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Carylanne Joubert Maier
@carylanneejmaier.bsky.social
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Bio B.Sc/GIS cert, writer, and current professor of English (MA). My children's books feature wolves, grizzly bears, panda bears, and research with greening in oranges. Lover of sharks, scuba diver, and future marine biologist. Avatar by Ethan Kocak
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carylanneejmaier.bsky.social
While I much prefer wild capybara, getting to see one up close at Gatorland last year was neat. (And I, a good wife, totally bought tickets to meet the capybaras for @joeymaier.bsky.social birthday and not* at all because I really wanted to)

*She says totally sarcastically
User and her husband sitting on a bench with a capybara looking at them. User sitting on a bench with others while she feeds a capybara some celery Man let's capybara sniff hand
November 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
Can I offer you a few capybaras in these trying times?
A mother and baby Capybara walking across a field.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
Make time for Capybaras.
A very fuzzy capybara napping in the sun.
November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Here's Dr. Andrew Thaler's panel on deep sea mining. www.southernfriedscience.com/the-science-...
The Science, Policy, and Cultural Implications of Deep Sea Mining
I was invited by the Sierra Club National Marine Team to talk about the science and policy of deep-sea mining. Watch the panel, above!
www.southernfriedscience.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
Oh! It's not just Fibbonacci Day but also Doctor Who Day; it first aired OTD in 1963!

Allons-y!
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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thephdpeople.com
Don’t speak to yourself in a tone you’d never use with a friend. You have strengths, gifts, and a trajectory worth noticing. Look for them—they’re there.

#AcademicChatter #phdchat #academicsky #phdsky #PhDDailyThought
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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francinefox.bsky.social
gurl

#diva #glamcephalopods #hedylamarr #allonautilus #oilpainting 🦑 🐡
An allonautilus that’s giving Hedy Lamar a run for her money. Hedy Lamarr in THAT photo.
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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betterknowafish.bsky.social
On a delightful walk today with my charming company we came across a gurgling spring-fed pond with some chonky koi, swimming idyllically. Cyprinus sp. 錦鯉 for #SundayFishSketch 🐡🦑🧪
Horizontal photo of a crayon sketch of an ornamental koi carp from top view, with bold edged scales, swimming over a bed of aquatic vegetation.
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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davidbflower.bsky.social
Lava spews out from Hawaii's Kilauea as volcano erupts again. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Lava spews out from Hawaii's Kilauea as volcano erupts again
According to the United States Geological Survey, this is the 37th eruption episode since December 2024.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
Basking sharks are so wonderfully magnificent.
Basking Sharks
YouTube video by BBC Northern Ireland
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
I came onto this site Capybara posting, and if they drag me off, I will leave this site Capybara posting.
drandrewthaler.bsky.social Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · May 10
We've been saying "See you later, Alligator" for decades, when "Sayonara, Capybara" was right there.
Capybara By Charles J. Sharp - Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44254293
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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becauseivy.bsky.social
also repeating that "ai is inevitable, it's here to stay" is nothing but perpetuating a self-fulfilling prophecy
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12d
What's next? Smoke cigarettes responsibly? Pollute needlessly responsibly? Have indentured labourers responsibly? Abuse people responsibly? Exactly.
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Celebrating Gerty Cori on #WorldDiabetesDay.

Cori, a biochemist, co-discovered the Cori cycle which unlocked how the body regulates glucose--foundational for diabetes treatments & insulin therapy. She was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery. #WomenInSTEM
Black-and-white photo of Gerty Cori in a lab coat, holding a pipette and test tube with focused precision. Shelves of glass bottles and scientific equipment fill the background. A blue diabetes awareness ribbon is overlaid in the lower left.
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
carylanneejmaier.bsky.social
Welp, I *may* have over thought this assignment for Scientific Writing and Literacy. We needed to post a rough draft of our hypothetical grant proposal for our projects into a discussion board to get peer review feedback for next week's final draft. As a writing prof, I always tell my students to...
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
carylanneejmaier.bsky.social
Storytime of a day in nature, doing field work and herpetology (despite not having pictures of any herpetofauna found today).
Today, Nov. 14, is World Diabetes Day, which is usually repped by people wearing blue. I was diagnosed as Type 1 Diabetic at age 5.5, and it has been a difficult 23 years...
User is taking a selfie from above looking down. She is wearing a blue long sleeve shirt, a greenish hat that says Wildflower in cursive, and she is standing among saw palmettos next to a fence as part of a science experiment array. A yellow flower (daisy maybe?) with the sunlight gleaming on it with a soft glow and dew drops covering the petals. A yellow bird sitting on a long leaf pine, maybe a yellow warbler?? A fly sitting on a dying/dead flower
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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disabledinstem.bsky.social
ICYMI: The 2026 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship applications are now open!

I look forward to seeing your applications soon! 💜
disabledinstem.bsky.social DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · Oct 20
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!

Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...

Applications due December 5th!
Promotional graphic for the DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Program. The background is a dark blue gradient with flowing wave-like patterns in blue and gold. At the top, white text reads: “DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Applications Now Open.” Below, a yellow box with black text says: “Seeking Disabled Mentees and Dedicated Mentors to Champion Inclusion in STEM.” At the bottom, white text states: “Applications due December 5th.” In the lower right corner, there is the DisabledInSTEM logo.
October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Shy-Hulud's passing cleanses the timeline

(here, they peer at a bit of radish with some trepidation)
Shy-Hulud, the leatherleaf slug, one eyestalk just poking out to peer at a bright red sliver of radish
August 24, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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scottedelman.bsky.social
To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.
Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, “Woo the muse of the odd.” You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be one geek they’ll never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and don’t do it halfway. Put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it. Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well-rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish.
August 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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juangarciaruiz.bsky.social
The platypus’s bill has 40000 electroreceptors and 60000 mechanoreceptors. It senses tiny electric fields and water movements from prey. Sweeping its bill side to side, the platypus finds hidden food underwater, hunting well even in the dark or cloudy water. ⚡🌊

#SciComm 🧪
September 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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shiplives.bsky.social
I, too, thought about what Sharon would have written. I’m glad this exists.

As an aside: there are many wonderful health/science reporters working today. But, boy howdy, Sharon was awfully darn good.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 19d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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linnybobinny.bsky.social
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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angierasmussen.bsky.social
I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over.

So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
“By choice [Rosalind Franklin] did not emphasize her feminine qualities.. There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black her, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men.. Clearly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. The former was obviously preferable because given her belligerent moods, it would be very difficult for Maurice [Wilkins] to maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA.. The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was another person’s lab”
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
We at Esri look forward to seeing you at #AGU25, showcasing with our products & services not only how geospatial enables greater understanding of the world, but how we also perform good science as a member of the scientific community.
www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...
🧪 🦑 🌊 🌎 🌍 🌏 ⚒️ #geogsky #geogchat
Header of the blog post entitled "Esri and the 2025 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting" showing a stock, non-copyrighted image of an erupting volcano.
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Let's talk about sex! Research suggests natural zebrafish have WZ/ZZ sex chromosomes as evidenced by a single sex-linked region on chromosome 4. This trait is lost in laboratory fish as sex is determined by multiple genes, with influences from the environment. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪
Image of two zebrafish (Danio rerio). The top is a male with a slender, yellow body. The bottom is a female, which has an egg-bearing belly. Image credit to Vetmeduni Vienna/Zala.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM