Stephanie Pappas

Freelance science writer, general enthusiast.

[Stephanie Pappas @sipappas]

Uh oh, jumping spiders are being cool again.

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

Unlike some other spiders that camouflage themselves with drab colors and sticklike appendages, this jumping spider disguises itself by crawling like an ant. https://t.co/CLrr9YeZ7M

[Stephanie Pappas @sipappas]

Enjoyed talking to @thebigstoryfpn about boat-sinking orcas, which I wrote about for @sciam. https://t.co/fNumqzxSbw

[Chris Vanderveen (yep…me) @chrisvanderveen]

70 —-> bowing dust —-> snow

#ColoradoSpring

[Alex McDaniel @AlexMcDaniel]

i wrote about being tired https://t.co/tNP4irpK9a

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

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 https://t.co/0RH82aL2wq

[Craig Welch @CraigAWelch]

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.

[Stephanie Pappas @sipappas]

This woulda been a pretty legit state.

[Douglas Main @Douglas_Main]

The 49th state that never was.

Residents of WY, MT, and SD contemplated breaking away and making their own state—to be called Absaroka—in the 1930s.

It was done mostly as a protest against fed/state policies and lack of aid during the Depression.

[Erin Powell @erinepowell]

no

[Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson]

Diagnosis: Earth’s inner core might be slowing down

Treatment: nothing, but might be interesting!!

[Fossil Bonanza @FossilBonanza]

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!
https://t.co/6w1PLhSIbG

[Stephanie Pappas @sipappas]

@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?

[USGS Volcanoes🌋 @USGSVolcanoes]

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. https://t.co/GoYn4UOT4W #MaunaLoaErupts

[Cormac's Coast @cormac_mcginley]

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.

[Stephanie Pappas @sipappas]

As someone with a complex relationship with the black widows constantly trying to make their homes on my patio, I loved this @ThisAmerLife segment: https://t.co/a9GeAYiRto. Answering the question you didn't know you had: Why were so many black widow fatalities male in the '50s?

[Allison Croghan @AllisonCroghan]

📍Cisco, Utah last night (just north of Moab). All I can say is WOW

🎥: Kimberly Bolton #utwx

@NWSGJT @fox13

[Peter🌲Brannen @PeterBrannen1]

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

[Sean Johnson-Bice @SJohnsonBice]

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

[Stephanie Pappas @sipappas]

These little guys are too fascinating.

[Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag]

A new study of Homo naledi remains from South Africa’s Rising Star cave system suggests that these hominins––who lived between 335,000 and 236,000 years ago––may have intentionally buried their dead.

https://t.co/434PbF26k9

[MBARI @MBARI_News]

The fellowship of the deep. ⁠🧙🏼✨
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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.