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Learning To Love Dandelions“As we’ve become unmoored from nature, we’ve forgotten the importance and many uses of a variety of plants,...

Learning To Love Dandelions

“As we’ve become unmoored from nature, we’ve forgotten the importance and many uses of a variety of plants, especially the much-maligned dandelion”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#dandelions #bumblebees #insects #pollinators #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/learning-to-love-dandelions

just in time for the #TripleCrown racesWhipping up a storm: Does whipping a racehorse make them run faster?"Hypothesis: beating tired...

just in time for the #TripleCrown races

Whipping up a storm: Does whipping a racehorse make them run faster?

"Hypothesis: beating tired #racehorses with a whip stimulates them to run faster"

by @GrrlScientist 🇺🇦 via #Substack

#horses #horseracing #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/whipping-up-a-storm-does-whipping

Genomic Erosion Is Threatening The Genetic Health Of Endangered Species | University of Copenhagen, published by Proceeding of Royal Society...

Genomic Erosion Is Threatening The Genetic Health Of Endangered Species | University of Copenhagen, published by Proceeding of Royal Society B #Biological #Sciences

by @GrrlScientist

#ornithology #genetics #genomics #Endangered #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/28/genomic-erosion-is-threatening-the-genetic-health-of-endangered-species/

Cloud Forest Reserve Created In Ecuador To Conserve Endangered Parrot | American Bird Conservancy, Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco...

Cloud Forest Reserve Created In Ecuador To Conserve Endangered Parrot | American Bird Conservancy, Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco & Rainforest Trust

by @GrrlScientist

#parrots #EndangeredSpecies #NatureReserve #ecology #conservation #SciComm #ecotourism https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/27/cloud-forest-reserve-created-in-ecuador-to-conserve-endangered-parrot/

Success Of Racehorses Improves With Greater Gut Microbiome Diversity“The future success and long-term health of a racehorse can be...

Success Of Racehorses Improves With Greater Gut Microbiome Diversity

“The future success and long-term health of a racehorse can be diagnosed by the diversity of its gut microbiome when it’s just one month old!”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#horses #racehorses #horseracing #microbiome #sport https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/success-of-racehorses-improves-with

Made For Each Other“Gray jays hoping to survive and reproduce during Canada's harsh winters must store food in the right kinds of...

Made For Each Other

“Gray jays hoping to survive and reproduce during Canada's harsh winters must store food in the right kinds of trees”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#birds #ornithology #ecology #evolution #behavior #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/made-for-each-other-901

Bumblebees Reduce Their Expectations Of A Reward When Stressed OutAre they depressed?by @GrrlScientist via #Medium#bumblebees #stress...

Bumblebees Reduce Their Expectations Of A Reward When Stressed Out

Are they depressed?

by @GrrlScientist via #Medium

#bumblebees #stress #expectation #behavior #emotions #SciComm https://medium.com/grrlscientist/bumblebees-reduce-their-expectations-of-a-reward-when-stressed-out-e311fdc9b837

The Secret Magic Of Gophers To Help Restore Devastated Landscapes“A team of American scientists sought to learn whether a team of...

The Secret Magic Of Gophers To Help Restore Devastated Landscapes

“A team of American scientists sought to learn whether a team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack 

#gophers #MountStHelens #Fungi #microbes #microbiology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-secret-magic-of-gophers-to-help

Extinct-In-The-Wild Bird Species Is Breeding On A New Island Home"The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild for almost 40 years but...

Extinct-In-The-Wild Bird Species Is Breeding On A New Island Home

"The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild for almost 40 years but this species was recently released into the wild where it is now breeding."

by @GrrlScientist

#birds #ornithology #conservation #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/22/extinct-in-the-wild-bird-species-is-breeding-on-a-new-island-home/

The High Energetic Costs Of Changing Colors In Octopus"Changing colors is as energetically demanding for octopuses as jogging for 23...

The High Energetic Costs Of Changing Colors In Octopus

"Changing colors is as energetically demanding for octopuses as jogging for 23 minutes is for humans."

by @GrrlScientist via #Medium

#octopus #SciComm #colors #energetics #physiology #camouflage #communication #thermoregulation https://medium.com/grrlscientist/the-high-energetic-costs-of-changing-colors-in-octopus-ebcfe63f4432

The amazing world of flyingfish by Steve NG Howell - ReviewWritten by a professional pelagic birding tour guide and photographer, this book...

The amazing world of flyingfish by Steve NG Howell - Review

Written by a professional pelagic birding tour guide and photographer, this book presents a popular account of what is known about the enigmatic flyingfishes

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#books #BookReview #fish #FlyingFish #MarineFishes #wildlife https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-amazing-world-of-flyingfish-by

Uncovering The Genomic Secrets Of Color Variants In Female Cuckoo Birds"Why do female common cuckoos have one of two different colors,...

Uncovering The Genomic Secrets Of Color Variants In Female Cuckoo Birds

"Why do female common cuckoos have one of two different colors, whilst the males are all the same color?"

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#birds #ornithology #color #evolution #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/uncovering-the-genomic-secrets-of

this piece was not indexed on forbes, so no one reads it! the only way i'm getting any readers is via social media (only 39 reads 24...

this piece was not indexed on forbes, so no one reads it! the only way i'm getting any readers is via social media (only 39 reads 24 hours after it published)

READS IS HOW I'M PAID. please pop in to read!

Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers

#SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/12/traffic-noise-provokes-road-rage-in-male-galpagos-warblers/

Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers | study out of Anglia Ruskin University & University of Vienna,...

Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers | study out of Anglia Ruskin University & University of Vienna, published by Animal Behaviour

by @GrrlScientist

#ornithology #birds #behavior #conservation #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/12/traffic-noise-provokes-road-rage-in-male-galpagos-warblers/

"I was telling a colleague that yours was the best cover of the research (among the several recent articles that others have...

"I was telling a colleague that yours was the best cover of the research (among the several recent articles that others have written)" -- Juan Bouzat, email

These #Hummingbirds Live In Colonies In Ecuador’s Andes, Surprising Scientists

#birding #Ecuador🇪🇨 #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/08/these-hummingbirds-live-in-colonies-in-ecuadors-andes-surprising-scientists/

These Hummingbirds Live In Colonies In Ecuador’s Andes, Surprising Scientists | Bowling Green State University, published by ornithology...

These Hummingbirds Live In Colonies In Ecuador’s Andes, Surprising Scientists | Bowling Green State University, published by ornithology journal

by @GrrlScientist

#hummingbirds #behavior #Sociology #birding #BirdWatching #birds #Ecuador #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/08/these-hummingbirds-live-in-colonies-in-ecuadors-andes-surprising-scientists/

Shingrix, The Shingles Vaccine, Could Reduce Your Risk Of Dementia"The new recombinant shingles vaccine, ‘Shingrix,’ is associated...

Shingrix, The Shingles Vaccine, Could Reduce Your Risk Of Dementia

"The new recombinant shingles vaccine, ‘Shingrix,’ is associated with a reduced risk of dementia compared to an earlier shingles vaccine, according to a major new study."

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#Vaccines #Shingrix #dementia #healthcare #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/shingrix-the-shingles-vaccine-could

How Small Can You Get? Another New-To-Science Flea-Toad Wows Scientists“The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads,...

How Small Can You Get? Another New-To-Science Flea-Toad Wows Scientists

“The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#frogs #FleaToad #amphibians #NewSpecies #SmallestVertebrates #evolution #ecology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-small-can-you-get-another-new

Genetic Mutation Underlying Finland’s “Salty Liquorice” Cats Identified“The genetic basis for a distinctive new coat coloring —...

Genetic Mutation Underlying Finland’s “Salty Liquorice” Cats Identified

“The genetic basis for a distinctive new coat coloring — known as “salmiak” — has been identified in domestic cats in Finland.”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#cats #genetics #SalmiakCats #pets #felines #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/genetic-mutation-underlying-finlands

Targeted Conservation Efforts Help Restore Crashing Biodiversity | review out of Cambridge University, IUCN Red List, BirdLife...

Targeted Conservation Efforts Help Restore Crashing Biodiversity | review out of Cambridge University, IUCN Red List, BirdLife International, Durham University, Oxford University, pub'd by PLOS Biology

by @GrrlScientist

#endangered #animals #biodiversity #conservation #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/03/27/targeted-conservation-efforts-help-restore-crashing-biodiversity/