Tara Chestnut, PhD
@tcastanea.bsky.social
Wildlife Ecology | Natural History | Disease | Invasive Species | Contaminants | Aquatic Science | Reintroductions | Science Communication | March Mammal Madness narrator | she/her
The only upside to recovering from Cyclospora exposure is the diarrhea stories people have shared with me. I haven’t snort laughed like that in a very long time! I (obviously) can’t say for sure what the vector was but I’m side-eying strawberries pretty hard rn
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11mo agoCDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
Elmer ‘Rainbow’ Kazoo
Kazookid Jammin
Alt: Kazookid - a white adolescent boy with a blonde bowl haircut and royal blue t-shirt is jamming with a red kazoo. The background is inexplicably spilt between a white wall with black to grid lines on the top half and a bale of hay on the bottom half
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kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w agoyour baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals
#2026MMM #ThatsSoMetal #TeamBoneworm
franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 2mo agoFinally, footage from that new whale graveyard. The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.
Such cool work! @whyy.org don’t forget to include the wildlife experts who collected the venom! Dan Beck from Central Washington University is one of these folks!
Close-up of a Gila Monster
Alt: Close-up of a Gila Monster, a bearded lizard, looking to the left. It has bumpy skin that is black with orange on the top of its head.
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ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo agoTIL that the basic research that led to GLP-1 drugs was conducted by government scientists at the VA and NIH whyy.org/segments/oze...
Y’all!! This cam is giving me life right now!! I’ve seen them nursing, playing & mostly sleeping. The squeaks when mama returns are heart melting 🥰 www.youtube.com/live/hy765ud...
Cowlitz Beaver Kit Cam Live
YouTube video by Cowlitz Indian Tribe
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Meade Krosby@meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Cowlitz Indian Tribe has been relocating nuisance beavers to suitable habitat to support healthy ecosystems and build climate resilience. Beaver reintroduction was already one of my favorite climate adaptation strategies - the Cowlitz "Kit Cam" is an amazing climate comms addition (sound on!).
The MOVE fire is a core childhood memory for me, the first time I recall feeling horror. We could see the blaze from our rooftop. My mom, a homecare nurse, had patients in this neighborhood. Great articles 👇
Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · 3mo agoOn this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...
1/ Hantavirus update as of May 12, 11am PDT: Currently, ~40 people are being monitored and quarantined in the United States for hantavirus exposure. This includes the 18 Americans who landed safely in Nebraska yesterday by private transport after disembarking from the cruise ship.
A path forward? I hope so. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fostering landscape resilience and species conservation in frequent fire landscapes
Restoration of dry forest landscapes of the Pacific Northwest often involves the removal of some closed-canopy forest that has expanded due to fire ex…
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Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.
Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80%
A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.
bbc.co.uk
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden. From the NPR archives.
The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail
There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
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a woman says when one of us shines while wearing a black top
Alt: Moira from the tv show Schitt’s Creek is wearing a black shirt. She endearingly says “when one of us shines”
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Tara Chestnut, PhD@tcastanea.bsky.social · 4mo agoAlthough @smithsonianmag.bsky.social hasn’t made any posts yet, I’m delighted to share this article featuring the experiences of a photographer on our Cascade Red Fox team! She made some of the first and most detailed recorded observations at 🦊 den sites www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
This reminds me of the first black bear I saw in the wild… it scampered across a road and ‘hid’ behind a tree that was max 6 inches in diameter to check me out. THERE IS NO BEAR TO SEE HERE. They are very good hiders!
Awhile back I meet the brilliant Jenni French & and now been lucky to collab on a project w/ her for the last ~3 yrs. Along with Somaye Khaksar & @anthrofuentes.bsky.social our 1st project paper is out, on origins & development of mobile containers (1/n) 🧪 🧺 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The origins and development of mobile containers: Biocultural perspectives on Pleistocene containment
Containers are ubiquitous and universal across all present-day societies. The substantial increase in the quantity and diversity of containers in the …
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Although @smithsonianmag.bsky.social hasn’t made any posts yet, I’m delighted to share this article featuring the experiences of a photographer on our Cascade Red Fox team! She made some of the first and most detailed recorded observations at 🦊 den sites www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Cascade Red Foxes Are Notoriously Reclusive. So How Did This Photographer Capture These Stunning Images of the Endangered Species?
Even the scientists who study the animals rarely see them except on camera. But Gretchen Kay Stuart spent a season documenting them up close
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For those who are science minded. Phaseolus vulgaris had two distinct Vavilovian origins (Andes and Mesoamerica) and Phaseolus acutifolia's origin (Tepary) was in Northwest Mexico more or less between 5000-7000 years ago. All can hybridize with the others. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The evolutionary history of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) revealed by chloroplast and nuclear genomes analysis - Theoretical and Applied Genetics
Key message The origin of common bean was investigated throughout chloroplast and nuclear WGS data considering recombination events. Our results support the Mesoamerican origin of common bean. Abstrac...
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Lastly, the HEART & SOUL of MARCH MAMMAL MADNESS is this amazing emergent coMMMunity of fans & contributors to this PERFORMANCE SCIENCE #2026MMM
a gnome with a red hat is knitting a red ball of yarn
Alt: a gnome with a red hat is knitting a red heart of yarn
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Weaving SCIENCE into STORY- THE NARRATION TEAM!!! @alybatgirl.bsky.social @marckissel.bsky.social @chumblebiome.bsky.social @ldurgavich.bsky.social @tcastanea.bsky.social @tanisbp.bsky.social @chloejosefson.bsky.social #2026MMM
a cartoon of a man holding a guitar with the words i 'm a story-teller & my stories must be told below
Alt: a cartoon of a man holding a lute with the words i 'm a story-teller & my stories must be told below
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Man, time to re-check the Erminea site, there are so many great #2026MMM illustrations!!! (And I got paid! 🚊🏤➗️🟧🔛) #MMMArt ermineainc.org
Erminea Inc.
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UP NEXT: 1-seed HONEY BADGER (Mellivora capensis) vs. 4-seed PACIFIC LAMPREY (Entosphenus tridentatus) #2026MMM
GIVE ME MY LYME VAX NOW PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!!!
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 5mo agoPfizer just announced that its Lyme disease vaccine reduced the number of tick-borne infections by over 70% in a phase 3 trial. Warning: GSK pulled a Lyme vaccine in 2002 despite studies showing it posed no serious safety risks. Any new Lyme vaccine is going to be a huge target for antivaxxers.
