A very small splitgill mushroom bursts from a stick like a tiny firework, held up above a wet forest floor. There is another even smaller mushroom next to it All photos by me
Here is a nice mushroom
My dog is on antibiotics for a UTI. She doesn’t like the chewable pills unless I coat them in peanut butter. She now believes that she is entitled to twice-daily peanut butter treats.
She has two days of antibiotics left before reality sets in.
Cool new paper alert: Dog skull shape challenges assumptions of performance specialization from selective breeding | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We made the #RhodesCollege news page about presenting at #sicb2025!
news.rhodes.edu/stories/rhod...
The asteroid was sent to kill T. rex before they could evolve into snakes and become too powerful.
The shape and scales lab members in front of the SICB 2025 sign in Atlanta, Georgia
Emily showing off her poster on goby fish vertebrae
Yihan in front of her salmonella poster
Could not have been more excited to have such an amazing group of students presenting at this year's #sicb2025! See everyone next year in Portland!
Myself and 2 collaborators in front of our poster on frog jumping at the SICB meeting
Lorenzo in front of his poster on why tiny fish have so much armor at the SICB meeting
More #sicb2025 posters today!! 6 down 2 to go! Fishes and frogs!
Malak presenting poster on Meerkat research
Zaha presenting research on red pandas
Stella presents poster on dog skulls
Sarah presented a poster on Meerkat behavior
Excited to see the first 4 lab posters of the #sicb2025 meeting presented this afternoon! We had dogs, red pandas and meerkats today! Stay tuned for fishes, frogs, and yeast!
I had a feeling that’s who you were referring to! Her work is absolutely fantastic, and our work is connected through Nick Hebdon!
Person standing in front of a scientific poster titled “neurocranial variation in canids”
Ever wondered how pugs get away with looking like that? Me too! #SICB2025
Teacher should be valued equally to doctors.
#Accessibility idea:
If you are handing out printed materials, create a QR code to make the materials available digitally.
This not only helps people with low vision, but also those who cannot attend in person.
#Disability
@a11yawareness.bsky.social
Small stone, possibly shaped or knapped, showing tiny spirals with dark hatch marks. The spirals are single-celled animal shells.
A chert shard, showing perfect cross-sections of forams. Tiny spirals, nature's hidden order.
A possible abortive point, maybe kept for its beauty?
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒️🦕
A fossil beetle in a light coloured rock, which is shown as a darker outline. It includes a head, thorax, and abdomen, and wings that are splayed out with dark rings of colour on them
A fossil beetle in a light coloured rock, which is shown as a darker outline. It includes a head, thorax, and abdomen, and wings that are splayed out with dark rings of colour on them
For #FossilFriday check out this gorgeous fossil insect! This 49 million year old beauty is Pulchritudo attenboroughi, a #beetle found in the rocks of the Green River Formation, Colorado. what's particularly striking about this fossil is the pattern on its wing cases.
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
Every year around now, I start to see grad students on social media bemoan that they’re going home for the holidays to a family that doesn’t understand their research, or what they do in general, and it breaks my heart. 🧵 🧪 #SciComm
Vertebrate audacity tier list
1. Dolphins: disturbingly fond of chaos.
2. Geese: demons with zero chill
3. Cats: Domesticated but still act like landlords
4. Blue Jays: Feathered terrorists
5. Ostriches: Six feet of pure hate
You know it’s going to be a good day when the cafeteria has the worlds best hot sauce in stock #cholula