#Species

Sean Casten

SeanCasten

OK #energytwitter: This week's nerd thread. Why climate change is real, and man made. And why you should treat anyone who insists otherwise with the same respect you treat someone

Craig McClain, Ph.D.

DrCraigMc

The Vast Majority of the Deep-Sea Remains Completely Unexplored: A Thread 1/n Although the earliest interest and sampling in the deep sea occurred in the late 1800’s, a majority of

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Some people are super confused about RaTG13, one of the most closely related viruses to SARS-CoV-2, because of how sparse/disjointed its descriptions have been in interviews and papers. I'll try

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

So... I’ve been trying to find supporting arguments for my intuition that even though death rate is far lower than Spanish Flu (2%) and European Black Death (25-30%), the civilizational

Weston Testo

westo_fernnerd

Excited to see our new paper (with @frondley_fern and @MichaelSundue) on global fern diversity out at @JBiogeography -- it has been a lot of fun to work on and I

Erika Barthelmess

porcupinedoc

Thanks @eJett and @CSULBMammalLab for alerting me to great question from @zoecology! North American porcupines have a huge geographic range so the answer may depend somewhat on location. Not sure

Mick Crawley

crawley_mick

Bottom-of-the-Wall Flora revisited. This lockdown is starkly different for botanizing, because so little is in flower compared to the first lockdown last spring. Not to mention the darkness,

Monterey Bay Aquarium

MontereyAq

"What's that on the beach?!" Monterey Bay beachcombers and divers were treated to a huge bloom of salps this weekend! The stoke is salpable! Time for another Salp Natural History

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

caitoz

You Have No Obligation To Conform To A Wildly Sick Society"You have no obligation to conform to a society which brands you a Russian propagandist for criticizing the most powerful

Matt Olm

MattagenOlmics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2505-4 I loved this paper and I bet it's conclusions will be taught in "Intro to Microbial Physiology" classes for decades to come. Very fun to read about a fundamental

Ferris Jabr

ferrisjabr

For @NYTmag I wrote about hidden networks of root and fungi, how trees continually exchange resources and information, and a visionary scientist who changed our understanding of forests and inspired

Tom Kimmerer, PhD

tomkimmerer

Large old trees often fool us. We think they are in decline when they are doing fine. We have false images of what a healthy tree looks like. I want

Thrix

TRex_Ramblings

Been thinking about species dysphoria lately. It's something I've had to a painful degree but in recent times it doesn't come off as bad anymore. I've spent a lot of

Elle M. (they/them)

ellle_em

All mammals, regardless of what they actually are, can be divided into two categories: Dogs and CatsI will demonstrate Cows are dogs Goats are cats Sheep are dogs Horses are

hayley reads stuff 🌈

haereads

4 of 5 stars to Hollowpox by Jessica Townsendhttps://goodreads.com/review/show/3036894649 I want to write a full length essay on this book but it’s getting late and I have to wake up

lilly 🖖🏻💜

oudkee

thread of questions for people who ARE NOT into star trek: deep space nine. QRT to respond! what is this man's role in the story? what are some of his

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