Helen Stec

I was going to tell you a joke about sodium, but then I thought, “Na.”

My favorite "they were roommates" comes from V. Geist, biologists HATED the idea that bighorn sheep could be kinda gay in 1966:

"a large ram will treat a sub-dominant ram like an ewe, performing sexual behavior, although this term serves as *no more than a nametag!* "

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Calling biologists, historians, and archeologists! Do you know of texts or images depicting headbutting in rams, goats, muskox etc? Also woodpeckers.
I'm writing a historical review and don't have anything before 1720 except an illuminated manuscript and rock art. Please share! 🧪🏺🗃️

The blue-eyed ensign wasp is known for its parasitoid lifestyle, specifically targeting cockroach egg cases (oothecae). The wasp's unique eye color might play a role in its ability to locate and identify suitable host egg cases, although this is speculative without further research. 🧪

Another thing I made this year. Pigeon history!

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a thread of some of my dumbest bird comics to date

I would love to be added! Thanks for making this!

Performance-based habitat choice can drive rapid adaptive divergence and reproductive isolation Theory predicts that performance-based habitat choice1,2,3—where individuals select environments based on their local performance—should be widespread…

cool study (with clever experimental design) about the evolutionary significance of individuals choosing habitats based on their own phenotypes. 🧪🌍 #evolution

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The remarkable complexity of the brain microbiome in health and disease Microbes in human brain and their potential contribution to neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have long been debated. We recently developed a new method (the electronic tre...

And an open access 🧪 review:
The remarkable complexity of the brain microbiome in health and disease
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here are the latest and most up-to date figures on how many species of sharks and their relatives are threatened. These animals are some of the most threatened vertebrate animals in the world.

can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no

I'm currently working on human relationships with pigeons and discovered something wild.
Did you know that throughout human history, there have been "games" of pigeon stealing (and it's still happening apparently) ?
www.nytimes.com/1985/07/28/n...

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

I was in New York twice this year and I really miss their famous pizza.

Gene behind orange fur in cats found at last After 60 years, scientists know why gingers, calicos, and tortoiseshells look the way they do

This is cool!!

www.science.org/content/arti...

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say