not only because it's a float fern (yes, fern), incredibly beautify, also I always try my best to look at those egg beater looking hair clusters that hold up water drops so elegantly. #iamabotanist #plantjoy 🧪🌸🌱

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It's hard to imagine birds of paradise looking any flashier than they already do with their bright, elaborate plumage. But just wait til you see them under ambient UV and blue light. They even glow from the insides of their mouths!!! 😱 🧪🦉 www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...

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In 2018, @blkahn.bsky.social said that the warming stripes graphic 'belongs in a damn museum', even suggesting that it was 'fit for the Museum of Modern Art' (see gizmodo.com/this-climate...). Well... Later this month, they will appear in the Museum of Modern Art: press.moma.org/exhibition/p...

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A colossal ice core just drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, going back 1.2 million years. Each meter holds ~13k years of deep, compressed history. The whole sample could extend across the Golden Gate Bridge. 🧪🌏 www.sciencealert.com/oldest-unbro...

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A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – big-headed cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100,000 years ago 🧪 www.sciencealert.com/large-head-p...

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Imagine a time machine that could whisk you back to the age of the dinosaurs. Suddenly, you find yourself in a dense, swampy forest, with insects buzzing between flowers, ferns, and conifers. Believe it or not, you're standing in West Antarctica. www.sciencealert.com/first-ever-a...

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“A native New Zealand insect that once mimicked its toxic neighbor has changed color in deforested areas, in a striking example of human-induced evolution.” #scicomm #sensoryecology #mimetism www.sciencealert.com/these-insect... 🧪 🦗 🐙

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I spoke to space plasma physicist Jamie Jasinski about the perils of sunning Uranus 🧪

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I was today years old when I found out the true meaning of honeydew 🤯

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Brachycybe millipede dads can cart their kiddos around like a minivan! This genus has one of the few known cases of obligate paternal care in arthropods. Dads groom the eggs and protect them from fungal infections, desiccation, and predation. 🌿🧪🐛

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This weekend I put together a worm bin with instructions that suddenly and inexplicably stopped at a major cliff hanger… 🫣what’s going to happen??

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Went to visit the flying fox colony in Melbourne last weekend with @tesskou.bsky.social and stumbled across another creature trying to find baby bats

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The first ripe tomato in my garden is not very happy with my care 😭

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Writing about deep sea worms today, and for some reason, I can't stop smiling?? Wonder what it could be ... 📷: Shimada et al., Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2023 zse.pensoft.net/article/1090...

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Today, we're excited to launch our 6th *free* Science Journalism Master Class: How to Own a Science Beat. www.theopennotebook.com/science-jour...

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