#PPOD: Numerous holes in a Swiss cheese-like Martian landscape reveal dusty, dark terrain beneath evaporating carbon dioxide ice. The most unusual hole, about 100 meters wide in the upper right, seems to penetrate to a lower level. Its existence and surrounding circular crater are speculated to be from a meteor impact. Credit: NASA, MRO, HiRISE, JPL, U. Arizona via APOD
Kaarten voor de Nationale Wetenschapscommunicatiedag op 6 oktober zijn in de voorverkoop, met nu nog lager tarief
https://www.nationalewetenschapscommunicatiedag.nl/
#SciComm
Reading a paper about cloth moth evolution. Really interesting!
At the end of the intro, they hypothesize co-evolution between humans and synanthropic moths. Well, that sounds very unlikely but ok I guess?
Like, recent adaptations maybe, but co-evolution seems a bit extreme.
Also I would expect it to be only in the moth, it sounds unlikely that there would be any impact on human evolution besides cultural practices...
In the third episode of The Climate Chronicles' second season, Escaping the Pleistocene, Professor Dagomar Degroot provides different explanations for what may be the ultimate climate change disaster: the extinction of our closest relatives, the Neanderthals, a hominin species that may have been as smart as us. Listen here: https://theclimatechronicles.com/2025/03/05/episode-9-the-last-of-them/
From Sasquatch to Nessie to Chupacabra, mythical creatures have long fascinated us. We look at the latest Bigfoot news and a beloved hoax with a surprising connection to a medical breakthrough. It’s Skeptic Check: Cryptids on Big Picture Science.
Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/skeptic-check-cryptids
Happy 92nd birthday to #JayMatternes! Read more about this underrecognized illustrator in this fully authorised career retrospective full of mesmerising #Paleoart and #WildlifeArt
#PPOD: On March 25, 2013, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photo of the Great Sandy Desert in northwest Australia, showcasing linear dunes separated in a roughly regular fashion. When you fly over such dune fields—either in an airplane or the space station—the fire scars stand out. Where thin vegetation has been burned, the dunes appear red from the underlying sand; dunes appear darker where the vegetation remains. Credit: NASA
Uncovering The Genomic Secrets Of Color Variants In Female Cuckoo Birds
"Why do female common cuckoos have one of two different colors, whilst the males are all the same color?"
by @GrrlScientist via #Substack
#birds #ornithology #color #evolution #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/uncovering-the-genomic-secrets-of
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "Froghopper sex" shows a pair of Anthoscytina perpetua engaging in Jurassic sex.
I know, it's crazy to try a summary about #Mastodon and #Bluesky after only some days (it can be different in some weeks). I had opened an account on Bluesky for professional reasons, so the result is different than if I were to use it purely privately. It's my absolutely subjective impression!
https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/abd7e63f-920d-4b26-9b90-6b0104cc62af (BTW, I bridge from there to Mastodon but not vice versa. Bridges are good for crossposting, they are not a real integration).
this piece was not indexed on forbes, so no one reads it! the only way i'm getting any readers is via social media (only 39 reads 24 hours after it published)
READS IS HOW I'M PAID. please pop in to read!
Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers
#SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/12/traffic-noise-provokes-road-rage-in-male-galpagos-warblers/
this piece was not indexed on forbes, so no one reads it! the only way i'm getting any readers is via social media (only 39 reads 24 hours after it published)
READS IS HOW I'M PAID. please pop in to read!
Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers
#SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/12/traffic-noise-provokes-road-rage-in-male-galpagos-warblers/
My #Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume data visualizations were just updated through March 2025: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/ #SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData
The other #NewBook at the library this week was The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory #Dinosaurs. So, before I get to King Tyrant, first I shall compare and contrast the last two books from Greg Paul. Reviews coming soon to https://inquisitivebiologist.com
#Paleontology #Palaeontology #Fossils #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon @princetonupress
Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers | study out of Anglia Ruskin University & University of Vienna, published by Animal Behaviour
#ornithology #birds #behavior #conservation #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/12/traffic-noise-provokes-road-rage-in-male-galpagos-warblers/
Question for non-native English speakers: would you say there is enough high-quality scientific information for those with non-science backgrounds in your language? (You can also add your language in the comments and elaborate if you’d like.)
In my native language (Romanian), I’ve noticed there is a vacuum that in recent years has been filled alarmingly fast by pseudoscientific, new agey hogwash. Trying to point people towards high-quality information is quite a daunting task, since there is very little available, so I’m curious how this looks in other languages.
Please consider boosting for reach. Thanks!
Intelligence comes in many forms, including your future car. How will AI and advanced sensor networks change our riding experience? Hop in as we explore the history and future of the automobile in "Vroom!" on Big Picture Science.
Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/vroom
#PPOD: This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on October 15, 2023, by NASA’s Juno. Three mountain peaks visible in the upper part of the image, near the day-night dividing line, were observed here for the first time by the spacecraft’s JunoCam. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Processing: Ted Stryk
Just added #Arctic climate rankings for March 2025: https://zacklabe.com/archive-2025/, a month with particularly low wintertime sea ice conditions
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a cheat sheet for Megalograptus, commissioned in 2022 for a project I cannot talk about yet. The scientific consultant was Fiann Smithwick.
