Bo the Beaver isn't ready to move past Halloween. (audio up!) A rescue, she lost an eye to infection & now serves as animal ambassador & pumpkin recycler. But let's explore why she sounds like a fussy (human) baby. Let's learn about beaver vocalization. (📷: Wild For Life www.wildforlifeinc.org)

On Tues Oct 27th, Philly will have gone a full month without access to the Academy of Natural Sciences. Join us at academy at 6pm for a candlelight vigil. We’re keeping the light of hope alive. Wear black if you have it. We’re the dark times, but this fight isn’t over.

Work by Gabri Schiro reveals repeated patterns of host–microbe codiversification and interspecific bacterial sharing among wild rodents across two mountains in the Madrean Sky Islands, mirroring patterns observed in the human gut microbiome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Conserved patterns of mammal-microbe codiversification and interspecific bacterial sharing

What determines whether a gut microbial lineage has fidelity to one host species or is shared freely across multiple species? Factors that predict microbial community composition, including host speci...

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Animation of a fractal built on Steiner chains: tangent circles nested to infinity, preserving tangencies at every level. Credits: Gábor Damásdi (szimmetria-airtemmizs.tumblr.com/about) #mathematics #fractals #SteinerChain #Mathsky🧪 #iteachmath #mathart

There's something beautiful about sitting at the confocal and visualizing different cell types, different tissues, different ideas .... It's such pure joy. Science is beautiful as it is. I hope we are able to protect this experience - esp in light of recent events of AI usage for image processing.

Alright @smacklab.bsky.social and crew!! Great ink here

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · last mo.

Why do small dogs live longer than large dog species, and what is the biologic basis of differences in lifespan and healthspan? Epigenetics. There's a lot in the methylation pattern of dogs to explain this @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why do small dogs live longer than large dog species, and what is the biologic basis of differences in lifespan and healthspan? Epigenetics. There's a lot in the methylation pattern of dogs to explain this @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/...

That time I put almost all the chipmunk species in the western USA on one map. Did you know there’s 1 species of chipmunk in Asia, 1 in eastern USA & >20 in western USA? (I’m not the crazy one here. The chipmunks are the crazy ones.)

Today our paper introducing Megacauda is published in Nature! Which means I can finally share my illustration! Meet this beautifully preserved Jurassic, semi-aquatic swimmer #sciart #paleontology

A recent analysis in Science of more than 116,000 bird songs has revealed that the astonishing variety of passerine birdsong is built from just eight basic acoustic motifs, like trills, whistles, and harmonic notes. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/3SziyeL

"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

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Ever-growing incisors for the win. Absolute unit

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · last mo.

Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 🪾

🦇🧬Congratulations to E & E alum Bill R. Thomas, whose collaborative work upended bat biogeography in a major new Nature study from the @ bat1kgenomes.bsky.social ! 👉 Check it out! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Excited to be at the @caryinstitute.bsky.social this week! Register and you can also watch my talk on Zoom (nice logo @bahanbug.bsky.social ! I take no credit there...)

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies@caryinstitute.bsky.social · last mo.

On Thu, Oct 1 @11am ET, join us for a virtual science seminar with Arizona State University's @n8upham.bsky.social: No Mammal Is an Island. How do species interact—and how do those interactions shape evolution and disease transmission? Free + open to all. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/no-mammal-...

On Thu, Oct 1 @11am ET, join us for a virtual science seminar with Arizona State University's @n8upham.bsky.social: No Mammal Is an Island. How do species interact—and how do those interactions shape evolution and disease transmission? Free + open to all. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/no-mammal-...

No Mammal Is an Island

Speaker: Dr. Nate Upham, Arizona State University

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We are hiring! 🌟 Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor. It's a broad search: we want great colleagues doing serious biological work at the molecular scale. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/191981 bcmb.uchicago.edu

Hey bsky! I’d like to share some cool work I recently coauthored that integrates entomology, paleontology, and German cultural history. 🔶🐜⚡️ We discovered a fossil ant in the amber collection of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! Read on for a delightful story of #museomics and #collectomics. >> 1/

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Paleogenomic insight into the collapse, recovery, and management of American bison

American bison (Bison bison) were nearly hunted to extinction by the 20th century. This rapid decline and the fragmented nature of remnant populations pose challenges to their recovery and resilience,...

science.org

Ukrainian artist Maria Golub

This mural is titled 𝘿𝙖𝙝𝙡𝙞𝙖 and was created by UK-based artist Sophie Mess. It’s located in Waterford, Ireland. Photo credit: Willem Groen #art #mural #streetart #ireland

The San Pedro River in Arizona is the last undammed river in the US Southwest. Also unusually, it flows northward from Mexico. It's host to a wide variety of wildlife, including a huge diversity of desert birds & these coatis (Nasua narica), long-nosed relative of the raccoon.

Coatamundi Cupcake

Alt: Coatamundi Cupcake: I'm actually not sure if this is a white-nosed coati (also called coatimundi), but it's on pavement, long wiggly nose towards the camera, and then it monches a cupcake and runs off into the greenery.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry@crytzerfry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Reason no. 8 million to PROTECT the SAN PEDRO RIVER: While doing yellow-billed cuckoo surveys this week, heard hissing in the trees above the running river. Three moms & about 7 tiny babies above us! Video horrible b/c I was SO excited. #coatimundi Best viewed full screen.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

Heads up for anyone that likes making cool stuff that there are bunch of exhibit mountmaking and fabrication jobs (both entry and supervisor levels) open at the Field this week. www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

Doomscrolling is out. Bloomscrolling is in.

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

big things happening: I'll be defending my dissertation next week on July 15! to procrastinate preparing, I will be posting a meme for each of my chapters until the big day. also, please DM me if you'd like a zoom link to attend my public defense, but be prepared for 45 minutes of mouse toe talk!

The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.