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This season on Serving Up Science, we covered edible insects which are surprisingly good, healthy & sustainable.
Tremendous thanks to Chef Junior Merino of M cantina for sharing outstanding Mexican cuisine. youtu.be/t-1q3fcOxJU?si=wHZwgT… #science #food
Are Insects the next big foodie trend?
Support Serving Up Science: http://bit.ly/ScienceServe Discover the Fascinating History of Insect Cuisine and Dive into the Protein-Rich World of Edible Bugs...YouTube
Shocking story about mRNA pioneer/Nobel winner Katalin Karikó, whose early advisor at Temple tried to have her deported & derailed her career because she dared to look for a better-paying job.
Later, UPenn demoted her, then forced her out, because her research wasn't bringing in enough funding. #NobelPrize #science [HT Paul Novosad]
Born in 1897, Janaki Ammal was a pioneering botanist who studied plant breeding, genetics & cytogenetics.
Ammal overcame both gender & caste discrimination & was the first Indian woman to obtain a Ph.D. in botany in the U.S.
Her research was crucial for developing high-yield varieties of sugarcane, eggplant & magnolias. Ammal also promoted conservation & was a pioneer of indigenous approaches to the environment. smithsonianmag.com/science-nat… #HistoryRemix #science #history #plants
The Pioneering Female Botanist Who Sweetened a Nation and Saved a Valley
One of India’s finest plant scientists, Janaki Ammal spurred her country to protect its rich tropical diversityLeila McNeill (Smithsonian Magazine)
So true – it's nigh impossible to weigh the impact of research but years afterwards. Ask the microbiologists who were studying extremophile bacteria in a Yellowstone pond whether they thought their work would lead to the sequencing of the human genome and modern medicine as we know it. Or ask the zoologists who pulled out bioluminescent and fluorescent jelly fish out of the sea whether they thought scientific research in developmental biology, neuroscience and biology as a whole, remarkably even DNA sequencing, would be so thoroughly transformed. And these are just two examples in biology.
PCR: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymera…
GFP: jellyfish Aequorea victoria en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fl…
The "Lost Women of Science" podcast just did a 2 part episode about her, part of their "Lost Women of the Manhattan Project" series.
(transcripts available)
Part 1: lostwomenofscience.org/season-…
Part 2: lostwomenofscience.org/season-…
#Science #History #Women #Podcast #ManhattanProject
Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom?
New translations of Meitner’s letters show that antisemitism before and after World War II robbed Meitner of the 1944 Nobel Prize that went to her long-time collaborator chemist Otto Hahn.www.lostwomenofscience.org
Very pleased to see NYT acknowledge Lise Meitner.
Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission & newly translated letters show she was barred from sharing credit for the Nobel Prize-winning discovery because she was Jewish & a woman. nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science… #science #history #HistoryRemix
Nobel Prize Awarded to #Covid Vaccine Pioneers Katalin Karikó & Drew Weissman
Their discovery “contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.” nytimes.com/2023/10/02/health/… #science
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”
- Albert Einstein, 1919
bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban… #science #history
Einstein’s most famous quote is totally misunderstood
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what's real. That's not what he said.Ethan Siegel (Big Think)
Is mammals’ time on Earth half over?
A new model suggests that in 250 million years, all land will collide into a supercontinent that boosts warming & pushes mammals to extinction. @Carl_Zimmer has the details.
Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.
But Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its climate.
Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. climate.gov/news-features/feat… #history #science #ClimateChange
Born in 1910, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin perfected X-ray crystallography, a type of imaging using X-rays to determine a molecule’s three-dimensional structure.
She determined the structures of insulin, penicillin & vitamin B12, leading to tremendous advances in medicine.
Hodgkin was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. She also advocated for world peace, campaigning against both the Vietnam War & nuclear weapons. nobelprize.org/womenwhochanged… #HistoryRemix #science #history
The Nobel Prize | Women who changed science | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
“Captured for life by chemistry and by crystals,” as she described it, Dorothy Hodgkin turned a childhood interest in crystals into the ground-breaking use of X-ray crystallography to “see” the molecules of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin.www.nobelprize.org
Disrupting palm oil’s dominance? Scientists develop eco-friendly alternative targeting bakery applications
PALM-ALT is a palm fat replacer that scientists claim can reduce industry’s dependence on #palmOil, which is often linked to #deforestation and for many consumers is considered an ingredient to avoid.
foodingredientsfirst.com/news/…
#PalmOilKills
#science #scotland
Disrupting palm oil’s dominance? Scientists develop eco-friendly alternative targeting bakery applications
21 Sep 2023 --- A team of scientists in Scotland have discovered what they are hailing as a high-class alternative to the popular yet controversial palm oil which is abundantly used throughout the F&B industry..foodingredientsfirst.com/
Does it really matter what eggs you buy?
youtu.be/jG5RnW_yPCU?si=-RcFON…
Season 4 of Serving Up Science is out today & this episode covers what terminology like "cage-free," "pasture-raised," "organic" & more really means. #food #science
Does it really matter what eggs you buy?
Support Serving Up Science: http://bit.ly/ScienceServe Decode the diverse world of egg labels, from conventional to cage-free, free-range, organic, and pastu...YouTube
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Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.
Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.
The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science
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Supporting nonlinear careers to diversify science
Those who follow non-linear career trajectories often face disadvantages in academia. This Perspective looks at why individuals might choose non-linear careers and how these benefit diversity in science.plos.io
In 1916, 23 yr old chemist Alice Ball discovered a breakthrough in treatment for Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease). She was the 1st woman & 1st Black chemistry professor at UHawaii.
Tragically, Ball passed away months after her discovery due to complications from a lab accident.
What happened next? Arthur Dean, head of her dept, continued the work publishing Ball’s process as “Dean’s method.”
Fortunately, a colleague spoke up & the name was changed to “Ball’s method.” #HistoryRemix #science #history
This excellent illustration, “The hostile obstacle course that #women & BIPOC have to endure in academia” is making the rounds again & it’s always worth resharing.
Also, this applies to far, far more than careers in #science. nature.com/articles/s41561-021…
Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course - Nature Geoscience
Inclusive and equitable geoscience requires identification and removal of structural barriers to participation. Replacing the leaky pipeline metaphor with that of a hostile obstacle course demands that those with power take the lead.Nature
If you are drafting figures for a scientific paper or presentation, remember that scidraw.io/ exists: a repository of free SVG cartoons for science.
#SciDraw is supported by the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.
All content on SciDraw is shared under creative commons license (CC-BY) unless stated otherwise.
SciDraw | Scientific Drawings
SciDraw is an open repository of science drawings. Browse and contribute!.scidraw.io
Thanks for this.
It's impossible to keep up with the rate of progress in the Sciences (as with the rest of society) nowadays. Judging by video this is a southern hemisphere location and so it turns out - Namibia. But if I'd heard of this project in 2004 - I'd long forgotten it. Fascinating.
#Astronomy #Science #Universe #Cosmos
#GammaRays #HESS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Ene…
Katherine Esau, born in 1898 in Ukraine, was a pioneering botanist who studied plant anatomy & viruses.
Esau began studying agriculture in 1916 in Moscow. Her family fled to Berlin & ultimately arrived in the US in 1922.
Esau earned a PhD & her research on plant structure spanned 7 decades. She wrote 6 textbooks & was the 6th woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
In 1989, Esau received the National Medal of Science. ccber.ucsb.edu/ucsb-natural-hi… #HistoryRemix #science #history
The Life of Katherine Esau | CCBER
Growing up in Russia: The Esau Family Katherine Esau was born on April 3, 1898, in the city of Ekaterinoslav in the Ukraine. The city was named after Catherine the Great (as was Katherine Esau.ccber.ucsb.edu
Scientists in China have found evidence that our ancestors were almost entirely wiped out ~1 million years ago.
Why? #ClimateChange
While not every expert agrees, the research is intriguing & @Carl_Zimmer has the details: nytimes.com/2023/08/31/science… #science
Globally we produce A LOT of #energy, but did you know the majority of fossil energy gets wasted? In the US alone, two-thirds of that energy is *wasted* as heat.
As Hannah Ritchie has pointed out, we don’t actually need to produce a low carbon equivalent of all of the coal, oil & gas we currently use.
That means we can decarbonize quickly by being less wasteful & more efficient. #ClimateChange #science
But the term “meme” was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins to describe a behavior, style or idea as a unit of culture that can spread or disappear. From social movements to religion to Grumpy Cat.
Even though most folks may not be aware of it, we’re sharing a popular concept from #science, every single day, across #socialmedia.
Various turtle shell patterns.
By #AnimalPhotography
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Photography #Photographer #Video #Science
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek died #OTD in 1723.
A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists and microbiologists. Van Leeuwenhoek is best known for his pioneering work in microscopy and for his contributions toward the establishment of microbiology as a scientific discipline. via @wikipedia
Books by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/83…
Books by Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 71,410 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
About 250M years ago, 90% of species on Earth died during the Permian extinction.
Tragic? Perhaps. But it also created a lot of vacant niches to fill.
And not long after, the very first mammals, our ancestors, appeared.
#Life on Earth is resilient & will continue to be, whether we're part of it or not. #history #science
Born in 1861, Nettie Stevens received her PhD in 1903. She went on to discover sex chromosomes in mealworms. Until then, it was believed that the mother or environment determined males & females.
But... Edmund Beecher Wilson published first. He may have seen Stevens' results & also didn't quite get everything right.
Stevens' work had the correct conclusion, but Wilson is most often credited with this discovery.
vox.com/2016/7/7/12105830/nett… #HistoryRemix #history #science
Nettie Stevens discovered XY sex chromosomes. She didn't get credit because she had two X’s.
For most of human history, how babies became male or female was an absolute mystery.Brian Resnick (Vox)
“Shedding the hectic energy #Twitter had conditioned me to was an adjustment, but it definitely made life better. And watching the vandalism wreaking havoc on the place formerly known as Twitter makes building so very satisfying. #Science #Mastodon doesn’t even need to grow to be great. But it sure looks like it’s going to.”
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/… via @jby
How Is Science Twitter's "Mastodon Migration" Panning Out? - Absolutely Maybe
“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.” And Mastodon was the most common destination if they opened…Hilda Bastian (Absolutely Maybe)
“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst & uncertainty.”
That survey with only a 5% response rate went viral & got me wondering about other evidence & how the #ScienceTwitter #MastodonMigration was panning out.
So I updated my study tracker & wrote a new post @PLOS : absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/…
tl;dr There's been a big recent surge here; the future of #ScienceMastodon looks bright; ScienceX is materially diminished tho the network is still there.
How Is Science Twitter's "Mastodon Migration" Panning Out? - Absolutely Maybe
“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.” And Mastodon was the most common destination if they opened…Hilda Bastian (Absolutely Maybe)