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First attempt at Pickering's Triangle, part of the Cygnus loop supernova remnant from a star that exploded about 20,000 years ago. Needs more time, but already starting to nicely show off those filaments! 🔭🧪 1.7hrs #Seestar S50 from N. Atlanta suburbs processing: Siril, GraXpert, StarNet, GIMP
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🧪 #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience #RFKJr #Vaccines #HHS #CDC #antivax
Clinch River Brewing in Norris, Tennessee has just released Slender Chub Pale Ale. It's named after the Slender Chub (Erimystax cahni) a leucisid minnow native to the Clinch and Powell Rivers in east Tennessee which may be extinct in the wild. I hear the ale is good. (Photo JR Shute) 🧪🌍⚒️ #TeamFish
Loved this paper addressing the back-and-forth on whether most stars form in clusters. Gaia (as usual) has been a game changer for questions like these 🤩🔭☄️🧪
#NatMetabPicks | In Science Translational Medicine led by @drdavidhill.bsky.social (@pennmedicine.bsky.social) Dietary saturated fatty acids reprogram lung immune cells towards an inflammatory state, which exacerbates asthma in mice. 🧪 doi.org/10.1126/scit...
What I found really fascinating about this work, though, is that psilocybin just makes mouse brain circuits amenable to changing, and studying how different environments alter the actual changes could allow us to explain why psychedelic drugs can give a good or bad trip #mushrooms #drugs #science 🧪
Every wondered how exactly magic mushrooms seem to help treat depression? The psychedelic compound psilocybin (found in the mushrooms) seems to remodel connections in the MOUSE brain and decrease loops linked to repeating negative thoughts. #medicine #health 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2494...
Don't try this at home, though. The work is in mice, and it remains to be seen if the same connectivity changes would happen in people after taking psilocybin.
The first nobelium-containing molecules ever made + directly identified could herald a shake-up at the bottom of the periodic table as scientists reassess the physical phenomena that give heavy and superheavy elements their chemical properties. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/making-mol...
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🧪In 1982, I was a 22yo cancer patient who wanted a PhD. Cornell said yes but didn’t offer health insurance so I went U Mich whose grad students won health benefits by striking and the Teamsters honored the picket line and stopped campus food deliveries. My PhD is a union PhD HAPPY FUCKING LABOR DAY
Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds🐟🧪
OMG, I get a book launch! And not just any old book launch - this one is hosted by @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social. I have therefore challenged myself to find a *single fun fact linking ecology, maths and communication* for the event - show up, in person or online, to find out what it is. 🧪 #scicomm
Was the cure for diabetes just discovered? 💉 In a recent clinical study, scientists used embryonic stem cells to grow insulin-producing pancreatic cells and transplanted them into 14 people with type 1 diabetes. 🧪
NEMATODE MONDAY: Symptoms of root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) damage on tomato. Stunted plants show wilting even though soil is saturated due to disruption of the root system. Galls on roots symptomatic of root-knot nematode infection. Nematodes disrupt Resistant varieties are available 🧪
Do students learn to think like researchers? 🧪 Our study found psych majors judged study quality & designed research using sound criteria. High achievers also reflected on why methods matter. More evidence for teaching epistemic reflection. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
The bad news - farmed oysters 🦪, mussels, clams and scallops are likely not a carbon-negative food as some claim 🧪 The good news - they are one of the greenest foods, with lower carbon footprints than some crops, and no need for freshwater or fertilisers www.newscientist.com/article/2494...
Summer 2025 confirmed as UK's hottest on record. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
A study in Nature Communications shows that countries are at different stages of a common global sequence of decline in religious participation, personal importance of religion, and religious belonging. go.nature.com/4oPDLfM 🧪
This #LaborDay, give yourself permission to truly disconnect. Taking a break from work boosts your sleep, focus and mental health. Make time to recharge! Read more from Industrial Health: ow.ly/l23250WJyxg 🧪
3/3 🧪 For those that want to get involved in #Citizen #Science (PLEASE DO!) check out these apps for smartphones Merlin: merlin.allaboutbirds.org ebird: ebird.org/home Also don't forget about the future when it's time www.audubon.org/community-sc... Or Great Backyard #Bird Count www.birdcount.org
2/3 This Ep's guest, PhD candidate Miranda Zammarelli, research is the closest to 🧪 conditions in natural 🌎 - Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest How #birds adapt to changes in #s & #environment? How well do they share habitat, equally or do the dominant take more 🥧? Ideal #Free or #Ideal #Despotic.
How to see Sunday's 'Blood Moon' total lunar eclipse. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The nicely named #GravitationalWave candidate #S250901cb If real, the source is probably a binary black hole (chirp mass ~11–22 solar masses) False alarm rate 1 in 9.9×10^5 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/41... Rating 🎈🐧🍰 [🧪🔭⚛️]
Tomorrow morning Venus continues to appear close to the Beehive Cluster. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography
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While researching that article, I discovered these amazing videos of action potentials! Check out how the signal propagates through the plant. Wow! ⚛️🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Thrilled to say my latest for Highlights Kids Magazine is out; the October edition includes my article on carnivorous sundews. (1/2)
Northern Lights potentially visible across much of the UK. I've got clouds. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We're still looking for submissions for collection of articles on any aspect of freshwater parasites, and can offer a 20% discount on publishing fees. Contact me for more info as needed. 🧪🌍🌿⚒️ #TeamFish
First year female Barred Owl ringed at Rocky Point today! This one I caught with a hand net mid-morning. The serrated edge to the outer primary functions to break up turbulent air, enabling stealthy hunting. 🇨🇦🦉🧪🌎
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Kia is providing a full range of EVs from compact to full size. Fast charging EVs with no tailpipe emissions and range of 329 miles or better. And the options increase when you add Hyundai’s line. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋 #TheFutureWillBeEletric Make it trend!
How changes to the pelvis helped humans walk #upright [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪👩🔬🦠🐀🦍🚶♀️ "two key [] steps during embryonic development — related to the growth of cartilage and bone in the pelvis — which put humans on a separate evolutionary path" www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... #bipedal
Not my field of expertise but this cannot be a good sign. 🧪 phys.org/news/2025-09...
Every space mission carries the potential to transform our understanding of life in the cosmos—yet 41 are at risk of cancellation. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could be silenced before it reveals distant exoplanets. DAVINCI could lose its chance to probe Venus’s unique atmosphere. 🧪 🔭
I'm teaching students about mismatch DNA repair and how mutations in the machinery increase risk of colon cancer. I will walk them through this cool paper from my then-neighbor Tome Petes. Just ONE TABLE but so key to our understanding 🧪 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8371783/
46 years ago today the magnificent ringed planet Saturn was visited for the first time by a spacecraft from Earth: NASA’s Pioneer 11. 🧪 🔭
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🧪 A new study shows scientists shifting to Bluesky, where research posts spark far higher engagement than on X. Peer-driven networks & richer discourse make Bluesky the rising hub for #SciComm 🧬🔬.
💥 🍃 🧪 Fund for Science & Technology Announces Inaugural Grants
💥 🍃 🧪 Rapid Response Research Funding for Applicants with Rescinded Federal Health Equity Research Funding
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Europe steps up as US science funding shrinks. Aix-Marseille’s $16M “Safe Place for Science” drew an unexpected 300+ US applicants in 2 weeks, while the EU launches a $500M “Choose Europe for Science” push to attract top researchers. 🧪🧬🔬 #SciComm
This event is for students curious about bridging neuroscience with fields such as public policy, ethics, law, education, global health, the arts, and related areas. It’s designed to showcase career paths and connect students with professionals working at the intersection of science and society. 🧪
The first graph shows the deaths per 100,000 for non-Hispanic Whites aged 28-32 in 2023, the latest year we have this data for. The second graph is presented so you can see that this age group has the most increases in death rates from 1999 through 2018. 🧪 #Sociology #Population #Think #News
The latest episode of “The History of Chemistry” is up, on chemically detecting life in other star systems.🧪 #Chemsky
#MolluskMonday ? Ah, balogna.⚒️🧪🐌 The nacreous inner layer of this large abalone demonstrates the iridescence that made it such an inviting target for human use. That, and the large, muscular foot.
Metrology on breakfast television?! YES PLEASE. Delighted to have helped make this happen! Dr Annette Koo (pictured) will shortly depart for Paris where she'll become the Director of BIPM, the global home of measurement share.google/XrzUSia2lDYX... 🧪👩🔬⚛️
Southeastern U.S. upland streams habitat overview. For a new book, "STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide," coming from Yale University Press in 2026. 🧪🌿🌎🐡🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #habitats
On the vital role of biofilms in freshwater environments. For a new book, "STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide," from Yale University Press in 2026. 🧪🌿🌎🐡🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #biofilms
Cool case of [probably] pliosaur biting nautiloid! 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...
🧪 Assessing the impact of later emerging broadleaf weeds on the critical period for weed control in high-yielding cotton bit.ly/47GpHPR #PlantScience
A study published in Nature Mental Health reports a significant decrease in age-standardized global suicide mortality rates, declining from 10.33 deaths per 100,000 in 1990 to 7.24 deaths per 100,000 in 2021. go.nature.com/47808a0 🧪#mentalhealthsci #mentalhealthresearch
Want to play along? You can get in on the fun by checking out the details and the targets here: science.nasa.gov/mission/hubb... 🧪🔭 (6/6)
And finally Messier 71, the Angelfish Cluster (I can kind of see where the name comes from). M71 is one of the smallest and least densely concentrated globular clusters. Also 5min with my #Seestar S50 🔭 from my driveway in suburban Atlanta. No processing (5/6)
It's a new month, which means there are new Hubble Night Sky Challenge targets to catch! And thankfully, we have clear skies (which have been rare lately). Here are the 4 September targets I caught tonight with my little #Seestar S50. 🔭🧪 With these targets, I'm now 75% of the way to the end (1/6)
Do all living things have a brain? 🧠 Not all. Some animals lack nervous systems (like sponges), while others (like jellyfish) have simple ones with no brain. Brains evolved over 500M years for coordination and complex behaviors. Vertebrates & cephalopods evolved brains independently. 🧪
Caribbean Parrots Are Remnants Of A Millennial Scale Extinction #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #parrots🦜 #ornithology🪶 #birds🦉 #extinction #caribbean grrlscientist.substack.com/p/caribbean-...
There were many species of mammoths other than woollies, each with their own complex evolutionary and life histories; what would happen to deëxtinct one, but not the others‽ #MammothMonday 🧪🐋🍃
WATCH: #NASAWebb is advancing our understanding of exoplanets, but there are some challenges astronomers encounter when studying other worlds. Take a look! Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, L. Hustak (STScI), D. Kirshenblat (STScI). 🔭 🧪
New Proc B study 🧪 reveals up to 8.5× differences in muscle mitochondrial efficiency across ectothermic vertebrates. Evolution tunes energy, leak, and ROS control in surprising ways. 🦎🐸🦎 #Evolution #Mitochondria royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
🍼 Antibiotic resistance starts early A study of infant gut bacteria found antibiotic resistance genes appear within the first week of life, peaking at 6 months. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #Microbiome 🧪
In vitro model of porcine placental development: @crm110.bsky.social &co develop a swine trophoblast #organoid model that mimics in vivo #trophoblast diversity & gene expression, providing a platform for studying #placental biology & #MaternalFetalInteractions @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/47jf3yd
#Lipidomic profiling has linked plasma #EtherLipids with #obesity. This study analyzes a set of biologically informed lipid ratios to reveal obesity-related alterations in enzymatic activity & #GeneticVariants not apparent in traditional lipidomic analyses @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/41vdrO5
Some executioner caspases also have non-apoptotic functions. This study shows that sublethal executioner #caspase activation enhances #hepatocyte proliferation via JAK/STAT3 signaling, revealing a role for executioner caspases in promoting liver #regeneration @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3JEsH57
Detecting consciousness through micro-movements of comatose patients [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪👩🔬⚕️😔💻 "detect signs of consciousness in comatose patients by using artificial intelligence to analyze facial movements" www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-s... #covert #consciousness #coma #patients
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At the end of my fellowship in Berlin - me completing the character coding for my arachnid phylogeny v.s. me actually looking at the tree 🕷️🧪⚒️
🌿📡 RESEARCH 📡🌿 A calmodulin-binding domain regulates polar trafficking of an MLO calcium channel to ensure that pollen tube–synergid communication succeeds during pollen tube reception and sperm cell delivery to the female gametes - Yuan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
🧪 @bsky.app 👍 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
is now recognized in heliophysics as a specific class of CME. Animation: A modern simulation of Earth's magnetic field during the #CarringtonEvent. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio/Tom Bridgman ➡️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 5/5 🔭 🧪
It was the event that made Carrington suspect the relationship between geomagnetic storms and the Sun. It was later shown by Hale [1931], Chapman and Bartels [1940], and H.W. Newton [1943] that solar flares and magnetic storms were indeed linked. The strength of the Carrington Event 4/
🧵 Sept. 1-2, 1859: The Carrington Event, during the solar cycle 10. On 1 Sept. 1859, English astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson noticed a sudden brightening on the Sun's surface like they'd never seen before— the first record of a solar flare... 1/5 🔭 🧪 #stellarastro #histsci
Researchers have made a broad-spectrum antiviral that works against several virus families by blocking N-glycans—long thought of as undruggable targets. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
Probing the evolutionary diversity of placental development: Francesca Soncin explores a @plosbiology.org study that provides a spatial transcriptomic characterization of the porcine #placenta, developing a new swine trophoblast #organoid model 🧪 Paper: plos.io/47jf3yd Primer: plos.io/3HZodFB
How Trump's calls for gold-standard science are politicising science 🧪🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
MAGA NIH claims to promote gold standard science while cutting cancer research. Dr. Monarez was fired b/c she tried to prevent political meddling in science. Scientists at the CDC quit b/c it had become untenable to do science that serves the public. 🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
Just submitted this picture of Venus and the Beehive Cluster to Astronomy Now magazine. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
One of the most famous Dracaena spp is D. cinnabari, the dragon’s blood tree, endemic to Socotra, a tiny island off the Horn of Africa. The species epithet & common name refer to the red resin. 📷: James Bailey CCBYNC4. #Dracaena #Asparagaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
🧪 #birds #birding Red-tailed hawk mantling unknown prey, revealing rabbit, finishing rabbit, one-legged hopping into shade to eat rabbit. And H. I. McDunnough's doleful incantation echoes once again in my ears, "It's a hard world for little things".
Hurray for #archaeology! It was great to welcome Clare to the Department in #Nottingham today and I can’t wait to talk pots and #Neolithic goodness! 🏺🧪
Uploading minds to computers is technically impossible—the idea rests on a misconception of consciousness. | https://iai.tv/articles/consciousness-cant-be-uploaded-auid-3352 William Egginton explores the relationships between the philosophies of Kant, Heisenberg and Borges. #philsci #consky 🧪
A genetic model for the ring of cenotes (ROC) is presented, which suggests pre-impact geothermal circulation of marine water, followed by post-impact vertical fluxes around the Chicxulub low-permeability structure which facilitated hypogene karstification. 👇🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZzB...
This is extremely good advice. Scientists and allies, take note. If you have questions on how to organize, or how to join a group that is organizing, please reply to this thread and we'll all help. 🧪
“These computer-generated images look real but do not belong to any actual people. The approach is in its early stages; models trained on these “deepfakes” are still less accurate than those trained on real-world faces.” #scicomm www.sciencenews.org/article/fake... 🧪 🧠
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🍼 Antibiotic resistance starts early A study of infant gut bacteria found antibiotic resistance genes appear within the first week of life, peaking at 6 months. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #Microbiome 🧪
This mosasaur jaw bone that got eaten by a shark than puked up again is a #MosasaurMonday vibe Since the teeth aren't covered in meat, they get annihilated first by shark stomach acid leaving holes in the bulbous root. The rest of the jaw is covered with gums and face so usually fares better 🧪
The #climate scientist response to the DOE Climate Working Group Report will be released tomorrow morning, and followed by a discussion led by @revkin.bsky.social later in the day. See details here: 🧪🌊❄️🥼
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“These are not typical requests from a health secretary to a C.D.C. director. Not even close. None of us would have agreed to the secretary’s demands, and we applaud Dr. Monarez for standing up for the agency and the health of our communities.” Op-ed written by 9 former CDC directors! 🧪 #IDsky
Not-so-fun fact: Chrysotile asbestos was commonly used as fake snow in movies or as decoration through the 1930s to 50s. ⚒️🧪 #MinCup25 www.mesothelioma.com/blog/asbesto...
In 1859, a massive solar flare triggered the biggest geomagnetic storm on record, lighting up the skies and disrupting telegraphs throughout North America and Europe. What would a solar storm like 1859 do to us today? ☀️🌪️🧪 #Space #SolarFlare #Storm
What if your blood vessels could talk? In kids and teens with #obesity, blood vessels already show signs of trouble with sugar processing. Learn more in a vintage #ISpyPhysiology blog post: ow.ly/elJU50WJxkf #ChildhoodObesityAwareness 🧪
We are closer than ever to finding alien life. From exoplanet biosignatures to theoretical Dyson spheres, we dive deep into the latest targets and methods for detection in the search for life in the cosmos. It’s “Aliens Now” on @bipisci.bsky.social 🧪 Listen here: buff.ly/9EiBIYd
🧪 #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience #RFKJr #Vaccines #HHS #CDC #antivax www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...