🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈
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Seeking a New Lens to Study Same-Sex Behavior in Animals
Nytimes.com 10d 6 tweets
A team of researchers say that science has relied on a human heterosexual baseline and made faulty assumptions about sexual activity in the animal kingdom.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Why we need a new lens to study same sex animal behavior... #AnimalBehavior #SameSex #Animals #HeteroHumans 4h
US Life Expectancy Drops For Third Straight Year in Alarming Reality Check
ScienceAlert 6h 1 tweets
The US is the only wealthy country in the world where the life expectancy needle is moving the wrong way.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 US life expectancy drops for third straight year in alarming reality check. 😲 #US #Deathrates 6h
Why the World Needs Bloodsucking Creatures
Brigit Katz - Smithsonian 3d 2 tweets
The ecological benefits of animals like leeches, ticks and vampire bats are the focus of a new exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Good morning nerds! Here's why the world needs bloodsucking creatures. 🦇🐟 #Ecology #Leeches #Lamprey #VampireBats #BloodsuckingAnimals 9h
Astronomers Are About to Detect the Light from the Very First Stars in the Universe
Universe Today 24h 1 tweets
The early Universe was a mysterious place. To try to remove some of that mystery, scientists are searching for the elusive signal from neutral hydrogen.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Astronomers are about to detect the light from the very first stars in the Universe. 🤩 #Cosmology #Astronomy #FirstStars #RadioAstronomy 24h
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist - Issue 78: Atmospheres
Nautilus 8d 3 tweets
Human-induced climate change may seem a purely modern phenomenon. Even in ancient Greece, however, people understood that human activities…
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 If only 19th-Century America had listened to Eunice Foote... 👩‍🔬 #WomenScientist #GlobalWarming #WarmingSource #EuniceFoote 26h
Cancer Seems to Have Trouble Spreading in Microgravity
Matt Williams - Universe Today 28h 1 tweets
A team of Australian researchers have found evidence that microgravity can disrupt the spread of cancer cells, which could lead to new treatments.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 What would happen to cancer cells if we take them out of gravity? #CancerCells #CancerResearch #Gravity #ISS #Microgravity 28h
Reptiles known as ‘living rocks’ show surprising cognitive powers
Nature.com 4d 2 tweets
They might not be fast on their feet, but these massive reptiles have long memories.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 They might not be fast on their feet, but these ‘living rocks’ show surprising cognitive powers. 🐢 #Reptiles #Tortoises #LivingRocks #AnimalBehavior #AnimalLearning 31h
FDA Says Most CBD Products May Not Be Safe, and Warns 15 Companies to Stop Selling Them
livescience.com 33h 1 tweets
CBD may pose unknown health risks and cannot be marketed as a dietary supplement, food or therapeutic cure-all.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 FDA warns 15 companies to stop selling potentially unsafe CBD products. #CBD #Untested #FDA #RegulatedCBD #Healthrisk 33h
Women Are Being Fed False Information About Abortion And Suicide, 17-Year Study Finds
ScienceAlert 45h 1 tweets
A study examining 17 years of patient data has found absolutely no evidence that having an abortion increases the risk of suicide, despite many women being told the opposite.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Women are being fed false information about the alleged correlation between abortion and suicide. #Abortion #Suicide #FalseInformation #FalseCorrelation 45h
Antibiotic-Resistant Fungi Are a Growing Health Threat
Undark Magazine 4d 2 tweets
Opinion | U.S. health officials are sounding the alarm about the dangers of fast-spreading, drug-resistant fungus strains.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Why antibiotic-resistant fungi are a growing health threat. #AntibioticResistance #Fungi #PublicHealth #HealthThreats 51h
Ocean Change Written into Bird Bodies
Hakai Magazine - Hakai Magazine 52h 1 tweets
Analyzing the remains of collected and salvaged seabirds suggests a changing Bering Sea ecosystem.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Analyzing the remains of salvaged seabirds suggests a changing Bering Sea ecosystem. #BirdBodies #BeringSea #Ocean #Ecosystem #BirdBiology 52h
Under Trump, LGBTQ Progress Is Being Reversed in Plain Sight
ProPublica 14d 7 tweets
Donald Trump promised he would fight for LGBTQ people. Instead, his administration has systematically undone recent gains in their rights and protections. Here are 31 examples.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Under Trump, LGBTQ progress is being reversed in plain sight. 😶 #LGBTQ #Progress #LGBTQrights 55h
Dead Whale, 220 Pounds of Debris Inside, Is a ‘Grim Reminder’ of Ocean Trash
Nytimes.com 4d 9 tweets
The sperm whale washed up on a Scottish beach with a stomach full of rope, netting and plastic. “What was unusual in this case was the sheer volume,” a local expert said.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 220 pounds of debris found inside a dead whale is a grim reminder of #oceanpollution. 😢 57h
How the Greenland ice sheet is fracturing
Natalie Parletta PhD - Cosmos Magazine 3d 1 tweets
Drone images show rapid drainage of melted ice is causing chain reactions.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Drone images show how the Greenland ice sheet is fracturing. 😮 #Sealevels #IceSheets #GreenlandIceSheet #ClimateChangeIsReal 3d
Mummified Pup Died in Siberia 18,000 Years Ago ... And Might Be a Wolf (or Something Else)
livescience.com 3d 1 tweets
The preserved pooch looks remarkably pettable — for a mummy.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 This mummified pup died in Siberia 18,000 years ago...and might be a wolf? 🧐 #MummifiedPup #Siberia #Wolfpup #AncientPup #Archaeology 3d
UN Chief Warns Global Warming 'Point of No Return' Is Hurtling Toward Us
ScienceAlert 3d 1 tweets
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the world's efforts to stop climate change have been "utterly inadequate" so far and there is a danger global warming could pass the "point of no return."
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 UN chief warns global warming 'point of no return' is hurtling toward us. 🌎 #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #Earth #NoPanetX 3d
What we learn from noisy signals from deep space
Popular Science 3d 1 tweets
Far-flungs probes like Voyager ping messages home; as space distorts that signal along its journey, it reveals truths about the solar system.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 What JPL is learning from noisy signals from deep space. #NASA #JPL #CosmicStatic #DeepSpace #SpaceData 3d
Episode 286 - Robert Crease
Talk Nerdy. 4d 3 tweets
In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by Dr. Robert P. Crease , Chair of the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University . They dive into the important topics covered in his newest book, "The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers...
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Sorry for the delay! This week's is hot off the presses with Dr. Robert P. Crease. We discuss his newest book, "The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority." #TalkNerdy 🎙👩🏻‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬 4d
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 What's the difference between skepticism, pseudoscience, and science denial? Find out on this week's podcast with Dr. Robert P Crease. #TalkNerdy 🎙 47h
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 "If we learn from the history of how we got here, it will help us understand the present more" - Dr. Robert P. Crease, author and Philosophy Chair at on . Take a listen!🎙 8h
What is a ‘mass extinction’ and are we in one now?
Cosmos Magazine 4d 1 tweets
Based on the benchmark set by the Big Five, the answer is probably yes.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 What is a ‘mass extinction’ and are we in one now? Probably, yes. #MassExtinction #Biodiversity #AnimalExtinction #BigFive 4d
We Need to Treat Human Noise as a Global Pollutant, New Study Says
ScienceAlert 4d 1 tweets
It is well known that human hubbub can have a negative impact on some animals, but a new study Wednesday says the noise we make should be treated as a "major global pollutant".
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 New study says we need to treat human noise as a global pollutant. #NoisePollution #GlobalPollution #ManmadeNoise #AnimalHabitat 4d