I know, right???

Diagnostic dilemma: A woman heard voices telling her she had a brain tumor ‪—‬ and scans confirmed she did In a strange medical case, a woman suddenly started hearing voices, and they directed her to seek care for a brain tumor.

I get to write about some pretty unusual medical case reports for @livescience.com, and this one was a doozy. A woman in the UK suddenly started hearing voices urging her to get medical attention for a brain tumor, despite having no symptoms or prior diagnosis. The "voices" turned out to be right 🧪

A piece of notepaper with a logo at the top reading "Wuksachi Village & Lodge." Underneath is a handwritten message in all caps: "KEEP AS IT IS"

Found this note in a used copy of "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes" that I bought for $5 at a used bookstore, and I have questions

And you for writing!

You know how some mysteries are so much fun that you reread them even though you already know what happens? This series is like that, I loved the world and Jo Jones and all her friends and foes so much that I had to keep coming back 📚

Its goofball face was the giveaway!

A model of an ancient extinct fish on a rod. The fish had forward facing eyes and a triangular mouth that appears to be smiling.

That looks like Sacabambaspis, the best li'l extinct jawless fish from the Ordovician!

900+ signatures and counting. We'd love to hand over 1,000. Maybe you'll make light work of that, too. 😈

Quick and Meaningless Data Collection Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…

I NEED HELP!

Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!

I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!

Please circulate widely!

wooooowwwww, i can't believe you said that

I'm gonna be saying "wooooowwww" just like that ALL DAY

If you're not already following @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social, you're missing out on science posts that will make you go "woooooooowww" (just like this utter doofus of a bird)

Student visa holder self-deports after "inhumane" ICE conditions "I gave up and chose to self-deport, not because I wanted to but because I felt like I had no other choice," the student said.

The banality of evil carried by the term "self-deport" is matched only by the ridiculousness of the idea that someone can deport themselves, it would be super cool if news outlets would acknowledge that

It was an IRL meeting at a VR performance, make of that what you will

awww, thanks. you're pretty delightful yourself!

So cool! I'm very far from Texas but would love to see this someday

Speaking of the incredible art, I should mention the artists! Images in the book are by Lisa Monias, who illustrated them from photos taken by Joel Sartore and @brianskerry.bsky.social (both are longtime photogs for National Geographic)

A hardcover book standing on a table. The cover shows illustrations of a bear, bird, alligator, frog and bat, and reads "Grizzled: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals" by Jason Bittel.

A hand holds a hardcover book open to the chapter "The Multimillion-Mom Army."

Grizzled, the new book by @bittelmethis.bsky.social is so much fun & the art is just gorgeous! I'm celebrating #InternationalBatAppreciationDay by appreciating the chapter on Mexican free-tailed bats, which emerge in the MILLIONS at dusk from roosts in Bracken Cave in TX, between May & September 📚

Fowl play? 'Bird of the Year' winner in New Zealand contest is a bat The winner by a nose (not a beak) was pekapeka-tou-roa, also known as New Zealand's long-tailed bat.

For #InternationalBatAppreciationDay, please join me in remembering that time in 2021 when New Zealanders showed so much love for local bat pekapeka-tou-roa that they voted it "Bird of the Year" 🦇

"No matter where you go, there you are"

4x4 grid with picture of the Mars surface from sol 1531 (credit: JPL) over which is a banner that says “select all squares with signs of life, if there are none, click skip.”

Well shit

My linocut portrait of Marie Maynard Daly in purples (she’s a young smiling Black woman, wearing earrings, a necklace and a dress, looking at the viewer over her shoulder). Above her to the right is an anatomical heart with a blowout diagram in a circle of a clogged artery and the cholesterol molecule all in red. Next to her on the left in blue are the molecules of the bases which make up DNA and a diagram of a human cell.

Happy birthday to #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! 🐡🧪👩🏿‍🔬 #histsci She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein 🧵

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)

This leather jacket, thrifted in 2000 for $20 and still going strong

This is why I listen to @wfmu.bsky.social, their shows are eclectic as hell and I've found so many amazing new-to-me bands from all over the world thanks to their incredible DJs (who are way more tuned in to today's music scenes than I am)

Hey, did you know you can read an excerpt of Rise of the Zombie Bugs at @scifri.bsky.social? Come say howdy to some tiny zombifiers, like the worms that invade snails' eyestalks as pulsating broodsacs, or the glittering jewel wasp that stabs cockroaches directly in the brain

In a perfect world the news cycle would ignore these irrelevant assknobs and instead spend the same amount of time amplifying scientists who study weird invertebrates

That was me this morning, popping into a thread to gush about zombifying parasites!

If you follow AP style, there's no hyphen for email/esports but yes to the hyphen for e-book, e-reader, e-commerce, e-newsletter

Several book covers spread horizontally over a tree canopy background. Titles include "Before They Vanish," "Birds of North America," "The Killer Whale Journals," and "Rise of the Zombie Bugs."

Happy book birthday to Rise of the Zombie Bugs! Now through 4/30, you can snag a copy for 40% off at @hopkinspress.bsky.social. If you've always wondered how nature's tiniest neuroscientists zombify their bug hosts, my book may align with your interests 🧟‍♀️ 🐜🐛🐝🐌

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Has your metamorphosis been suspended? Do you feel a strange compulsion to wander from your colony and bite down on a leaf? Got a hankering for spinning a resting web instead of your usual prey-catcher? Are you dissolving into goo? You may have a zombifying parasite!