Liana Gertzer

a man in a blue shirt and tie is dancing in a room with hardcore written on the bottom Alt: Michael from the office is doing "parkour" with text that says 'Hard core"

We bring you... THAT'S SO METAL DIVISION! #2026MMM

a black and white photo of a thylacine eating a snake in a room . ALT: a black and white photo of a thylacine eating a snake in a room .

So we give you <sniffle> EXTINCTION IS FOREVER DIVISION #2026MMM

You A Legend For That One Fam Thimothee Chalamet GIF Alt: "You A Legend For That One Fam" Thimothee Chalamet GIF

So we give you.... LIBRARY LEGENDS!!! #2026MMM

a man with curly hair is sitting in the back of a car Alt: a man with curly hair is sitting in a car saying to his friend "You are so money and you don't even know it."

So we give you.... MONEY MAMMALS!!! #2026MMM

a man wearing a feathered hat says " hear ye hear ye " Alt: Stephen Colbert rings a bell wearing a large feathered tricorn hat shouting "Hear Ye! Hear Ye!"

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! #2026MMM

(With a hat-tip to the Dropkick Murphys)

The season's upon us, it's that time of year!
Science & carnage, there's battles to cheer,
there's twists to these plots
and there's stings to be stung,
there's research to do
and plenty of fun!

For #DarwinDay, the birthday of Charles Darwin, a selection of studies in @plosone.org on some of the species that bear his name - frogs, finches, spiders and wasps.

plos.io/4aeCkm0 plos.io/46NJmMb plos.io/4qIcH20 plos.io/465sctb

Image array of 3 MMM-themed, science-based Valentines with an Eagle Owl, Asian Elephant, & Lynx. Screen-reader valentines also available at the LibGuide. We got you, Boo.

You know what's better than science-themed March Mammal Madness Valentines of #2026MMM Combatants!?!

Science-themed March Mammal Madness Valentines of combatants that carry ear-worms. They're INFECTIOUS!

Download in color or greyscale at the LibGuide libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

Happy to join the team!

A picture of the introductory slide for the talk, reading "The Rockefeller University, RockEdu Science Outreach Program Presents The Secret Songs of Dolphins: Decoding Their Mysterious Underwater Conversations. Marcelo O. Magnasco, Ph.D. Saturday, January 10, 2026. 10:30 am - 2 pm For their support of this program, Rockefeller University gratefully acknowledges The Andreas C Drocopoulos Family Science and Society Initiative Bristol Myers-Squibb Talking Science

Thanks, @rockefeller.edu , for another amazing #talkingscience! I and the students I brought had a blast learning about dolphin communication from Dr. Magnasco and all the outstanding staff!

Great new paper!

Many stinging wasps, bees, and ants have controlled the sex of their developing eggs for millions of year using an ancient segment of their genome- always the same segment- but what's weird is, *the exact DNA sequence of that segment doesn't seem to matter*.

"Know Your Northern Cardinals" comic by illustrator and author Rosemary Mosco. In the upper left-hand corner, there is a juvenile with brown feathers, a brown beak, and a crest. In the upper right-hand corner, there is an adult male with red feathers, red beak, and a crest. In the lower left-hand corner, there is a molting male cardinal, missing all of its head feathers but a few random crest feathers. Rosemary Mosco calls this a "bloödcheëp." In the lower right-hand corner, there is a female cardinal with brown feathers, a red beak, and a crest.

Most birds molt a few feathers at a time. But some species, like the Northern cardinal, do away with all of their head feathers at once. Comment "✋🏽" if you've seen a bald cardinal before. Comment "👎🏽" if you haven't and this really weirds you out. #ChristmasBirdCount

📷 : Comic by @rosemarymosco.com

👎🏽

I installed it years ago but only started using it regularly this past year and a half. As someone who thinks in pictures, I find that it's improving my ability to recognize birds even when not using it (when I hear the same song again, the picture of the bird in the app is brought to mind).

A cell dividing into two daughter cells videoed through a microscope. Chromosomes are labeled in pink. Technique: differential interference microscopy (DIC) and fluorescence. #CellBiology

#onthisday Dec 9, 1979 the WHO certified that smallpox had been eradicated—the first human disease eliminated by coordinated global vaccination and surveillance, a landmark that transformed public health strategy worldwide #ScienceHistory

Incredible story. Second post in the thread is alt text. #histmed

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

"Who Moved My Cheese" is a book about people who tell their saddest stories to a wheel of cheddar, to find out who can provoke the most overwhelming emotional reaction

The paradox of providing students with precise rubrics for writing assignments like a traditional paper is that the rubric becomes a perfect prompt for LLMs. But if you don't give a detailed rubric, they can claim they weren't sure what to do or not do. #philtech #philsky

Steve Hogarty @misterbrilliant [gets olympic tickets to 100m butterfly] Oh my god this will be great. [sees the huge stadium] Oh wow that must be where they keep it.

Part of the problem is the way We have treated scientific discovery as if it is made by brilliant men.

All science is built on the science that came before. It is collaborative in multiple ways.

All attempts to credit a single scientist with THE crucial discovery are flawed.

» What is the macromolecular composition of the cell?Cell Biology by the Numbers Vignettes that reveal how numbers serve as a sixth sense to understanding our cells

Crowding more proteins per cytoplasm unit volume would hamper processes such as diffusion, which is already about ten fold slower inside the cell than in pure water.

Source: book.bionumbers.org/what-is-the-...

OIKOS Protein Shake 30g protein

Does your ecology journal even lift, bro?

4) “the complexity of biological phenomena is an argument for the use of mathematical methods rather than against it. In the case of a simple phenomenon we may hope to understand it without the use of mathematics, by simple inspection. But in a complex case we are left hopeless without mathematics.”

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

If termites are eating your home don't get mad. Get even! Become termitophagous! Who is mad about what's for dinner NOW?

(follow me for more rational advice about insects)

I didn't think it was any big achievement, but my doctor says I haven't used my muscles in so long I'm getting a trophy! 🏆

After the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, they replaced much of the original wood framing with iron. So now, it has apse of steel