Sam Dean
@samdeanscience.bsky.social
She/herpetologist, ecologist, frmr professor; current doctoral student | Baltimorean | Unabashed pun enthusiast and ice cream appreciator.
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Super useful tips & tricks for insect specimen imaging from @andrewjohnston.bsky.social! He shares how to build an affordable focus stacking system on your own.
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Super useful tips & tricks for insect specimen imaging from @andrewjohnston.bsky.social! He shares how to build an affordable focus stacking system on your own.
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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.
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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 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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🗳️ Philly has a DA race, New Jersey is electing a governor, and the balance of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is on the ballot today.
Follow live Election Day updates here 👇
Follow live Election Day updates here 👇
Voters to choose Philly DA, New Jersey governor as polls open for election 2025
Voters will also decide the makeup of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court Tuesday.
www.inquirer.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🗳️ Philly has a DA race, New Jersey is electing a governor, and the balance of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is on the ballot today.
Follow live Election Day updates here 👇
Follow live Election Day updates here 👇
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It's ELECTION DAY. Polls are open from 7am-8pm EDT. Find your polling place with this link. And VOTE YES on the retention justices.
https://ouo.io/CfFH1y
#philly #philadelphia #jawnphilly
https://ouo.io/CfFH1y
#philly #philadelphia #jawnphilly
It's ELECTION DAY. Polls are open from 7am-8pm EDT. Find your polling place with this link. And VOTE YES on the retention justices.
ouo.io
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It's ELECTION DAY. Polls are open from 7am-8pm EDT. Find your polling place with this link. And VOTE YES on the retention justices.
https://ouo.io/CfFH1y
#philly #philadelphia #jawnphilly
https://ouo.io/CfFH1y
#philly #philadelphia #jawnphilly
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spatialreserves.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/t... my top 10 most useful geospatial data portals list.
The Top 10 most useful geospatial data portals: Update
Visit the post for more.
spatialreserves.wordpress.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
spatialreserves.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/t... my top 10 most useful geospatial data portals list.
I saw Dr. Goodall speak in 2019 in DC. She greeted the audience in chimpanzee, showed us her childhood stuffed monkey Jubilee, and was incredibly human in sharing how she became a scientist. May we all be as good to this world as Dr. Goodall, and may she rest in power.
October 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I saw Dr. Goodall speak in 2019 in DC. She greeted the audience in chimpanzee, showed us her childhood stuffed monkey Jubilee, and was incredibly human in sharing how she became a scientist. May we all be as good to this world as Dr. Goodall, and may she rest in power.
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JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
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This assignment for Comparative Anatomy has been a big success, so I'm sharing it here!
September 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This assignment for Comparative Anatomy has been a big success, so I'm sharing it here!
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The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Tons of potential with this new product!
The authors present the "Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG): a database that combines fuel treatment data from the US Forest Service and US Department of the Interior systems of record, making them easily accessible and interpretable"🔥
The authors present the "Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG): a database that combines fuel treatment data from the US Forest Service and US Department of the Interior systems of record, making them easily accessible and interpretable"🔥
A new geodatabase of fuel treatments across federal lands in the USA - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A new geodatabase of fuel treatments across federal lands in the USA
dx.doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Tons of potential with this new product!
The authors present the "Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG): a database that combines fuel treatment data from the US Forest Service and US Department of the Interior systems of record, making them easily accessible and interpretable"🔥
The authors present the "Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG): a database that combines fuel treatment data from the US Forest Service and US Department of the Interior systems of record, making them easily accessible and interpretable"🔥
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@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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California communities can reduce wildfire damage by half. Here’s how:
Our new study "Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface" was published in Nature Communications today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/c...
Our new study "Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface" was published in Nature Communications today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/c...
Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface - Nature Communications
Wildfire risk in California’s WUI is rising. Analysis of past events shows home hardening and defensible space can reduce structure loss by up to 52%, but coordinated, community-scale action is essent...
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
California communities can reduce wildfire damage by half. Here’s how:
Our new study "Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface" was published in Nature Communications today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/c...
Our new study "Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface" was published in Nature Communications today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/c...
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Wetlands as water filters
A new study shows European wetlands remove over 1 million tonnes of nitrogen each year. Targeted wetland restoration could cut pollution to seas by up to 36% while aiding biodiversity and climate goals.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SciComm 🧪 #Wetlands
A new study shows European wetlands remove over 1 million tonnes of nitrogen each year. Targeted wetland restoration could cut pollution to seas by up to 36% while aiding biodiversity and climate goals.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SciComm 🧪 #Wetlands
The important role of wetland conservation and restoration in nitrogen removal across European river basins - Nature Water
This study evaluates the potential of wetland conservation and restoration to improve water quality and highlights the important role of wetlands in nitrogen removal across European river basins.
www.nature.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Wetlands as water filters
A new study shows European wetlands remove over 1 million tonnes of nitrogen each year. Targeted wetland restoration could cut pollution to seas by up to 36% while aiding biodiversity and climate goals.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SciComm 🧪 #Wetlands
A new study shows European wetlands remove over 1 million tonnes of nitrogen each year. Targeted wetland restoration could cut pollution to seas by up to 36% while aiding biodiversity and climate goals.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SciComm 🧪 #Wetlands
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Some frogs are thumbnail-size. But Cameroon’s Goliath frog is bigger than a whole human foot, weighing up to 3.3 kilograms. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/3VkucrG
The world's biggest frogs build their own ponds
Goliath frogs excavate meter-long pools and guard their tadpoles through the night
scim.ag
August 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Some frogs are thumbnail-size. But Cameroon’s Goliath frog is bigger than a whole human foot, weighing up to 3.3 kilograms. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/3VkucrG
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Hey folks out there who ❤️ to #CTscan things and ❤️ museums! the @amnh.org is hiring a Laboratory Manager for their Microscopy and Imaging Facility, a.k.a. the CT lab 🧪
careers.amnh.org/postings/4550
careers.amnh.org/postings/4550
Laboratory Manager
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cult...
careers.amnh.org
August 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Hey folks out there who ❤️ to #CTscan things and ❤️ museums! the @amnh.org is hiring a Laboratory Manager for their Microscopy and Imaging Facility, a.k.a. the CT lab 🧪
careers.amnh.org/postings/4550
careers.amnh.org/postings/4550
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Check the comments to follow all kinds of actual scientists studying amazing things. #science
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
August 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Check the comments to follow all kinds of actual scientists studying amazing things. #science
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Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
August 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
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The Mojave Desert tortoise has long been considered a threatened species, but in June, California declared it endangered.
This iconic tortoise is dying out. It could affect the whole ecosystem
The Mojave Desert tortoise has long been considered a threatened species, but in June, California declared it endangered.
n.pr
August 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Mojave Desert tortoise has long been considered a threatened species, but in June, California declared it endangered.
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"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
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If you're doing mentoring right, your mentees will argue with you. And when they win one - that's a great day! scientistseessquirre...
Sometimes, I love to lose an argument
As a grad student, I loved to argue, about almost anything (mostly over beer). I avoided arguing with my PhD advisor though – mostly out of my knowledge that he was pretty famous, as ecologists go,…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If you're doing mentoring right, your mentees will argue with you. And when they win one - that's a great day! scientistseessquirre...
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Invasion science contrarians commonly use the same rhetorical tactics as climate change denialists & antivaxxers.
We've described examples here:
redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...
We've described examples here:
redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...
July 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Invasion science contrarians commonly use the same rhetorical tactics as climate change denialists & antivaxxers.
We've described examples here:
redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...
We've described examples here:
redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...
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An effusive review of #ScienceUnderSiege by #KirkusReviews of my forthcoming book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege
SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE | Kirkus Reviews
Pursuing science and truth in the age of disinformation.
www.kirkusreviews.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
An effusive review of #ScienceUnderSiege by #KirkusReviews of my forthcoming book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege
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Instead of building an America where every individual, child, and family can flourish, Congress has chosen to abandon them by slashing Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, and ending access to reproductive health care for millions of women.
Read our statement: www.ncjw.org/news/this-bu...
Read our statement: www.ncjw.org/news/this-bu...
This Budget Fails Our Moral Obligations as a Nation - National Council of Jewish Women
This Budget Fails Our Moral Obligations as a Nation
www.ncjw.org
July 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Instead of building an America where every individual, child, and family can flourish, Congress has chosen to abandon them by slashing Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, and ending access to reproductive health care for millions of women.
Read our statement: www.ncjw.org/news/this-bu...
Read our statement: www.ncjw.org/news/this-bu...
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This proposal to cut the funding of NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) to zero is shocking to us, but what's even more shocking is that my NOAA colleague, who runs a very large group at one of the OAR laboratories, didn't even know about this document when I sent it to him.
What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
July 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This proposal to cut the funding of NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) to zero is shocking to us, but what's even more shocking is that my NOAA colleague, who runs a very large group at one of the OAR laboratories, didn't even know about this document when I sent it to him.
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My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
🧪🌎
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