#science communication

[bethanythebogwitch]

We should follow the Ruri Rocks model and have more science communication done via buxom anime lesbians

[dryococelas01]

If anyone's following me who has seen the: they brought dire wolves back articles.

Please understand this is a drastic failure of scientific reporting. What they have done is impressive science, but they have not brought dire wolves back.

They found a few gene fragments that were in dire wolves and manufactured similar in wolves.

To quote a reddit thread: it's like putting a few words of hamlet in another play and claiming its hamlet.

We have put jellyfish genes in cats to make them glow: those cats are not now jellyfish.

It's impressive to be able to identify and insert the genes like that, but these are not dire wolves and, to be frank, do not even resemble current models of dire wolves.

I want to make this clear. It is an impressive scientific achievement.

But the communication here is near outright fraudulent in my opinion.

I am rather dissappointed and can already feel the numerous convos I'm gonna have to have with random people online about this.

I hate being a killjoy.

[maidthingsthings]

[makairodonx]

A Chinese New Year special, made to commemorate the Year of the Horse, featuring the evolutionary history of horses from the little three-toed forest-dwellers of the Eocene around 55-45 mya up to the bigger-bodied steppe-dwellers of the earliest Pleistocene around 2 Mya

[sarahmackattack]

The 2026 native plant project is up and running!

We have 10 seed distribution stations set up all around the city, each thanks to a volunteer poster hoster!

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[ppaleoartistgallery]

a guide to the exoparia

the presence of the exoparia doesnt actually change much for the way we reconstruct most dinosaur groups, however, it changes some minor things for two of the most well known dinosaur groups that should be taken into account:

link to paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.14242

[katie-the-bug]

So, in the book Polywater (about the eponymous "anomalous water," which was "discovered" in the 60's and turned out to be a whole lot of nothing), author Felix Franks provides a list of news headlines to illustrate the media's sensationalist approach to the topic of polywater, and

I fear this phrasing will live in my mind rent-free.