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• Science Trends on Bluesky: Top 5 Posts for [2025-04-02]

  

  Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com

  A Comment article in Nature discusses how objects launched into low Earth orbit are now falling back to Earth, how the problem is getting worse and what can be done to mitigate the issue. 🧪 🔭
  

  Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social

  Business knows what up...even if Trump refuses to acknowledge the truth. ❄️🧪💙📚 #scicomm #climate #science 🧪 🌎 🔬 ⚒️ #geosky #ClimateHealth #ClimateAction www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-...
  

  Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social

  "...reports have called HHS-wide moves a 'bloodletting'... People have shown up to work... only to find their badge no longer functioned to let them in the building. A source at another NIH institute said their entire communications, legislative, and acquisitions staff have been fired..." 🛟🧪
  

  Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com

  I was asked to provide context: We fought to reinstate expert entomologists and safeguard U.S. crops. Now, without union recognition, USDA leadership can fire them again without our pesky impediments with things called laws. 🧪 #science www.wired.com/story/usda-f... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
  

  Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social

  Hope nobody was counting on a cure for Parkinson’s… 🧪

• Science Trends on Bluesky: Top 5 Posts for [2025-04-01]

  

  Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social

  “This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
  

  Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social

  The look of a slightly nervous professor at the start of her very first lecture on her very first day of her very first class. 🙂 Went alright I think! Had to dip into the second lecture of material bc I went too fast, but guess I can work on the pacing a bit more. 😅 🔭🧪🎢

  
  

  Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social

  just started watching and he's talking about the importance of NIH funded research: "let me repeat 99.4% of FDA approved drugs were funded by NIH research" 🧪
  

  The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com

  #Measles isn't just a childhood rash. It can cause severe pneumonia, brain damage, and even reactivate years later as a fatal form of dementia. A public health scholar explains the long-term risks: buff.ly/0VpX0x3 Peter Kasson, Georgia Institute of Technology 🩺#medsky #vaccines 🧪
  

  David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

  Science friends, in honor of April Fools Day, let’s share our favorite @theonion.com article about our area of expertise! I’ll go first. theonion.com/nation-s-sha... @bencollins.bsky.social 🧪🦑🌎

• Science Trends on Bluesky: Top 5 Posts for [2025-03-31]

  

  Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social

  THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️
  

  The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com

  🧪 Meet Lise Meitner: The nuclear physicist who explained atomic fission in 1939, revolutionizing science. Despite her groundbreaking work, her male colleague Otto Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize while she was excluded. #womenshistorymonth #STEM
  

  Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social

  On Trans Day of Visibility, a reminder that everyone can work in science 🧪🏳️‍⚧️

  
  

  Dr Laura Driessen @astrolaura.com

  I wrote a little love letter to the @esa.int Gaia spacecraft after it was retired last week. I'll miss you Gaia! 🥺🔭🧪 theconversation.com/the-best-spa...
  

  Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.bsky.social

  Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ Just your local particle cosmologist 🧪⚛️🔭 here to remind you of two things: 1. Neutrinos are non-trinary and

• Science Trends on Bluesky: Top 5 Posts for [2025-03-30]

  

  Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social

  Why is Trump going after US science? What's the endgame for these attacks? Vance, Rufo, Trump and Republican elites are attacking NIH and manipulating its grants in order to attack American universities. "It's bad, folks." New contributed post at our blog. Please share it w/ your 🧪 colleagues.
  

  Wim Meijer @wimgmeijer.bsky.social

  Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria — even strains resistant to commercial drugs — and is not toxic to human cells 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
  

  David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

  Great 🧪🦑🌎 www.nola.com/news/environ...
  

  Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social

  Dinosaur skin wasn’t uniformly scaly. Skin fossils indicate that dinosaurs had varied scale sizes and distributions, and even closely-related species had different scale patterns. Here’s a close-up of skin impressions on a Corythosaurus thigh showing larger, bumpy scales among the pebbly ones. 🧪

  
  

  David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social

  Thank you for the likes and reposts of my Partial Solar Eclipse pictures. Here's a little one taken with my 300mm lens. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

  

• Science Trends on Bluesky: Top 5 Posts for [2025-03-29]

  

  Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social

  For Science! 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥼🥽

  
  

  David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social

  Maximum of the Partial Solar Eclipse. 1107UT 29 March 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

  
  

  David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social

  This morning's Partial Solar Eclipse. 1049UT 29 March 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

  
  

  Nature @nature.com

  🧪 Scientists have created the first map of mitochondria throughout the entire brain https://go.nature.com/42j9YCV
  

  Kenneth Becker @kenbecker.bsky.social

  Via Earthscope Consortium 🧪 Seismic waves from Myanmar's M7.7 quake ripple across North America in this Ground Motion Visualization (GMV). Dots show seismic stations: red=up, blue=down. Waves travel through Earth, undetected by humans but caught by instruments. Learn more about GMVs loom.ly/1f83wvk

• Science Trends on Bluesky: Top 5 Posts for [2025-03-28]

  

  Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social

  When was the first exoplanet discovered? You might read it was in 1992, but in fact the first evidence for the existence of alien worlds was found before then. Way before then. Like, in *1917*. I love this story. www.scientificamerican.com/article/when... 🔭 🧪
  

  SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social

  #PPOD: This new NASA/ESA/CSA JWST image features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies that are separated by a large distance. The closer foreground galaxy sits at the center of the image... 🧪 🔭

  
  

  Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social

  New California bill wld create CA Institute for Scientific Research to fund studies in key areas facing budget cuts by Trump & DOGE (e.g., biomedical research, climate change, & drug safety). Nice idea (British Columbia has a nice example), but big caveat: Sig. budget crunch in CA. 🛟🧪 Health policy
  

  Henning @geohenning.bsky.social

  The USGS already released a shakemap for the M7.7 #earthquake in Myanmar a few minutes ago. This will be devastating. ⚒️🧪 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

  
  

  Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social

  "The consolidation/RIF plan pulls power away from scientists and puts it in the hands of political employees. It sets up Trump and Musk to kill NIH as an evidence-based science funder. We must stop this plan." New contributed post on our blog: Please read. It describes Orban and authoritarianism. 🧪