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Amaro Tuninetti, Ph.D. 🦇

@amarotuninetti.bsky.social

🦇 echolocation researcher. postdoc in New Hampshire; NSF PRFB bioacoustics, cognitive science, photography, fútbol, & a healthy dose of political shitposting he/him/his 🇦🇷 amarotuninetti.me

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Greg Priest@gregpriest.bsky.social · 2d ago

Donald Griffin, discoverer of bat echolocation, was born OTD 1915. I imagine “small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.” 🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM

Fig. 11 from Griffin, Echoes of Bats and Men (1959). “The frequency and wave length of a bat's sound vary during each chirp. This diagram, which is approximately to scale, illustrates the small amount of sound reflected by one insect.”I
Drew Schreiner@schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 2d ago

He also has one of my favorite quotes: If one wishes to understand the behavior of animals, one must take account of their individuality, annoying as this may be for those who prefer the tidiness of physics, chemistry, and mathematical formulations. -Donald Griffin

Greg Priest@gregpriest.bsky.social · 2d ago

Donald Griffin, discoverer of bat echolocation, was born OTD 1915. I imagine “small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.” 🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM

Fig. 11 from Griffin, Echoes of Bats and Men (1959). “The frequency and wave length of a bat's sound vary during each chirp. This diagram, which is approximately to scale, illustrates the small amount of sound reflected by one insect.”I
bobby@bobbylewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer

Chemistry World@chemistryworld.com · 2w ago

‘How can we ever trust this company again knowing what it’s done? We need a big response and a real promise to do things differently moving forward,’ says Elisabeth Bik. #ChemSky @elisabethbik.bsky.social @reeserichardson.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/news/thermo-...

Thermo Fisher antibody data manipulation is a breach of trust, say researchers

Science sleuths say the problem is impacting research progress and Thermo's response falls short

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

3. I know this will strain credulity, but at times it seems as if the report's author Michael Kratsios has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. Take this statement. As a former member of a department of biological sciences and a department of life sciences, I have no idea what this means.

Many of the Administration’s strategic technology priorities, including AI, quantum information science, semiconductors, advanced communications, robotics, advanced manufacturing, nuclear fission and fusion, and space systems, all rely on foundational research across the physical sciences, computer science, and engineering. However, the physical sciences and engineering have declined as a share of the Federal research portfolio over an extended period, even as the strategic importance of these fields has grown. Agencies are encouraged to pri- oritize both the absolute level and the relative share of funding directed within budget guidance levels to the physical sciences (physics, chemistry, materials sci- ence, space science, etc.), computer science, and supporting engineering and mathematical disciplines, especially within national security-relevant research portfolios. In addition, to support Administration priorities in biotechnology and biomanufacturing, agencies should prioritize foundational research in the biolog- ical sciences over the life sciences, a broader category not focused on founda- tional research
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 3w ago

Absolutely insane winter heat wave in ARGENTINA. In the coldest month of the year, the city of Salta had its HOTTEST NIGHT IN HISTORY for any month, beating the record of summer hottest month by 4C! This is one of the most incredible and anomalous events in world climatic history

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Timothy Burke@bubbaprog.xyz · 3w ago

30 minutes of uninterrupted England sadness, sped up 1000%. the last half of the video or so is just a montage of sad English people wondering why they haven't left yet.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3w ago

I talk a lot about the complexity of ocean conservation, and how real solutions can’t fit on a bumper sticker. Enter the Ocean Cleanup. Launched by a teenager giving a TED Talk, they claimed they were going to scoop all the plastic out of the ocean. 🧪🦑🌎

Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

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