Science jokes are just as bad as dad jokes. What about this one?

Germline: Bacteria marching in formation across a Petri plate
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🧪 #academicsky

Fixing a lamp? Many hands make light work. 💡

Quoting Marjorie Taylor Greene's comment in her bid to depose the current House Speaker: "We need to stop the government from being used for politics.”
Hello?? Can someone please M.T. the Greene bin?

A study of field pansies near Paris suggests flowers shift to self-pollination and decreased nectar production as insect pollinators become scarce. Millions of years of coevolution to build, but only decades to dismantle? Another call to keep diverse ecofriendly oases intact in our communities. 🧑🏻‍🔬🐝🧪

Raised eyebrows?

I'm not surprised, just twice as sceptical.
🤨x2 = 😳

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@botanicgeek.bsky.social

Welcome A/Prof Caitlin Byrt, Australian Natl Univ, who is leading a research team engineering plant membrane proteins (including my favorite channels, Aquaporins) as selective solute transporters, with biotech applications in food security and ultrafiltration of water.
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Welcome to Bluesky @gsoveral.bsky.social

Graça Soveral is a Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research focuses on cell transporter defects that lead to disease, and discovery of aquaporin inhibitors as potential treatments for obesity, inflammation and cancer.

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Welcome @gsoveral

Graça Soveral is a Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research focuses on cell transporter defects that lead to disease, and discovery of aquaporin inhibitors as potential treatments for obesity, inflammation and cancer.

#academicsky #womeninstem

Welcome @gsoveral

Graça Soveral is a Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research focuses on cell transporter defects that lead to disease, and discovery of aquaporin inhibitors as potential treatments for obesity, inflammation and cancer.

#academicsky #womeninstem

Tossed from the Pearly Gaetz,
Kevin is no longer in heaven.
Who can stick the next landing?

(photo from the NY Times)

100 degrees in the Florida Keys?
A heartbreaking story of the rapid destruction of coral reefs in Florida and their associated ecosystems.

NY Times; Coral Reef Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/podcasts/the-daily/coral-reef-florida.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Here's a first go at trying to draw a cartoon, inspired by the recent NPR story of radioactive waste being released into the Pacific from Fukushima. I hope it makes sense (?) : )

more info? story from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195599146/fukushima-wastewater-japan-pacific-ocean-fisheries

I.N. Reid saw NASA telescope ideas led by women had low approval rates. Over objections, he set up anonymous reviews in 2018, & for the first time % success for women exceeded men. The old chestnut 'not enough women in the pipeline' is a hoax. The real barrier in science is unconscious bias. 🧪🔭👱‍♀️

Cosmic question mark?
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Captured in a corner of a recent James Webb Telescope image, the punctuation illusion between two galaxies merging seems to be saying to us: "Yeah, you... What the hell are you doing to your planet?"

The Foundation trilogy (1950s) earned a Hugo but left me less than impressed. Asimov's monochromatic view of a universe run by middle-aged white males lacked imagination. Kudos to Goyer, Friedman, and all the team for reimaging a rich tapestry of plots and characters in the TV series.
#womeninstem