#Specimens

Anna MacDonald

Dr_AnnaM

OMG! After 4 years, Friday was my last day working on @OMGenomes at @ourANU. I’ve been lucky to do some amazing mammaly museumy geneticy things, hang out with great people,

Laura Joan Feyrer

deepdivewhales

Longer nursing period reduces previous estimate of reproductive potential for northern bottlenose whales by ½ + provides evidence of prolonged maternal care in beaked whales. New OA pub out today

Kevin R Burgio PhD

KRBurgio

Today's #ParrotOTD is the Carolina Parakeet, the species I have studied the most! They were the US's only endemic parrot species, surviving through blisteringly cold winters in the midwest. Much

Femi

ojayfemi

#MedHistory Harvey William Cushing (Father of Modern Neurosurgery) 1869 -1939.- Surgeon, Physician, Writer, Pathologist and Soldier.- Known famously for the Cushing sign, syndrome, reflex, ulcer etc those are the least

David Boulware, MD MPH

boulware_dr

Happy 2021. My thoughts on 2021. #SARSCoV2 vaccine distribution seems to be the major challenge, which has been left up to States. Challenges:1) Obsessing on cold chain transport to end

John Peterson

thejohnpeterson

The pro-secondary-sources, 'you need to read our introductions first' side of this argument is a kind of neo-scholasticism, all about extracting the syllogisms from books and neatly categorizing and labeling

Gracie Price

magnifyzoology

1. Social media can be an invaluable tool for engaging with collections. This study identified the key narratives within taxidermy collections and how these could be used to create engaging

Dr Mark D. Scherz

MarkScherz

Happy February! We continue our #FrogOfTheDay adventure through the #MadagascarFrogs with #32 Mantidactylus (Brygoomantis) betsileanus (Boulenger, 1882)! A widespread species that is highly variable in colouration. In the Addenda to his

Craig McClain, Ph.D.

DrCraigMc

For #SpongeThursday a story about @SpongeBob’s bigger and older cousin. 1/n The phylum Porifera (sponges; “pore bearing) is divided into three classes, Hexactinellida, Demospongiae, and Calcarea. Calcarea 2/n The Hexactinellids

Owen Missen

scimissionowen

#NewPaper alert! After four decades, we finally determined the structure of fairbankite! Being a mineralogist is very like being a detective, looking for micron-scale clues and trying to separate overlapping

Álvaro Franca

alvaroefe

Looking for examples of unconventional physical type specimens. Talking objects, clothing, sculptures, etc. No need to mention the Underware stuff as that’s on my radar already. Thanks! Book of War,

Jake Wintermute

SynBio1

People I’m through the looking glass on poop DNA privacy. Follow me down the rabbit hole if you dare. Your typical bowel movement contains about 20 milligrams of DNA, of

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

I don't think that this study by Basavaraju et al from @CDCgov can be taken as evidence that #COVID19 was circulating in the US in December 2019. 1/10https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1785/6012472 The auth

Tacit Subtext

TSubtext

“Are either/both more transmissible? I don't think we know for sure yet, but scientists in the UK seem to believe there are indicators of increased transmission in that variant. We

Sarah Bell

sarahsgonewild

Absolutely enthralled by the @Nat_SCA Decolonising Natural Science Collections conference and we’re only on the first speaker. I can’t wait to learn more about this! This quote really got me:https://twitter.com/nat_sca/status/1329367738

OxfordBiology

OxfordBiology

It’s been a tense week here on twitter dot com. We are all sleep deprived and longing for our weekend. In the meantime, want to see some pictures of cute

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