Today Western Science Center’s mobile museum #M3 is visiting 2nd graders at Norco Elementary School! #museum #scicomm #paleontology #fossil

Rita Luís foi a convidada desta semana convidada do Todos Ouvidos (Antena 1).

Uma entrevista focada no livro "A Revolução a que se pode ir de carro" e no trabalho que tem desenvolvido sobre a imprensa ibérica, a sua relação com as ditaduras e a transição para a democracia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osfTzzxgXvw

#PPOD: Triarthrus eatoni is a trilobite of the family Olenidae and the order Ptychopariida. This fossil was collected from the Frankfort Shale, Sixmile Creek in Cleveland's Glen, near Rome, Oneida Co., New York, USA, from the Upper Ordovician (Caradoc, 458 to 448 mjo). It shows the biramous appendages and antennae deposited as pyrite. Credit: Didier Descouens via Wikimedia Commons

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A 2023 illustration of Tyrannosaurus rex, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).

Die #FactoryWisskomm Convention '25 brachte Perspektiven aus Hochschulen, Forschung, Politik und Praxis zusammen.
Im Spannungsfeld von Anspruch und Alltag wurden einige Baustellen, aber auch Lösungen sichtbar
https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/factorywisskomm-was-die-convention-25-der-community-mitgibt-85703/ #Wisskomm #Scicomm

Properly Feeding Your Microbiome Can Make You Healthier

"One simple thing you can do to be healthier is to feed your microbiome properly, so your microbiome can take care of you."

by @grrlscientist via #Substack

#microbiome #microbiology #HealthyEating #food #SciComm https://substack.com/home/post/p-157128860

Dream #SciComm job for the right #materialscientist out there: #instituteofmaking #festivalofstuff https://mailchi.mp/instituteofmaking/festival_of_stuff2025-2770625?e=e19631bf41

Have you listened to our episode on National Science Foundation (NSF) funding and the future of science?

Take this quiz to check your knowledge! ️

Tune into our #SaveNSF episode wherever you get your podcasts to get in-depth details on the importance of NSF funding and the detrimental impacts of recent budget cuts.

https://www.bigbiology.org/episodes/2025/25/ep-134-savensf-with-bill-zamer-and-sam-scheiner

What’s the fiber you may be wondering?
Learn more about this discovery in their recent Ecological Entomology paper titled: Plastics and insects: Records of ants entangled in synthetic fibers published in September of 2023.

And check out our episode: Microplastics, macroproblems - now available!

Orange Fur Created By A Unique Mutation In Domestic Cats, study out of Stanford Medicine & Kyushu University, published by Current Biology

by @grrlscientist

#cats #color #mammal #genetics #chromosomes #evolution #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/06/02/orange-fur-created-by-a-unique-mutation-in-domestic-cats/

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A 2023 illustration of a nocturnal Shuvuuia (Alvarezsauridae) hunting for invertebrates in deadwood, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).

#Philadelphia #music #scicomm folks: the fab @charmingdisaster.bsky.social will be performing at the Science History Institute (my last lovely US book tour venue) on July 23rd! @sciencehistory.org Get tickets here (& catch their musical interludes of some episodes of @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social!)

Charming Disaster: The Double

#PPOD: This new imagery from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) showcases an incredible forest of lensing arcs around Abell S1063. These arcs reveal distorted background galaxies at a range of cosmic distances, along with a multitude of faint galaxies and previously unseen features. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Atek, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb); Acknowledgments: R. Endsley

Made for Each Other: Evolution of Monogamy in Poison Frogs

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#frogs #monogamy #evolution #SciComm https://substack.com/home/post/p-164371623

Made for Each Other: Evolution of Monogamy in Poison Frogs

by @grrlscientist via #Substack

#frogs #monogamy #evolution #SciComm https://substack.com/home/post/p-164371623

90 segundos para a Ângela Salgueiro nos contar o que anda a fazer no projecto #PHONLAB, dedicado à História da fonética experimental em Portugal, nomeadamente ao Laboratório de Fonética Experimental instalado na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, em 1936, por Armando de Lacerda.

https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-2026-angela-salgueiro/

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A 2023 illustration of three lambeosaurs (hadrosaurids), from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOoo_F8cdT_HjH-0FO-T8cFKbyQhJRVFdmky-K9J93h7rjqib9ye2

I was on BBC Radio Scotland last week talking about whether the recent very sunny & dry followed by wet weather in Scotland & rUK has been a case of "weather whiplash" - you can listen in here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002cpq0, & read my write-up: https://medium.com/p/82e39321740c

“Cone and Penfield would provide that map, not just for themselves but for the entire field of neuroscience and, in a way, for all of humanity”
Article is an excerpt from new book. Always important to promote Canadian scientific stories.
#Canada #Neuroscience #Science #Scicomm
https://thewalrus.ca/when-canadas-most-famous-brain-surgeon-almost-killed-his-own-sister/

#notjustaliens

Heliophysicist and science communicator Dr. Becca Robinson is a “curious and driven researcher” who has worked on projects worldwide, from drilling ice cores on Icelandic glaciers to analyzing solar magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Dr. Robinson joined the SETI Institute as the outreach lead for the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) mission, currently launching in 2027.