Hi Bluesky, I'm a researcher working on research evaluation, scientometrics, and statistics. I also make Paper Explained: short videos walking through landmark papers, page by page. Latest: how a light-seeking alga led to optogenetics, the 2026 Nobel Prize: youtu.be/eLW5lsnm-q4 #neuroskyence
Science · page 4
Further down today’s ranking of Science: page 4 of 5.
One beautiful thing about studying #anthropology is to discover we are really similar to other primates, let alone to other human beings! 🦍 🧪 #science #primates
okay so purdue just developed microscopy that captures a quadrillion images per second. actually watching quantum particles move in real time? my medical research brain is buzzing thinking about the implications.
Do you believe that a more responsible science has a role to play in ensuring peace, social justice, and environmental sustainability? Do you have experience working across areas such as climate change, militarism, and science and technology policy? Apply for our Executive Director role below 👇🧪
May she take her place among the stars, and rest in peace amongst them. May her legacy continue to inspire young girls and women to reach for the cosmos!
This research makes you believe in humanity. @lynneusneddon.bsky.social thank you for publishing open access research! We built a companion site to increase access to it. I'm looking for more researchers to partner with to bring your work to life: #AnimalWelfare #SciComm
Stunning movies from @bellecmaelle.bsky.social that capture individual mRNA molecules (magenta) and their nascent translation (cyan) 🐟 (She's on the job market btw!)
Although I cannot say I am happy about anything that disassembles what I discovered as a PhD student (the U2-U6 structure at the heart of the spliceosome), I have to say this is a beautiful piece of work from the Plaschka lab. Congratulations to the authors! rdcu.be/S3duPskRLCJa
Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry @usocb.bsky.social is soliciting applications for its Scientific Steering Committee (OCB SSC). Come join our amazing community and help us identify research priorities and plan collaborative opportunities in ocean biogeochemistry. www.us-ocb.org/2026-call-fo...
As a test of planetary defense, NASA's DART mission moved an asteroid in 2022. Now ESA's Hera mission will go back to the scene to study the asteroid's binary system in detail and how the test affected it.
This is why anthropologists need to keep writing and speaking. Forces that are inimical to creating better knowledge are as strong today as they have ever been.
Women can do science. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
If you don't follow @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social you should. I'm amazed at his non-stop output of solid science posts that are both interesting and pitched to my gnat-like attention span. Not much online is this consistent quality. You'd think it was his job to make these posts. 🫡
New paper out! "Crystal structure of hexamethylborazine and the possible impact of directionally preferred rotational dynamics on 14N overtone solid-state NMR Spectra" doi.org/10.1080/0026... #nmrchat
The Goldschmidt science program is built from the ground up by contributions from the geochemistry community, so we invite you to propose sessions and workshops for Goldschmidt 2027 in Paris, next July. Submissions are due October 15, 2026. More: tinyurl.com/p43vnmhd
Can anyone please explain the celestial movement that underlies the several hour transit of the moon past jupiter this week, going from conjunction thru occultation back to conjunction on the other side? @davidbflower.bsky.social ?
🪐 A dead star has a day-night rhythm Astronomers tracking a white dwarf found a 4.4-day brightness dip of just 0.12%, likely a planet's day-night cycle, or the tail of a comet evaporating as it orbits the dead star. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41550-026-02983-7 #Space #Astronomy #WhiteDwarf 🧪
yes thats how discovery works
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #41 2026 #Climate
Fun fact. Our Sun is a huge, massive object, containing about 99.8% of all the matter in our Solar System. It has a mass of 2.192 · 10²⁷ tons, 333,000 times that of the Earth, and it converts 600 million tons of hydrogen into 596 million tons of helium every second. Original post
If there’s one thing I hate, it’s paying big publishers for science that should be open. And thanks to Cam @camhostinar.bsky.social and the editors, now we don’t have to! Check out her new journal that is FREE to publish open access in!
Exciting. Evidence of #Neanderthal #woodworking. '62-40 KA Middle Palaeolithic site of Abric Romaní (Capellades, Barcelona) provides exceptional evidence of Neanderthal woodworking preserved through travertine incrustation' https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh2287
really cool work from @lore-fermar.bsky.social et al Differential restructuring of a complex compost microbiome by metabolically distinct #Streptomyces through community-dependent microbial interactions eprints.gla.ac.uk/396050/1/396...
Thanks to @setiinstitute.bsky.social, Foothill College, and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for the opportunity to kick off this year’s Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture series! A great audience with wonderful questions and a true pleasure.
I'm running the ESA Datalabs Euclid Hackathon 2026, 23-26 Nov at ESAC, Madrid. Attend this public hackathon on finding astrophysical anomalies in the first Euclid data release. Win prizes finding the rarest objects! Fee: 0€ Reg Deadline: 20th of October Site: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esa-data... 🔭🧪
...any chemistry journals want to move over to community-led Diamond Open Access? 🧪 ⚗️ #CompChem
NEW BEETLE FAMILY DROPPED
Brake! Time for ESA’s Hera asteroid mission to go slow www.esa.int/Space_Safety... Launched two years ago today, the European Space Agency’s Hera mission for planetary defence has been hurtling away from Earth ever since
Could almost say that Hexapodia is the key insight?
The video is a fantastic explainer!
This reminds me, I hope that planet candidate around Fomalhaut B turns out to be real… And, well, hope we find whatever planet is making Fomalhaut’s disc eccentric and narrow too.
Here is my presentation on “Neuronal coordination of cilia in marine zooplankton in moving and sensing” at the University of Regensburg (07 October 2026). Thanks a lot to @brembs for inviting me! #cilia #zooplankton #Platynereis
Just to highlight the rapid state of flux in astronomy due to AI, this was posted on reddit(!) recently. An amateur researcher essentially found a new planet using the telescope. www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...
Good news! The excellent collaboration continues between @pml.ac.uk and @exetermarine.bsky.social
ESA is hosting a hackathon event following the first big Euclid data release will n November, on our Datalabs platform. Follow @davidoryan.bsky.social for more info!
Tomorrow at #BMD2026, our PhD researcher Bernat Espigulé presents his ongoing work on four-dimensional “Mandelbrot sets”! 📍 Poster session: 8 Oct, 10:00–11:00 · IEC, Barcelona Watch the video and explore: complextrees.com/4D/atlas/ #SCM #IEC #UdG #EMS #Fractals #MathSky
this goes for people who are not "researchers" too never let them see you bleed, don't freak out in public
Once again, if you are a senior researcher spreading doom to junior researchers, shut up shut up shut up. It’s your job to figure out a path forward, even in high uncertainty times. Come back when you have something constructive.
Congrats to our former PhD student @alejandrofabregastejeda.com!! 🥳🤗
Last week to apply for this. If you are interested in working on cool project to understand the role of DNA methylation in regulating transcription please apply!
Interesting insights by @drspacejunk.bsky.social
Webb reveals the hidden activity inside a turbulent stellar nursery: www.earth.com/space/webb-r...
The 2nd paper in Frontiers in Plant Science' topic Evolution of Protein Families: Pan-genome analysis of the sunflower LOX gene family: evolution, expression, and salt stress-responsive candidate genes. doi.org/10.3389/fpls... Many others in the pipeline. Check if your work fits: shorturl.at/1a57C
G2 geomagnetic storm watch issued as CME heads for Earth — northern lights possible across northern US Oct. 8-9 www.space.com/stargazing/a... #space #astronoy #aurora
In EC: Galapagos Islands. The volcanic archipelago that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution. #Heritage #HiddenGems #HistoryLovers #Ecuador #nationalp… The beauty essential that belongs in every carry-on Shop now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F15D5CNP?tag=jwebb004-20 #PaidLink #Ad #AmazonAffiliate
Eerie Photo Shows How Our Sun Will Die - petapixel.com/2026/10/05/e... - Via @petapixel.bsky.social - You've got 5 billion odd years...
Los neutrinos detectados en 2012 se llaman Beto y Enrique 😁
Upcoming webinar by Arnold Boersma @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social in the new Webinar series “Messages from Cells”… sites.google.com/view/message... Title: "Probing crowding and confinement effects in cells and cell-like systems" Oct 16th. Registration via link above!
G2 geomagnetic storm watch issued as CME heads for Earth — northern lights possible across northern US Oct. 8-9 | Space share.google/1wLpMz14ZLWA...
