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Biogeochemistry / Trace metals / Microbial mats / Carbon fluxes / Oceanography / Astrobiology
21.01.2026 05:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has hailed the troops fighting his war in Ukraine as sacred heroes. But confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal a pattern of brutality and coercion in the ranks that is hidden from the Russian public. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
02.01.2026 00:30 — 👍 639 🔁 317 💬 68 📌 25
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“In 2025, the American and global economy, led by A.I. and capital markets, skated through a series of obstacles. But the next round is just beginning,” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
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Graph shows effect of Hepatitis B incidence before and after the introduction of the universal dose. This December's ACIP meeting was like a generational car crash in slow-motion. The cost of abandoning the universal dose of the Hep. B vaccine will resound for years to come, and erase decades of progress that made American children safer and healthier. Via @standupforscience @savehealthresearch https://www.instagram.com/p/DR5fh3WAXUy/?img_index=1
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The introduction of universal dose of Hep B vaccine led to a steep decline in Hep B infections in children. Before 1991, 20,000 newborns/yr were infected. Now it is fewer than 20. This trend will be reversed now. RFK Jr. must go!
@standupforscience.bsky.social@savehealthresearch.bsky.social
A bright white object glowing with green tones against a dark, starry space backdrop. The text "3I/ATLAS Facts, not fiction" appears on the image.
The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS ☄️ cruising through our Solar System is no alien spaceship and won't hit Earth.
Still, the buzz around it is far from unfounded 🤩
Discover why with #ChasingStarlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtiqLxfSiVI
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New paper! 🎉 Abandoned mines aren't just leaching trace metals, they're also releasing REEs with systematic diel cycling. Our wetland study revealed distinct light-driven patterns for different REEs. Understanding these processes matters for both ecological risk assessment & remediation planning. 🧪⚒️
18.09.2025 15:14 — 👍 25 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 4
His research reveals a “bottom-up” cycle where deep-sea sediments release trace metals like #Neodymium back into ocean waters, reshaping our understanding of #OceanChemistry.
#PKUResearch #AcademicSky @nature.com
Check out El Museo Sal, Arena Y Mar de Guerrero Negro te necesita. by Carlos Daniel Couttolenc Lyle on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/baj...
04.07.2025 02:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Approximately 50 ears of corn lined up next to each other on a green background. The corn is multicolored, with some ears entirely red, others white with purple kernels, and a few that are more yellow or with red striped kernels. The majority of ears have white kernels.
Approximately 50 ears of corn lined up next to each other on a green background. The corn is multicolored, with some ears entirely red, others white with purple kernels, and a few that are more yellow or with red striped kernels. The majority of ears have red kernels.
Responses to artificial selection for kernel color in a very multicolored maize population after just one generation!
We selected for white kernels (left) & red kernels (right) in separate fields. The ears in each photo are a random subset of the those produced in each field.
#Botany #Evolution 🧪
This is powerfully correct. How can scientists expect to discover new science if we continue bathing in the tepid water of the well-established? Question everything, venture everywhere with wide-open eyes, dare, observe, hypothesize, experiment & discover. It's your role in life. Do it. 🧪👊❤️
19.06.2025 15:28 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Thanks @climateconnections.bsky.social for including our book, Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change in your list of books celebrating Earth’s oceans and the increasing impacts on them. We combine science and humor, an honor to make the list! 🧪🌊📚🌀🐬
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/06/book...
Saturn's moon Titan, as seen via data collected by the Cassini spacecraft, showing a green hazy atmosphere and the shapes of land masses and liquid bodies on the surface.
Despite its alien chemistry, planetary scientists expected to find one familiar landform on Titan: river deltas — triangular sediment deposits that form where rivers meet standing bodies of liquid. 🧪 🔭
12.06.2025 23:01 — 👍 52 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
This is figure 2, which shows the trends in drought magnitude and frequency for 6-month SPEI during 1981–2022.
A paper in Nature reports an increasing trend in drought severity between 1901 and 2022. A driver called atmospheric evaporative demand is likely to have increased global drought severity by an average of 40% globally since 1981. go.nature.com/4kqjriq ⚒️ 🧪
11.06.2025 01:09 — 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
Hey! Lookie what PUNCH (@punch-mission.bsky.social) just saw! Two different solar storms crossing the entire inner solar system! NASA's site doesn't thumbnail well, so click the link for the movie and other images. ☀️🔭🛰️🧪
science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/...
NASA shuts down X accounts as fears swirl about massive cuts to science initiatives
www.independent.co.uk/space/nasa-x... 🧪🔭
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27.04.2025 23:01 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
This is figure 2, which shows the desiccation of the Aral Sea.
The irrigation-induced drying out of the Aral Sea has caused rock deep in the mantle beneath the former lake to uplift and flow like a viscous liquid, at rates of a few millimetres per year, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience. https://go.nature.com/4j5Xchk 🧪 ⚒️
07.04.2025 22:21 — 👍 53 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 2
Thousands of Scientists vs one man who watched a YouTube video saying “yes you are all wrong”.
Painfully on the nose. 🧪
07.04.2025 02:38 — 👍 168 🔁 52 💬 5 📌 0
🇺🇸 Donald Trump dijo que podría buscar un tercer periodo de gobierno e indicó que “hay métodos con los cuales podría hacerse".
El republicano agregó que "hay mucha gente" que quiere su continuidad en la Casa Blanca.
🧪 #resist #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience
30.03.2025 01:20 — 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
Red colored line graph time series of global atmospheric methane abundance from January 1984 through November 2024. Methane abundance is measured in units of parts per billion. Current levels are 1941 ppb. A seasonal cycle is visible on the graph. There is also decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend.
Methane (CH₄) is a potent greenhouse gas. Here are the latest monthly observations... 🧪⚒️
November 2024 - 1940.75 ppb
November 2023 - 1931.75 ppb
+ Data: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_...
+ More info on trends: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Permanent position going….
careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...
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The idea of a new India is aggressively promoted in the country and abroad. In what ways has India changed?
10.03.2025 18:04 — 👍 45 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 1
Arctic sea ice extent - NSIDC. Chart showing Feb 2025 significantly lower than all years since records began in 1979.
Detail of Arctic sea ice extent - NSIDC. Chart showing Feb 2025 significantly lower than all years since records began in 1979.
Arctic sea ice is collapsing!
#GreenSky 🧪
🚇#HoyEnAnimal | Pese a que autoridades aseguran que el Metro de la CDMX recibe mantenimiento preventivo, durante el 2024 el servicio fue suspendido en 872 ocasiones debido a fallas en el sistema.
Las líneas A y 3 son las que más presentaron problemáticas, según datos de transparencia.
Another wildfire has sparked in Los Angeles County, this one dubbed the #WoodleyFire. Meteorologist Stephanie Abrams has the latest as of Wednesday morning:
08.01.2025 15:35 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Super cool! #rover #mars
06.01.2025 05:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
