@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialBarfing is their love language.♥️ A kinky male fruit fly barfs up a bit of his last meal and offers it as a nuptial meal to his intended. Discerning lady fruit flies swoon, and lap it up. #science #entomology
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org"Countries that neglect #science become dependent on those that don’t. U.S. post-WWII dominance came from basic science investments (OSRD, NSF, NIH, DOE labs). After WWII ended, the UK slashed science investment which allowed the U.S. to commercialize the British inventions made during the war.
...[USSR failed] to convert science into sustained innovation...during the same time that U.…
@jby@ecoevo.socialFruit-eating animals are less diverse in body size, and thereby less well matched to the diversity of fruits they eat and seeds they disperse, in habitats with more human disruption
#science
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.socialWeekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Since 2011, millions of tons of a brown algae called Sargassum has washed onto beaches in the Caribbean. The rotting seaweed releases toxic hydrogen sulfide, smelling of rotten eggs, impacting tourism and shore access. It was initially thought Saharan iron dust was the cause, but new #science
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org @jby@ecoevo.social @qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialLeopards eating faces party is a time-honored tradition. #science
@outer@mas.toJulia Platt was a brilliant scientist. #Science She made experimental breakthroughs in developmental biology from the late 1800s to the 1920s. She worked in universities in the U.S. and Europe. Her non-standard ideas and techniques were eventually accepted and shown to be correct by male scientists, after she died.
Here's a portrait of her after she was mayor of Pacific Grove, California. She h…
@UP8@mastodon.social🧊 Atomic-level engineering enables new alloys that won't break in extreme cold
#science
@publicvoit@graz.social#SMBC on how to fund your obscure #science project: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4
@Speckdaene@nrw.social#Science #ClimateChange Open letter by Scientists: #Climate Neutrality is Europe's Greatest Economic Opportunity
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgIn the field of dynamical glaciology, this would be DeConto and Pollard, 2016.
I think it's dead wrong, but it's certainly led to some very interesting studies.and some real advanced in the otherwise moribund calving dynamics sub-field.
Would love to hear other suggestions from #climate (or adjacent) fields..
#science
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz"Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG)"
"Defra will be appointing up to 7 individuals to serve as members of the AQEG from 1 April 2026."
"Closing date for applications is midday, 12 January 2026."
Honorarium plus expenses.
From the details:
"The posts require scientific expertise in an area relevant to air quality and related pollutants. Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the range of the Committee’s work and high levels of technical expertise in one or more of the fields detailed in the “Qualities and experience required” section.
"The posts are part-time and voluntary, although reasonable travel and subsistence costs are met, alongside an honorarium of £172.20 for attendance at and preparation for meetings. The workload will vary, but on average AQEG members will be required to work approximately 2 days per month, attending 4-6 meetings per year with a maximum workload of 20 days per year."
Would be great to have people in these roles who are willing to point out that #CovidIsAirborne.
Boosts very welcome!
#AirQuality #UK #Defra #science
@jby@ecoevo.socialCuckoo eggs match the eggs of their adoptive hosts thanks to (mostly) loci inherited from their mothers, who put them there — impressive multifaceted genomic study #science
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgGood discussion of the scientific method and how Jane Goodall helped further improve how we practice #Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FzzLeA6pk
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.socialWeekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
This is the phyllosoma larva of a Spiny "Rock" Lobster, which can spend as much as a year drifting in the plankton.
#MarineBiology #science
@smurthys@hachyderm.io @outer@mas.to @UP8@mastodon.social💢 How do drivers react to partisan bumper stickers? Understanding polarization in apolitical settings
#science
@kingconsult@berlin.social🚀 Wow! Seit Montag ist die #Hochschulrektorenkonferenz #NeuHier im #Fediverse!
👉 @…
Herzlich willkommen 👋, es freut uns sehr!
Mit gutem Beispiel voran für unabhängige und souveräne #Wissenschaftskommunikation!
➡️ Weitersagen!
#WissKomm #SciComm #Science #Wissenschaft #Bildung #FediLZ #Universität #education #Hochschule #FediCampus #DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty #SocialMedia #SaveSocial #WissXit #Musk
@jby@ecoevo.socialSurveys of plant-pollinator interactions taken almost a century apart show how changing timing of flowering and pollinator activity in a warmer world is reshaping these mutualisms
#science
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzA snippet I wrote elsewhere earlier today, thinking in particular about dentists:
What I'm acutely aware of at the moment is the chasm between "willing to accommodate what you explicitly ask for" and "understands the parameters of the risk".
If they don't make the effort to grasp the logic of it themself, if they're just humouring you to be nice or doing what someone once told them to do, then there's only one brain in the game (yours). You have to be on alert the whole time for the mistakes that their ignorance lets them make, and you can't trust in anything they do when you're not looking.
I do appreciate it when people are like "what do you need" - obviously that's better than "you weirdo" - but what I'm really looking for is someone who _already knows_ how this works, and I don't have to watch them like a hawk for where their ignorance is going to put me at risk.
#healthcare #dentists #covid #science
@jby@ecoevo.socialJoshua trees make the cover of New Phytologist, for the issue with our paper, led by Karolina Heyduk, showing that they use water-saving CAM photosynthesis — but only sometimes #science
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgThe Hardest Problem #Evolution Ever Solved
#science
@jby@ecoevo.socialGreat RadioLab interview with Ella al-Shamahi, about her journey from religious anti-evolutionism into evolutionary biology. New perspective but also familiar if you (like me) grew up among Christian creationists; really moving on what faith, even "denialist" faith, means to people
#science #evolution
@UP8@mastodon.social😞 Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate
#science
@jby@ecoevo.socialNice demonstration of different pollinator species "pulling" floral morphology in different directions for optimal pollen deposition, in two South African wildflower species
#science
@jby@ecoevo.socialBlueberry species (genus Vaccinium) circled the Northern Hemisphere to travel from North America to Hawai'i— and then closed the loop to hybridize with a North American species
#science
