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Guess what? It's time for our first #MolluskMonday

Guess what? It's time for our first #MolluskMonday for 2021! Yes, we know we're behind, but sometimes things just happen at a snail's pace 🐌⁠
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Pictured is Graciliscala ishimotoi. This long-dead marine snail shell is home to a hermit crab. Its outer surface is covered with hydroids, and this tiny but very elegant Wentletrap snail – the white dot above the crab - is parasitic on them. ⁠
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📷: Paul Callomon/ANS

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a visionar

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a visionary leader, passionate activist and champion of the civil rights movement. Committed to civil liberty and social equity, his ideas were foundational to the environmental justice movement — a movement that has surged forward in the last two decades. The Black Lives Matter movement and nationally publicized environmental disasters that disproportionately impact Black communities are galvanizing neighborhoods, cities and states, as well as business and political leaders. ⁠
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As we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 18, we are reminded of Dr. King’s 1966 protest against poor housing conditions in Chicago and his 1968 strike against unfavorable sanitation worker conditions in Memphis. Today the fight for environmental justice continues in our own city as we look to the Southwest Philadelphia neighbors impacted by the 2019 explosion of the polluting Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery and the Kensington, Fishtown and Port Richmond neighborhoods dealing with toxic lead in the soil.⁠
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At the Academy, we believe scientific research and education, conversations and actions around environmental justice are essential. On Tuesday, we conclude Environmental Justice Week, a free virtual festival celebrating the environmental justice legacy of Dr. King, with a free lecture on connecting underrepresented communities with wildlife sciences. We hope you will join us for this event, which features biologist Corina Newsome, and we encourage you to check out environmental justice resources via the link in our bio. We aim to inspire our community to take actions that address these issues and help protect the environment for everyone.⁠
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By protecting our environment, we can all take steps to support access to safe, healthy places to live and work for everyone.

Cheers 🍸! ⁠ We'd love for you to join us for

Cheers 🍸! ⁠
We'd love for you to join us for our virtual live happy hour, A Shaker of Science on Friday, January 22. Take a cruise (metaphorically – please don’t go on an actual cruise right now!) through the Sea of Cortez in the wake of John Steinbeck and some astounding seaweed collections. Reach back 10,000 years in time through the Pine Barrens to discover beautiful algal spores that paint a picture of a long past environment. Then dive down to tropical coral reefs where giant clams team up with microscopic plants to survive.⁠
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Pour a drink, sit back and find out there is a whole lot more to plants than the trees and shrubs outside your door as we toast to the oft forgotten world of seaweed and algae! Link in bio to register.

🕷️Peeping out from our burrow to tell you our

Hey Educators! 🤗 ⁠ Stay safe while learning a

Hey Educators! 🤗 ⁠
Stay safe while learning and exploring the Academy with your class! We are excited to offer new virtual classroom lessons for school students K-12. Each class is approximately 45 minutes and features live interactions with Academy educators that meet PA Academic Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. Each topic has its own teacher’s guide full of supportive curriculum and activities relative to the lesson. Link in bio to explore all the topics and to register for a virtual lesson! ⁠

Ever wondered what the world looked like 290 MILLI

Ever wondered what the world looked like 290 MILLION years ago? Before dinosaurs even existed? 🤨⁠
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You can find out at our new exhibit Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs. See moving replicas of the bizarre-looking beasts that inhabited the earth and more. Link in bio to plan your visit this weekend! We're open Friday–Sunday. ⁠
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We’re kicking off Environmental Justice week on

We’re kicking off Environmental Justice week on Monday, January 11. At the Academy, we believe that conversations around environmental justice are pivotal to our impact and relevance. We hope this week of programs will highlight the importance of environmental justice as it relates to the work we do every day through our research and education programs. By protecting our environment, we can all take steps to support access to safe, healthy places to live and work for everyone. We hope you can join us and our great partners in important discussions that impact our communities. Swipe through to see all the programs and visit the link in bio to register.

Science is sexy! Yeah, we said it. ⁠ ⁠ Join us

Science is sexy! Yeah, we said it. ⁠
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Join us at our first Academy Nightcaps event — a monthly late evening virtual program that tells the more risqué stories of nature. Sip slowly as you enjoy a casual virtual conversation with scientists and educators who are eager to impart their knowledge over an aperitif. Share your knowledge, take polls and experience a multimedia presentation as we savor the most alluring science topics. ⁠
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Whether your nightcap is on your noggin or in your tumbler—we're not judging! We hope you’ll join us to relax, decompress and end your evening in a delightfully scientific state of mind. ⁠
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It's all happening on Thursday, January 28. Link in bio for details and tickets. We'll see you there 😉

We're ROARING into this New Year like... ⁠ ⁠ P

We're ROARING into this New Year like... ⁠
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Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs opens TOMORROW Friday, January 8. Get out of the house and join us at the Academy to learn about the bizarre-looking creatures that dominated life on land and sea 290 million years ago 😲, and dinosaurs 🦕 had not yet evolved. ⁠
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Link in bio for more info about the exhibit and to buy your 🎟️ timed tickets.

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