@blu32ooth.bsky.social
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Happy World Manta Day from the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group!
There are three species of mantas around the world! The largest one, the Oceanic Manta Ray, can reach a huge 700 cm disc width and it is known for its elegance and intelligence.
© IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group and Eloisa Pinheiro
There are three species of mantas around the world! The largest one, the Oceanic Manta Ray, can reach a huge 700 cm disc width and it is known for its elegance and intelligence.
© IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group and Eloisa Pinheiro
September 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Happy World Manta Day from the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group!
There are three species of mantas around the world! The largest one, the Oceanic Manta Ray, can reach a huge 700 cm disc width and it is known for its elegance and intelligence.
© IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group and Eloisa Pinheiro
There are three species of mantas around the world! The largest one, the Oceanic Manta Ray, can reach a huge 700 cm disc width and it is known for its elegance and intelligence.
© IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group and Eloisa Pinheiro
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I just finished my favorite lecture of the year, in which I give my 105 students their first homework assignment (that I stole from Dave Jablonski): present the history of the Earth scaled to something with a distinct beginning, middle, end, etc. I made an example using Bohemian Rhapsody. There are…
September 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I just finished my favorite lecture of the year, in which I give my 105 students their first homework assignment (that I stole from Dave Jablonski): present the history of the Earth scaled to something with a distinct beginning, middle, end, etc. I made an example using Bohemian Rhapsody. There are…
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Love my ocean art but live outside the US or want it in a different format than I offer directly, like a canvas or metal print?
Check out my InPRNT shop! www.inprnt.com/gallery/nonc...
They are running a sale this weekend, with up to 40% off depending on print type. 🦑🐙🐡 #InverteFest
Check out my InPRNT shop! www.inprnt.com/gallery/nonc...
They are running a sale this weekend, with up to 40% off depending on print type. 🦑🐙🐡 #InverteFest
August 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Love my ocean art but live outside the US or want it in a different format than I offer directly, like a canvas or metal print?
Check out my InPRNT shop! www.inprnt.com/gallery/nonc...
They are running a sale this weekend, with up to 40% off depending on print type. 🦑🐙🐡 #InverteFest
Check out my InPRNT shop! www.inprnt.com/gallery/nonc...
They are running a sale this weekend, with up to 40% off depending on print type. 🦑🐙🐡 #InverteFest
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🥳 A colorful coral party 🪸 Festive invertebrates for #InverteFest
🪸 Made from glass beads & paillettes patiently set on wire.
#Art #ArtYear #ArtGallery #BSNM #Corals #CoralReef #Sculpture #MixedMedia 🦑🐡
🪸 Made from glass beads & paillettes patiently set on wire.
#Art #ArtYear #ArtGallery #BSNM #Corals #CoralReef #Sculpture #MixedMedia 🦑🐡
August 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🥳 A colorful coral party 🪸 Festive invertebrates for #InverteFest
🪸 Made from glass beads & paillettes patiently set on wire.
#Art #ArtYear #ArtGallery #BSNM #Corals #CoralReef #Sculpture #MixedMedia 🦑🐡
🪸 Made from glass beads & paillettes patiently set on wire.
#Art #ArtYear #ArtGallery #BSNM #Corals #CoralReef #Sculpture #MixedMedia 🦑🐡
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New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n)
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n)
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cestrum (📷: C. diurnum) is one of 3 genera in Cestroideae—Cestreae, all found in the American tropics & subtropics. The flowers have interesting pollination (birds, moths, etc.), but one unusual characteristic is that their chromosomes are extra-large, up to 14 μm long! #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
July 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Cestrum (📷: C. diurnum) is one of 3 genera in Cestroideae—Cestreae, all found in the American tropics & subtropics. The flowers have interesting pollination (birds, moths, etc.), but one unusual characteristic is that their chromosomes are extra-large, up to 14 μm long! #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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Incredible diversity of #pollen grains!
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
June 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Incredible diversity of #pollen grains!
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
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Over the last couple of years I have been writing individual chapters of what I call
𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Each chapter covers a specific, basic, but for some reason special and interesting aspect of #PlantScience research.
Have a look here 👇🧵
𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Each chapter covers a specific, basic, but for some reason special and interesting aspect of #PlantScience research.
Have a look here 👇🧵
May 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Over the last couple of years I have been writing individual chapters of what I call
𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Each chapter covers a specific, basic, but for some reason special and interesting aspect of #PlantScience research.
Have a look here 👇🧵
𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Each chapter covers a specific, basic, but for some reason special and interesting aspect of #PlantScience research.
Have a look here 👇🧵
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this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
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"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...
The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
April 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...
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Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
March 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
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A really cool study just published used metagenomic sequencing to uncover viral causes of unexplained fevers in Uganda. Of 230 patients who had tested negative for common infections, 19% had viral pathogens—ranging from respiratory and GI viruses to deadly viruses.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Uncovering the viral aetiology of undiagnosed acute febrile illness in Uganda using metagenomic sequencing - Nature Communications
Acute febrile illness is common in sub-Saharan Africa and causative agents are often unknown. Here, the authors perform metagenomic sequencing on samples from patients with acute febrile illness in Ug...
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A really cool study just published used metagenomic sequencing to uncover viral causes of unexplained fevers in Uganda. Of 230 patients who had tested negative for common infections, 19% had viral pathogens—ranging from respiratory and GI viruses to deadly viruses.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨new Indie SAGE report on childhood diseases!
🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case.
In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15
independentsage.org/report/preve...
🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case.
In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15
independentsage.org/report/preve...
March 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🚨new Indie SAGE report on childhood diseases!
🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case.
In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15
independentsage.org/report/preve...
🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case.
In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15
independentsage.org/report/preve...
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This is the logic behind historical Jewish quotas, trans-exclusionary rules in sports, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and the anti-DEI (read: anti-Black) push in workplaces: life is zero-sum, white Christian men deserve it all, and anyone else succeeding is a failure of the natural order
"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This is the logic behind historical Jewish quotas, trans-exclusionary rules in sports, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and the anti-DEI (read: anti-Black) push in workplaces: life is zero-sum, white Christian men deserve it all, and anyone else succeeding is a failure of the natural order
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Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time
After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2?
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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My co-author, @FancyNahyan.bsky.social, and I are happy to announce that, after an 8-month delay, our essay “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading Up to the Black Death” has finally been published. It’s open-access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed 🧪
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al. | Medical History | Cambridge Core
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al.
www.cambridge.org
February 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
My co-author, @FancyNahyan.bsky.social, and I are happy to announce that, after an 8-month delay, our essay “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading Up to the Black Death” has finally been published. It’s open-access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed 🧪
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1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment - Nature
In the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment, diploid yeast evolve to be tetraploid under selection for larger multicellular size, revealing how whole-genome duplication can arise due to its...
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unbelievable news.
Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.
New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.
New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Unbelievable news.
Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.
New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.
New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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These people should be ridiculed and laughed out of every room they enter.
February 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
These people should be ridiculed and laughed out of every room they enter.
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It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall.
If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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February 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall.
If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
🧵👇
If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
🧵👇
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I used to be such a hater of the history of science. Who cares who discovered whatever, let’s learn about the thing itself.
But I’ve seen the light, science history is so cool and the people who did this stuff were just like us: they got frustrated, sad, elated. Sometimes they’re funny!
Video soon
But I’ve seen the light, science history is so cool and the people who did this stuff were just like us: they got frustrated, sad, elated. Sometimes they’re funny!
Video soon
January 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I used to be such a hater of the history of science. Who cares who discovered whatever, let’s learn about the thing itself.
But I’ve seen the light, science history is so cool and the people who did this stuff were just like us: they got frustrated, sad, elated. Sometimes they’re funny!
Video soon
But I’ve seen the light, science history is so cool and the people who did this stuff were just like us: they got frustrated, sad, elated. Sometimes they’re funny!
Video soon
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Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!
February 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!