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About 10 million years ago, Platybelodon, this delightfully ridiculous ancestor of the elephant, roamed Africa, Asia, Europe & North America.

WIRED

Absurd Creature of the Week: This Prehistoric Elephant Had a Huge Spork for a Mouth

Platybelodon was an ancestor of the modern elephant that looked like it got hit in the face with a shovel, then absorbed that shovel into its mouth.

#Art by Tomasz Jedrzejowski #science

About 10 million years ago, Platybelodon, this delightfully ridiculous ancestor of the elephant, roamed Africa, Asia, Europe & North America.

WIRED

Absurd Creature of the Week: This Prehistoric Elephant Had a Huge Spork for a Mouth

Platybelodon was an ancestor of the modern elephant that looked like it got hit in the face with a shovel, then absorbed that shovel into its mouth.

#Art by Tomasz Jedrzejowski #science

About 10 million years ago, Platybelodon, this delightfully ridiculous ancestor of the elephant, roamed Africa, Asia, Europe & North America.

WIRED

Absurd Creature of the Week: This Prehistoric Elephant Had a Huge Spork for a Mouth

Platybelodon was an ancestor of the modern elephant that looked like it got hit in the face with a shovel, then absorbed that shovel into its mouth.

Artist: Tomasz Jedrzejowski #science #art

"Christopher Nolan's #Oppenheimer explores the work of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer & colleagues to create the atomic bomb. Yet, the film fails to depict a key part of the story, using 2 female scientists as stand-ins for ALL of the women who contributed." Hundreds of women were essential to the Manhattan Project, including Nobel Prize winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer. But they are largely absent in the #film.

Business Insider

The women behind the Manhattan Project that Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' completely ignored

Women serving in key roles like explosion techs, librarians, and hematologists were essential to the Manhattan Project.

#HistoryRemix #science #history

Born in 1928, Vera Rubin set her sights on Princeton, but they wouldn’t accept female grad students in astronomy. So she earned her master’s from Cornell & PhD from Georgetown. In 1965, Rubin became the 1st woman allowed to observe at the Palomar Observatory. She went on to find evidence for the existence of dark matter. In 1993, Rubin was awarded the National Medal of Science. But curiously, she was not awarded a Nobel Prize.

The Marginalian

Pioneering Astronomer Vera Rubin on Women in Science, Dark Matter, and Our Never-Ending Quest to Know the Universe

“We’re still groping for the truth… Science consists of continually making better and better what has been usable in the past.&#8...

#HistoryRemix #science #space #history

The extreme heat has devastated corals. As a former marine scientist, this is a truly heartbreaking read: “The coral didn’t even have a chance to bleach, it just died. It just felt like, ‘Oh my God, we’re in the apocalypse.’ What’s happening?”

A Desperate Push to Save Florida’s Coral: Get It Out of the Sea (Published 2023)

Teams dedicated to ocean restoration are urgently moving samples to tanks on land as a marine heat wave devastates entire reefs.

“Demand #climate action right now. Not in a year, not tomorrow, right now. Actually yesterday.”

Today is my dissertation proposal defense. That means I'll give a public lecture about my research in front of my committee. As some folks may know, I'm doing another round of grad school, mid-career, focused on scientific decision making in the U.S. Congress

A Dissertation on Democracy

Consider this the Cliffs Notes

#science #politics In terms of PhD-ing, this is kind of like the pregame. I passed my comprehensive exams last year & will officially defend my dissertation & finish this Fall. So here goes...