I learned from watching Jane Goodall that animals often chill out and stop seeing you as a threat if you sit down and pretend to be totally not interested in them. Bonus points if you have a snack you can eat in front of them while not paying attention.
🥚📚 Rethinking the Egg Drop Challenge
Turns out, eggs are less likely to break when dropped on their side – not their end.
This study shows they absorb more energy horizontally, challenging a classic STEM classroom myth.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
#Physics #Education #SciComm #Eggs 🧪
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
This isn’t just a graphic, these individuals are always in my thoughts and I wish more of them could access the support they deserve
thestreetlink.org.uk
Call for Applications: Editor-in-Chief, European Journal for Philosophy of Science. Editorship begins 1 September 2025 (negotiable) & renewable term of 4 years. Submit applications to the secretary of @epsaphilsci.bsky.social M. Amine Mansour at epsa@philsci.eu.
Deadline is 15 May 2025.
#philsci
“Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That might sound strange, but the science is clear.”
Why e-bikes give more exercise than “acoustic” bikes. (but both are excellent for better cities, and both are a LOT cheaper than cars, especially after tariffs!)
So sad.
Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.
I 1st learnt of the fluoride controversy as an undergraduate studying #HistoryAndPhilosophyOfScience #HPS #HistPhilSci. 30+ years later the discussion remains divisive. This article provides a thoughtful discussion of the topic. theconversation.com/is-fluoride-...
Hi! I'm a professor of environmental science, and this atmos/ocean feed-list seems the best fit (unless there is a climate feed-list?). I do community climate resilience work and teach ocean/atmosphere dynamics, energy, marine science, systems, etc. Recent pub: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
2024 Study: Nearly half of the sampled “cancer cure” books on Amazon appeared to contain misleading cancer treatment and cure information. "The first search result page had the highest % of misleading books (23/33, 69.7%)."
medsky 🛟 🧪 😷 health policy science communication sociology
📢Call for Papers! Share your latest #Research on translational breakthroughs in #neuro & #psych disorders🧑🔬Let's bridge lab discoveries with clinical care!🧠💡 Biomedicines Biomolecules IJMS Brain Sciences CellsI MDPI #CFP #Neuroscience #MentalHealth
www.mdpi.com/topics/I8CIO...
Research suggests a massive expansion of mining & the processing of metal ores caused airborne lead pollution to soar during the peak of the Roman empire, leading to an estimated 2-3 point drop in IQ.
🧪🧠 #neuroskyence
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Another precept from #psychology #cognitivescience & #neuroscience:
Spotlight Effect: We overestimate how much others notice or judge our actions or appearance.
But, remember: others are much too focused on their own concerns to scrutinise you as much as you think...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
Blue birds huddling together for warmth
The interactive cycle map in Europe.
(Open street Map, Open data common ODbl & CC).
At low zoom levels it is intended for overviews of national cycling networks; at higher zoom levels it should help with planning which streets to cycle on, where you can park your bike and more.
www.opencyclemap.org
Word of the day (of course) is ‘scurryfunging’, from US dialect: the frantic attempt to tidy the house just before guests arrive.
If we all find 100 posts to like every day, engagement and good will on @bsky.app grows exponentially.
Is it worth a few minutes to make the platform stronger ?
Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — there to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read again until there's nothing left but the best kind of memories
This is still one of my favourite illustrations for emphasising the value of dead wood 🪵 🪲
In the UK, it supports an incredible diversity of life, including ~650 species of beetles! It is vital habitat.
📷 Jeroen Helmer 🧪
📚 Bias in Faculty Promotions
A @natureportfolio.bsky.social study of 1,571 staff at US universities revealed underrepresented minorities face tougher standards. They received 7% more negative votes & their research was judged more harshly.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪 #HigherEd
🔬 Trust in Science Is Polarising
A study shows U.S. trust in science is splitting along political lines - conservatives declining while liberals increase trust.
Is this be a social tipping point with consequences for science’s role in society?
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#SciComm 🧪
A line chart showing that 38% of webpages from 2013 are no longer accessible.
LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer available today
Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% were no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.
Many implications for knowledge 🧪
#12
Now this is one, cool video. Mars may look red on the surface but right below that are all kinds of different rocks. 🧪
🦋 academics, lets get to know each other! #🧪🦑🐋
Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about
1. Serum 'omics of stranded whales.
2. Utility of longitudinal corticosterone conc. in sea turtle scutes to detect cold stun survival.
