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froody

There were a lot of freshwater mussels on the 2021 US extinction list. They didn’t leave us with haunting recordings of them calling out for a mate they’d never meet, there were no drawings in vivid color. They were extremely important nevertheless and their loss is frustrating too. That’s why stream ecology and mollusks have always fascinated me. They were silent, stalwart little heroes and entire species were lost to pollution.

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Yeah, I am bothered by extinct animals. Even this guy. They can’t all be thylacines.

mossworm

There are so many extinct mussels in just the southeast USA that the Center for Biological Diversity made a poster. It's outdated by at least 13 mussels that I know of but probably more by now. All of them mattered in unique ways we can no longer appreciate.

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castellankurze

The Gimli Glider is one of those stories where every aspect sounds more fake than the last and yet it all actually happened.

-A passenger plane was underloaded with fuel because Canada had just converted to the metric system and everyone supposed to double check their numbers got it wrong.
-When the plane ran out of fuel they were too far away to make it to an in-service airport and had to head towards the Gimli military base.  Which was shuttered.
-They were coming in to fast due to a lack of flaps control and had to perform a series of slips (as shown in the video above) to slow down, basically drifting a giant passenger plane.
-As they come down they realized that just because Gimli’s been decommissioned doesn’t mean it’s abandoned because a bunch of people are having drag races on the runway they’re about to need.
-Despite everything they managed to land safely and no one was killed or even hurt which is why it’s one of the best air disasters to meme on.

zanmor

The Wikipedia page on this is fantastic and my favorite line from it is “Flying with all engines out was never expected to occur, so it had never been covered in training.”

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Nice

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sapphicscience

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today on science twitter.......

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an article about the incident. michael eisen is jewish and has israeli family and they fired him for "siding" with palestine

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if you're in science and particularly academia, you can sign onto the letter of support for michael eisen here. they allow anonymous signatures as well.

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[Image description: a Twitter thread from Michael Eisen (@mbeisen), dated 13 October, 2023: 1. The Onion speaks with more courage, insight, and moral clarity that the leaders of every academic institution put together. I wish there a @TheOnion university.
(Retweeted @TheOnion headline: "Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words to Condemn Hamas.")
Michael Eisen, 2 hours later: "I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that callsout indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.
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