Dr. Anna Krahl
@paleokrahl.bsky.social
PhD, geologist, paleontologist and flipperologist, Junior Consultant for ecolables and communication, mom in #STEM, she/her
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
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The #pseudoarchaeological appropriation of past and #Indigenous cultural achievements to attribute these to ancient "supercivilizations" or even #aliens is reviving 19th century narratives deeply rooted in #colonialsim.
Whole @smartcookies.bsky.social podcast episode here: youtu.be/iUp44_-lbs4
Whole @smartcookies.bsky.social podcast episode here: youtu.be/iUp44_-lbs4
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The #pseudoarchaeological appropriation of past and #Indigenous cultural achievements to attribute these to ancient "supercivilizations" or even #aliens is reviving 19th century narratives deeply rooted in #colonialsim.
Whole @smartcookies.bsky.social podcast episode here: youtu.be/iUp44_-lbs4
Whole @smartcookies.bsky.social podcast episode here: youtu.be/iUp44_-lbs4
It is a pretty different feeling to be on the job hunt because you chose to look for something else than in comparison to having a terminated contract anyway and now looking for the next thing.
December 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It is a pretty different feeling to be on the job hunt because you chose to look for something else than in comparison to having a terminated contract anyway and now looking for the next thing.
beim Schrottwichteln verschenke ich die fucks that I don't give
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
beim Schrottwichteln verschenke ich die fucks that I don't give
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If I could have a Euro for every time a guy with a PhD explains to me that to him my PhD doesn't mean anything or doesn't matter in a job context
bugs bunny is sitting at a table with a purse and stacks of money
ALT: bugs bunny is sitting at a table with a purse and stacks of money
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If I could have a Euro for every time a guy with a PhD explains to me that to him my PhD doesn't mean anything or doesn't matter in a job context
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Jaja, schön und gut, aber warum ist auf dem zugehörigen Foto alles Mögliche zu sehen, nur keine Thuja weit und breit?!
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Jaja, schön und gut, aber warum ist auf dem zugehörigen Foto alles Mögliche zu sehen, nur keine Thuja weit und breit?!
seriously, I can't get over how funny and cute and interesting soft-shelled turtles are
also _soft_ _shelled_ turtles
and noses
also _soft_ _shelled_ turtles
and noses
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
seriously, I can't get over how funny and cute and interesting soft-shelled turtles are
also _soft_ _shelled_ turtles
and noses
also _soft_ _shelled_ turtles
and noses
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Reposted by Dr. Anna Krahl
An exquisite fossil of a 240-million-year-old marine reptile reveals it had partially webbed fingers and toes.
The exceptional preservation also hinted at underlying limb muscles that suggest it swam like seal.
#Paleontology #MonteSanGiorgio
🧪🏺
New for @sciencenews.bsky.social
The exceptional preservation also hinted at underlying limb muscles that suggest it swam like seal.
#Paleontology #MonteSanGiorgio
🧪🏺
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An ancient reptile’s fossilized skin reveals how it swam like a seal
A reptile fossil is the first of its kind with skin and partially webbed feet, possibly showing how later species like plesiosaurs adapted to water.
www.sciencenews.org
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
An exquisite fossil of a 240-million-year-old marine reptile reveals it had partially webbed fingers and toes.
The exceptional preservation also hinted at underlying limb muscles that suggest it swam like seal.
#Paleontology #MonteSanGiorgio
🧪🏺
New for @sciencenews.bsky.social
The exceptional preservation also hinted at underlying limb muscles that suggest it swam like seal.
#Paleontology #MonteSanGiorgio
🧪🏺
New for @sciencenews.bsky.social
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Rabbit locomotion — Brehms Tierleben, 1914
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Rabbit locomotion — Brehms Tierleben, 1914
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Like other academics, I have collected work contracts like other people have collected stamps.
a woman in a red and white striped shirt is throwing papers into the air
ALT: a woman in a red and white striped shirt is throwing papers into the air
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Like other academics, I have collected work contracts like other people have collected stamps.
If I could have a Euro for every time a guy with a PhD explains to me that to him my PhD doesn't mean anything or doesn't matter in a job context
bugs bunny is sitting at a table with a purse and stacks of money
ALT: bugs bunny is sitting at a table with a purse and stacks of money
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If I could have a Euro for every time a guy with a PhD explains to me that to him my PhD doesn't mean anything or doesn't matter in a job context
Jaja, schön und gut, aber warum ist auf dem zugehörigen Foto alles Mögliche zu sehen, nur keine Thuja weit und breit?!
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Jaja, schön und gut, aber warum ist auf dem zugehörigen Foto alles Mögliche zu sehen, nur keine Thuja weit und breit?!
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Look at this MANPAD-ahh nematode
(note: slow motion video 83.3× slower than real time)
From the paper www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
(note: slow motion video 83.3× slower than real time)
From the paper www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Look at this MANPAD-ahh nematode
(note: slow motion video 83.3× slower than real time)
From the paper www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
(note: slow motion video 83.3× slower than real time)
From the paper www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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The new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile
#Invertebrate 🧪
news.emory.edu/features/202...
#Invertebrate 🧪
news.emory.edu/features/202...
Fatal attraction: Electric charge connects jumping worm to aerial prey
A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, Emory physicists have found.
news.emory.edu
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile
#Invertebrate 🧪
news.emory.edu/features/202...
#Invertebrate 🧪
news.emory.edu/features/202...
Is there anyone out there who is also put off by certain 'quirks' in people's voices?
I for once find creaky voices extremely aggrevating as well as women who switch like an octave higher when talking to dudes. I also find the Beavies and Buttheadish laughter of guy teanagers hard to ignore.
Me:
I for once find creaky voices extremely aggrevating as well as women who switch like an octave higher when talking to dudes. I also find the Beavies and Buttheadish laughter of guy teanagers hard to ignore.
Me:
a cat is sitting on a couch with its paws on a laptop .
ALT: a cat is sitting on a couch with its paws on a laptop .
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Is there anyone out there who is also put off by certain 'quirks' in people's voices?
I for once find creaky voices extremely aggrevating as well as women who switch like an octave higher when talking to dudes. I also find the Beavies and Buttheadish laughter of guy teanagers hard to ignore.
Me:
I for once find creaky voices extremely aggrevating as well as women who switch like an octave higher when talking to dudes. I also find the Beavies and Buttheadish laughter of guy teanagers hard to ignore.
Me:
I am always extremely suspicious when everything about someones live is perfect: perfect career, perfect look, perfect partner/marriage, perfect kid that's perfect at every thing... you know what I mean. I truly deeply believe that this doesn't exist because humans do human things and fuck up.
a girl in a school uniform is standing in a car with the words i wish you luck below her
ALT: a girl in a school uniform is standing in a car with the words i wish you luck below her
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I am always extremely suspicious when everything about someones live is perfect: perfect career, perfect look, perfect partner/marriage, perfect kid that's perfect at every thing... you know what I mean. I truly deeply believe that this doesn't exist because humans do human things and fuck up.
Yeah, well, I can't sit still for a minute but to each their own.
Cave life's not all bad for olms. They live *exceptionally* long lives for an amphibian (100 yrs!), possibly arising from the fact that they have no natural predators & have been known not to move for up to 7 years.
Just tiny pink dragons guarding their tiny water-filled caves for a century. 🐉💧
Just tiny pink dragons guarding their tiny water-filled caves for a century. 🐉💧
One blind, aquatic salamander may have sat mostly still for seven years
Olms may live for about century and appear to spend their time moving sparingly.
www.sciencenews.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Yeah, well, I can't sit still for a minute but to each their own.
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... at least, in the adult. The larval form do have functional eyes, but these never develop, get overgrown as they mature, described as "regressed".
They live in total darkness, so other senses are far more developed: electroreception, pressure, smell.
But what about the brain regions?
They live in total darkness, so other senses are far more developed: electroreception, pressure, smell.
But what about the brain regions?
The olm: the blind cave salamander that lives to 100
In the caves of Slovenia and Croatia lives an animal that’s a cross between Peter Pan and Gollum. It’s the olm, a blind, cave-dwelling salamander, also called the proteus and the “human fish”, for its...
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
... at least, in the adult. The larval form do have functional eyes, but these never develop, get overgrown as they mature, described as "regressed".
They live in total darkness, so other senses are far more developed: electroreception, pressure, smell.
But what about the brain regions?
They live in total darkness, so other senses are far more developed: electroreception, pressure, smell.
But what about the brain regions?
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Olms (Proteus anguinus) look like you took an axolotl & stretched them out. 'Dachshund axolotls', if you will.
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Olms (Proteus anguinus) look like you took an axolotl & stretched them out. 'Dachshund axolotls', if you will.
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
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Searching for answers but not seeing shit
Cutting through my burdens over and over again
Put these beautiful people six feet underground
I walk their roads, spill blood through their streets
I hate everyone and every fucking thing
This is my war
Cutting through my burdens over and over again
Put these beautiful people six feet underground
I walk their roads, spill blood through their streets
I hate everyone and every fucking thing
This is my war
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Searching for answers but not seeing shit
Cutting through my burdens over and over again
Put these beautiful people six feet underground
I walk their roads, spill blood through their streets
I hate everyone and every fucking thing
This is my war
Cutting through my burdens over and over again
Put these beautiful people six feet underground
I walk their roads, spill blood through their streets
I hate everyone and every fucking thing
This is my war
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Eine Mutter ist mit ihrer Tochter im Kindergartenalter bei uns in der Praxis.
Sie erklärt dem Kind, dass ich jetzt gleich die Zähne zählen und nachschauen werde, ob gut geputzt ist.
"Was putzen wir immer raus aus dem Mund?"
Die Kleine:
"STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS!"
😳
Sie erklärt dem Kind, dass ich jetzt gleich die Zähne zählen und nachschauen werde, ob gut geputzt ist.
"Was putzen wir immer raus aus dem Mund?"
Die Kleine:
"STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS!"
😳
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Eine Mutter ist mit ihrer Tochter im Kindergartenalter bei uns in der Praxis.
Sie erklärt dem Kind, dass ich jetzt gleich die Zähne zählen und nachschauen werde, ob gut geputzt ist.
"Was putzen wir immer raus aus dem Mund?"
Die Kleine:
"STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS!"
😳
Sie erklärt dem Kind, dass ich jetzt gleich die Zähne zählen und nachschauen werde, ob gut geputzt ist.
"Was putzen wir immer raus aus dem Mund?"
Die Kleine:
"STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS!"
😳
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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I had a job interview recently...and for the first time in my whole working life I thought "This isn't my dream job, so you can't use me and make me deal with shitty circumstances and your bs. What if _I_ don't want _your_ job under these premisses?!"
a man in a black and white sweater is holding his hands to his chest .
ALT: a man in a black and white sweater is holding his hands to his chest .
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November 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I had a job interview recently...and for the first time in my whole working life I thought "This isn't my dream job, so you can't use me and make me deal with shitty circumstances and your bs. What if _I_ don't want _your_ job under these premisses?!"