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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 2h

Congratulations to MOF pioneers Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M Yaghi for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry!
I was fortunate to interview Dr. Kitagawa -- who was so kind --in 2019 when I was working with a MOFs-based company. Dug up the story on the Wayback Machine:
#scicomm #NobelPrize 🧪

Exploring Crystals and their Environments: Susumu Kitagawa on the Evolution of MOFs - NuMat Technologies

Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University — renowned for his work on MOFS and coordination chemistry — talks about his early work, the current trends he sees in adoption of MOF technology, and his dream app...

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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s the thing I wish everyone could hold in their minds about writers—we love em dashes. We use em dashes. We are humans and not AI. We will not be deleting our em dashes just because AI uses them too. We were here first. You can pry my em dashes from my cold dead hands. F*ck AI.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

Trivia on 'trivia'

In ancient Rome, a trivium was an intersection of three roads (tri, "three" + vium, road).

According to the Romans, when people met at a trivium, they would discuss trivialis ("inconsequential things") - which eventually helped give trivia its modern meaning.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 5d

This is why museum documentation matters! Without, it's very easy to misplaced an entire buffalo for decades

Denver Museum of Nature & Science @denvermuseumns.bsky.social · 6d

🕵️‍♀️🦬 Mystery solved! Our missing 650-pound Museum bison has returned after 50 years. Learn about its journey back to the Museum in #Catalyst. https://dmns.mobi/47bCc43

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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 4d

“Glaciers are touchstones between the past and the present, and it’s just so visceral when you can see how it used to be and how it is today"
Stunning and tragic images and imagery *sigh*
#scicomm #science

As California glaciers disappear, people will see ice-free peaks exposed for the first time in millennia

The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers probably have never before melted in human history.

www.latimes.com

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 5d

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 6d

RIP Jane Goodall. She was such an inspiration & role model. May her memory be a blessing 🧪👩‍🔬 #HPS

Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 6d

An icon

Jane Goodall, primatologist and friend to chimpanzees, dies at 91

She used her global fame to draw attention to the plight of dwindling chimpanzee populations and, more broadly, to the perils of environmental destruction.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 9d

Same for me -- strongly preferring reading transcripts

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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 12d

You had me at swing dancing 90s revival and rolodex 😀

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Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 14d

Do you work in conservation science, particularly outside the U.S.? Did you lose your job or funding for your job because of cuts to U.S. federal agencies? Do you want to talk about it? DM me please. (This is for a @biographic.bsky.social story)

[Iceland photo for attention only]

Grassy dunes, the ocean, and jagged mountains in Iceland

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 13d

A new JWST image, showing the star-forming region Sagittarius B2.

Open up the image and lose yourself in the stars...

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 14d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Jeannie in DC @rivergirl202.bsky.social · 14d

Wednesday’s #Sunrise over the Tidal Basin in DC! @capitalweather.bsky.social @ianlivingston.bsky.social

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 15d

#SciArtSeptember Day 23: Scouting
Working dogs use their noses to find target species during conservation projects.
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#beagle #dogs #sketchbook #drawing

An illustration of a beagle, walking with its nose to the ground. The illustration is simple, with blues taking the place of dark colours on the dog. The background is flat beige.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18d

What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language?

You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.

Happy talk like a pirate day!

a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .

ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .

media.tenor.com

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 22d

First, the whole concept of "deserving" one payout or another is...hubris. After all, just because a book is a bestseller doesn't mean it's GOOD, and just because a book didn't sell at all doesn't mean it's bad.

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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 25d

Insightful piece that is worth the read 👇
#scicomm

Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 25d

‘The anti-vax movement isn’t simply a grassroots network of concerned parents. It’s an industry. … It operates on a simple premise: if you’re not vaccinating your kids, you need to protect them somehow, and here’s a bunch of things you can buy to do that.’
Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social

Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer - Macleans.ca

I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.

macleans.ca

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26d

Earth science departments are being gutted across the country, which is utterly bizarre given their relevance to our understanding of climate, hazards and disasters, the soils that feed us, the industries that drive our economies, and the importance of ancient life to understanding biodiversity.

Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 26d

I have just heard an ALARMING report that my former Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska is threatened with elimination, due to a university & state-wide budget crisis, and despite their ongoing success in scholarship and teaching. This is really shocking.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25d

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise.

Sign up here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25d

I run @skypeascientist.bsky.social which matches scientists w/classrooms, libraries, etc for Q&As.

We match First Lego League teams too. This tends to wipe out one category of scientist bc so many teams sign up for the same category (this year, archaeologists). We're almost out of archaeologists.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 27d

so uh…. anyone else need some space?

things are HEAVY right now.

In what appears as a celestial dreamscape, a blue and black sky filled with brilliant stars covers about two thirds of the image. The stars are different sizes and shades of white, beige, yellow, and light orange. Across the bottom third of the scene is a craggy, mountain-like vista with spire-like peaks and deep, seemingly misty valleys. These so-called mountains appear in varying shades of orange, yellow, and brown. The soaring spires are going up, up, up, where a wispy, ethereal white cloud stretches horizontally across the scene. Steam appears to rise from the mountaintops and join with this cloud. At the top, right corner of the image, a swath of orange and brown structure cuts diagonally across the sky.

M55. This image is filled with white stars, smattered with blue-white and reddish-orange stars, all shining against black space.

A spiral galaxy seen at a skewed angle. Its center is a bright spot radiating light. A thick, stormy disk of material surrounds this bright center, with swirling strands of dark dust and bright spots of star formation strewn through the disk. A large spiral arm extends from the disk toward the viewer. Some foreground stars are visible atop the galaxy.

Webb's image of a section of the Flame Nebula, which contains a mixture of reds, blues and browns, and shows red, blue, and white stars.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 27d

To sum up: we have

🪨 A cool rock from #Mars that may or may not hold evidence of ancient life

🛰️ An internal fight over whether NASA should spend its money on science or human exploration, and on what planet

🤔 A totally uncertain future for this amazing rock

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Cognitive Neuroscience Society @cogneuronews.bsky.social · 28d

Just a whiff of certain smells can instantly take me back to my childhood... Read a new Q&A with Joan Tarrida Vidal about the lasting cognitive effects of smell:
#scicomm #neuroscience #science

The Lasting Cognitive Effect of Smell on Memory

Researchers, exploring what happens in the brain after exposure to certain smells, found that that even brief odor cues have a lasting effect

www.cogneurosociety.org

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 29d

I am here to say vaccines are awesome because guess what Denmark is close to completely eliminating the two most dangerous HPV strains (serotype 16 and 18) and with the cervical cancer.I think that is bloody AMAZING!!!!
bit.ly/4pbHxjT

Denmark close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out

A nationwide study suggests infections with human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 have been virtually eliminated since vaccination began in 2008 – protecting even unvaccinated women.

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · Sep 8

Do you know what a “rusticle” is?

The word was added to the Oxford Dictionary shortly after #WHOI emeritus scientist Bob Ballard used it to describe stalactites of oxidized iron covering the Titanic shipwreck.

40 years ago this month, Ballard's team discovered the “unsinkable” ship 13,000 ft deep

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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · Sep 8

Laughing, cursing, and crying all at once 👇

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Sep 8

Obligatory sharing of John Oliver's take on this administrations fight against research and Universities #academia

youtu.be/xk94il8L820?...

Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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