Stephanie Pappas

Uh oh, jumping spiders are being cool again.

Enjoyed talking to @thebigstoryfpn about boat-sinking orcas, which I wrote about for @sciam. link.chtbl.com/TheBigStoryCYO…

70 —-> bowing dust —-> snow #ColoradoSpring

i wrote about being tired ftw.usatoday.com/2023/03/nashvi…

For years the NIH has been investigating scientists with China ties in secret, ending many careers with scant evidence of wrongdoing. But it’s been impossible to get the story out; no one ever wants to talk—until now. Astounding reporting from @jeffmervis science.org/content/articl…

A seconds-old zebra shark, produced in an aquarium in Australia, hatched in a tank in a nursery in an Indonesian dive resort, destined for release in wild Raja Ampat seas. The egg is called a “mermaid’s purse.” Young zebra sharks resemble venomous sea snakes to scare predators.

This woulda been a pretty legit state.

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Diagnosis: Earth’s inner core might be slowing down Treatment: nothing, but might be interesting!!

A beardfish, Polyspinatus fluere, from the Eocene Fur Formation in Denmark. The holotype seen here has a fish vertebrate lodged in its throat suggesting it ate other fish as part of its diet. #FurWeek Credit to @SiriusPalaeo for alerting me to this! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@Laelaps For some reason, this trailer has tipped me into an existential crisis over whether being transported to the late Cretaceous would be quantitatively more dangerous than landing in, say, Montana in 1750 or the Black Forest in the Middle Ages. How many large predators there be?

Video showing fissures erupting on the Northeast Rift Zone of #MaunaLoa this morning. Fountains of fissure 3 were measured up to 25 m (82 ft) in height. More spectacular photos and videos available on the Mauna Loa website. ow.ly/uZrj50LQzIF #MaunaLoaErupts

Goniatite fossils - stone copies of the shells that littered what was an ancient sea floor, during the late Carboniferous period over 300 million years ago. County Clare, Ireland.

As someone with a complex relationship with the black widows constantly trying to make their homes on my patio, I loved this @ThisAmerLife segment: thisamericanlife.org/780/setting-th…. Answering the question you didn't know you had: Why were so many black widow fatalities male in the '50s?

📍Cisco, Utah last night (just north of Moab). All I can say is WOW 🎥: Kimberly Bolton #utwx @NWSGJT @fox13

Nobody will remember: - Your salary - Your fancy title - How busy you were - How many hours you worked People will remember: -Your general body plan if you're buried in an anoxic environment in a subsiding sedimentary basin & get exposed by erosion again in the geologic future

One of my favorite things about working on the tundra is the variety of animal track "states" that you can find. First up: absolutely picture perfect, fresh wolf tracks

These little guys are too fascinating.

The fellowship of the deep. ⁠🧙🏼✨ ⁠ It's uncommon to see gatherings like this in the deep abyssal plain. These invertebrates—an octopus, tanner crab, and a couple of sea cucumbers and anemones were observed off the coast of Half Moon Bay at 1,949 meters (6,395 feet) deep.