#Specimens

Jennifer Wallis

harbottlestores

Yesterday my #NationalPathologyWeek tweets looked at the place of post-mortems in #histpsych. You can probably guess that pathological research in 19th-century asylums was particularly concerned with the brain, which is

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

CDC COVIDView: Key Updates for Week 33, ending August 15, 2020https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html Indicators that track ILI and COVID-19-like illness (CLI) and the percentage of laboratory tests positiv

Bizzarro Bazar

BizzarroBazar

[THREAD 1/5] A detail I took of one of Gorini's petrified heads. Many people ask me why petrifiers never revealed their obscure formulas, often taking the secret to their grave:

🕷scienTEAfic🕷

tea_francis

So, let’s talk about egg sacs. This is a mature female Heteropoda boiei. A large species of huntsman from Malaysia. For scale, that’s a subadult locust which was almost 2”

Mark Witton

MarkWitton

The early history of mosasaur #paleoart is pretty darn interesting. After their discovery in 1764, it seems to take 90 years(!) for someone to attempt to reconstruct one. Here's the

Anthony Maltese voted Xiphactinus out

Mosasaurologist

Happy #WaybackWednesday ! Here's an awesome puzzle I found in 2006: Cap'n Chuck! I found it in the upper Niobrara chalk in Logan County, KS on a very drizzly and

John Carlson

JohnCarlsonMD

#EntomologyConsult: patient had a #yellowjacket sting resulting in anaphylaxis. However a subsequent sting resulted in only a local reaction. Are they really allergic to Vespula? Do you need to do

Brian Engh

BrianEngh_Art

Ohyeah it's #FossilFriday! Wanna talk about the weirdo body proportions of #Dilophosaurus, based on @NotThatMarsh's newly published & crazy thorough #osteology?I've been workin on a *few* things based on Adam's

WAKE UP AUSTRALIA WAKE UP

WakeAustralia

Research suggests HIV entered the gay population via an experimental hepatitis B vaccine.This vaccine was administered to gay men in preliminary trials shortly before 77- during the actual hep B

BioSci

ReadingBioSci

The opportunity to engage in research has been a privilege of studying here. In the summer of 2018 I undertook a 12 week UROP placement with Dr Alastair Culham, studying

Nadia Dowshen, MD, MSHP

Ndowshen

Adol &HIV #MedTwitter this shortage of STI test kits/reagents and CDC recs for rationing keeping you awake at night? No question that this policy will further drive racial inequity in

BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈

IBIS_journal

Today's #BlackBirdersWeek topic is #BirdingWhileBlack.Here's a review of a fascinating book looking at the role Black Africans played for colonial white expeditionists. Has much changed?The Black Birders Who Made White

Andrea Prinzi SM(ASCP), MPH, CPH🧫🔬

andreaprinzi

I just want to be clear: while I understand and have similar frustrations with turnaround times for #COVIDー19 testing, I'm afraid the angst is falling on the laboratories...and I do

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Separately, I wanted to address the question of "why do this?" with regards to sequencing of infections involved in the White House #COVID19 outbreak. 1/10https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1323011782714159105 Although the origins o

Zach Portman, Ph🐝

zachportman

There’s a new paper reporting on major bee declines that has been picked up by the media: https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30651-5I don't think the results of that paper are robust. Feel free to

Christian Kammerer

Synapsida

Important new paper by Susanna Kümmell et al. on carpal evolution in synapsids: http://app.pan.pl/archive/published/app65/app007092019.pdfMost notably overturns ‘accepted wisdom’ on homology of the mammalian lunate bone, arguing it is

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