Putting this out there, hoping the power of Mastodon works!
My daughter just started community college and is looking for an entry level research lab role (she wants to do biochemistry). I don’t have any connections in this area but if anyone has any tips on how to get in, we’d be grateful for your help. Location: #SFBayArea
Hi all! I'm still in a newsletter subscription push mode -- with the demise of the bird app, it's gotten really hard to get the word out about projects like this that don't have an internal algorithm to help people find it.
If you like #space, #science, #stem, or just want to support a woman of color doing STEM stuff -- please subscribe! Ad Astra is a weekly newsletter that tells you what's going on in space science and spaceflight.
To my lovely #wikipedia editors and fellow #womeninstem, a humble request to flesh out this list and add organisational pages. It is essential to connect us to share resources and for resilience. Happy to add others, too, if someone needs help or does not know how.
So, this was my favorite toy growing up... A "160-in-One" Electronics Kit from #RadioShack. The kit had instructions on how to build a simple, low-powered broadcast radio (and I, of course, had cut off the jack of a microphone cord, which I stripped and added as an sound input). Not satisfied with the range of my "pirate radio station," I added a few extra capacitors, used a stainless steel window screen as an antenna, and soon the neighbors were complaining to my grandparents. Mission accomplished!
At a meeting in Germany that attracts dozens of Nobel prize winners, one of them objected to its focus on diversity, saying “as a male scientist, I have a feeling of discrimination when I am here, in the climate that this meeting is being held.” Science magazine reports that a visibly nervous early-career researcher stood up to respond….
I originally studied physics. And like many of those who graduated in the #STEM fields, I developed a certain prejudice against the #Humanities.
Today I can say that I was wrong.
And the most important lesson of the Humanities is that the life experiences of others are valid even if they are different than your own - something too many people forget. It's too easy to become a judgmental asshole if you ignore that lesson.
Maths and queer side of Mastodon, I need your help!
I work in a uni Maths dept (not an academic, just admin) & would love to highlight the work of trans & non-binary mathematicians for Trans Awareness Week, in a poster. I tried this last year, & struggled to find a lot of people as I don't have much of a network in STEM.
TIL Plants take advantage of #chaos to more efficiently photosynthesize.
"The researchers also found that proteins arranged in a lattice structure showed less efficient energy transfer than proteins that were arranged in randomly organized structures, as they usually are in living cells."
"'Ordered organization is actually less efficient than the disordered organization of biology, which we think is really interesting because biology tends to be disordered. This finding tells us that that may not just be an inevitable downside of biology, but organisms may have evolved to take advantage of it,' Schlau-Cohen says."
The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads.
Hey guys, I am sitting on the #PeerTube (#Federated#YouTube) domain peertube.science - I want to gauge how much of an interest in this for me to set up. Is there anyone interested in a non commercial video service like this for the sciences? Humanities are welcome too. :)
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty
-A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.
Of note:
“The most popular alternative social-media site that respondents mentioned opening accounts with was the free, open-source software platform Mastodon.”
And that’s how I met u wonderful folks😁 #science#stem#scicomm https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
There’s a total solar eclipse coming in April, and here’s everything you need to know about it, from how to see it to where to get eclipse glasses to the science of eclipses!
Newsletter version goes out tomorrow, sign up at adastraspace.com!
👋Hi, thought I would take the time to do a little #introduction here! 👋
Hello, I’m Ella! A Science Communicator who has just handed in her Honours thesis on ‘unfurling #audience ‘. I’m most interested in #STEM + #art intersections, science accessibility, and STEM equity.
"Hey queer and trans friends! An academic group is doing research on why some members of the LGTBQ community disproportionately leave STEM careers, so they need people to interview! If you're interested in participating, or have friends that are, fill out the quick screening+contact form here, (they want to make sure they are sampling a wide range of backgrounds and identities, so they won't contact everyone):
First official nationwide test of #PFAS in drinking water, known to cause cancer, thyroid problems & lower birth weight in offspring, reveals 45% of all US, including those with private wells, are consuming dangerous forever chemicals.
It should be noted iron filtration systems, and boiling water does not remove PFAS.
I've now seen three different articles about this posted to the #Oregon hashtag. None of them mentions the #Paiute people or any #Indigenous people at all. One of them uncritically frames the Bering Strait land bridge theory as fact, and another calls the revelation that people were here earlier than that a "discovery."
I'm obsessed with JWST's series of photos of spiral galaxies. These are helping scientists understand more about these galaxies' origins, evolution, and structure.
'We focus on metrics to evaluate a scientist’s career: how many articles they have published, how many times they were cited, what was the impact factor of all these articles. '