URGENT: if you’re in the Snoho/King county area and have room for a dog, this sweet baby was abandoned by some neighbors. I have personally handled her and she is super sweet as soon as she’s out of confinement/with people. Her listing photo is awful. Tomorrow is probably her last day.

Eine Arbeit meiner Gruppe gemeinsam mit anderen exzellenten Leuten aus Hamburg wurde heute zur Veröffentlichung angenommen! Cheers!

Adlung Lab@adlunglab.com · 11mo ago

Paper accepted! To many more! 📷 @tiredmegafauna.com

When Maria Reva announced her new book ENDLING, there were so many similarities to my ENDLING that people accused her of copying. But: We were just independently inspired by an article by @edyong209.bsky.social, which is absolutely mindblowing and very cool. She, Ed Yong & I talked about it:

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Maria Reva, @schreibersnaturarium.de, and @edyong209.bsky.social discuss the inspiration of snails, ecological grief, and why “nihilism is a luxury we truly cannot afford right now.”

friends of lichen is a cozy feed

🚨 Preprint Alert! New work from the group! 🟤 We set out to explore how brown adipose tissue (BAT) adapts to cold. 🧬🖥️ Using single-nucleus mRNA-sequencing, we dissected murine BAT and uncovered distinct adipocyte subtypes. 🫓 One in particular stood out... 🧵 1/7

Welcome to the Hamburg-North Swingers' Club meeting! Agenda item number one: it's time to get it on! 😄 🌿

I watched the last 2 hours in the middle of the night here in Germany and was super impressed. www.youtube.com/live/SSHVCEo...

Cory Booker delivers marathon speech on Senate floor | CBS News

YouTube video by CBS News

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Tokyo Sand@dhstokyo.bsky.social · last yr.

History made

Federal scientists: You are not alone. ❤️ @csldf.org provides free, confidential legal advice to researchers facing legal intimidation, harassment, & other attempts to sideline your critical work. Please reach out for a 1:1 with one of our attorneys: csldf.org/contact

"This paper is dedicated to the memory of L. Shevtsova. A few days before the first submission of the paper, we received the sad news that L. Shevtsova was mortally wounded in a missile attack on Kyiv. She took an active part in research, whose results were partly used in our paper." 🇺🇦😔

Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB)@igb-berlin.de · last yr.

#Water at war: An international team of researchers has analysed the environmental consequences of the destruction of the Kachovka dam in #Ukraine. In particular, the toxic contamination of the exposed sediments of the former reservoir poses a long-term risk: www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/wate...

🤓 Wie unser Körper Fett speichert, was es mit dem Jo-Jo-Effekt auf sich hat, und was wir dagegen tun können, erfährst du im Nerdletter! 🔗 steadyhq.com/de/nerd... 🧪 6/6

Gedächtnis im Fett: Jo-Jo-Effekt wissenschaftlich erklärt

Warum der Jo-Jo-Effekt existiert und wie dein Fettgewebe durch Epigenetik und Immunzellen das verlorene Gewicht immer wieder zurückholt.

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Life Thrives In The Deepest Ocean: New Discoveries From The Mariana Trench astrobiology.com/2025/03/life... #astrobiology #oceanography #extremophile

Life Thrives In The Deepest Ocean: New Discoveries From The Mariana Trench - Astrobiology

The latest scientific research at the deepest part of the ocean has revealed something extraordinary – biodiversity is extensive and flourishing despite the extreme conditions. On March 6, the scienti...

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I wrote about an idea to watch and borrowed a concept from systems theory: How LAM cells could mediate a hysteresis effect (i.e. memory) in adipose tissue during weight cycling. doi.org/10.1002/bies... 🧪

The LAM Is Not Enough–An Idea to Watch Regarding Adipose Tissue Macrophages and Their Disease Relevance

Click on the article title to read more.

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And now for the 'story behind the paper'! communities.springernature.com/posts/unlock...

Unlocking Our Ecological History

New discoveries from Côte D'Ivoire place ecosystem diversity at the roots of our species.

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In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature

The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...

nature.com

After the terrible but expected election results here in Germany yesterday, I went outside to find some strength and hope in the slowly awakening nature. 🌿

On our ship Polarstern, currently 93 people from 15 different nations around the world are working and living together! The ship thrives on the cultural diversity of its people - and they want to keep it that way! They stand for tolerance and against racism follow-polarstern.awi.de?lang=en 📸Lemire

Spring is coming 😌 🌿

@friel.bsky.social hey, can you add me to the naturalists feed again? I think my username change threw me out :)

I just love this forest so much 🥲🌿

I had the sweetest dream last night. I was driving on the LIE and there was Donald Trump in a red jumpsuit, picking up trash beside the highway.

This whole thread!

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last yr.

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

Sometimes the best medicine is dissapearing into the woods

Seven studies of beetles. Drawing by Nicholas Robert (1614-1685). © The Trustees of the British Museum. #InsectThursday #SciArt #Invert 🌿

"This work is too important to die."

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article)

The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

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❄️ What's the mechanism of how brown fat keeps us warm? 🔥 New work shows that intracellular lipolysis is essential for cold-induced thermogenesis! 🧵 1/4

Again “Elon Musk’s team” is literally just some guys. They’re not government officials and no one elected them and no congressional committee approved them. This is a smash and grab, out in the open.

Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system. (Gift Article)

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This is madness

Jeremy Faust, MD@jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

My BBC Wildlife article on the surprising new ornithomimid #Mexidracon from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico ... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/me... #dinosaurs #theropods #fossils

Weird new dinosaur with exceptionally long hands discovered in Mexico

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🧓 How does aging reshape the immune system? 😮‍💨 A deep immune profiling study of 550 elderly individuals uncovers key shifts in immune cell populations and cytokine levels, revealing distinct signatures of aging, sex, smoking, and age-related diseases. 🧵 1/5