Brady Simmons

Attention Philly Families! It is critical that we show Drexel and city government that our enthusiasm for the Academy of Natural Sciences is going strong! Bring your kids, friends, & neighbors down to the parkway on Saturday from 2-6pm. It's a kid-friendly rally to support the academy!

The mob is purging people at Interior who will oppose the regime’s plans to sell off our public lands, including our national parks.

Just learned that important early observations of the Wright Brother's flight experiments were first published in the beekeeping magazine, Gleanings in Bee Culture, because Scientific American thought it was a hoax and turned down the story.

♥️💐 rest in power & paradise lovely soul 👑♥️💐🕊♥️🌿

On Friday, the Department of the Interior finalized new Endangered Species Act regulations that change how species are listed and protected. The rules make it harder to designate "critical habitat" for listed species. Read ABC’s statement: abcbirds.info/4gQhpJN

This is such a bummer.

This is Psalidomyrmex. It hunts earthworms. Which is a habit that probably merits weird mandibles. But I just learned they don't need to have slicing mandibles, just grabby ones, because earthworms drop their tails when attacked, so the ants just haul them off like they were harvesting fruit.

10 Reasons to Love Solar Power 1. Zero CO₂ to run 2.Infinite fuel 3.sunlight 4Cuts air pollution 5.Creates local jobs 6.Low water use 7.Price keeps dropping 8.Powers homes + grids 9. Works off-grid too 10. Energy independence Future-proof tech

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

Fat Warbler, 6x6” paper collage. wendyboucherstudio.etsy.com/listing/4489...

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

🧪🌊🧵 Great to see this published. An 18,000 year record of deep water temperatures on the Amundsen Sea continental shelf, which confirms that incursion of warm water onto the shelf has been the main driver of West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat throughout deglaciation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

A not-completely-exhaustive illustration of our winter shorebirds, but these are the species that you’re most likely to see during winter around Teesmouth (northeast England). 🐡🪶 #birdingNortheast

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Chocolate Tube Slime Mold. #Newfoundland, Canada. The slime mold is about 3cm high. #myxomycete #fungifriends

Birbfest Day 30: Oyster Catcher 🐦 A beachy scene with sparkles, a tiny shell, and a chick staying close 🐥🏖 #Birbfest2026 #DailyArt #BirdArt #Procreate #DigitalIllustration

Arcyria sp slime mold. NWT, Canada. #myxomycetes #fungifriends The slime mold sporangia are about 0.5cm high.

Cladonia #Winter #lichens #fungi

Elegant Orange Sunburst Lichen, Rusavskia elegans. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Just a reminder that NOAA releases monthly desktop screens with calendars featuring deep-sea animals and its reminder right now that at least some in government are still wholesome oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/c...

A Tunicate #Salp’s Last Supper. A swimming smorgasbord wrapped in glassy flesh #photography #UnderwaterPhotography Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/a-salps-last...

Congratulations to the #AAG2026 Honorary Geographer, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social! She is recognized for her groundbreaking work at the intersection of the global economy, food systems, and food security. Attendees can join the plenary on Friday, March 20. Learn more about Dr. Clapp: buff.ly/FHXVJHa

🌲 Why do trees matter for birds? Let’s branch out! 📉 Forests support over 75% of all bird species — yet we lose millions of acres every year. 📈 It’s time to ROOT for trees — healthy forests mean healthy birds. We’ll LEAF it at that! 🌲More “TREEquently” asked questions: bit.ly/4iv85te

Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!

Huzzah! After a lot of work, I'm happy to share that the results of my first chapter have been published and are available for your perusal. In this paper, I was interested in understanding how characteristics of urban environments influence the diel activity of cats academic.oup.com/jue/article/...

Coming to the end of your studies and thinking about career options? We've got another exciting ECR talk lined up, this time on #Seabird Careers 🦢💼 📆 Fri 12 December 🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK) 📍 Online Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

Very happy to be part of and to see this review on #Oniscidea (woodlice, terrestrial #Isopoda) published in @soilorganismsj.bsky.social . Many thanks to Konstantin Gongalsky & Pallieter De Smedt for leading this! 🎊 Read/download the review: doi.org/10.25674/466 Have data? SHARE THEM! #OniscidBase

Even your older nature photos can help scientists today! As long as you know when and where you took the photos, you can post your nature sightings on iNaturalist anytime — and they'll still contribute to science and conservation. Got anything in your camera roll to share? 👀

A #Skydiver Appears to Fall from the #Sun in a Stunning Image #photography #Icarus Credit: Andrew McCarthy Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andr...

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Deep-sea mining plumes could starve life in Pacific’s Twilight Zone oceanographicmagazine.com/news/deep-se...

The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10. We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢 I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation. Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.” doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Irish artist, based in New York, Katie Holten created a New York City Tree Alphabet, each letter of the Latin alphabet is assigned a drawing of a tree from the NYC Parks #womensart

New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸 We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨ "The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Isopods!! 🧡

Bumble bees like to be mysterious about their homes, but we’ve got all the hidden facts for you! Join us on this #BugBanterPodcast to discover what these bees are up to when they leave your flowers!🏡🐝 Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/s... Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAJE...

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action. #climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...