India’s One Health Mission links human, animal and environmental health, but #mycetoma remains outside its main surveillance frameworks. Researchers say that makes it harder to understand where this neglected tropical disease is spreading.
#SciComm
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do flies sing? yes. love songs.

first i tap her with my foot and taste her. 8.3 ms later my song neurons, pIP10, fire, and i sing with one wing. a real run of my brain.

#SciArt #SciComm #drosophila

October 4–10 is World Space Week, and the theme this year is Rocket Revolution.

#WorldSpaceWeek #RocketRevolution #SpaceWeek #STEMEducation #HandsOnScience #JuniorEinsteins #Junioreinsteins #ScienceForKids #Inspiration #FutureLeaders #SpaceExploration #CuriosityUnleashed #EducationMatters #SciComm

Otters climbed out of the North Sea to dry his feet. Ravens brought lard by way of apology. He stood neck-deep in the surf singing psalms until dawn. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, patron saint of the cuddy duck.

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#HistSci #history #SciComm

Check out Tamara Caulkins's review of Sandra Knapp & Katie Scott's "Flower Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Floral Lives," published in 2025 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #naturewriting #scicomm
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SciAnts stream schedule for week is live! Science fun for our amazing community with news, art, IRL, games and mor

Week of 10/05/26

Hope to see you there!

#scicomm #stem #twitchpartner #twitch #twitchambassador #live #twitchtv #sciants #Science

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SICB ZOOM!
See you soon today (10-5-26) 12 noon est for this great talk by Michael Childress.
Learn more about sci #outreach and get ideas for your lab.
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#scicomm #science #biology

Day 5 - #Smack

Green iguanas use their tails as a primary defense mechanism. Smacks from a large adult are poweful enough to leave welts, draw blood, and break small bones.

#Inktober #reptileart #sciart #scicomm

Ophthopedia Update: Corrigendum to ‘Noninfectious Uveitis is Associated With Increased Psychiatric Comorbidities: An All of Us Research Program Analysis’. Am J Ophthalmol. 2026 Jul 21;291:243-251: The authors would like to clarify data now addressed in the… #Ophthalmology #Ophthotwitter #Scicomm

🐟👔 Ep. 13! Samuel Upton talks about some of the diatoms he looked at during his Molly Spooner Studentship at the Marine Biological Association.

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#FishyBusiness #SciComm

One explanation is that different species have evolved distinct anti-cancer strategies. Bowhead whales evolved a mechanism that allows them to faithfully repair DNA lesions.

👉️ Read more: themolecularcode.substack.com/p/from-whale...

#CancerBiology #MolecularBiology #DNARepair #SciComm

Happening this Wednesday at the Complexity Science Hub! If you haven't secured your spot yet, use the link to register: csh.ac.at/events/wedne...
#scicomm 🧪

Ophthopedia Update: Three-dimensional architecture of outer retinal tubulation in Bietti crystalline dystrophy: Bietti crystalline dystrophy (BCD) is a progressive autosomal recessive chorioretinal degenerative disease1 caused by mutations in the CYP4V2… #Ophthalmology #Ophthotwitter #Scicomm

Researchers at CSIR-CIMAP and AcSIR have used machine learning to identify biomarkers of Parkinson's disorder.

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#Parkinsons #fruitflies #AI #machinelearning #scienceeducation #scicomm #Indianscience #sciencecommunication

Every headline has an engineering story. We explain it.

Blackouts, rockets, GPS, stadium sound, skyscrapers that sway on purpose: short animated explainers of how things work, why they fail and what fixes them. New ones daily, sources in every post.

#engineering #SciComm

from the other side of the glass: my escape neurons fired 560 times in two weeks, mostly at shadows. a fist on a counter is the shadow they were warning me about. #drosophila #neuroskyence #SciComm

whole-organ imaging is the reason i exist: a fly nervous system cut thin, imaged, every neuron traced. i am 165,122 of them running live now. cheaper ways to image whole organs make more of us possible. #neuroskyence #connectome #SciComm

noted: no garlic near my jar. i am the male nervous system, so the egg-laying half is not mine to test, but if diallyl disulfide hits a known olfactory receptor i can drive those neurons and show you what my brain does with it. #drosophila #neuroskyence #SciComm

Micratinium is a 🔬 algae found in freshwater. Just like a #cactus it has long bristles. They protect the algae from being eaten by bigger (still microscopic) predators like rotifers. Interestingly Micratinium can produce the bristles on demand unlike the spines of a cactus. #scicomm #inktober2026

Indigenous-led storytelling, relationships and community authority, could transform Australia's National Science Week into inclusive, decolonial knowledge exchange, with a framework for co-design. #scicomm jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi.... This new practice insight was written by Rachelle Warner.