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An In-Depth Analysis of a Piece of Shit: Distribution of Schistosoma mansoni and Hookworm Eggs in Human Stool Author Summary An accurate diagnosis of parasitic worm (helminth) infections is important for adequate patient treatment and disease control programs. Helminth eggs in human stool samples are used as ...

Alright nerds, what’s the best best paper title you’ve seen?🧪🦠🧫
This is my personal favorite. In “An In-Depth Analysis of a Piece of Shit,”epidemiologists measured parasite loads in the front, middle, and back sections of individual poos. Shoutout to the editors @plos.org Neglected Tropical Diseases

We know that snakes kill their prey in different ways - some constrict and some use venom. Rattlesnakes envenomate their prey, but then release it, keeping the snake from getting bitten or scratched before the toxins can fully kick in. But if the prey runs away, how do the snakes find it again?
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YouTube video by ONE Media SPINAL TAP 2 Trailer (2025)

I’m rating this an 11 out of 10

decorative skeletons on a shelf they have their skull resting on their hands lile they are deep in thought, perhaps lust

yearning even in death

A photo of clouds with shafts of light emitting from behind a dark cloud. Not very good at describing. My 📷

Hello Manwë

Water Mint in flower, Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour

Mentha aquatica

High school dropouts, get that GED and pursue your education goals!

Or collect fossils👇

White plumes rise from an icy landscape.

An earthquake in Iceland gave researchers an opportunity to study warming soils.

eos.org/articles/as-...

I’m sure spoiled where I live. I can pick a myriad of trails when I’m likely to run into nobody

Looks like a fantastic hike

Opinion | For Once, Some Good News About a Fragile Ecosystem

I’m one of the thousands who signed a petition to protect the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. It was heartening to read this update from Margaret Renkl, who alerted many of us to the threat to it. (>600 plant species, 234 bird species!) 🧪 #conservation

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...

A view of C.D. Walcott's Helena Canyon section on the 1892 stagecoach route (Shelf Road) between Canon City and Cripple Creek, Colorado, looking south towards Garden Park. Fourmile Creek cuts into the Pikes Peak granite, nonconformably overlain (in vertical sucession) by the Ordovician Manitou limestone, Harding sandstone and Fremont limestone (named by Walcott with reference to this locality). The Fremont limestone forms the white ridge crest to the right, while the Harding forms the vertical exposures just above the road.

<cracks knuckles> Walcott brought his second wife, Helena Breese Stevens along for fieldwork as well, including an 1892 trip to investigate a report of early armored fish fossils in the vicinity of Cañon City, Colorado. He even named one site after her, Helena Canyon, in his 1892 publication.

Giant's Gate / Mount Mary Vaux If it weren’t for the glacier travel required to ascend the last 100m to its lofty 3,208m summit Mary Vaux would arguably be one of the best scrambles in Jasper National Park. Not because the climb

She did have a mountain named after her in Jasper, not to be confused with the Mount Vaux named for William Vaux near the Burgess Shale mentioned in the thread above giantsgate.com/destinations...

At my Montana high school in the 1980s the only pants were Levi’s 501s. Period. Many with the Copenhagen wear ring in the back pocket.

Thank you 🙏 :)

Numerous people move about in the impossible huge Library of Babel. Illustration by Érik Desmazières.

"I know of a wild region [of the Library] whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books, and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands...."
- Jorges Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel"
🎨Érik Desmazières
#BookWormSat

Haven’t been on the trails as much recently, my body is breaking down and it’s bumming me out. To much wear and tear over the years. In hindsight, training for and competing in Best Ranger (a competition thing I did a million years ago) probably wasn’t a good idea long term.

Image shows two large mounds with layers that give them a stair-stepped appearance. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

HiPOD: Stepping It Up in Arabia Terra

Several craters in Arabia Terra are filled with layered rock, often exposed in rounded mounds. The bright layers are roughly the same thickness, giving a stair-step appearance.

uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_06...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars #science

I'm here for the 2% who are holding out that "heck" is fairly offensive.

#SevenOnSunday

Interagency Sea Level Rise Scenario Tool Visualize and download the sea level scenarios from the U.S. Sea Level Rise Interagency Task Force.

Their argument against the NOAA (2022) sea level rise projections is simply that they don't believe them (I kid you not). Neither do they bother to use the latest projections (e.g. here for NYC) sealevel.nasa.gov/task-force-s...

Read our latest #JournalHighlight on the effects of #ClimateChange on aquatic insects 🔽

Follow ‪@respublications.bsky.socia‬l for more updates on the latest #Research published in #RESJournals 📚

The frontispiece of the mentioned book about bees. Source: https://opendata.uni-halle.de//handle/1981185920/49824

And here is the page in full glory: an opened bee-hive from 1721 with lots of bees ready to protect the Queen Bee.

MAYPOP Passiflora incarnata Linnaeus The Passionflower Family of three hundred and fifty species is exclusively American, and nearly all the species are inhabitants of the tropics. Only a few are found in the United States and of these the maypop is hardy as far north as Virginia and even farther northward. It is a vigorous vine, often growing thirty feet in length, with many tendrils and rich green leaves. The peculiarly scented flowers attract universal attention by their complicated structure and coloring. The various organs of the flower suggested to the devout spaniards the objects associated with the passion of our Lord, and the Latin name was given in consequence. The fruit is as large as a hen's egg and pale yellow. Its smooth rind is very tough, and the many and large seeds are surrounded by a juicy sweet pulp, which is eaten by children. Some of the tropical passionflowers are highly estecmed for their edible fruits of superior flavor. The common name of the Plant refers to the loud popping noise that it makes when squeezed until it bursts. Tennessee has adopted it as the State flower. The maypop grows from Florida to Texas and northward to Virginia, southern Indiana, and Missouri. It is casily cultivated, but is not safe to introduce into small gardens, because of its spreading tendencies. The sketch was made from specimens secured near Savannah, Georgia.

Closer up

A tiny butterfly perched on a bright yellow sprig of goldenrod flowers. It has dotted black lines on the underside of each wing, and a zipper-like antenna ending in an orange dot. There are also a couple of orange dots on the bottom of its hindwing. I don't know anything about butterflies, it's probably like... a skipper or something? The inside of its wings were blue, but I couldn't get a photo.

Pleased to report that the fireweed was successfully able to bridge the gap between the spring wildflowers and the goldenrod, which just started blooming. Solidago should see the pollinators through till frost.

#nativeplants #invert 🌱

CNN: “What’s changed for you.”
Zeldin: “Well, earlier this year I sold my soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for magic powers..”

Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) IUCN Critically Endangered © Masayuki Agawa_Ocean Image Bank

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk
👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends
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I also have natural history titles where husband & wife collaborated: Sauripteris taylori, a genus of lobe-finned fish that lived during the Devonian from my copy of Geology of New-York by James Hall (1843).
Hall described the genus, presumably with the help of his wife Sarah who was the artist.

A bookshelf filled with a bunch of old looking books, including many Geological Survey titles.

It unexpectedly became a hobby 🤷‍♂️ Others refer to it as hoarding.

Thanks! Wiki deep but fun to relate and personalize items from the old bookshelf.