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10/29/2026

It was presumed extinct for 90 years. It had just been hiding in people's gardens.

Meet the Bangka slow loris: a tiny, nocturnal, venomous primate last recorded in the early 1930s. Indonesia's Alobi Wildlife Rescue Center quietly documented more than 90 individuals on Bangka Island between 2015 and 2025, many rescued from houses, plantations, and roads. The same threats that nearly erased it the first time, tin mining and oil palm clearing, are still closing in.

What's a species you thought was gone for good?

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10/28/2026

He invented a lifesaving heart surgery. He wasn't even allowed to hold the scalpel.

Meet Vivien Thomas: hired as a janitor at Vanderbilt in 1930, performing surgery within weeks. By 1946 he was Johns Hopkins's highest paid lab assistant, with no medical degree and a fraction of what his white colleagues earned. He spent two years and 200 dogs perfecting the shunt that still saves blue baby syndrome infants today, then stood on a step stool talking a credited surgeon through the operation he had invented himself.

The 1945 paper announcing the breakthrough never mentioned his name. It took until 1976 for Johns Hopkins to finally call him Doctor, and the procedure now carries his name for good: the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt.

Who's a scientist you think deserves way more credit than they got?

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10/28/2026

This chemistry sweatshirt looks completely innocent until you read the periodic table symbols. Shop more science apparel with a little bite here: https://scienceandsnark.etsy.com/listing/4601231564

10/28/2026

"Never be limited by other people's imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination." — Mae Jemison

First Black woman in space, 1992. She clearly wasn't waiting for permission.

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10/27/2026

A whole grid of lab cats in little white coats, because the best gifts for your science-loving, cat-obsessed friend basically design themselves. Shop the Lab Cats crewneck: https://scienceandsnark.etsy.com/

10/22/2026

Scientists just described a new genus of deep-sea spaghetti worms, Terebellosuctoria, with suction-cup structures never seen in this family before (via ScienceAlert). Shop the nerdy stuff: https://scienceandsnark.etsy.com/

10/21/2026

Her husband won a Nobel Prize for work she helped build, then left her out of his own memoir entirely. Meet Esther Lederberg, the microbiologist science keeps forgetting to credit: https://scienceandsnark.etsy.com/

10/21/2026

Barbara McClintock trusted her own data enough to win an unshared Nobel Prize for it. That's the energy we need on a hard week: shop the rest of our nerdy lineup at https://scienceandsnark.etsy.com/

10/20/2026

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10/19/2026

Dead-icated to science, still waiting on that grant renewal. 💀 20% off for Halloween: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScienceAndSnark?section_id=58656351

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