Calling on my fellow white scicomm'ers to do some work here. How many times have you offered career advice to a friend of a friend who's interested in #SciComm? How many of those FoaF's have been privileged in some way?
Consider this my FoaF mentor request: tinyurl.com/vs-mentors
New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kฤkฤpล population to 300โa major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.
A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kฤkฤpล. spklr.io/6044E87xp
๐ธ: New Zealand Department of Conservation
Why is there consensus around atoms existing, but not around if chocolate is good for you? In this episode of Crash Course Scientific Thinking, weโll explore why there are still things we donโt know about topics we know a lot about. youtu.be/9wSAeV0xX0M
Dawg if I was a cookie-cutter shark and found out that my species could have been known as the "demon whale-biter" instead I'd be fuckin' *pissed*. Absolute nomenclatural humiliation.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
It's World Wildlife Day!
Check out the United Nations' Virtual Celebration and learn about conservation science www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcmv...
Why Evolution Made Your Teeth Hurt youtu.be/miPIUijJHdo?...
We don't know for sure, but humans might have the dirtiest butts.
with @hankgreen.bsky.social
๐บ๏ธ :https://youtu.be/RuuyCOnuBDA?si=rJWVAUZq4YHgcCJZ
Text: If you guessed braconid wasps , you're right! With an illustration of our braconid wasp pin, designed by Sage Friss
If you guessed braconid wasps, you're right! Braconid wasps are parasitoids, which is a type of parasitism with a slightly different outcome. The host of a parasitoid, becomes a dual-purpose incubator and food source for its offspring. youtu.be/LmQNrI4aIzo
Do NOT eat gar eggs!!! ๐คข๐คฎ
Text: Can you guess the next bizarre beast? with the silhouette of an insect that we cannot name but if you check back on monday you'll get the answer!
The survival of this family of insects is so intertwined with a virus that they partly share a genome. This extreme level of teamwork lets these beasts live their best parasitoid lives. Can you guess what the next bizarre beast is?
Were We Scavengers? Meat-Eating & Human Evolution ~ with Professor BRIANA POBINER @brianapobiner.bsky.social @evolutionsoup.bsky.social youtu.be/80mwdRtDIjo?...
Wrote this! Maybe answers a question we've long had: did male and female Homo sapiens partake in sex with Neanderthals? www.science.org/content/arti...
Destroy. Dismantle. Engulf in flames. Watch Jason Mantzoukas on Ask Hank Anything.
youtu.be/RuuyCOnuBDA
Exhibit writing/development gig for folks around NYC: careers.amnh.org/postings/4737
Looking down at skull and jaw of a bear, stored separately in foam cradles in a wooden drawer
Front end of mandible of a lion in a foam lined box
Partial jaw with really big teeth
Cave bear, cave lion, and cave hyena
๐จEVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS ๐ฆ
What are examples of nonhuman lineages that are, in some trait, limited? Point me to traits that are argued to be maxxed out (in any organism). Outside of human evol bio, where can I see scientists claiming that evolution is stuck!?
Skeleton of the ground sloth Lestodon, rearing up on its stumpy hindlegs
#FossilFriday The large ground sloth Lestodon @harvardmuseums.bsky.social
Very excited to be #Co-Leading a World Cafe on Collective Action for @bawmn.bsky.social in Denver in one month - still time to register if you're going to #AABA2026 @bioanth.org!
We're got an awesome program with a workshop, off-site luncheon, and on-site Happy Hour ~ more details here: bawmn.org
Skype-a-scientist does small grants ($300-$1000) for creative #SciComm projects in your local community! You don't have to be a scientist to apply.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
๐งช #BlueSci
If you need 150 people in palaeontology, geology, zoology, scicomm and related. And I could list more, but ran out of space!
The Dinosaur Renaissance was a pivotal event in paleontology. But there's more than a little mythology to the story, distorting a complex history involving the ways the public encountered dinosaurs as well as scientific shifts. It was a joy to dig into the history with @commondescentpod.bsky.social.
Hank green!
Joywholived!
Hank Green is matching the next $5,000 in donations to our trans performance festival fundraiser - which is an Oceanโs Eleven Live Reading in LA and streaming with an all-trans cast including: @vicmmic.bsky.social & more!
spend @hankgreen.bsky.socialโs money! Donate here!
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I want to spend more time writing about the amazing fossil discoveries paleontologists are unveiling each week. So I've started a newsletter!
You can subscribe, and read the first post, right here. Welcome to The Boneyard. ๐ฆด
A reddish brown skull with big eyes and little teeth looking to the left; black metal scale bar shows it is around 12cm long.
A reddish brown skull with big eyes and little teeth looking to the right; black metal scale bar shows it is around 12cm long.
A favorite for #FossilFriday: this exquisite skull of the late Permian therocephalian Ictidosuchoides from the upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of #Zambia ๐ฟ๐ฒ
Check out those post dentary bones! ๐๐ป?
@burkemuseum.bsky.social
an illustration of a melon in the foreground and a mammoth in the distance with the pun text below Hey there gourdeous!
Hey there, GOURDeous! ๐๐ฆฃ Natural History #ValentinesDay eCards
Many species in the gourd family evolved alongside megafauna like mammoths and gomphotheres. But with the megafauna extinct, the plants produce fruit for animals that no longer exist.
More:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/natu...
Ask Hank Anything with Angela Giarratana!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqOA...
Maize farmers in Peruโs Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250
Next up on Ask Hank Anything is Angela Giarratana! If you want to know what's in store for episode two, you can expect some tears, light trolling, and at least one sonnet.
Angela really is asking anything of Hank in this one. Give it a watch February 11th at youtube.com/complexly!
