Another Galiteuthis @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 962 #samplinggap #MarineLife

So proud of @judithsmit.bsky.social!!!

Judith A.H. Smit@judithsmit.bsky.social · 6d ago

Most people think of animal communication as sounds, dances or smells. But many insects communicate through vibrations that travel through plants. I'm very excited to share this interview about my research on vibrationally duetting #treehoppers at STRI in Panama! stri.si.edu/story/judith...

Airborne Sound Detection in Manduca sexta Caterpillars https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.19.752919v1

Our companion (w/ @bmmaitland.bsky.social & @bleavell.bsky.social ) article for hatchR is now out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social in which we extend our methods to all ectotherms. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Generalizable Tool for Predicting Developmental Phenology for Wild Ecotherms

Custom hatch timing models developed for four North American Lithobates frog species. Models are parameterized from Moore (1939). Panels (A, B) shows differential developmental rates under varying th....

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Morgan Sparks@morgan-sparks.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share a new pub by @bmmaitland.bsky.social, myself, Eli Felts, Allison Swartz, and Paul Frater hatchR is a software ecosystem (R package and Shiny app) that allows users to predict developmental phenology for wild fishes using wild thermal regimes. academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

For a brief moment, there was Congressional and governmental support to ensure that children didn't face deportation alone. Then the Trump administration moved to gut the programs, and tens of thousands of kids who have lawyers now may lose them, while hundreds of thousands more go without counsel.

America's Voice@americasvoice.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Nonprofits representing more than 24,000 unaccompanied migrant kids said they’re at risk of shuttering their programs once a federal government contract ends Friday... Immigration judges issued removal orders for more than 18,000 kids in June, a 73% increase from January"

Color choice looking like a cyclosporiasis map

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"In Detroit, the air quality index reached a value of 728 late Wednesday, far worse than the peak of 465 in New York during the apocalyptic June 2023 fires." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

I'm Nicole, a wildlife artist and designer looking to use my skills for science, education, and conservation. I'm available for hire! Here's how to find me: http://thornwolf.com http://patreon.com/thornwolf http://thornwolfart.tumblr.com http://instagram.com/thornwolfart http://t.me/thornwolfart

today seems like a good day to repost our Viewpoint!!

Madeline G. Eppley, PhD@madeline-eppley.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My dispatch from Lebanon. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Opinion | Lebanon Is Fed Up, and Ready to Remake Itself

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If you're at a Red Sox home game and you want to send me a song request, this is the best place to do it. If you prefer to send it via Twitter, that's okay. If you prefer to send it via some other means, I may or may not see it in time. Thanks! Let's have an awesome Red Sox season together! ⚾ 🎹

1. In an incredible public outpouring of support, trans girl scouts on our girl scout cookie list have sold over 330,000 boxes of cookies. Parents report to us that they are in tears from the support. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trans Girl Scouts Sell 330,000 Boxes Of Cookies In Public Outpouring Of Support

The total boxes sold is the highest in the history of EITM's trans girl scout cookie list.

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This is such a good article for anyone working in conservation. One thing overlooked imo is how the size of organizations play a role, with people in small NGOs working twice as much for twice as less with little protections. First hand experience here 😉 news.mongabay.com/2026/03/an-e... 🌏

‘An epidemic of suffering’: Why are conservationists breaking down?

In December 2024, Rachel Graham, executive director of the Belize-based marine nonprofit MarAlliance, posted on LinkedIn that she knew “5 wildlife & conservation scientists who have taken their lives ...

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This is bigotry, pure and simple. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

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One of the biggest questions in biology is how complex cells evolved about 2 billion years ago. Here's my new story on how scientists are solving the mystery of eukaryotes like us. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qMbo22

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive. Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list. Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Maybe a crossover ep w Scott Hasn't Seen??? @doughboys.bsky.social + @cbbworld.bsky.social @scottaukerman.bsky.social

Internet Archive@archive.org · 8mo ago

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, DOUGHBOYS (1930) 🎤 #BusterKeaton talks… & sings! In his first talkie, the Stone Face of the silent era reveals a surprisingly deep voice 🎶 & joins a ukulele-led scat jam of with Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards. Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/doug... #PublicDomainDay

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Three thoughts. 1. It’s always been about the white nationalism 2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning 3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness

No masks on cops. No masks on cops. No masks on cops. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks

Face-coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.

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Trivers and Epstein... vile 🤮

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 8mo ago

so the guy sharing gross transphobic slop with Epstein here is Robert Trivers, the scientist who invented the specious yet popular "parental investment" theory, in which sperm are cheap so men want to f*ck lots of women, but eggs are expensive so women are looking for a man with "good genes"...

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

Update: The Trans bathroom bounty hunter bill in Kansas has just passed the Kansas House. They have rushed it to the Senate for passage. If it passes, the most extreme anti-trans bill in the nation is about to be sent to the Governor's desk. Live here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzwe...

Senate Chamber Proceedings 01/28/2026

YouTube video by KS Legislature

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Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 8mo ago

1. The most extreme anti-trans bill ever proposed is currently rocketing through the Kansas legislature. It would empower bounty hunters to search for trans people in bathrooms, even in private businesses, and sue them for large sums of money. The House is voting on it today.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

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The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti

In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.

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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

This is crazy. These are just regular people out here, wearing snow goggles and gas masks, holding cardboard signs telling ICE to GTFO of MN as federal agents spray tear gas and set off flash bangs or whatever the hell those booms are. More people rolling out trash cans, and now couches.

Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9mo ago

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!