@ohiorob@stux let it be known that ever since I migrated from the birdsite, I've never felt safer on any other social media platform than I do here. Sprinkle the right amount of science unto my safety and as a woman it means to me more than winning the lottery.
Women and #WomeninScience, just want to be safe and heard. Thank you, FediFam!
I'm reading Eugenie Clark's memoir The Lady and the Sharks about starting her marine laboratory in Florida in the 1950s.
My favorite story is that they accidentally sent (for IDing) a box of snails to an plant expert and a box of plants to a malacologist.
They both identified them correctly, but the plant guy asked why he had to scrape plant matter from snails, and the malacologist asked why they included so much plant matter with that one little snail 😄
TIL that the word "scientist" was coined by William Whewell in 1834 in his review of Mary Somerville's treatise, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences.
So, I found my late grandmother's maths diploma from the University of Geneva, dated July 1927, signed by William Rappard himself, and then I found her name in the archives of the university. I'm feeling a mix of pride and emotion that's hard to describe. She's my all-time hero. https://www.unige.ch/archives/files/9115/3866/3096/Diplomes_1926-1927.pdf
Important article that sets the record straight on Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of DNA as a double helix -- with significant new findings.
For anyone who is wondering how this is going: quite well. It has taken months of stoically sticking to this plan of following and boosting women, but my feed has now taken on a much less male-dominated tinge. This makes me happy.
#introduction I am a 🇫🇷 molecular & structural biologist working at the CNRS. I study the molecular mechanisms that control human gene expression focusing on #transcription factors & the Pol II machinery
Expect to see here a lot of info on #generegulation, #enhancers, #histone modifications & structural insights into the eukaryotic Transcription Initiation machinery. #CryoEM
I will also highlight #womeninscience to give them the visibility they deserve