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🇨🇦 “According to the Canadian Drought Monitor, 71 per cent of the country was in drought as of July 31 and most of Canada had below-average precipitation in July.” 🧪💧
➡️ DYK that agriculture.canada.ca generates the CDM for Canada?
The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca
Rain has finally returned to the west coast of B.C. — does that mean drought is over? As @sevawood.bsky.social explains, drought can be persistent — and it's becoming a serious problem across Canada. thenarwhal.ca/drought-data...
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How long tubes of mud could reveal how Antarctica is changing. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk
Antarctic Ocean secrets hidden in layers of seafloor mud
How long tubes of mud - drilled out of the Antarctic seafloor - could reveal how the frozen continent is changing.
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Closing soon - an opportunity to come and work with me and my colleagues developing our new curriculum in cellular and molecular biophysics. 🧪
Applications close on the 24th of Aug, Aus EST.
Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas.bsky.social
🚨Job Alert: My department in UNSW Sydney is recruiting a teaching-only Lecturer in Biophysics. The lecturer will play a key role in the pedagogical development and delivery of courses and practicals in the new undergraduate (BSc) major in #Biophysics that we are launching from 2026. #AcademicBsky 🧪
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au
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Day113 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com #JohnOliver w/ fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution
John (H. sapiens) has inadvertently taught a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) about extinction with the coral Favosites favosus (PRI76737) Don't let PRI go extinct! 🧪
Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Day112 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that #LastWeekTonight saves the Paleontological Research Institution IDK why John & the lobster are so judgmental of the phyllocarid Echinocaris punctata(PRI 76752). He's just a lil guy ⚒️ #invertebrates #SavePRI
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Unveiling 7 cell-specific mechanisms in atherosclerotic CVD, this study combines single-cell TWAS with MR & colocalization. #HeartHealth PMID:40555237, Am J Hum Genet 2025, @AJHGNews www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex… #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
www.cell.com
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(25)00232-0
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Can a 'Generative Agent' accurately depict personality? [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🧑🔬🤖🧠💡
"Time and again, machines have outperformed us in skills we once believed to be unique to human intelligence..."
www.scientificamerican.co….
#artificial #illusion #intelligence #personality #AI
www.scientificamerican.com
I Gave My Personality to an AI agent. Here’s What Happened Next
A large language model interviewed me about my life and gave the information to an AI agent built to portray my personality. Could it convince me it was me?
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“People of a remote Amazonian society who learned Spanish as a second language began to interpret colors in a new way, an MIT study has found.”
#scicomm
#language
#colordiscrimination
news.mit.edu/2023/how-blu...
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news.mit.edu
How “blue” and “green” appeared in a language that didn’t have words for them
A new study suggests the way a language divides up color space can be influenced by contact with other languages. Tsimane’ people who learned Spanish as a second language began to classify blue and gr...
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Five years ago, my second PhD paper came out: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
In it, I looked at the body mass of the recently extinct thylacine (aka Tasmanian tiger) & found that it was only about half as big as popularly thought.
Let's revisit the paper, & see where we are today.
🧪🧵 #evobio #Mammals
royalsocietypublishing.org
Did the thylacine violate the costs of carnivory? Body mass and sexual dimorphism of an iconic Australian marsupial | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The relative body masses of predators and their prey strongly affect the predators' ecology. An accurate estimate of the mass of an extinct predator is therefore key to revealing its biology and the s...
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”As a former mother [💔], I know there are Sophies all around us.
Everywhere, people are struggling, and many want no one to know. I fear that in unleashing AI companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide.”
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Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com
Completely devastating piece from Laura Reiley. "Sophie left a note for her father and me, but her last words didn’t sound like her. Now we know why: She had asked Harry to improve her note" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
www.nytimes.com
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Hurricane #Erin to cause widespread coastal impacts from GA north to MA in today's update for the All Hazards Consortium. We're talking dangerous surf, rip currents, flooding, and coastal erosion, and ocean observations. Please stay safe. 🧪🌀🌊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0….
www.youtube.com
Hurricane Erin to Inflict Widespread Coastal Impacts Tuesday through Friday Along East Coast Update
YouTube video by StormCenter Communications | GeoCollaborate
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Folks, I am proud (and floored) to announce that I am the 2026 James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public winner. 🧪
C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social
ACS announces 2026 national award winners The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline. cen.acs.org/people/award...
cen.acs.org
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A very specific meme for all the Myxoheads out there who have read the Monteiro et al. (2002) paper published in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
#Invertebrate 🧪
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A Perspective article, published in Nature Aging, discusses whether aging predisposes to autoimmunity, arguing that disease progression in the autoimmune vasculitis giant cell arteritis is driven by age-inappropriate sustenance of immune competence. go.nature.com/3UvrpvB🔒 🧪
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When you try to apply categorical labels to something with a continuous distribution, it's bound to cause confusion.
Put another way, whenever you try to use language to describe reality, it's bound to cause confusion (all concepts are inherently empty).
But these concepts are useful anyway! 🧘🧪
Tami Lieberman@contaminatedsci.bsky.social
Fun fact: In reference 28 here, I used the word strain to mean something similar to the lineage level because a reviewer refused to let me use the word lineage. There is still a lot of confusion in this space, and I strongly recommend defining whatever terminology you use.
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Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 11th lowest on record (JAXA data) 🧪🌊
• about 50,000 km² above the 2010s mean
• about 980,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,920,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,550,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
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Looking for a forum to speak to K-12 students & the public to let them know what science & scientists are really like?
Want to tell them why your research matters & what defunding science will do to our way of life? Here's your chance! 🧪🔉🪶🐸
Galactic Polymath Education Studio (GP)@galacticpolymath.com
🎉 We're so excited to announce the 2025 #MySciJourney Challenge: A #scicomm competition for researchers to share their authentic journeys in science with students, teachers, & the broader public! 🧪 💸 $1k in cash prizes, thanks to @ncse.bsky.social! 👉 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...
www.galacticpolymath.com
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1000 download barrier ✅in the 1st season!
BEST NEW🧪PODCAST?
Hosted by Dr Jeff Zurek.
Season 1 it squeaked into top 50% of ALL podcasts!
& Season 2 is nearly here! Will start with an episode about #volcanology & basaltic plinian eruptions! Show the show some Lava!
open.spotify.com/show/62y….
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Nemolizumab for refractory scrotal dysesthesia: 2 patients find relief! Promising results in a challenging condition. PMID:40560548, JAMA Dermatol 2025 doi.org/10.1001/jamaderma… #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
doi.org
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2025.1480
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Mineral Matters # 791 - Chlorite Group Identification
#mineralmatters #minerals #🧪 open.substack.com/pub/min….
open.substack.com
Chlorite Group Identification
Mineral Matters #791
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Hahaha, I love this photo of a snake nerd researcher from the Phoenix Herpetological Society using a fake leg to step on rattlesnakes & see how likely they are to bite. He "stepped" on 175 of them, and was bitten by only SIX. Snakes desperately want to just get away! 🐍🧪
www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1...
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By @rickabright.bsky.social, former Director of BARDA...
🛟medsky 🧪 health policy sociology polisky idsky 😷
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