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GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ<p>Why Do Some Poops Float Whilst Others Sink?</p><p>Okay, my peeps, let’s indulge our inner child and ask the question we’ve all asked when we were small</p><p>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grrlscientist</span></a></span> via <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbiome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbiome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FloatingPoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloatingPoo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/why-do-some-poops-float-whilst-others" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grrlscientist.substack.com/p/w</span><span class="invisible">hy-do-some-poops-float-whilst-others</span></a></p>
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ<p>Alarming Report Finds US Bird Populations Are Still Crashing</p><p>"About one-third of all American bird species are of high or moderate conservation concern due to low populations, declining population trends, or other threats."</p><p>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grrlscientist</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ornithology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ornithology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StateOfTheBirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateOfTheBirds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endangered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endangered</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/03/14/alarming-report-finds-us-bird-populations-are-still-crashing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist</span><span class="invisible">/2025/03/14/alarming-report-finds-us-bird-populations-are-still-crashing/</span></a></p>
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified:<p>Alarming Report Finds US Bird Populations Are Still Crashing</p><p>"About one-third of all American bird species are of high or moderate conservation concern due to low populations, declining population trends, or other threats."</p><p>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@GrrlScientist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GrrlScientist</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ornithology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ornithology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/birding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birding</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/StateOfTheBirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateOfTheBirds</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/endangered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endangered</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/03/14/alarming-report-finds-us-bird-populations-are-still-crashing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist</span><span class="invisible">/2025/03/14/alarming-report-finds-us-bird-populations-are-still-crashing/</span></a></p>
Zack Labe<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a> climate rankings are now in for February 2025: <a href="https://zacklabe.com/archive-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">zacklabe.com/archive-2025/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. This was a historic month for the region with record warm conditions and record low sea ice relative to any prior February.</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DataViz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataViz</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenData</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Openscience</span></a></p>
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified:<p>Alarming Report Finds US Bird Populations Are Still Crashing</p><p>"About one-third of all American bird species are of high or moderate conservation concern due to low populations, declining population trends, or other threats."</p><p>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@grrlscientist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grrlscientist</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ornithology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ornithology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/birding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birding</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StateOfTheBirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateOfTheBirds</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/endangered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endangered</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/03/14/alarming-report-finds-us-bird-populations-are-still-crashing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist</span><span class="invisible">/2025/03/14/alarming-report-finds-us-bird-populations-are-still-crashing/</span></a></p>
Maja Mielke<p>Researchers around the world discover fascinating things about <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> every day, but most of their findings remain unnoticed in the community of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/bird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bird</span></a> enthusiasts.</p><p>Are you a bird enthusiast who doesn't want to miss out on what they discover? Then my bird <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> newsletter might be something for you.</p><p>Subscribe here for free!<br><a href="https://beaksandbones.substack.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">beaksandbones.substack.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/birdsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birdsofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a></p>
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified:<p>Avocados Were Domesticated 7,500 Years Ago According To Fossil Evidence, study out of University of California, Santa Barbara, published by PNAS</p><p>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@GrrlScientist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GrrlScientist</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/avocados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avocados</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/arboriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arboriculture</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/domestication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>domestication</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/03/13/avocados-were-domesticated-7500-years-ago-according-to-fossil-evidence/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist</span><span class="invisible">/2025/03/13/avocados-were-domesticated-7500-years-ago-according-to-fossil-evidence/</span></a></p>
SETI Institute<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PPOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PPOD</span></a>: Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! The photo, taken at their landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 a.m. CDT on 14 March 2025, shows the Sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. This marks the first time in history that a commercial company was actively operating on the Moon and able to observe a total solar <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eclipse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eclipse</span></a>. This phenomenon occurred simultaneously with the lunar eclipse we witnessed on Earth. Credit: Firefly Aerospace</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>Some zooms into my "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" painting (2022), showing the Severn Estuary in the Late Devonian. Featured are a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, zosterophylls, lycopsids, &amp; equisetids.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devonian</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicPark</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicWorld</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Ichthyostega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ichthyostega</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>The third and final Severn Estuary painting (2022), this time showing the Late Devonian. "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" features a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, lycopsids, equisetids, &amp; others.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devonian</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicPark</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicWorld</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Ichthyostega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ichthyostega</span></a></p>
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified:<p>Avocados Were Domesticated 7,500 Years Ago According To Fossil Evidence, study out of University of California, Santa Barbara, published by PNAS</p><p>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@grrlscientist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grrlscientist</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/avocados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avocados</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/arboriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arboriculture</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/domestication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>domestication</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/03/13/avocados-were-domesticated-7500-years-ago-according-to-fossil-evidence/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist</span><span class="invisible">/2025/03/13/avocados-were-domesticated-7500-years-ago-according-to-fossil-evidence/</span></a></p>
Zack Labe<p>I just updated my <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a> sea-ice thickness and volume graphics for February 2025 using PIOMAS data: <a href="https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-vo</span><span class="invisible">lumethickness/</span></a> </p><p>This month was the 2nd lowest February volume on record. </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DataViz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataViz</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenData</span></a></p>
SETI Institute<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/notjustaliens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notjustaliens</span></a></p><p>Jeffrey Smith began his academic passion in the field of Accelerator Physics, building a cyclotron - a small particle accelerator - as an undergraduate.</p><p>After turning his attention to the stars, he is centrally involved in a project to develop an automated pipeline to identify bolides (exploding meteors) in weather satellite data. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a></p>
SETI Institute<p>Next <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SETILive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SETILive</span></a>: Amino Acids on Bennu!<br>TODAY, Thursday, Mar 13, 2:30 PM PDT</p><p>The OSIRIS-REx mission's sample of asteroid Bennu shows that 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to form proteins have been found. Join communications specialist Beth Johnson and senior sample scientist Danny Glavin from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for a discussion of these important results and their implications for the development of life. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a></p><p>WATCH LIVE: <a href="https://youtube.com/live/nhstLeQMpeU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/live/nhstLeQMpeU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Encyclia<p>Thanks for your feedback on the kinds of ORCID records you'd like to follow! It may influence how Encyclia will try to help you find them.</p><p>For the next question, let us flip it around: how do you feel about your own ORCID record being potentially available to follow on the fediverse in the future?</p><p>We put some work into the question of what privacy protections may be needed and whether an opt-out model is justified: <a href="https://encyclia.pub/optin-optout-analysis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">encyclia.pub/optin-optout-anal</span><span class="invisible">ysis</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fietkau.social/tags/poll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poll</span></a> <a href="https://fietkau.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a> <a href="https://fietkau.social/tags/scholcomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scholcomm</span></a> <a href="https://fietkau.social/tags/wisskomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wisskomm</span></a> <a href="https://fietkau.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
SETI Institute<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PPOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PPOD</span></a>: This was the first image of Saturn's ultraviolet aurora taken by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope almost 30 years ago, when Saturn was a distance of 1.3 billion kilometers from Earth. The instrument, used as a camera, provided more than ten times the sensitivity of previous Hubble instruments in the ultraviolet. Credit: NASA/ESA and J.T. Trauger (JPL)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a></p>
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ<p>Avocados Were Domesticated 7,500 Years Ago According To Fossil Evidence, study out of University of California, Santa Barbara, published by PNAS</p><p>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grrlscientist</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/avocados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avocados</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arboriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arboriculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/domestication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>domestication</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/03/13/avocados-were-domesticated-7500-years-ago-according-to-fossil-evidence/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist</span><span class="invisible">/2025/03/13/avocados-were-domesticated-7500-years-ago-according-to-fossil-evidence/</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>Some zooms into my "Primeval Clevedon Bay" painting (2022), depicting fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods in an Early Carboniferous shallow sea. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Carboniferous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carboniferous</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFish</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicPark</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicWorld</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>Here's a second painting of the Severn Estuary, this time during the Early Carboniferous. Called "Primeval Clevedon Bay," it features fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Carboniferous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carboniferous</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFish</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicPark</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicWorld</span></a></p>
Laurie Winkless<p>NYC's congestion pricing scheme became the first in the US when it launched on 5 January. Despite its early success, it's in imminent danger of being shut down by the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration.</p><p>I look at the research into the impact of congestion pricing in other cities, to see what they're all about 🧪</p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2025/03/11/congestion-pricing-can-improve-air-quality-and-human-health-in-cities/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkles</span><span class="invisible">s/2025/03/11/congestion-pricing-can-improve-air-quality-and-human-health-in-cities/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/nyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nyc</span></a></p>
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