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jacquelyngill.bsky.social
Some beautiful #poopscience for your day.
June 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
marspidermonkey.bsky.social
Yay PoopScience! 💩🧪
June 11, 2026 at 2:20 AM
djbirddanerd.bsky.social
#Fossils #PoopScience
djbirddanerd.bsky.social Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 5d
Reassessment of #Miocene putative #coprolites from Poland suggests a biogenic origin and probable #squamate (reptilian) producers: peerj.com/articles/217... @peerj.bsky.social supported by size/morphology, surface striations, hair-like inclusions and associated putative reptile remains #paleobiology
Six Miocene coprolite fossils (A–F) shown alongside modern reptile faeces (G–L) for comparison. The fossils are irregular, flattened, dark-brown masses; specimen C has a distinctive striated surface texture. The modern samples come from an iguana, a Madagascar boa, a boa snake, and a tortoise, appearing as similar brownish, segmented or lumpy droppings. Panels M and N are microscope photos of hair-like structures inside specimen A, each marked with a yellow line showing the thin-section cut. Scale bars: 1 cm for the specimens, 100 µm for the microscope views. See: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21755/fig-2 A grid of small vertebrate fossils from Bełchatów, Poland (scale bars 1 mm). Highlighted putative reptile finds: A, a possible reptile tooth crown shown from two sides; B, a crocodile tooth, slender and pointed; G, a rounded osteoderm (bony skin plate) in dorsal and ventral view; and N, a putative squamate bone fragment shown in three orientations. The remaining panels show mammal and amphibian remains: bat and hedgehog teeth, a possible frog bone, rodent incisors, and numerous mole and shrew-like insectivore teeth (Desmanella, Plesiosorex, Talpinae, Plesiodimylinae), plus a lagomorph tooth and a desman molar. Scale bars: 1 mm. 10.7717/peerj.21755/fig-3 Thin-section and electron microscope images of probable coprolites from Bełchatów, Poland. A and B show entire thin sections of two coprolites — pale, elongate slices with darker internal material. C and D are optical microscope views of the coprolite matrix; E and F are backscattered electron images of the same, showing scattered pale inclusions in a darker groundmass. G, H, and I are SEM close-ups revealing clusters of siderite and iron oxides/hydroxides — granular, bright mineral aggregates labelled "Sd" and "FeO(OH)" — in the coprolite matrix. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21755/fig-5
September 29, 2026 at 11:18 AM
jacquelyngill.bsky.social
#PoopScience is back, baby! We left Twitter, but we kept what matters.
March 10, 2026 at 1:23 AM
marspidermonkey.bsky.social
Important #PoopScience factoid here! #2026MMM
ldurgavich.bsky.social Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · Mar 12
Sloths do, however, descend to the forest floor to poop once a week, and Brown-throated Sloth had felt nature's call and has been slooooowly moving down the tree trunk to take care of business. Almost to the ground.... #2026MMM
March 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
ichnologist.bsky.social
More #PoopScience, & this time inspired those ever-reliable avian mega-poopers, penguins. 🧪🐧💩
May 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
jacquelyngill.bsky.social
I had a fun time chatting about a really cool #poopscience study with @beebrookshire.bsky.social!
June 19, 2026 at 5:37 PM
marspidermonkey.bsky.social
Whale PoopScience! 🧪🦑🦊
November 29, 2023 at 3:29 AM
ichnologist.bsky.social
Oldest known fossil evidence of lepidopterans (butterflies & moths), from the Triassic (~236 mya) of Argentina! Scales from the wings of these insects were preserved in dicynodont coprolites, & were likely on plants eaten by the dicynodonts. www.science.org/content/arti... #PoopScience 🧪💩🪨🦋
Ancient poop yields world’s oldest butterfly fossils
Tiny wing scales suggest the proboscis evolved 100 million years before flowers
www.science.org
June 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
marspidermonkey.bsky.social
PoopScience! 💩🧪
laminda.bsky.social Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · Aug 9
Bones can tell you only so much about ancient animals' lives. Fossil poo, on the other hand, is full of information about what was going on in their guts. A 200 million-year-old coprolite that may have belonged to a crocodile-like reptile, showed that the animal was hosting a buttload of parasites 🧪
Ancient reptile was riddled with parasites, fossilized poop reveals | CNN
Paleontologists studying fossilized poop, known as a coprolite, recently unearthed rare evidence of parasitic infection in a reptile that lived during the Triassic Period.
www.cnn.com
August 9, 2023 at 6:20 PM
ichnologist.bsky.social
Permian shark coprolites with tapeworm eggs, showing parasitic relationship while also suggesting that these Permian sharks may have said, "They pay me in woims." 🧪🦈💩🪱 #PoopScience
June 25, 2026 at 12:32 PM
marspidermonkey.bsky.social
Have we brought the #PoopScience hashtag over to these skies?
jacquelyngill.bsky.social Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Mar 10
I would like to interrupt your doomscrolling for an important announcement: This figure from Ellen Dymit et al., 2025, depicts the proportion of vertebrate prey in felid scat, recorded as a Proportion of Occurrence (PoO). 💩
A figure depicting the relative abundance of different prey items among two species of felid (e.g., monkey, small bird, agouti), derived from scat. The x axis is labeled "PoO (%)."
March 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
ichnologist.bsky.social
Yet enough shining example of scientific insights supplied by poop, & in this instance, penguin poop observed over time, but from SPACE. #PoopScience: is there nothing it can't do? 🧪🐧💩🛰️
limnobenja.bsky.social Benjamin Kraemer @limnobenja.bsky.social · Aug 5
Analog US spy satellite images from the 1960s are revealing unexpected surprises—this time, it's penguin poop! So, what does the poop tell us in our latest preprint? Work lead by Martynas Bielinis, @drmichellelarue.bsky.social, myself, and Catalina Munteanu
a large flock of penguins are walking in the snow with national geographic wild written on the bottom right
ALT: a large flock of penguins are walking in the snow with national geographic wild written on the bottom right
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August 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
marspidermonkey.bsky.social
PoopScience! 💩🔬
alexig.bsky.social David AttenBruh @alexig.bsky.social · May 7
Isn’t it wild how bird poop is so prevalent in some ecosystems that multiple groups of wildlife have adapted to lookin like that one particular type of shit? Look at this bird poop frog taken by Jodi Rowley
May 7, 2023 at 2:12 PM
nakedprimate.bsky.social
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a baboon in possession of a good rock, must be in want of a poop…

#fieldwork #guinea #nicerock #thisistheway #poopscience @mbchimp.bsky.social 🧪🐒💩
A baboon poop perched on top of a rock in the Guinean savannah
March 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM
marspidermonkey.bsky.social
Jaguar PoopScience! 💩🧪
What Can We Learn From Jaguar Poop? A Lot • The Revelator
Molecular and isotope analysis of scat can help researchers study elusive wild cats without disturbing, capturing or handling them.
therevelator.org
August 28, 2023 at 3:32 PM
julietalbot.bsky.social
The fact that there is a #poopscience hashtag fills me with joy
June 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
djbirddanerd.bsky.social
New to #Coprolites or #PoopScience but almost 20 years of #International #Research left their mark on multiple subjects including #biology #paleontology #macroevolution #paleoecology #parasitology #biogeography #geoscience #stratigraphy #physiology #taphonomy straddling the #Phanerozoic and #World
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August 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
ggnanadesikan.bsky.social
Shout-out to Katie King @katieking1110.bsky.social for an awesome poster on paternal care and fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in Red-bellied Lemur fathers. She looks at fluctuating concentrations pre- and post-birth & associations with care behaviors. #AABA2025 #PoopScience #BehavioralEndocrinology
Photos of Katie King, a white woman with dark brown hair, wearing a pastel blazer and conference name tag. She is smiling and standing next to her poster.
March 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
poopfoot.bsky.social
Interesting! #PoopScience
March 25, 2026 at 1:45 PM
elinork.bsky.social
Baniel et al. (2021) found gelada gut microbiome composition covaried w/ rainfall & temp suggesting responses to dietary & thermoregulatory challenges. Ex: rainy season => cellulolytic/fermentative bacteria specializing in digesting grass #poopscience #2025MMM doi.org/10.1186/s401...
Fig. 2 from Bariel et al. (2021) Rainfall structures the gelada gut microbiome. a Partial residual plot of Shannon alpha diversity index according to cumulative rainfall (in mm). Black dots represent the partial residuals from the LMM (i.e., showing the association between cumulative rainfall & alpha diversity, while controlling for all other predictors). The blue line & confidence intervals come from a linear regression (for representation only). Seven outlier samples (with a particularly low Shannon index) were omitted for clarity of representation. b Visualization of between-sample dissimilarity (based on Aitchison distance) on the first principal component (PC1) according to cumulative rainfall. c Compositional barplot of the 5 most abundant phyla in the dry (< 100mm of rain in the past month, N = 362) and wet (> 200mm of rain in the past month, N = 282) samples (cumulative rainfall was converted to a categorical variable for representation purposes). d Loading scores of each amplicon sequence variant (ASV) on the first principal component. ASVs with a loading score > 0.4 (characteristics of the wet season) and < −0.4 (characteristic of the dry season) are colored.
March 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
seattlebryn.bsky.social
Hello from Seattle, BlueSky! So you wanted to try a #Flush, but wondered if the hardcover was worth the plunge? Fear not, the “taboo breaker” & “surprisingly funny tour” of our humble 💩 is now available in paperback!
#sanitation #poopscience #microbiome

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Picture of the book, Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure, now available in paperback.
September 14, 2023 at 1:14 AM
jacquelyngill.bsky.social
Manuscript submitted! It's a validation of the Sporormiella proxy using bison. I even sneaked a little paleoecology in there. #poopscience
December 8, 2024 at 4:43 AM
jacquelyngill.bsky.social
My Twitter feels so heavy right now. I’m sorry I don’t have cool #poopscience or #fakepenguinfacts lately. I’ll work on that.
December 1, 2024 at 9:20 AM
jacquelyngill.bsky.social
I'm applying for a USDA permit to be able to import poop, in case you were wondering how my day was going. This involves asking myself questions like, "is poop an animal byproduct?" #poopscience
November 26, 2024 at 3:48 AM