Tobias Baskin
@tobiasisaac.bsky.social
Plant biologist; enthusiast of art, music, and design.
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19th-century amateur researcher Eunice Foote made a crucial early discovery in the study of climate change. Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source? 🧪
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?
nautil.us
March 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
19th-century amateur researcher Eunice Foote made a crucial early discovery in the study of climate change. Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source? 🧪
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New clinical term just dropped.
Will adopt. 🤔
Will adopt. 🤔
February 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
New clinical term just dropped.
Will adopt. 🤔
Will adopt. 🤔
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For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
January 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
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My favourite: (20+25)²=2025
January 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My favourite: (20+25)²=2025
Dr look! @susieoftraken.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Dr look! @susieoftraken.bsky.social
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Also, courage is contagious. I continue to stand against American fascism in the hope that others will take heart, too.
December 23, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Also, courage is contagious. I continue to stand against American fascism in the hope that others will take heart, too.
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A remarkable view of the Tbilisi protest tonight from above.
100,000 Georgians gathered to hear their President speak outside Parliament as the anti-Russia resistance continues for a 25th straight night.
These amazing images are being captured by local photographer Ezz Gaber.
#GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪
100,000 Georgians gathered to hear their President speak outside Parliament as the anti-Russia resistance continues for a 25th straight night.
These amazing images are being captured by local photographer Ezz Gaber.
#GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪
December 22, 2024 at 6:36 PM
A remarkable view of the Tbilisi protest tonight from above.
100,000 Georgians gathered to hear their President speak outside Parliament as the anti-Russia resistance continues for a 25th straight night.
These amazing images are being captured by local photographer Ezz Gaber.
#GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪
100,000 Georgians gathered to hear their President speak outside Parliament as the anti-Russia resistance continues for a 25th straight night.
These amazing images are being captured by local photographer Ezz Gaber.
#GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪
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Reposted by Tobias Baskin
An ongoing passion project of mine at work: making small info placards about women in STEM that hang in our campus biology building. Their stories give me strength & hope especially now when we face 4 years of darkness. Here is the 1st of many I'll be sharing. #WomeninSTEM #academicsky #skystorians
December 8, 2024 at 7:07 PM
An ongoing passion project of mine at work: making small info placards about women in STEM that hang in our campus biology building. Their stories give me strength & hope especially now when we face 4 years of darkness. Here is the 1st of many I'll be sharing. #WomeninSTEM #academicsky #skystorians
So far the new regime in Syria appears to be exercising restraint and not vengence. Breath held.
"We really haven't seen anything quite like this since the Nazis.”
The judgement of Stephen Rapp, a former US War Crimes prosecutor, after visiting mass graves in #Syria this week.
Rapp led prosecutions at war crimes tribunals in Rwanda & Sierra Leone.
Full Reuters story👇
The judgement of Stephen Rapp, a former US War Crimes prosecutor, after visiting mass graves in #Syria this week.
Rapp led prosecutions at war crimes tribunals in Rwanda & Sierra Leone.
Full Reuters story👇
Syrian mass graves expose "machinery of death" under Assad, top prosecutor says
An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013.
www.reuters.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:19 AM
So far the new regime in Syria appears to be exercising restraint and not vengence. Breath held.
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We strongly endorse the naming of 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘦 (DSM 3412) in honor of Susan Gottesman
#MicroSky #microbiology
#MicroSky #microbiology
December 18, 2024 at 10:32 PM
We strongly endorse the naming of 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘦 (DSM 3412) in honor of Susan Gottesman
#MicroSky #microbiology
#MicroSky #microbiology
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Bonus #artAdventCalendar:
For #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt jumper: This is a small little handprinted linocut print of a red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum), one of the most common grasshoppers in NA, these are the most commonly seen grasshoppers in the northern US and southern Canada. 🧪🐡
For #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt jumper: This is a small little handprinted linocut print of a red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum), one of the most common grasshoppers in NA, these are the most commonly seen grasshoppers in the northern US and southern Canada. 🧪🐡
December 16, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Bonus #artAdventCalendar:
For #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt jumper: This is a small little handprinted linocut print of a red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum), one of the most common grasshoppers in NA, these are the most commonly seen grasshoppers in the northern US and southern Canada. 🧪🐡
For #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt jumper: This is a small little handprinted linocut print of a red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum), one of the most common grasshoppers in NA, these are the most commonly seen grasshoppers in the northern US and southern Canada. 🧪🐡
This looks amazing...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cotton-and-squid-bone sponge can soak up 99.9% of microplastics, scientists say
Filter performs well in removing plastic pollution from water and Chinese researchers say it appears to be scalable
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:13 AM
This looks amazing...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reposted by Tobias Baskin
I love that today's google doodle celebrates the amazing, important kelp forests fringing the southern coast of Australia
🦑
These underwater forests are home to wondrous animals like sea dragons, blue-ringed octopuses, wobbegongs and handfish
#Greatsouthernreef
doodles.google/doodle/celeb...
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These underwater forests are home to wondrous animals like sea dragons, blue-ringed octopuses, wobbegongs and handfish
#Greatsouthernreef
doodles.google/doodle/celeb...
Celebrating the Giant Kelp Forests of the Great Southern Reef Doodle - Google Doodles
Learn more about the creation of Celebrating the Giant Kelp Forests of the Great Southern Reef Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.
doodles.google
December 5, 2024 at 11:34 AM
I love that today's google doodle celebrates the amazing, important kelp forests fringing the southern coast of Australia
🦑
These underwater forests are home to wondrous animals like sea dragons, blue-ringed octopuses, wobbegongs and handfish
#Greatsouthernreef
doodles.google/doodle/celeb...
🦑
These underwater forests are home to wondrous animals like sea dragons, blue-ringed octopuses, wobbegongs and handfish
#Greatsouthernreef
doodles.google/doodle/celeb...
“I’m f*cking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour,” Sarah Jeong, reporting on the coup in South Korea
December 4, 2024 at 1:12 PM
“I’m f*cking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour,” Sarah Jeong, reporting on the coup in South Korea
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December 3, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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Focal adhesion dynamics for #FluorescenceFriday 🎆
Breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 expressing FAK (here in yellow) captured using TIRF microscopy 🔬
#Mechanobiology #LiveImaging #CancerResearch
Breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 expressing FAK (here in yellow) captured using TIRF microscopy 🔬
#Mechanobiology #LiveImaging #CancerResearch
November 29, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Focal adhesion dynamics for #FluorescenceFriday 🎆
Breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 expressing FAK (here in yellow) captured using TIRF microscopy 🔬
#Mechanobiology #LiveImaging #CancerResearch
Breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 expressing FAK (here in yellow) captured using TIRF microscopy 🔬
#Mechanobiology #LiveImaging #CancerResearch
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I believe this too. It's often the small things that turn the tide.
November 24, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I believe this too. It's often the small things that turn the tide.
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A reminder for new folks. BlueSky does not have an algorithm to raise posts of interest. It is incumbent upon you to do so via reposting. Liking things only provides feedback to the poster but does not promote the post. The signal to noise ratio is taking a brief beating, so great to help curate.
November 22, 2024 at 10:58 PM
A reminder for new folks. BlueSky does not have an algorithm to raise posts of interest. It is incumbent upon you to do so via reposting. Liking things only provides feedback to the poster but does not promote the post. The signal to noise ratio is taking a brief beating, so great to help curate.
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Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪
49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday
Paleontologists named the insect "Attenborough's Beauty," after Sir David Attenborough.
www.livescience.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪
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Africa’s Fashion Diaspora at the FIT Museum
November 24, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Africa’s Fashion Diaspora at the FIT Museum
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When the next pandemic strikes, Americans will again depend on our mainstream media to inform the nation's response & reassure the public. But media outfits like the Washington Post have (as Peter Hotez & I detail in the forthcoming #ScienceUnderSiege) have shown themselves not to be up to the task.
Fixed it @washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:39 PM
When the next pandemic strikes, Americans will again depend on our mainstream media to inform the nation's response & reassure the public. But media outfits like the Washington Post have (as Peter Hotez & I detail in the forthcoming #ScienceUnderSiege) have shown themselves not to be up to the task.
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Jorunna funebris is our #Nudivember species today. They feed on sponges in the Indo-Pacific regions.
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Mourning Dorid (Jorunna funebris)
Mourning Dorid from Makadi Bay, Hurghada, Egypt on August 7, 2014 at 11:57 AM by Hsini Lin. big one
www.inaturalist.org
November 24, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Jorunna funebris is our #Nudivember species today. They feed on sponges in the Indo-Pacific regions.
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...