#Scicomm

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-12-19

A lot of discussion these days with graduate students about AI and thesis writing. This lesson will help them a lot
#AI #Writing #Science #Scicomm
thebullshitmachines.com/lesson

2025-12-19

Missed our science panel last week featuring @nerduino.space@bsky.brid.gy, @paleontologizing.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy , @volcanodoc.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy , and @f15y.com@bsky.brid.gy? Check out the premier recap here as we discuss the state of science communication! #scicomm #stem #science #sciants youtu.be/aWIxymPoxas

Scientists on Twitch Discuss S...

Alexander KnochelQuantensalat@scicomm.xyz
2025-12-19

@strahlenschutz Wenn ihr sagt "eindeutige Aussagen zu gesundheitsrelevanten Wirkungen" sind schwierig, finde ich das aus einer #scicomm Perspektive schwierig. Das schreit nach einer Einordnung wie das zu verstehen ist.

2025-12-19

Why does your Christmas tree smell even better inside? 🎄 That fresh Christmas tree smell is due to a molecule type called terpene! #scicomm #stem #science #sciants #holiday #holidays

2025-12-19

New blog post!

Morro Rock in California is more than “just a rock”-it has its own part to tell in California’s history.

If you enjoy these posts, please subscribe or leave a tip to support science education and research at the Western Science Center.

#museum #scicomm #geology #volcano

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Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-12-19

“it is “remarkable” to see that China is so dominant and advanced in so many fields compared with the United States.”
#Science #scicomm
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

The Inquisitive Biologistinqbiol@scicomm.xyz
2025-12-19

New review fresh in for #FossilFriday: Bringing to life two palaeontological expeditions and excelling at explaining scientific concepts, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt goes deeper into the tragic history behind Spinosaurus and resurrects the forgotten Ernst Stromer.

inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Dinosaurs #Theropods #Spinosaurs #Spinosaurus #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Scicomm @bookstodon

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.ByrdNick@nerdculture.de
2025-12-19

People DID find formal explanations more satisfying when the category seemed unknown!

But only the most reflective thinkers realized tautological (uninformative) formal explanations were less satisfying than informative ones.

doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70101

#xPhi #cogSci #SciComm
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Experiments 1a and 1b: "...participants judged the explanations to be less satisfactory when the questioner was aware of the object’s category identity compared to when the questioner was unaware of it (Experiment 1a: β = −0.61, se = 0.24, t = −2.51, p = .015; Experiment 1b: β = −1.23, se = 0.37, t = −3.36, p = .001)."Experiments 2a and 2b: "...participants judged the questioner to be less aware of the categorical identity of the object, when the questioner was presented as satisfied with the explanation provided in Experiment 2a (β = −2.18, se = 0.25, t = −8.82, p < .001) and Experiment 2b (β = −0.97, se = 0.40, t = −2.46, p = .017)."Experiment 3: "We conducted a content analysis of participants’ responses and grouped them into six possible types of answers. ...significant main effect of answer type when comparing the overall probability of CATEGORY and Function to appear as answer (β = −2.55, se = 1.29, z = −1.98, p = .048). More importantly, CATEGORY had the highest probability of appearing as an answer (compared to the other five types of answers) when the characters were satisfied, and the lowest probability of appearing as an answer (compared to the other five types of answers) when the characters were not satisfied."Experiment 4: "A significant interaction between condition (i.e., Tautology vs. Choice) and CR was observed (β = 0.24, se = 0.11, t = 2.09, p = .039). .... the difference between Tautology and the Choice conditions was significant only at the highest level of CR (β = 0.61, se = 0.20, z = 3.13, p = .002)."
Petra van CronenburgNatureMC@mastodon.online
2025-12-19

🧵 They live in our fluids like fish in the ocean, they breath in our lung or even leave our body. Your tiny bodymates are bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists and viruses.
The figures vary, but you probably consist of just as many non-human cells as human cells! And neither can or wants to live without the other. Your skin is a planet for such a tiny alien: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

What could be better for combating human #hubris than recognising

#NatureMatchCuts #sciComm #biodiversity #symbiosis

Petra van CronenburgNatureMC@mastodon.online
2025-12-19

🧵 Yes, yes, everyone comes out with this now ... but I wanted to mention that I have an account on ko-fi ko-fi.com/naturematchcuts and, like many other freelancers, I fuel my storytelling with #coffee! :blobcatcoffee:
So I don't run on fossil fuels and I am purely human in the outer*** shell and brain.

*** which is a lie. These tiny little aliens in our body, named #microbiome, don't live only in our gut but also on our skin.

#storytelling #sciComm #biodiversity #NatureMatchCuts #living

2025-12-19

On the advent calendar today, a little thought for how many of us may be feeling this time next week.
matildaslab.wordpress.com/2017
#scicomm #adventcalendar

2025-12-19

Less than two weeks until New Year's Eve.

Would you like to join me starting the new year in a bird-friendly way?

beaksandbones.substack.com/p/f

#newyear #fireworks #birds #birdsofmastodon #scicomm #beaksandbones #conservation #science

Photo of a greylag goose taking flight from the water. White text on top of the photo:
Fireworks drive birds into panic flights
Think twice before shooting your fireworks into the air
Science Newsroom - FSE - UGScienceNewsroom_UG
2025-12-19

🎄Do you know the "Christmas tree cluster"?

This cluster of young stars, , lies about 2,500 light-years away. Its X-ray–emitting stars shine within glowing green gas left behind from their birth cloud. 🌌

We wish you happy holidays and the best wishes for 2026! ✨

🧪
📷 @nasa

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ SciComm 🇺🇦grrlscientist@me.dm
2025-12-19

Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science

"Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon (bilateral gynandromorphism) in this previously unknown species."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#gynandromorph #NewSpecies #spider #Thailand grrlscientist.medium.com/half-

2025-12-18

Today's advent calendar entry is a bit of a blast from the past. It's a post that falls into a very small Venn diagram overlap between science and dresses.
matildaslab.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/is-that-dress-blue-and-black-or-white-and-gold/
#scicomm #adventcalendar

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified:GrrlScientist@mstdn.science
2025-12-18

Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science

"Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon (bilateral gynandromorphism) in this previously unknown species."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#gynandromorph #NewSpecies #spider #Thailand grrlscientist.medium.com/half-

2025-12-18

My latest for @forbes is on a new material called MOCHI. It is is more transparent than glass but as thermally insulating as many materials used to construct walls. Could it be the future of windows? #science #scicomm

forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkles

2025-12-18

It's a SciAnts Game Day! We are finishing(??) Metroid Prime 4, chatting Metroid science, and more as we pooooosh for a new emote slot! 2pm EST #science #twitch #TwitchPartner #live #stem #sciants #livestream #scicomm #twitchambassador twitch.tv/sciants_Stre...

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