Bianca (Dr. Flavia-Bianca Cristian)

Primary schools, join us for #BritishScienceWeek 💩

Oxford poo scientists have created a free Poo Trivia Quiz for KS1 and KS2. Designed with Guts UK and sponsored by Wooclap "helps people teach and learn".

Online, ready to use, no prep required.

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The Poo Trivia Quiz has now been shared with primary schools across the UK for #BritishScienceWeek 💩

If you are linked to a primary school and would like them to take part, there is still time.

Message me and I will send the details.

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

Very much not surprised that our #NextFest wishlist graph tuned out to be a kitty.

Next Fest is still on for a few hours, check out the Hocus Focus demo, link in reply 🐱 Wishlisting the game helps us a lot! ♥ #indiedev

A graffiti illustration of a stylized UFO on a wall. Top half is light, bottom half is dark. The top is also capped with a yellow dome, the head of an occupant peeking to the right. Paint markers were used!

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A grey tabby cat rubbing her eye with her paw. She's curled up on a red blanket on a dark red armchair.

A sleepy cat, this is the only solace I can offer the world at the moment...

#Caturday #CatsOfBlueSky

New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons

Looking down at snow trees and huts, with mountains behind them

Love to come down from a ski tour and then check the news. Going to order another beer.
It was nice up there...

Chimpanzee pee reveals how our primate cousins are getting drunk on fermented fruit A urinalysis shows that these apes ingest significant amounts of alcohol, providing new clues to how alcohol influences the animals’ behavior

A urinalysis shows that these apes ingest significant amounts of alcohol, providing new clues to how alcohol influences the animals’ behavior

Picture collage of b&w portraits of four women and the cover of my book SISTERS IN SCIENCE

Happy paperback publication day to my second book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE! Dive into the true story of how Lise Meitner, Hedwig Kohn, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen fought sexism to become eminent physicists, then helped each other flee the Nazis.

#nonfiction #womenshistory

Snowflakes Swirl According to Surprisingly Simple Math Every snowflake is different, but new technology reveals they all swirl the same

Every snowflake is different, but new technology reveals they all swirl the same

Hocus Focus is entering Steam #NextFest later today, but you can play the demo in advance now! Chill beats, cozy vibes and a Transylvanian twist 👇

Morning.

A little moment that beautifully captures the spirit of the comic. From Brume – Volume 1: The Dragon Awakens by Jérôme Pélissier and Carine Hinder.

This is how you do a blurb for the back of a comic book.

EMBL International PhD Programme - summer recruitment 2026! 👀

Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research.

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⭐✍️ Would you like to review new children's and young adult titles for the School Reading List website? ⌨️⭐

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Happy Lunar New Year everyone! This is probably the clearest handheld photo of the moon I’ve ever taken (Sony A6000/55-200mm). It’s amazing to know that every human being who has ever lifted their eyes toward the night sky will have seen the same view of the moon that you and I do. #moon #luna

This year, for Lent, I’m giving up.

It's wild to keep track of the tasks you need to complete for the game inside the game itself. Gamedevception!

I want to be that bear.

Back to the Dinosaur Den It’s always a pleasure to meet a stegosaur, like this friend outside the Dinosaur National Monument visitor center. I felt so small next to the reptiles. Not...

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. 🦴

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Go bird-watching this weekend and support a global community science project Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive citizen science project

Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive citizen science project

The science behind why some auroras have such stunning wave patterns Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs

Researchers say they’ve identified the “battery” that powers at least one kind of aurora—aurora arcs

Bad Bunny stands atop a cream-colored pickup truck wearing an all-white outfit with the number 64 on his chest. Dancers surround the vehicle against a background of tall green stalks. Photo by Loren Elliott for The New York Times.

Bad Bunny took the stage at the Super Bowl halftime show. See highlights from his history-making performance. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

16 astonishing images from the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards Playful bear cubs and a swirling superpod of dolphins compete for People's Choice honors.

16 astonishing images from the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards www.popsci.com/environment/...

This is Zephyr. He is a professionally trained bed bug detector. When he recognizes the scent of live bed bugs, he gives an alert by sitting and smiling exuberantly at his handler. We're pretty sure no one has ever been more excited to find bed bugs in their life. 13/10 (TT: emmercrew)

Are you a developmental biology researcher working with complicated volumetric data?

Discover LimbLab, an open-source tool that can help you to visualise and analyse 3D data for developmental processes.

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NASA document reveals new Artemis II moon mission target launch dates for March NASA quietly updated its potential launch windows for its delayed moon mission, apparently now targeting March 6-11

NASA quietly updated its potential launch windows for its delayed moon mission, apparently now targeting March 6-11