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  1. RE: mastodon.green/@plazi_species/

    #Skinks are no very tiny #lizards (#Squamata). The #ongoing #discoveries of even larger #new animal and plant #species like this new species from China indicate that #biodiversityresearch is indeed internationally on its good way to counteract the motto " too #manyspecies too #littletime". The ongoing #awareness of #biodiversity research as important part of understanding and counteractung the effects of the increasing human made #globalwarming is a crucial step.

    © #StefanFWirth August 2026

  2. Between 1786 and 1797, Caroline Herschel discovered *8* comets!

    We should cheer extra loud for Caroline b/c we gotta imagine that her mom probably never did...

    To learn more about Caroline (and briefly about her mom) & comets, check out this week's episode here: starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/

    #Astronomy #AstroDon #Astronomers #WomenInSTEM #WomenInAstronomy #WomenInScience #History #Comets #Discoveries #cheering #BadMoms

  3. I am off to #London for maybe the last #science team meeting of the #InSight mission to #Mars before its goes to dark. There is still a lot of #work to do now and in the future. Both for people within the team and outside the team. Great #mission, great #discoveries, great #datasets! For #seismology, #geophysics, #geology, #magnetics, #weather

    #planets #astro #astrodon #nasa @IPGP_Planets