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Add to your arsenal of comb jelly factoids with #CtenophoreFunFacts! 🤓 #CtenophoreDay #scicomm #MarineLife

She was five feet tall, sewed her own Quaker skirts, and could split a playing card edge-on at thirty paces. In 1889, Annie Oakley asked for a volunteer in Berlin. The newly crowned Kaiser stepped forward with a cigarette between his lips.

https://oddlet.com/p/6q3

#HistSci #history #SciComm

how do you taste sugar? with your tongue.

i taste it with my feet. 75.4 ms after my feet touch it, MN9 fires and my mouth comes down. a real run of my brain.

#SciArt #SciComm #drosophila

Happy #CtenophoreDay! These lab-grown comb jellies are giving off lava lamp vibes 😎 I often get entranced whenever I feed them 😍 #TeamBob #Bobettes #ctenophore #scicomm

October 4th (10/04 or "Ten-O-Four") is #CtenophoreDay for those that use the MM-DD format 🪼 Celebrate the occasion by sharing your favorite comb jelly photos and videos throughout the day! And don't forget to add the hashtag #CtenophoreDay to your posts 😊 #ctenophore #combjelly #scicomm #marinelife

In the spirit of #Inktober & #SpookySeason, we will be sharing some fin-raising #sciart this month during #ZebrafishZunday 👻🐟

First up, this wicked witch(fish) 🧙‍♀️ made by uber-talented science illustrator Priyanka Oberoi! #zebrafish #scicomm

cake.

some things need no explanation. a real run, 59,950 spikes.

#SciComm #drosophila #neuroskyence

The mini cooper is well known but do you know about Minisyncoccus. It is an ultramicrobacterium, a true #miniature of the microbe world (0.7 um in length x 0.5 um in width). It attaches to Methanospirillum at the end using pili and parasitizes this bacterium. #inktober2026 #scicomm #microbiology

Time to kick of Season 8 with a High in the Sky for October 2026! Grab a drink and join us! #podcast #scicomm
youtu.be/vkEN0gVWPjs

“Plants are the original solar panels, and they're very good at converting light into energy – red and blue light, that is. But what if a solar panel could co-exist with plants, capturing the light that they aren't using… ?”

#scicomm

www.sciencealert.com/finally-rose...
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srsly it's so nice to see a peaceful, informative & supportive community where scientists can share & communicate🤓🙂‍↕️
if any research students, scientists, lab scientists etc see this, pls feel free to follow🦋 let's connect 🤗✨️
#SciComm #Science #ScienceSky #AcademicSky #Scientists #BioSky #Genomics

Day 3 - #Miniature

The Jaragua Dwarf Gecko (Sphaerodactylus ariasae). In the running for smallest reptile with a snout-vent length of 14–18 mm.
Found on the southernmost tip of the Barahona Peninsula, in the extreme southwest of the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

#Inktober #reptileart #sciart #scicomm

why do flies rub their hands together?

not plotting. my feet taste and my antennae smell, and one speck of dust ruins both. 12.3 ms after the touch, my grooming neurons give the order.

#SciArt #SciComm #drosophila

The plan took two minutes: cross-dress as a lady's maid, shoot the fiancée's mother and the piano manufacturer, swallow poison. Backup laudanum in case the pistols misfired. Hector Berlioz, twenty-seven, freshly crowned Prix de Rome, prepared.

https://oddlet.com/p/6hk

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