The Pokémon universe goes hard on ecology and climate science The Pokémon franchise, including its recent game Pokémon Pokopia, is inspired by real animals and their ecology. It’s no surprise that so many scientists love to try and “catch ’em all”

My latest for @sciam.bsky.social is all about the real biology, ecology, and climate science that is used to create the world of Pokémon, and how scientists use it to teach science in the real world.

This is just about the most fun I’ve ever had interviewing anyone, and I hope you enjoy! 🧪🌎

I don’t actually think it is the job of #scicomm and it’s certainly not responsible scicomm to uncritically repeat propaganda about a scientific project without situating it in political and social context, actually. We need to build trust with our audiences by being complete! 🧪

The way I throw myself to the floor from my bed in milliseconds whenever I wake up by earthquake should be studied.

Damn Mr President that’s crazy anyway stream Carlson et al 2025 “Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change” Nature Climate Change 15, 1052-1055 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Okay but what about…deep sea giant isopods

ACADEMICS SHOULD TALK BLUNTLY ABOUT MONEY (and should not write for free)

We have been cooking up this story for a while and we are excited to finally be able to share!

Read on if you're interested in whole plant regeneration WITHOUT the application of hormones!

And this is why ps5 prices are going up smh

You’re killing me

There’s still time to take our survey about the landscape of science communication and share your experience

Please excuse my rant I have low blood pressure and need to keep doing work my brain is trying its best

And I ask both from spite and naive fascination because never in my entire life did I see anyone in my town use leaf blowers in their back yards why on earth is that happening on a yard that’s half cement I’m just flabbergasted that’s like GASOLINE being used!!! What are we doing

I’m in bed feeling awful and it’s the middle of the day of course so someone doing yard work is perfectly acceptable.

Except can someone explain to me why leaf blowers? In a small urban backyard? A leaf blower?

What is the point of leaf blowers. What is the benefit of them vis a vis idk a RAKE?

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Disadvantages in preparing and publishing scientific papers caused by the dominance of the English language in science: The case of Colombian researchers in biological sciences The success of a scientist depends on their production of scientific papers and the impact factor of the journal in which they publish. Because most major scientific journals are published in English,...

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A decade ago, I did make a reading list to help scientists get started! 🧪

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Didn’t expect making square knots to be such a handy thing to know as an adult

+1 boy scouting

Poverty is not and will never be a moral failing

They're killing me I cannot afford a switch 2 pls

Podura aquatica: Springtail of the month - A Chaos of Delight Across the world, living invisibly on standing pools of water, lives Podura aquatica , a highly unusual specialised and entirely wonderful semi-aquatic springtail.

My latest blog post on Podura aquatica, the water springtail is finally done! Check it out below…

LOOK AT EM GOOO 🥹🥹😭

Graduation becoming a reality slowly but surely.

She will be a doctor, and she will finally have a graduation ceremony.

🫶 It’s all coming together.

I got to chat about my career path and how what started as a means to earn a paycheck turned into a personal mission to use my background in science to improve access to neuroscience research education.
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Meta's Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know  - The Authors Guild Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the on...

That’s one of the biggest problems with LLMs—particularly for creative endeavors. Many artists’ work was used to train models.

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Reason I don’t miss chemistry #245

(to be fair I had a similar event where a flask containing 1 liter of E. coli culture just randomly broke as I was moving it out of a shaker and I cried a lot)

Working on it… 😭

A block of text that says "Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on trends in the field of science communication. For this survey we are defining science communication as work that is done: • by a technical subject area expert in some field related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, • outside of classroom settings • aimed at the public If you are 18 years of age or older and work or recently worked in this field (full-time, part-time, or as a side project), please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester@miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time."

Attention Science Communicators!

We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences.

Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can.

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Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed.

The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.

Nerds, @hopkinspress.bsky.social is having a big sale on books, with many science and nature titles up to 80% off! 🧪🌍

Dolphins have been stranding in droves on the shores of Patagonia. Scientists think they’ve found the culprit Dolphins washing up on the shores of Patagonia may have been fleeing orcas in the area

Dolphins have been stranding in droves on the shores of Patagonia. Scientists think they’ve found the culprit