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Month: November 2025

Snot drones for whale science

13 November 2025 grant 0

Knowable Magazine reports on a new use for remote-controlled drones — to collect DNA samples from whales blowing mucus out their blowholes, and to simply spy on whales from above… Read the rest “Snot drones for whale science”

Scientific illustration of the inside of a snake's eye - lens, cornea, retina in black and white.

Science Art: The Ophidian Eye in Vertical Section, 1942

10 November 2025 grant 0

When the snake sees, this is what the snake sees with. The snake in question is Natrix natrix, the barred grass snake. The image was “redrawn from Schwarz-Karsten, modified from original… Read the rest “Science Art: The Ophidian Eye in Vertical Section, 1942”

A cave full of 111,000 spiders in the dark.

8 November 2025 grant 0

Live Science goes into the brimstone of the underworld — a sulfuric cave literally named “Sulfur Cave” — on the border of Greece and Albania, and finds —… Read the rest “A cave full of 111,000 spiders in the dark.”

A toilet powered by mushrooms

5 November 2025 grant 0

CTV News has an item from University of British Columbia researchers who have found an alternative to Port-a-Potties and camp toilets that doesn’t need all the maintenance, doesn’t… Read the rest “A toilet powered by mushrooms”

Scientific illustration of a fisher or fisher cat, a weasel relative that hunts in the woods of North America. Brown, sleek, looking down from a branch, curious and intense.

Science Art: Illustration of a Southern Sierra Nevada fisher

3 November 2025 grant 0

This is a mustelid, a relative of weasels and wolverines, called a fisher. The scientific name is Pekania pennanti. They’ve never been very common, and are getting less so. (A Florida… Read the rest “Science Art: Illustration of a Southern Sierra Nevada fisher”

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  • Johns Hopkins University: Postdoctoral fellow in RNA biology at Johns Hopkins University
  • The University of Hong Kong: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Chemistry and/or AI for Chemistry
  • Baylor College of Medicine: Biostatistician
  • Baylor College of Medicine: Postdoctoral Associate- Cancer Immunotherapy
  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics
  • Arizona State University: Director, School of Earth and Space Exploration
Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
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