WHALE FALL BABY 🐙🦀🎉

electron microscope view of a gecko toe

if you don’t like the AI answers that pop up when you search things on Google, just add “-ai” at the end of your search and they won’t appear 💗 enjoy

Gardens reduce hunger gaps for farmland pollinators! 🏡🐝 In early spring & late summer rural gardens produce 50-95% of farmland nectar, throwing pollinators a crucial lifeline. More in our The Royal Society paper with Nick Tew and Jane Memmott: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… and in🧵👇

My new enamel pin drop goes live 10/25 @ 12:00 pm PDT! Lots of new and restocked designs will be available 🐝🍂 Let me know which one’s your favorite!

There is no easy way to talk about this. This week the UN announced we are on track to reach up to 3.1° Celsius of warming. We are slated to blow past the goals of the Paris Accords. Here's what this means. (1/9) 🧵

I’m hiring for a super cool and super important role California Academy of Sciences I’m looking for a leader to work with our team to expand biodiversity community science in California! us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePorta…

Incredible news. Zooey Zephyr, my fiancée, was re-elected to the Montana House of Representatives, getting 83% of the vote. Many of you will remember her for standing up for trans people in Montana, and then getting censured and kicked off the House floor. I'm so proud of her.

Big peer-reviewed study out today: "USA-Mexico border wall impedes wildlife movement." Researchers found an 86% reduction in wildlife crossings where walls were built & a 100% reduction crossings of large animals like mountain lions, deer & bears. READ: frontiersin.org/journals/ecolo…

New study led by @Stephanidae_ shows that interactions between squash bees and their cleptoparasites are characterized by tolerance and avoidance behaviors. The cleptos time their nest visits to avoid encounters with the host 🐝 Drawing by Nina Sokolov link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Thanks to our sponsor Tracy Aviary (Tracy Aviary), FI is proud to offer a $2000 Travel Award to help a marginalized or historically excluded student to attend any conference, workshop, or training opportunity in a natural sciences field for Summer 2025. Learn More & Apply:

Fungi of Western North America! 🍄

Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, reveals a study from 2022. Learn more: scim.ag/3C9mRFw News from Science

Seeking scientist volunteers for this spring! Want to practice science communication and help author a ✨comic✨ about your research? Learn more & sign up here by 1/30: bit.ly/comicscollabsp…

BREAKING: Donald Trump has ordered a communications blackout at America's federal health agencies, per WaPo. The CDC, FDA, HHS and NIH have all been told to pause external communications, including publishing scientific reports, updating websites or issuing health advisories.

This is absolutely insane. If scientists aren't allowed to use the term "women" or "female" when applying for NSF grants, that basically rules out any human clinical trials of anything. "Disability" is blacklisted too? There goes a lot of medical research.

Come work with us! The Schell Lab is looking for a new postdoc to work on urban biodiversity initiatives in the Bay Area and throughout California. The future postdoc will also be an integral partner of the California Urban Nature Alliance. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04719

As a Columbia University faculty member, I am disgusted and appalled by the university collaborating with the Department of Homeland Security & ICE to detain CU grad and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. He is a legal US resident with a wife who is 8 months pregnant. Despicable conduct

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks ow.ly/jJh610625C6

Butterfly populations across the U.S. are in alarming decline, according to a new Science study, with total abundance falling by 22% in just 20 years. Such widespread and worrisome losses portend broader environmental threats and emphasize the urgent need for conservation