Happy #WorldOceanDay I am terrified of the ocean but it's beautiful and it's full of freaky incredible creatures like the vampire squid and even more amazing stuff that I can't even fathom
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months
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As a scientist, this is my worst nightmare. There are one-of-a-kind instruments that you spend your life perfecting. When they’re lost, no amount of time or money will bring them back. My thoughts are with @oceanandclimate.bsky.social @ashevenell.bsky.social and others @cmarinescience.bsky.social. 🥺
Ainsley S
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!
Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.
Applications due April, 15th.
DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!
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New Cambrian mystery keychains just dropped!
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#sciart
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
Gyroceras burlingtonense, an extinct nautiloid cephalopod with a logarithmic spiral shell, closer related to squid & octopuses than the bivalves & brachiopods around it.
Plate from my 1852 copy of ‘Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, [etc]’ by David Dale Owen.
#MolluscMonday 🦑 🐙
David Ho
Bugs from 2021
#kidlitart #illustration #art
Margaret Knight (1838 – 1914) was the American inventor of a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags. A man, Charles Annan, stole her design and patented it, claiming that "she could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities of the machine", but she sued him and won. #CelebratingWomen
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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
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