My god, what have I done?!

your moment of calm: huddled least sandpipers on a floating log

Fish At Pretty Good Place In Its Life Right Now

Fish At Pretty Good Place In Its Life Right Now
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Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention

🧪 The personal testimony of a scientist at Harvard Med School now incarcerated by ICE in Louisiana:

“I haven’t been in my lab or worked with my microscope since February, when I was detained by ICE as I was returning to Boston from a vacation in France”

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

With its UFO-like display, the cuttlefish may look like it’s trying to get attention—but its intent is anything but.

The undulating black stripes confuse prey, making the creatures all but invisible to crabs and other victims: scim.ag/3FVL43z

Wesleyan's Michael Roth: "money doesn’t come with a loyalty oath. And that has served the country so well because Americans and various governments we’ve had recognized that it’s better for the country if people can practice freedom." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Why we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research “If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation,” writes Carole LaBonne of Northwestern.

My ode to Curiosity Driven Research

www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/b...

I have signed an executive order to slightly increase total daylight every successive day until June of this year! Our many months of darkness will soon be over! Enjoy!

Def not just you, it’s poorly written (but cool animation and gay people…. :))

I looked for your bluesky just so I could tell you I read almost half of your review out loud to my roommate while saying “exactly!!!” over and over (justice for paddington and his immigrant story)

Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

Philadelphia is a great American city. 🇺🇸🫡🥲

(d) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e) Male" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

Big tell in this Trump order targeting trans people: "at conception"

is that good

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

Color illustration of several horseshoe crabs climbing a brutalist wall with air conditioning units on it.

🐴🥿 🦀

Greenland shark with “I am not a toy, I am a 400 year commitment” text

Think carefully before buying a Greenland shark for the holidays. They are, after all, the world’s longest-living vertebrate.

Seadragon #marinelife #underwaterphotography

Ocean plastic is a way harder problem to solve than it seems at first glance. “Just scoop it up” solutions are *worse than leaving it there*. This sucks, but because of how animals learn to use the plastic, it’s a no-go. Follow along with Rebecca for solutions that actually improve the situation.