Cephalopod Whisperer
@ceph-whisperer.bsky.social
Cephalopod researcher, loves animals and outdoors and spending time with family.
A deep dive by Joel Widder about the state of the NSF, the legislative choices that left it vulnerable, and what Congress can do to fix them jmwidder.substack.com/p/hard-times... 🧪
Hard Times at the National Science Foundation
Twenty Years of Rising Mandates, Flat Appropriations, and Falling Institutional Standing
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This is M77, the Squid Galaxy, as seen by Webb. The bright orange light at its center is an example of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), with the large arms coming off it being diffraction spikes due to its intense brightness. (1/3) #Astronomy ⚛️🧪🛰️
🧪🧪Newly discovered ‘demon cave fish’ hid out in Alabama military installation for 40 years -- Scientists named this oddball creature after the Demogorgon from Stranger Things www.scientificamerican.com/article/newl...
Newly discovered ‘demon cave fish’ hid out in Alabama military installation for 40 years
Scientists named this oddball creature after the Demogorgon from Stranger Things
scientificamerican.com
"Harmful algal blooms display range expansion and increased frequency in coastal areas since the 1980s in response to both climatic and non-climatic drivers such as increased riverine nutrients run-off." 🧪 Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568988319302045
Your Wednesday just got an upgrade: a new MBARI bigfin squid sighting just dropped! 🦑👀 During a recent expedition to study seamounts offshore of Central California, MBARI scientists and NOAA collaborators encountered a rarely seen Magnapinna squid. Learn more: youtu.be/cEw74DoCv6Q
MBARI researchers film chance encounter with a rare deep-sea bigfin squid
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
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Really cool! Smaller than GFP and reversibly binding last-generation rhodamine dyes. De novo pan-rhodamine binders for fluorescence microscopy from mammalian cells to extremophiles www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Congrats @bohuang.bsky.social @rhodamine110.bsky.social @mullinslab.bsky.social et al
Please spread the news - the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA is hiring. This is an open rank search for all and any amazing neuroscientists! Please apply here by Nov 15th, first review end of October : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11296
Open-rank tenure-track faculty position
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
It's time! You can now apply for the 2027 Grass Fellowship! Spend the summer in the Grass Lab at @mblscience.bsky.social conducting your own original neuroscience research in a richly supportive environment. ➡️ grassfoundation.org/apply-for-th...
Olfactory cues are undoubtedly relevant for fruitflies seeking for rotten 🍊🍒🍐🍌. The Ruta demonstrates the neural computations of olfactory-guided vector memories in the central complex and their relevance for plume tracking. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A vector-based strategy for olfactory navigation in Drosophila - Nature
Using a virtual reality system, experiments in Drosophila show that flies use memory mechanisms to navigate along the boundary of an odour plume and track the source of a smell.
nature.com
70-90% of reef-building corals are estimated to die with 1.5 degrees of warming. 99% are estimated to die with 2 degrees of warming. We’re on track to shoot well past 2 degrees. Thanks, Republicans.
U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target
Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.
nytimes.com
These little bastards we’re too Fast to get a good picture of but dang look at those jaws
Recently I went to Chile to see the Extremely Large Telescope being built in the Atacama. The BBC just published my feature about its construction challenges, the discoveries to come, and its fun name...the result of what I call telescopic "nominative magnification". :) www.bbc.com/future/artic...
In the otherworldly Chilean desert, this huge telescope could reveal alien life
In Chile's Atacama Desert, the biggest telescope ever built is taking shape – and it could radically change our view of the Universe.
bbc.com
AN INVERTEBRATE CELEBRATION for #InverteFest. Explore a range of bugs and crabs and worms. Plus some gorgeous flowers along the way #BugSky 🌿 🦀 🧪 🐡
Meet Some Weird & Wonderful Invertebrates
YouTube video by Get To Know Nature
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The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is ready for launch! 🚀🧪 Named after NASA's first Chief Astronomer, the telescope is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center on August 30th. Image Source: NASA/Kim Shiflett, Sydney Rohde
I'm so pleased to have made my debut in @sciencenews.bsky.social with this story about (a taste of) all the cool science NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope--launching Sunday!--is due to tackle 🧪 🔭
NASA’s new space telescope will reveal the universe like never before
NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will tackle nearly every aspect of astrophysics, including dark matter, dark energy and alien planets.
sciencenews.org
Does the new shingles vaccine (Shingrix) protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Yes, according to a new 'natural experiment' study in @natmed.nature.com. But the truth is sadly far less convincing! Pull up a chair and let's examine another peer review failure in a Nature journal. 1/10 🧵
A paper in Nature Communications presents a fully integrated smart ring that measures multiple chemical biomarkers from osmotically extracted sweat without iontophoresis, validated for daily analysis in both healthy and type 1 diabetic individuals. go.nature.com/4gyZ1D7 🧪
Flamboyant Cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi) are the divas of the ocean. 🦑📷louvanhaeren (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)
Extremely proud to share @acara333.bsky.social and my new paper, out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, where we develop a new fluorescent reporter of neural responses to estrogen! 🔬 paper 📝: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... addgene page 🧬: www.addgene.org/254753/ #neuroskyence 🧪 1/10
look at this guy, just photosynthesis and chill 🐑🍃 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Humans have learned to fear ‘bugs’, but we shouldn’t – life as we know it hinges on invertebrates | Chris Packham
At this point of the crisis in our relations with the natural world, we’ve got to protect these creatures – and we are running out of time, says naturalist Chris Packham
theguardian.com
Our new paper in Science Advances asks how animals' genomes have changed since their origin from a common ancestor over 600 million years ago, and what patterns in their DNA have arisen in the churn of speciation and extinction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
'Incredible': SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
'Incredible': SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast
A SpaceX rocket that blasted off from Texas in July and crashed into the Indian Ocean hadn't been seen since - but now Christmas Island residents say they have spotted it being towed just off their co...
bbc.co.uk
More than 12 million years ago, in what's now Colombia, an array of immense crocodiles were the greatest carnivores of their time. A short paleo story based on cool new bite mark science, fresh for my premium subscribers on Buttondown! 🧪 buttondown.com/restingdinof...
One Good Croc Feeds Another
Bitten and scraped mammal bones reveal a time when crocodiles were great reptilian apex predators.
buttondown.com
“A bigger nose might also expand the surface area of shrews’ interior nasal tissues, boosting the odor-gathering efficiency of each sniff. This might help the shrews find food in deep snow during a season where resources are harder to come by.” #scicomm www.sciencenews.org/article/shre... 🧪 🧠 👃🏻 🦊
Shrews’ noses grow in winter as their brains shrink
Long-clawed shrews’ snouts temporarily grow larger in the winter. This skull reshaping may be an extreme survival strategy in cold conditions.
sciencenews.org
Beautiful synaptic circuit dissection👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An octopamine-glutamate cotransmitting neuron gates aggressive escalation through layered inhibition in Drosophila
Aggression is an evolutionarily conserved behavior essential for survival and reproduction, yet escalation to high-intensity forms entails substantial metabolic costs and injury risks, necessitating p...
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