Ok sure psych studies from the 1960s probably don’t replicate but the methods still slap

The fellowship of the deep. ⁠🧙🏼✨ ⁠ It's uncommon to see gatherings like this in the deep abyssal plain. These invertebrates—an octopus, tanner crab, and a couple of sea cucumbers and anemones were observed off the coast of Half Moon Bay at 1,949 meters (6,395 feet) deep.

These little guys are too fascinating.

One of my favorite things about working on the tundra is the variety of animal track "states" that you can find. First up: absolutely picture perfect, fresh wolf tracks

Nobody will remember: - Your salary - Your fancy title - How busy you were - How many hours you worked People will remember: -Your general body plan if you're buried in an anoxic environment in a subsiding sedimentary basin & get exposed by erosion again in the geologic future

📍Cisco, Utah last night (just north of Moab). All I can say is WOW 🎥: Kimberly Bolton #utwx NWS Grand Junction FOX 13 News Utah

As someone with a complex relationship with the black widows constantly trying to make their homes on my patio, I loved this This American Life segment: thisamericanlife.org/780/setting-th…. Answering the question you didn't know you had: Why were so many black widow fatalities male in the '50s?

Goniatite fossils - stone copies of the shells that littered what was an ancient sea floor, during the late Carboniferous period over 300 million years ago. County Clare, Ireland.

Video showing fissures erupting on the Northeast Rift Zone of #MaunaLoa this morning. Fountains of fissure 3 were measured up to 25 m (82 ft) in height. More spectacular photos and videos available on the Mauna Loa website. ow.ly/uZrj50LQzIF #MaunaLoaErupts

A beardfish, Polyspinatus fluere, from the Eocene Fur Formation in Denmark. The holotype seen here has a fish vertebrate lodged in its throat suggesting it ate other fish as part of its diet. #FurWeek Credit to Morten Lunde Nielsen for alerting me to this! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Diagnosis: Earth’s inner core might be slowing down Treatment: nothing, but might be interesting!!

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This woulda been a pretty legit state.

A seconds-old zebra shark, produced in an aquarium in Australia, hatched in a tank in a nursery in an Indonesian dive resort, destined for release in wild Raja Ampat seas. The egg is called a “mermaid’s purse.” Young zebra sharks resemble venomous sea snakes to scare predators.

For years the NIH has been investigating scientists with China ties in secret, ending many careers with scant evidence of wrongdoing. But it’s been impossible to get the story out; no one ever wants to talk—until now. Astounding reporting from Jeffrey Mervis science.org/content/articl…

i wrote about being tired ftw.usatoday.com/2023/03/nashvi…

70 —-> bowing dust —-> snow #ColoradoSpring

This tree is one of the oldest in the world, and at possibly more than 5,000 years old, it could be THE oldest. Interesting story about how you date a tree and why it's in trouble after thousands of years scientificamerican.com/article/this-m… Stephanie Pappas on Scientific American

Enjoyed talking to The Big Story Podcast about boat-sinking orcas, which I wrote about for Scientific American. link.chtbl.com/TheBigStoryCYO…

Uh oh, jumping spiders are being cool again.