It's publication day! The 3rd edition of "The Scientist's Guide to Writing" is available TODAY. It's expanded and it's as up-to-date as I can make it. If you've been using this book - thank you. If you haven't: today is a great time to start! scientistseessquirre... 🧪🌍

It’s publication day! “The Scientist’s Guide to Writing”, 3rd edition

Some things don’t ever get old, and I can tell you that publication day for one of your books is one of those things. Today is that day: the new 3rd edition of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing is o…

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If we care about disability justice, one of the lowest-hanging fruits is masks in healthcare. It remains unacceptable that vulnerable patients must ask, sometimes beg, healthcare workers to mask, while also explaining to them why respirator masks are better

Scientists of the Nautilus research ship capture a Big Fin Squid on camera, at 5454m (17’800 ft) depth. This was their live reaction: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

Gelatinous organisms are good candidates for parasite research as they are mostly trasparent 🪼. Although bigger ones (some >10 kg!) pose a humongous challenge. 👆 this video of a trematode metacercaria was taken from the tissue of the Red Sea ctenophore Eurhamphaea vexilligera (fig i,j) #biodiversity

New preprint out! Are jellyfish🪼 parasite 🪱 highways🚦? For years, we collected parasitic worms from gelatinous hosts in five seas and mapped their global records. Turns out gelatinous zooplankton have an important role in the life cycle of parasites, and vice versa: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“Our findings challenge the view of gelatinous zooplankton as trophic dead ends and identify them as overlooked hosts that may shape marine parasite biogeography, food-web connectivity and invasion dynamics.” New work on parasitic worms in #cnidarians, #ctenophores, #chaetognaths & #tunicates 🪼🪱 🦑

Tamar Guy-Haim 🌊🔬🦐🦀🦞🦑🐟@zoopel.bsky.social · 6d ago

New preprint out! Are jellyfish🪼 parasite 🪱 highways🚦? For years, we collected parasitic worms from gelatinous hosts in five seas and mapped their global records. Turns out gelatinous zooplankton have an important role in the life cycle of parasites, and vice versa: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

You can read the article, Open Access, at doi.org/10.1111/een....

Does the munch affect the bunch? Using community science to explore insect herbivory and fruit production in an understory plant

We used iNaturalist records, a longitudinal field survey, and a simulated herbivory experiment to explore how insect herbivory factors are associated with Cornus canadensis fruit production. Natural.....

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Huge thanks to all the @inaturalist.bsky.social users who contributed their photos and identification expertise. We used thousands of photos of this super common species -- I want to emphasize how valuable every observation is, no matter how mundane it may seem! So excited to have this out :)

RES Publications@respublications.bsky.social · 3w ago

New #OpenAccess work by @maria-duynisveld.bsky.social et al. in #RESEcolEnt used #CommunityScience to explore insect herbivory and fruit production in #bunchberry, combining #iNaturalist records, field surveys, and a simulated herbivory experiment to test hypotheses. doi.org/10.1111/een.70114

In our latest #ArtistAtSea video from the #DeepWonders expedition in Trinidad & Tobago, award-winning media artist Marco Barotti discusses how he hopes to translate hard science into a more tangible & accessible experience for all. #SciArt https://youtu.be/r-62AeBWITM?si=3Q8kTqk-_qYO0dxt

Communicating Discovery (ft. Marco Barotti) | Artist-at-Sea

A different way of understanding. Award-winning media artist Marco Barotti's work centers on sound, technology, and the environment. He is recognized for his celebrated underwater sound sculpture series “Coral Sonic Resilience,” which merges scientific...

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Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

Just a couple big-headed flies making more big-headed flies, which I appreciate so I can see more big-headed flies 😁 #Pipunculidae #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica [PS: Jim Hogue is about to wow us w/these flies & their close relatives the hover flies!] @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteracourse.bsky.social

I think I caught #shrinkflation mid-production

Hey #Botany2026 friends, our Belonging in Botany speaker had to cancel unfortunately (we hope to get him back next year!). Instead we're trying something different. We're going to have a discussion-based workshop to help us connect across our common struggles and share ways to stay resilient 1/2

🌊 The ultimate Canadian tool for deep-sea science? A hockey puck. 🏒 ONC uses modified hockey pucks as grip pads for ROV arms to grab heavy underwater gear. Very Canadian, eh? 🇨🇦 🔗 Follow along on our live dives: ow.ly/Z7xf50Zv7uT #KnowTheOcean #ONCabyss @uvic.ca ic @innovation.ca ion.ca

For the enlightenment of the 💩🤡s going after Fauci:

The lab leak push is part of a decades-long propaganda effort to erode support for publically funded science, which helps those who aim to replace democracies and their public services and safety nets and healthy egalitarian societies with a neofeudal system where 10 people own everything.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 5d ago

The thing I can't really figure out about Lab Leak Theory is like... so what if it were true? Like is the idea that we could sue China for damages? That's not gonna work. It wouldn't really change anything both to how we responded to Covid and how we act going forward.

"Fully implanted cyborg Cockroach with diving suit" hatte ich für 2026 nicht auf der Bingokarte. Über was man nicht alles beim c't lesen stolpert😮 Aber worum geht es da? Ein Thread🧵 🧵 1 / 10

New research estimates the Earth has 2 to 3x more insects species than previously thought. The true number of insect species is at least 14 to 20 million. #IPBES This has profound implications for understanding the scale, richness, and future of biodiversity on Earth. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Constructing a lower-bound estimate of the global number of insect species on a hyperdiverse empirical foundation | PNAS

Estimating the number of insect species on Earth is a daunting challenge. The current consensus estimate—about six million species—is likely far to...

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🚨 New today in Nature 🦟 After decades of debate, we show that climate change has probably made malaria worse in sub-Saharan Africa, causing about 1 extra case per 1,000 children. But: malaria eradication efforts have pulled the other direction 200 times harder. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪 phys.org/news/2026-07... 🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️

Tropical insects may be running out of room as temperatures rise

New research from Costa Rica's Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) suggests that tropical insects may be vulnerable to rising temperatures. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Ac...

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🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️ Diverse tropical leaf litter-dwelling rove beetles in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) Costa Rica (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), show how thermal tolerance can change with elevation. @gdfcf.bsky.social fcf.bsky.social @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tropical insects may be running out of room as temperatures rise | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Tropical insects may be running out of room as temperatures rise

Significance: Empirical evaluations of thermal tolerance for tropical species are sparse, and this reduces our capacity to anticipate the impact of the climate crisis on the undescribed morass of wild...

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🧪 Read Tropical insects may not have capacity for rising temperatures on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...

Tropical insects may not have capacity for rising temperatures

Low-elevation tropical insect species may already be exposed to temperatures that meet or exceed their thermal limits, while high-elevation species are likely not capable of dealing with the coming te...

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🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️ However, as predicted by Janzen’s Mountain Passes, most of these species do not move much; and eventually, there will be nowhere higher to go. @gdfcf.bsky.social @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️ The little things of ACG are teaching us much about the world. We enthusiastically thank ACG for protecting & preserving these species & spaces. @gdfcf.bsky.social @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️ How to deal with the climate crisis? Refuge in the soil may provide temporary respite from rising temp. Larger spp that can move may move upslope and find respite in cooler temperatures. @gdfcf.bsky.social @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️ High-elev cloud forest spp r likely not capable of dealing with the coming temp. Low-elev dry forest spp, have higher heat tolerances, but r already exposed to temps that can exceed their thermal limits. @gdfcf.bsky.social @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️ Tropical forest communities are vulnerable across elevation in different ways. This highlights the critical protective role that the ÁCG plays in preserving habitat these species and others like them. @gdfcf.bsky.social @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️ When are things too hot to handle? Our new paper on insect thermal tolerance across elevation in @pnas.org nas.org suggest perhaps not too far in the future. @gdfcf.bsky.social sky.social @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵