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The Arietids peak on June 10! 🌠🧪
This meteor shower lasts from May 29 until June 17, and is famously most visible during the daytime.
#Astronomy #MeteorShower #Space

Museum of Science (@museumofscience.bsky.social)
The Arietids peak on June 10! 🌠🧪 This meteor shower lasts from May 29 until June 17, and is famously most visible during the daytime. #Astronomy #MeteorShower #Space #Science #Astrophotography

🐧 #science Using ankle bands on penguins for chemical surveillance.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/penguin-toxicologists-find-pfas-chemicals-r…

Penguin ‘Toxicologists’ Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia
Penguins can serve as living monitors of their environment by using small, chemical-detecting leg bands, according to a study from UC Davis and SUNY-Buffalo.

Remembering Dr. Lea Richardson #science

cool resource to see the extend of #science #funding dismantling in the USA https://grant-witness.us/
for example

Was ich im März 2026 gelesen, angeschaut und gespielt habe - mein SF&Fantasy-Lesetagebuch.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/04/science-fiction-und-fantasy-im-maerz-2026/

Science Fiction und Fantasy im März 2026
Z. erinnerte mich daran, dass ich eigentlich schon letzten Monat lobende Worte über Chants of Sennaar (2023, Rundisc) verlieren wollte. Gekauft hatte ich das in Frankreich entwickelte Computerspiel wegen der - mich an Moebius und Ligne-claire-Comics erinnernden - Grafik. Es durchzuspielen, war dann

Scientists discover Nothing travels faster than light.
#science

Scientists Just Discovered There’s Actually Something Faster than the Speed of Light
Scientists experimentally confirmed what we’ve known to be true for half a century—darkness can “travel” faster than light.

How #science finally solved #hallucigenia’s weirdness after 84 years: https://youtu.be/WY3GqbjjrdY

Here's Why Personality Tests ALWAYS Work* by SciShow
#science

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.
—Robert Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, p. xii
#Science

Veritasium: This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)
#science

Still one of my favorite typos in a science headline
#CERN #lhc #sciencefun

To amuse myself I'm evaluating baits for mosquito-killing buckets: oak leaves, straw, log, and beetroot skins. Leaves and straw are standards but I'm curious whether I can attract tree-hole species (e.g., Aedes triseriatus) with the partially submerged wood. And beets are packed with geosmin (a sesquiterpenoid), a known oviposition attractant. Stay tuned. #mosquitoes #science #biology #entomology

GODDAMMIT #vaccines #science

Interesting #science and #engineering solutions in Colombia
"The pioneering technologies range from low-cost solar water heaters to a children's see-saw that doubles as a water pump, from edible forest gardening to biofuel. Some were inspired by traditional methods used by local indig…

'One of the harshest places on Earth': The 1960s green 'Utopia' that tried to reinvent the world
In an extreme environmental and political climate in remote Colombia, one maverick village has relied on homegrown inventions to survive.

Fascinating research on chimpanzees. They fracture into groups, wage war on each other, are aggressive, develop border patrols, isolate, etc.
#science

Frickin' love Neil deGrasse Tyson.
▶️ When Neil deGrasse Tyson Outsmarts Everyone
#science

#Science
If you dropped an average bowling ball in the ocean...how long for it to reach the bottom?
The answer might surprise you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYoHYq8VRt0

RE: #science,

In the 2nd half of A World Appears Michael Pollan acknowledges that the #science of #consciousness does what science does, abstracting away everything that can’t be measured; looking from the outside in. But the map is not the territory. He begins to look at and talk to phemomenologists and our actu…

blah blah blah "As a middle-aged white man, I am uncomfortable when science fiction are not about ME" blah blah blaaaaah "woke" blah blaaaah "tokenism" blah blaaah "I like Iain M Banks apart from the politics" blahhhhhhhhh
#ScienceFiction #FullLuxuryQueerSpaceCommunism

Why This Vertical Farm is 500x More Efficient Than Farming by Undecided with Matt Ferrell
#science

Nice web app, SciLove, Discover new research on the go.
#science #research

SciLove — Discover new research on the go
A personalized feed of the latest peer-reviewed papers — swipe to save, skip, and make connections in minutes a day.

We found this old 1949 #science #book on our shelves; it's a very general thing, with a mix of different articles; but it's pretty fascinating seeing the stuff from then. I mentioned the Agene flour treatement, which I'd not heard of before; but the Palaeomagnetism is fascinating because i…

What if everyone pointed a laser at the moon?
#Science

Meteor strikes active volcano!
#Science #Nature #Cosmic

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
With the safe return of NASA's Artemis II, it is time to talk about plankton space #science 🛰. PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is the latest advanced observing satellite launched Feb 2024 which carries the OCI Ocean Colour Instrument measuring hyp…

They’re right. I’d wanna buy some seeds. A lot of seeds. https://gizmodo.com/researchers-discover-how-to-add-psilocybin-dmt-and-other-psychedelics-to-tobacco-2000742230

Researchers Discover How to Add Psilocybin, DMT, and Other Psychedelics to Tobacco
AI assisted with the study, which could make it cheaper and easier to produce these mind-bending drugs.

I'm going to talk about my work today... to 4 year old kids at my daughter's school :)))
I hope my wet lab skills are good enough to isolate a DNA from banana!
#science #dissemination

Leaf tips glow blue in thunderstorms #science

Leaf tips glow blue in thunderstorms
For the first time, meteorologists caught the shocking phenomenon during a real storm.

The #Science and Strategy Behind Wyoming’s Snow Fences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL1_9jMKjO0

Another area in the study of #consciousness that has been almost entirely ignored by #science is the #unconscious. Partly because it’s difficult to study, but also due to a political bias against the u…

A multi-factor experimental test of hypothesized selection on the cyanogenesis trait in white clover finds a much more complicated picture than expected
#science …

What does a balloon popping sound like?
Not what you think. Popping a balloon in a full sound dampened room
#Science #Cool

Jetzt online ansehen:
#2MR-Session »#Wissenschaftskommunikation & Stiftungen«, stiftungen.social:
👉 #wiblio
🔹Wunderbar moderiert von: Jessica Staschen, @…
#Science #WissKomm #SciComm #SaveSocial #Wissen #Bildung #Universität #education

I've rarely seen a #movie that does more harm to the public image of #science and #research than the #film

Forget describing new species, how often are we adding new genera, families, orders, and classes? New higher-order clades are often "hidden" as symbionts or in less-accessible habitats
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2530656123

If you write about entomology, Haberski and Silva 2026 have compiled a downloadable dictionary that you can import into your spellchecker. I successfully loaded it into my Mac's dictionary (active upon restart). This link has instructions for using in Microsoft Word. #entomology #insects #spelling #science #bugs https://github.com/ahaberski/SpellingBee/tree/main

#climatechange #environment #ecology #science

Next up at #2MR:
17.00 – 17.30: Science Communications & foundations – best practices with:
· @… von der @…
· @… von @…
· Martina Behrens, @… stiftungen.social
· @…
· Jessica Staschen, @…
🔴 Livestream DE with various subtitles:
👉 #Wissenschaft #WissKomm #Science #Scientists #SciComm #Bibliothek #Bildung #Wissen #education #Kommunikation #SocialMedia #Universität #Hochschule

Every once in awhile I catch up on the state of knowledge about really early evolution and there's at least one phylogeny where you have to hunt for the eukaryotes
The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2516062123

The population of juvenile blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay is "regulated" by ... adult blue crabs
Cannibalism, predation, and refuges of juvenile blue crabs from a 37-year experiment https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2533461123

Here are the Houdini fly traps attached to my insect hotel. The malbec, grape vinegar, and water cups are all attached in a slightly haphazard way, but hopefully will be useful in assessing whether Nicole Kenney's idea (use malbec to attract them) works on the east coast, too. My big concern is that I only saw one Houdini fly today so I might be setting it up too late. #BeeHotel #InsectHole #osmia #flies #science #biology #diptera

Zimmerman’s Law of Complaints:
Nobody notices when things go right. (M. Zimmerman)
#Printing #Computers #Research #Science

How to make health systems climate-resilient? I am pleased to announce the first of two reports:
Healthcare System-of-Systems Vulnerability
#HealthSystems #Health #Healthcare #ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #ClimateChage #ClimateCrisis #SocialRiskManagement #Research #Science #Adaptation

🔴#2MR live
17.30 – 18.00 next up: #democracy-strenghening #SocialMedia Technologies for Tomorrow
Livestream:
👉 #3QVideo
· host: @… #science communicator at @…
Program:
👉 #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Tech #CivicTech #fedidev

OK, I'm off to the garage to make Houdini fly traps. Learned via reddit that Nicole Kenney of Portland, Oregon, has been busy testing attractants for several years and THE WINNER IS MALBEC. Brilliant. #MasonBees #BeeHotel #InsectHotel #HoudiniFly #cacoxenus #science #diptera #wine #malbec #drosophilidae #flies #portland

RE: #2MR event for democracy-strengthening #SocialMedia on Monday, 4 May, at 9.30 a.m.– there will be subtitles in English, French and other languages.
🔴 #business #politics #journalism #academia, the #arts and #culture!
#democracy #communication #MayThe4th #MayTheForth #SciComm #science #BigTech #meta

How to make health systems climate-resilient? I am pleased to announce:
Climate-Resilient Health Systems for Sustained Value Chains, Healthcare Access and Services
#health systems can be made climate resilient, with two novel conceptual frameworks on
• sustained access to #healthcare
• maintaining healthcare provision
for identifying failures & guiding #adaptation.
#ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Research #Science

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was rescued from insolvency by Drexel University in 2011 but the relationship is apparently too draining. This is unlikely to end well. #science #entomology #biology #philadelphia #drexel #paleontology #museums #NaturalHistory https://share.inquirer.com/FLhfyz