Today's unit of the day: "BTU-inch/hr-sq ft-F at 75 °F". 1.028 of these is the liquid thermal conductivity of n-butanol, in case you were wondering. ⚗🧪

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Lololololol I want this on a t-shirt (It made sense in context) (MAD = mean absolute deviation) 🧪

One of the interesting things that happened once animals evolved was that they started to make holes in the sediment. This not only opened a new niche once they figured out how to dig but also changed how some elements (e.g., sulfur) exchanged with the water above. www.nature.com/articles/nge... 🧪⚒️

Protracted development of bioturbation through the early Palaeozoic Era - Nature Geoscience

Mobile organisms first appeared in the fossil record prior to the Precambrian–Cambrian transition. Sediment textures indicate that the degree of sediment mixing by animal activity remained low for 120...

Hiked up on an uncharted path to the edge of the rainforest and went in 100m. Well away from people and tourist tat 😁 It's enchanting and you feel like are being pulled in. Tree ferns, epiphytes, tiny flowers and nasty "bramble". 🧪🌍 #kilimanjaro#researchassessment#rainforest

The Kangaroo Leech is so-called not because it feeds on kangaroos, but because it carries its babies in a pouch. They go riding on crabs to look for frogs, and throw their babies in the frog's face, like a cloud of blood-sucking confetti #Invertebratedailyparasite.blogspot.com/2015/10/mars...

<i>Marsupiobdella africana</i>

Leeches are not endearing animals and many are literal blood-suckers. As a result they often evoke a sense of disgust in most people, and th...

SpaceX on mission to return two stranded astronauts. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SpaceX capsule begins rescue mission to return stranded astronauts

A capsule heads to the International Space Station, where two crew are spending months longer than planned.

OK. NotebookLM is crazy. Nefertiti Smith Christman (doctoral candidate in my lab) put one of my dissertation papers (German and Bittong 2009) on wood-eating catfishes into it, and it spat out this actually intelligent podcast: german.bio.uci.edu/images/Germa... This is scary, y'all! 🧪

The interviews about the new "Mapping the Deep" book are coming in fast and furious now, from podcasts and webinars, to various radio and TV stations, to recently The Guardian. See dusk.geo.orst.edu/viat.html#se... for these (+ book reviews) as they come online. 🧪🦑🌊

More nuclear energy industry is coming to New Mexico. Traditionally, nuclear in NM has meant "nuclear weapons", more so than almost anywhere else. But Kairos is betting big on benefits from being near the labs, for energy and not weapons #NukeSkywww.neimagazine.com/news/kairos-...

Kairos Power expands operations in New Mexico

US-based Kairos Power is expanding its operations in New Mexico to build three facilities and create 100 jobs. Kairos Power…