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tesskou@tesskou.bsky.social |
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Science Journalist 📰 & Fact Checker 🔎 @ScienceAlert 🚀 ❤ 🦇 WildOz, SciArt, SciComm & ClimateAction 🐌 🕷️ 🎓MSciComm, BSc. Zool. & Gen. 🐋
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My work: www.sciencealert.com/tessa-koumoundouros
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tesskou
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While we have known for a few years now that ants treat each other's wounds, we're only just learning how astonishingly complex and precise ant medical care can be: some species perform life-saving amputations on each other! 🧪 #wildlife #nature #AmWriting
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tesskou
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Another great example of how we fail to recognize loss of key predators (like tge wolves in my previous skeet) despite cascading impacts of their absence. We're all suffering from shifting baseline syndrome: our lived experiences may loom largest in our minds, but they don't capture the full story 🧪
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tesskou
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Thank you! So glad to see this is getting some attention 🙂
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tesskou
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Thank you! 😊
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tesskou
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Absolutely!
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tesskou
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The haunting howls of wolves fell mostly silent across America's West by the 1930s.
Their loss to the region has been largely overlooked by humans, even in our scientific research, a new review finds, but the impact of their absence is written loudly in missing trees... #AmWriting #wildlife 🧪🌎
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tesskou
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What an awesome looking sundew! So not fair how WA always has the best weirdo plants 😜 I really do need to go visit one day!
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tesskou
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Interesting... as someone who never reached a high follower count there, I'm actually finding much more interaction here! Which makes me suspect it's an algorithm thing: bigger/more active accounts were boosted there, whereas here everything's getting the same relatively lower (for me higher) views.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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surged 48%. for a mass plagiarism tool that tells you to eat rocks and glue.
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tesskou
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Winter at Plenty Gorge 🥰 #WildOz #wildlife #Melbourne #UrbanWildlife
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Paralysis and overwhelm don't disrupt dangerous systems. That's one reason I believe even little actions that disrupt domination patterns and support life-sustaining patterns are important. Not because of their size but because of their direction.
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tesskou
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I can't wait 😄 The oldest is just about to turn 2 in a few weeks 🥰
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tesskou
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Vaccines teach our B immune cells (pictured) what to target. This can weaken across subsequent boosters. But, incredibly, different COVID vaccines are creating stronger responses instead, suggesting they could strengthen our immune systems against future variants and possibly even related viruses. 🧪
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Laura Helmuth
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"What can we do about our 'Ignore more, care less, everything is fine!' era?"
This article is an urgent call from two scholars to stop normalizing horrible things, to not lower our standards, to not turn away from wicked problems 🧪 by Marianne Cooper and @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social
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franz
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#InverteFest runs until the end of the month (Tuesday).
Keep posting your invertebrate art, plug your merch & service, find some bugs in the wild, do whatever you want.
Here's our community science project on iNat if you haven't joined: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
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tesskou
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🤣🤣 omg, I can't unsee that now 😂
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tesskou
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😂🙈 I got strong "moisturize me!" vibes 😅
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tesskou
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This disembodied grin has been giving me the heebie-jeebies all week 😅
Neat bit of human skin engineering that could inform health sciences as well as its applications in robotics. Great write up by David Nield! 🧪
www.sciencealert.com/this-smiling...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Great critique: "These articles fall into a genre we’ll call 'science opinion,' where non-experts pontificate...abt the pandemic virus & our response to it. This is distinct from science journalism...where experts in translating sci to the general public report on technical developments."🛟🧪sociology
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tesskou
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Amazing how easily we do that with anything locally common 🙂 But then, if you think about it, there's not actually many pink feathered birds out in the world so we're lucky to see them!
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tesskou
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Yep! You got it 🏆😄 Females have red eyes, male and juvenile eyes are dark brown (often appear black).
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tesskou
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haha, warm with the eye shadow part! 😉
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tesskou
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We may all owe our existence to tiny prehistoric water wormlings! 🧪🐙 #AmWriting
Such a cool bit of ancient history detective work, revealing how geochemical forces teamed up with life to create the oxygen levels we all enjoy today on Earth.
www.sciencealert.com/tiny-overloo...
📷 PaleoEquii/Wiki
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tesskou
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*sight 🤦♀️
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tesskou
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While male and female Galahs look almost identical, they do, like some other cockatoos, display subtle sexual dimorphism.
In the previous post is a female, and this one is a male (or juvenile).
Can anyone (who doesn't already know 😝) spot the difference? 🙂 #wildoz 🪶🧪
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Sensory Ecology Lab - SEL
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“At normal levels, pain and fatigue are best viewed as adaptive responses. Just like pain, fatigue is a warning signal, implying the body needs to rest. The degree of fatigue is influenced by many factors, also at a subconscious level.”
www.sciencealert.com/chronic-pain...
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IPBES
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🌎🧪Why does #biodiversity matter? 🌱
Every day there are millions of interactions in #nature that are essential for a healthy, functioning planet. Losing even a small species can have massive impacts on ecosystems and on humans. 🦠
Find out more in this handy infographic.
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tesskou
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😭 (would love to see this reference if you can locate it!)
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tesskou
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Incredibly, such stunning pink birds are a common site in Australia.
Prolific seed dispersers, Galahs (Cacatua roseicapilla) are highly social, hanging out in flocks of up to a thousand individuals.
They will feast on grasses, making them vulnerable to predators like introduced foxes #WildOz 🪶🧪
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Ferris Jabr
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For Nautilus Magazine, I wrote about a question that has obsessed me: What are the oldest surviving ecosystems on Earth?
Turns out some extant meadows, reefs, and rainforests have persisted for hundreds of thousands to *tens of millions* of years.
What can they teach us?
nautil.us/the-oldest-e...
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tesskou
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It's we, hi! We're the problem - it's we. 🎶
From Africa's savanna to Australia's bushlands we're the monsters lurking under other mammals' beds. #AmWriting #wildoz 🧪
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tesskou
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A roo having a good belly scratch at Plenty Gorge. #wildoz #urbanwildlife
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tesskou
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OMG 🤣🤣🤣 That looks like such a fun gathering too! I so wanna take a cab to join some stargazing crap and crabs rn. (hope better late than never also applies to bluesky responses 😅)
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tesskou
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🤣 shore crap probably has a far better chance of that!
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tesskou
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As someone still coming to terms with a recent diagnosis this theory makes me feel a heck of a lot better 🤣😅 Keen to read! (when I'm not meant to be working because it will sure send me down a rabbit hole of hyperfocus...)
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tesskou
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🤣 Darn! That's a way better substitute than that time half my crabs became cabs.
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Firebolt, Attorney at Claw
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Is this it?
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tesskou
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whoa, they move so mesmerizingly! What an amazing thing to witness in person! Thanks for sharing 😊 How many have you seen?
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tesskou
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I am weird biology every day! 😂
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tesskou
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appalling 😞 very in the vein of "if we stop acknowledging it the problem doesn't exist", which seems to be the overarching strategy of western civilization for everything nowadays
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tesskou
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Suddenly remembered long stringy stingy things exist! 😁🧪🌏🐙
Siphonophores blur the line between organ and organism, somehow managing to be both at once.
With so much incredibly bizarre life tucked quietly away on Earth, who even needs aliens? #AmWriting #WildOz
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tesskou
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Fun fact: humans may have been raising beloved murder chickens long before actual chickens 😁
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Allie, last of her name.
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The thing I like best about Superb Owl day in the US, is the chance to share some Australian superb owls with people in the rest of the world. 1. Australian Masked Owl 2. Christmas Island Boobook 3. Powerful Owl 4. Australian Murder Chicken
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tesskou
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It is a lot, and the future will be challenging, but remember, it's also not a matter of fixed or not fixed, everything we can do now to make it less worse will save more lives later on!
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tesskou
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But "to some extent talking about 1.5° or 2° is somewhat irrelevant. Every additional increment of warming will make the outcomes worse. We have to change our focus to reductions. That's the key thing," says University of Western Australia geochemist Malcolm McCulloch
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tesskou
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Frightening if true: data from long-lived sea sponges suggests starting point of impacts from industrial revolution have been calibrated incorrectly. Based on new data, we surpassed 1.5°C of warming a decade ago. Only 1 study so far, but would explain scale of current #climate chaos 🧪 #AmWriting
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tesskou
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🤣😅
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tesskou
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It's super frustrating, right?!
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tesskou
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That's such a great point!! It's always baffled me why so many people seem to struggle with systems thinking so much, but as our obligatorily social nature favors hierarchical systems that would explain a lot.
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tesskou
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Where's the compassion in that?
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