Krista Koeller

An element of public health is public communication. I would trust “public health guy” on how to approach it.

🫡 thank you for doing this service.

The silver lining to reduced literacy.

Bad idioms are one of the main reasons I watch Love Island.

Idk what to do about that.

I believe in the value of nonfiction books. They’re just about the only way to present long-form, complex arguments and unlike almost any medium, they allow for communication with the future.

But it seems like most people “these days” have more of an appetite for video and audio content.

Yes!

I haven’t read a biology-focused nonfiction book in years.

I’ve read some history and public policy/econ ones, but science ones just aren’t fun for me.

Maybe it’s leftover grad school guilt because I could always be doing something more productive.

Her beak goes so far down it makes me nervous!

an artistic depiction of the horned pareiasaur elginia

a photo of the skull of elginia mirabilis

happy #fossilfriday! this is elginia, a pareiasaur from late permian scotland and china. it was a small herbivore – about 60cm long – distinguished by the elaborate spines that ornamented its skull, presumably used for display
(art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social)

The peets!

Vector illustration of Anthracobune wardii, a large bodied stem-perissodactyl from middle Eocene South Asia. The large, stocky, tapir like animal is sitting on its haunches looking up. It is dark brown with a dark underside, with dark stripes on its long tail and white patches on its legs and face

#marchofthemammals2026 day 5: Anthracobune wardii, a big chunky stem-perissodactyl

#sciart #paleoart #fossilfriday

😂

Did they do Baba yetu?

Finally I can join #FluorescenceFriday as a theorist 😊.

This is a DNA-PAINT recording of E-Cadherin and F-actin in Drosophila embryonic epidermis. You can see E-cadherin clusters and their counterparts across junctions. Cover in @biophysj.bsky.social . doi.org/10.1016/j.bp... #devbio #cellbio

!She bit it!

Goo morning, monsters.

Out of the closet, turn the handle and push, not to reveal what is

but to become.

LinnéSys: Systematics Research Fund Grants for small-scale research and education projects on taxonomy and systematics

Calling all systematics and taxonomy researchers! Applications are now open for our Linnesys grants.

Run with the Systematics Association, the scheme supports small-scale research and education projects with grants of up to £1,500.

Find out more and apply by Friday 27 March
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This is such an expressive crab!

I love the idea of teaching through stories! What were your favorites?

Especially for non-majors! Jeez nobody needs to learn the Krebs cycle but everyone needs to know that science is a process and a conversation aimed at, but never achieving perfect and complete understanding of how the universe works.

“Alexander was only defeated once, the Cynic philosophers said, and that was by Hephaistion’s thighs,” writes historian Robin Lane Fox

Love the hounds tooth!

I always say I became a scientist despite my science education.

I get the merits of doing a survey course to expose students to different subjects they might be interested in, but I think my intro bio class in college really missed the “why” and “how” of science.

Science was presented as lists of truths about the world until like sophomore year.

I’m running a mentored volunteer research project and have been using it as a way to teach basic ecology, evolution, philosophy, research methods, professional skills, and practical data collection skills, all with reference to the project we’re doing.

Maybe this is what intro bio should be.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Hahahaha!

I’ve spent at least 100 hours documenting the dental formulae of various rodents and it never occurred to me that they look like math.

Comic. [Two people looking at a board with apparent formula (3.1.3.1)/(3.1.2.1)] PERSON: Do mammologists think these are hard? I mean, this one just evaluates to 3/2. [caption] Mathematicians encounter dental formulas

Dental Formulas

xkcd.com/3213/

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I am truly honored to receive the Hilde Mangold Award from @gfeev.bsky.social!

Mangold’s classic transplantation experiments transformed developmental biology and our understanding of self-organization. I am grateful to be associated with this legacy!

It’s global warming, guys. A species adapted to extreme cold it probably not gonna have a great time.

Also, anyone at colossal, please read paleontology papers and not just genetics papers plzkthx.

Oh god it does have my little pony face.

… trying to unsee it

Also I love the chikorita series. It’s the best gen 2 starter! There is nothing wrong with a basic sauropod with leaves glued to its neck!