Mauna Dasari

A wild yak in a Himalayan meadow

A striped weasel in the grass at night

NEXT UP: 3rd-seed Wild Yak (Bos mutus) vs. 14th seed Zorilla (Ictonyx striatus)! #2025MMM
This battle is by @chumblebiome.bsky.social!

A Zebra in scrub-brush

a White-faced Capuchin amongst tree leaves

NEXT UP: 6th-seed Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra) vs. 11th seed White-Faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus)! #2025MMM This battle is by @chumblebiome.bsky.social!

Next Up: 3rd-seed Wild Yak (Bos mutus) vs. 6th-seed Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra), written by @chumblebiome.bsky.social #2025MMM

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)

I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine

1/n

NEW This may be one of the most important cases.

Doe 1-26 vs. Elon Musk and DOGE

Complaint: "Attempted government takeover" in violation of the Appointments Clause.

www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

The President can have his own views about these matters. He can try to make his views into policy. But he cannot seize Congress’s power of the purse. He cannot deny due process to millions of Americans. And he cannot abridge or disrupt the free speech of those who disagree. Those are the constitutional and legal transgressions of the J20 and J21 Orders. To remedy these harms, and to defend core Constitutional rights, Plaintiffs bring this suit.

BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The elongate tail of a ray

What is the function of the elongate tail in elasmobranch #rays? A 🧵 and a new hypothesis. A paper with @juliachaumel.bsky.social in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B (shorturl.at/PmfYD) shows that the tail of cownose rays (and a few other species studied so far) has an elaborate lateral line.

The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type...

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This is what I keep telling myself.

One thing I do admire about Smurf culture is how each one has an equal and unique role in their society where some of them are actual jobs like Housebuilder Smurf, but then there’s a guy just called Jerk Smurf whose job it is to be a jerk and that makes me feel like I have value as well

2025 MARCH MAMMAL MADNESS CALENDAR OF EVENTS February 2: 2025 ASU MMM LibGuide & Materials Request Form OPENS February 3: ASU Library Webinar for Educators Considering Adopting MMM with their Learners February 10: MMM Science-Themed Valentines of 2025 Combatants February 12: National Center for Science Education and National Association of Biology Teachers Webinar including LIVE DIVISION REVEAL February 20: BRACKET DROP & ALL EDUCATOR MATERIALS February 21: ASU Library Webinar of 2025 Educator, Learner, & Player Resources WEBINAR SIGN-UP DETAILS TO FOLLOW soon at the ASU LibGuide FEB 3: ASU Library Webinar for Educators considering adopting MMM with their learners- Pragmatics & Pitfalls FEB 12: Divisions revealed in “A Lioness Walks Into an Orca: How Stories Enhance Science Education” Free Darwin Day Webinar with Katie Hinde sponsored by the National Center for Science Education and the National Association of Biology Teachers at 7PM Eastern. FEB 21: ASU Library Webinar orienting educators to open educational resources for 2025 March 10: WILD CARD March 12: Round 1 Division TBD March 13: Round 1 Division TBD March 17: Round 1 Division TBD March 19: Round 1 Division TBD March 20: Round 2 Divisions TBD March 24: Round 2 Divisions TBD March 26: Sweet Sixteen March 27: Elite Trait March 31: Final Roar April 2: CHAMPIONSHIP Tournament “Events” will be live-announced by @mmmletsgo.bsky.social on the bsky.app at 8PM Eastern with results available shortly after at the ASU March Mammal Madness LibGuide https://libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalMadness

#2025MMM Calendar!

California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.

@governor.ca.gov just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data around the Southern California wildfires.

Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com

World Central Kitchen Founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a nonprofit organization that is first to the frontlines providing fresh meals in response to crises. Applying our model of quick ac...

If you're able and willing to support relief efforts in Southern California, consider donating to World Central Kitchen. Their relief team is on the ground right now

M3.7 #earthquake detected 5 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA at 1/10/2025 7:02:03 AM PST

This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information

Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...

Prison abolition 🤝 Environmental & Health Justice

Sweet tooth: Ethiopian wolves seen feeding on nectar

"For the first time, Ethiopian wolves have been documented feeding on the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker flowers. This is the first large carnivore species ever to be documented feeding on nectar." 🧪

www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/swee...

cis folks: one thing to know is that while there are orgs helping trans folks, the needs rn HUGELY exceed the funding they have available.

want to help trans people? a real material thing you can do is donate to these orgs, especially the smaller orgs

You should include alt text with your image, BUT ALSO: the alt text should DESCRIBE what’s in the image (the words, the flow chart, the cartoon, the thing that’s pictured) or you haven’t actually made the image accessible to folks depending on the alt text.

Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time

Pssst…

Bluesky gets to know FIRST…

We’re bringing you #GarWeek the week of December 16!!!

More info coming soon!

Why do we keep doing this dance?
Science is a fundamentally human practice, which means it’s inescapably political.

Quote from Greenwire article on Gaetz AG nomination: “Luckily all of our environmental laws are older than 18 years, so Rep. Gaetz shouldn’t have much interest in them,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, a frequent litigant in environmental lawsuits.

Wowwww

Alright you March Mammal Madness contributors and fans!

@mammalssuck.bsky.social, who is in NO WAY associated with this account, has asked if I’d be willing to create a MMM Starter Pack.

So here ‘tis! Every contributor and Superfan I could find on this happy blue sky location

go.bsky.app/BVUtr1g

Stuck on a writing project? Here's what I always ask myself in that situation: Emily, have you considered that you might not be very good and should abandon writing altogether and move to the woods and make candles or possibly become a nun or something?

Fun Fact

Before the introduction of fluoride into water supplies, there wasn't only a lot more prevalence of tooth decay, but the diseases and health problems dental issues cause

such as heart disease.

Fluoride has saved not just lives but generations of people.

A very happy Werewolf Bar Mitzvah Day to all those who celebrate