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Lauren Renee Frausto
@laurenrfrausto.bsky.social
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Editor · Educator · Poet
Researching metaphor, science communication & the ethics of language.
#STS #SciComm #SciArt #LitSci #MedHum

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This is *fascinating*.

I’ve always disliked The Great Gatsby, both when forced to read it sophomore year of high school and still after rereading it as an adult, but it sounds like it’s time to revisit with a new set of eyes.
michaelharriot.bsky.social Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · Apr 7
On April 10, 1925, a young writer published his 3rd novel – a commercial & critical disappointment about a man passing for white

100 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Lowery reveals the secret hidden inside a piece of America's literary canon...

And how "The Great Gatsby" became white
Gatsby’s Secret
Read as the story of a passing Black man, "The Great Gatsby" is the great American novel.
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April 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Life finds a way—this tree pushed through pavement and even wrapped itself around a stop sign in L.A. #Nature doesn’t ask for permission.

[Marika Sparrow]
April 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Happy #FossilFriday!

For today enjoy this itty bitty baby Triceratops and the much more irritable mammal Didelphodon.

Both of these animals (the species not the skeletons) lived during the last days of the dinosaurs. Side note; more universities should have fossil displays. #paleontology 🧪
Mounted fossil replicas of a young ceratopsian dinosaur (Triceratops sp.), background, and a mammal (Didelphodon vorax), foreground, at Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada.
March 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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In other breaking news, magnolias are in full bloom around here.
March 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept???

Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy

Byron: I don’t get it

Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
February 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This is a carbonized loaf of bread from Pompeii, 79 C.E. - preserved for thousands of years in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. The baker left his stamp: “Celer, slave of Quintus Granius Verus." Celer is known to have survived the eruption, as his name later appears on a list of freed men.
A photo of a round loaf of bread divided into 8 slices. It has a greenish tint and looks hard to the touch. There is a stamp on it, too.
February 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Here's today's #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism story: Wisdom, the oldest-known albatross, just had another chick! I believe I posted about her laying an egg, it has now hatched! 🧪🦑🌎

news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Wisdom, the world’s oldest known bird at 74, has a new chick
Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, made headlines recently for laying an egg with a new partner, her first egg in four years. The egg has now hatched, and Wisdom, a Laysan albatross (Phoebast...
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February 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Shots fired
February 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Bacteria have likely been building bridges between each other all along. But biologists are only just figuring that out now.
The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria | Quanta Magazine
Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is far more interconnected than anyone realized.
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February 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Marie Maynard Daly, American biochemist. The first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry from Columbia University (1947). Her research focused on nucleic acids; significant contributor to the knowledge of cholesterol and hypertension #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
February 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#24 from my Women in STEM series: Sarah Stewart

#WomeninSTEM
#DiversityinSTEM
#academicsky #NIH
#GeorgetownUniversity
#UniversityofChicago
#oncology #medicalreaseach
#HPV #cervicalcancer
#HPVvaccine
Sarah Stewart (1905-1976) was an oncologist of mixed Mexican and American descent. After earning a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Chicago in 1939, she worked as a professor of bacteriology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and 1949, she became the first woman to be awarded an M.D. degree from the school. She took a position at NIH in 1951, where, alongside her colleague Bernice Eddy, they discovered the SE (Stewart-Eddy) polyoma virus, one of the first viruses shown to cause cancer in multiple animals. They were also the first to show that cancer-causing viruses could be transmitted from animal to animal. Stewart's research advanced the understanding of viruses and cancer and laid the groundwork for discoveries, including the identification of human papillomavirus (HPV) as a cause of cervical cancer, which led to the development of the HPV vaccine. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize and received numerous awards and honors.
February 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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#AcademicSky I went down a Lunar Society rabbit hole, and I am now trying to research Erasmus Darwin's daughters Mary Parker Junior and Susanna Parker (the result of a relationship between Darwin and his children's governess, Mary Parker). Help? #HPS #HistSci
February 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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lareviewofbooks.org/article/scie... of interest for many of you
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the End of Earnestness | Los Angeles Review of Books
Siobhan Maria Carroll reviews The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, edited by Hugh Howey.
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February 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.
A tree - possibly an ent - with legs, arms and an unusually large bellybutton.
February 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...
Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon
"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.
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February 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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February 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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#HPS #STS
darbysaxbe.bsky.social Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb

Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a

Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb

Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX

Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g
February 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Seems like a good time to signal boost this -

Amplitudes by Lee Mandelo!

I've already turned in a review for Lightspeed, but the short version: Awesome book! Highly recommended!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770919...
Amplitudes: 9781645660866 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures. From self-styl...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Library of Congress launches History of the Book post series

blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/...
History of the Book | Bibliomania
Bibliomania
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January 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Across all economic sectors, we know what we need to do to fight climate change and many indicators are actually moving in the right direction—just not yet at the pace and scale needed. There are many ways to join others to work for positive change. 🧪
January 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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#syllabisunday Have you seen The Assay Curriculum? It's chock full of nonfiction craft pieces we've published that you might find useful in your classrooms--check it out!

https://buff.ly/3ZWeCG5
January 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
January 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM