@brendabee10.bsky.social
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DO NOT GIVE UP!
Our advocacy is working.
A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.
Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Our advocacy is working.
A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.
Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️
July 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
DO NOT GIVE UP!
Our advocacy is working.
A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.
Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Our advocacy is working.
A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.
Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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🧵 The Houston Chronicle has identified the individuals who own the most acreage in the Houston area and where, painting a picture of some of the most powerful players shaping the region's rural landscape. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...
Who owns the most acreage in greater Houston? Meet the top 5 landowners.
These interactive maps show who owns the most acreage in greater Houston and where, spotlighting the powerful players shaping the area's rural landscape.
www.houstonchronicle.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
🧵 The Houston Chronicle has identified the individuals who own the most acreage in the Houston area and where, painting a picture of some of the most powerful players shaping the region's rural landscape. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...
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Western scientific methods—such as statistical models and satellite imagery—provide insights that would be otherwise unattainable. But we also need the wisdom of the First Nations to preserve aquatic ecosystems. 🧪
How Indigenous Knowledge Could Save Fishing
We need both modern data and the wisdom of the First Nations to preserve aquatic ecosystems
nautil.us
May 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Western scientific methods—such as statistical models and satellite imagery—provide insights that would be otherwise unattainable. But we also need the wisdom of the First Nations to preserve aquatic ecosystems. 🧪
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My OCR version of Nick Groom's "Tolkien, Geology, and Romantic Lithology" keeps reading "stones" as "scones"––"the Seeing Scones," "the philosophical study of scones," "the Scone of Erech"...
@willsherwood.bsky.social
@willsherwood.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My OCR version of Nick Groom's "Tolkien, Geology, and Romantic Lithology" keeps reading "stones" as "scones"––"the Seeing Scones," "the philosophical study of scones," "the Scone of Erech"...
@willsherwood.bsky.social
@willsherwood.bsky.social
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Scientists have created artificial electrical synapses in mammals for the first time, which seemed to make them more sociable and reduce their risk of OCD-like symptoms.
Electrical synapses genetically engineered in mammals for first time
Scientists have used gene editing to produce artificial electrical synapses in mice, where they can be targeted to make the animals more sociable or reduce their risk of OCD-like symptoms
www.newscientist.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Scientists have created artificial electrical synapses in mammals for the first time, which seemed to make them more sociable and reduce their risk of OCD-like symptoms.
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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
Science Homecoming
sciencehomecoming.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
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NASA employees at the Johnson Space Center learned Tuesday night that the center's probationary employees would be spared from the latest round of layoffs under the Trump administration — a surprise turn of events hours after many were bracing to be fired. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Houston’s NASA employees spared from latest Trump layoffs in surprise turn
NASA employees at the Johnson Space Center learned Tuesday night that the center's probationary employees would not be laid off.
www.houstonchronicle.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
NASA employees at the Johnson Space Center learned Tuesday night that the center's probationary employees would be spared from the latest round of layoffs under the Trump administration — a surprise turn of events hours after many were bracing to be fired. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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"Injury and neurological disease have the potential to unleash creativity" [via Mass General Brigham] 🧪🧠⚕️🤔
“...complex human behaviors such as creativity don’t map to a specific brain region but [] to specific brain circuits”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#creativity #brain #injury #medicine
“...complex human behaviors such as creativity don’t map to a specific brain region but [] to specific brain circuits”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#creativity #brain #injury #medicine
Mapping Neuroimaging Findings of Creativity and Brain Disease
This study using network mapping of meta-analytic data investigates whether creativity maps to a specific brain circuit and whether damage to that circuit aligns with creativity changes observed in pe...
jamanetwork.com
February 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Injury and neurological disease have the potential to unleash creativity" [via Mass General Brigham] 🧪🧠⚕️🤔
“...complex human behaviors such as creativity don’t map to a specific brain region but [] to specific brain circuits”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#creativity #brain #injury #medicine
“...complex human behaviors such as creativity don’t map to a specific brain region but [] to specific brain circuits”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#creativity #brain #injury #medicine
Cognitive decline, use it or lose it! Fill the regained mental space with a new skill set, specialty, and keep thinking critically!
A survey of workers who used generative AI found that they used critical thinking less when they trusted the AI to do the task accurately
Using AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking skills
A survey of workers who used generative AI to complete tasks found that they use critical thinking less when they trusted the AI to do the task accurately
www.newscientist.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Cognitive decline, use it or lose it! Fill the regained mental space with a new skill set, specialty, and keep thinking critically!
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Physicists and mathematicians infinitely prefer the humble blackboard to its high-tech rivals. What does slate-and-chalk offer, which cannot be simulated by paper or plastic? 🧪
The Magic of the Blackboard
Why scientists can’t quit chalk, even in the digital age.
nautil.us
January 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Physicists and mathematicians infinitely prefer the humble blackboard to its high-tech rivals. What does slate-and-chalk offer, which cannot be simulated by paper or plastic? 🧪
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The power of friendships, Aristotle's classification, and other thoughts [via Brad Stulberg] 🧪🧑🤝🧑💓
'Feel-good' connections aside, this can be a path to altruistic love beyond anything #transactional
getpocket.com/explore/item...
#friendship #social #connection #mental #health #psychology
'Feel-good' connections aside, this can be a path to altruistic love beyond anything #transactional
getpocket.com/explore/item...
#friendship #social #connection #mental #health #psychology
The Incredible Power Of Friendship
In many ways, those with whom you surround yourself make you who you are.
getpocket.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:55 PM
The power of friendships, Aristotle's classification, and other thoughts [via Brad Stulberg] 🧪🧑🤝🧑💓
'Feel-good' connections aside, this can be a path to altruistic love beyond anything #transactional
getpocket.com/explore/item...
#friendship #social #connection #mental #health #psychology
'Feel-good' connections aside, this can be a path to altruistic love beyond anything #transactional
getpocket.com/explore/item...
#friendship #social #connection #mental #health #psychology
My take was neuron growth does better at a better rate in low-to-zero gravity environments. Promising!
Lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue survived + thrived on a holiday on the ISS [via Science Alert] 🧪🧠🛰️🌌
"Slow replication and fast maturation" -likely explains why the two stranded astronauts look much older
www.sciencealert.com/human-minibr...
#ISS #space #cell #growth #gene #expression
"Slow replication and fast maturation" -likely explains why the two stranded astronauts look much older
www.sciencealert.com/human-minibr...
#ISS #space #cell #growth #gene #expression
Human Minibrains Launched Into Space Thrived in an Unexpected Way
Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit.
www.sciencealert.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:50 AM
My take was neuron growth does better at a better rate in low-to-zero gravity environments. Promising!
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“Honeybees waggle to communicate. But to do it well, they need dance lessons.
Without older sisters to practice with, young bees flub distances.”
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
#behavioralecology
#animalcommunication
www.sciencenews.org/article/bee-...
🧪 🐝 🐙
Without older sisters to practice with, young bees flub distances.”
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
#behavioralecology
#animalcommunication
www.sciencenews.org/article/bee-...
🧪 🐝 🐙
Honeybees waggle to communicate. But to do it well, they need dance lessons
Young honeybees can’t perfect waggling on their own after all. Without older sisters to practice with, youngsters fail to nail distances.
www.sciencenews.org
November 23, 2024 at 1:18 AM
“Honeybees waggle to communicate. But to do it well, they need dance lessons.
Without older sisters to practice with, young bees flub distances.”
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
#behavioralecology
#animalcommunication
www.sciencenews.org/article/bee-...
🧪 🐝 🐙
Without older sisters to practice with, young bees flub distances.”
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
#behavioralecology
#animalcommunication
www.sciencenews.org/article/bee-...
🧪 🐝 🐙