Vote like our future depends on it. Because it does. #ClimateChange image
Charming street #art by David Zinn https://zinnart.com/about-the-artist/ image
About 10 million years ago, Platybelodon, this delightfully ridiculous ancestor of the elephant, roamed Africa, Asia, Europe & North America. #Art by Tomasz Jedrzejowski #science image
About 10 million years ago, Platybelodon, this delightfully ridiculous ancestor of the elephant, roamed Africa, Asia, Europe & North America. #Art by Tomasz Jedrzejowski #science
About 10 million years ago, Platybelodon, this delightfully ridiculous ancestor of the elephant, roamed Africa, Asia, Europe & North America. Artist: Tomasz Jedrzejowski #science #art image
"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. #HistoryRemix #science #history
Born in 1928, Vera Rubin set her sights on Princeton, but they wouldnโ€™t accept female grad students in astronomy. So she earned her masterโ€™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. #HistoryRemix #science #space #history image
The extreme heat has devastated corals. As a former marine scientist, this is a truly heartbreaking read: โ€œThe coral didnโ€™t even have a chance to bleach, it just died. It just felt like, โ€˜Oh my God, weโ€™re in the apocalypse.โ€™ Whatโ€™s happening?โ€ โ€œDemand #climate action right now. Not in a year, not tomorrow, right now. Actually yesterday.โ€
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 #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...