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betsymason

  1. @slooh The embeds from the media page do not appear to be working. Please advise. 5:14 PM May 20th via TweetDeck
  2. RT @wired: Bear-dog or Sloth-bear? You decide. #badassbracket 12:25 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck
  3. @ucla_biomed We should do a gallery! Do you have images, or can we come take some? 10:26 AM Apr 9th via TweetDeck in reply to ucla_biomed
  4. RT @wiredscience: Awesome, bizarre and rarely seen stuff from the National Library of Medicine: bit.ly/HPiV66 12:46 PM Apr 2nd via TweetDeck
  5. Baby echidna: bit.ly/GY8jmD. Just sayin. (from @ZooBorns of course) 10:29 AM Mar 27th via TweetDeck
  6. This was obviously rigged. RT @alexwitze: Piggeh triumphant. bit.ly/wm7yxW #squeemadness 12:20 PM Mar 23rd via TweetDeck
  7. Earth from space! 10 years of awesome from Envisat: bit.ly/zoTHOq 5:25 PM Mar 2nd via TweetDeck
  8. @BryanBrews Hi!! Beer Robot misses you! 2:33 PM Feb 10th via TweetDeck in reply to BryanBrews
  9. Hepax legomena and Zipf's law: bit.ly/ywOIsU 10:26 AM Jan 27th via TweetDeck
  10. RT @wiredscience: The weirdest space station concepts that never flew: bit.ly/xvEnlS 9:13 AM Jan 24th via TweetDeck
  11. RT @ZooBorns: Meet Libby, Point Defiance Zoo's Newest Sea Otter - bit.ly/Anx4ou 10:36 AM Jan 13th via TweetDeck
  12. Why sloths hang upside down: bit.ly/wTNMH2 (thanks @Laelaps) 1:27 PM Jan 4th via TweetDeck
  13. Cutest place on Earth? Baby sloth orphanage! (video and photos) bit.ly/sDmwvG 11:48 AM Dec 12th, 2011 via TweetDeck
  14. The right (and wrong) way to die when you fall into lava: bit.ly/sN1HW9 #AGU11 9:46 AM Dec 7th, 2011 via TweetDeck
  15. RT @alexwitze: Ooh pretty: 7 #volcanoes erupting right now, from @NatGeo bit.ly/uubrq9 9:55 AM Dec 1st, 2011 via TweetDeck
  16. Baby capybara bit.ly/rQ7nrR (cc @Erika_Check) 11:53 AM Nov 30th, 2011 via TweetDeck
  17. Am I the only one who thinks these little spaceship models are cuter than kittens? bit.ly/v8swiz 9:22 AM Nov 30th, 2011 via TweetDeck
  18. Luckily, monkeys & baby hippos are not mutually exclusive bit.ly/s7YGcs. RT @alexwitze: I was hoping for more baby hippos 10:05 AM Nov 29th, 2011 via TweetDeck
  19. The @wired feed is now in the hands of science editor @betsymason. Do you know what this means? More monkeys! 9:35 AM Nov 29th, 2011 via TweetDeck
  20. @JustinBeights you can buy maps from japan here: gsj.jp/Map/EN/volcano…, USGS publications here: usgs.gov/pubprod/ 11:04 AM Nov 25th, 2011 via TweetDeck in reply to JustinBeights
  • Name Betsy Mason
  • Location San Francisco CA
  • Web http://www.wired....
  • Bio Science editor for Wired.com, geologist, beer snob, calm assertive pack leader.
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