"This book appealed to my split personality by
satisfying both my scientific and literary brain and
felt like I was reading two books in one." A generous, thoughtful review (pp. 61-63) by #Dr. Emma Durrant, clinical #scientist in #neurophysiology, of my #memoir, written with #UCSF#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller. Here is a link to the entire volume published in The Journal of the Association of Neurophysiological Scientists.
It’s now thought that they could illuminate fundamental questions in #physics, settle questions about #Einstein’s theories, & even help explain the #universe.
…In recent yrs, the amt of data that scientists have discovered about black holes has grown exponentially.
To me, a #SupermassiveBlackHole sounds sublime; to a #scientist, it can also be a test of wild hypotheses. “#Astrophysics is an exercise in incredible experiments not runnable on Earth,” Avery Broderick, a theoretical physicist at uWaterloo & at the Perimeter Inst, told me. “And #BlackHoles are an ideal laboratory.”
Broderick says that he studies black holes because they are very simple, theoretically & mathematically.
Next up in our #notjustaliens campaign is instrument scientist Doug Caldwell (@dacmess), who works on the search for exoplanets.
Doug specializes in optical CCD instrument definition, design, testing, characterization, and calibration.
He recently served as the Instrument Scientist for NASA's Kepler Mission and is currently a Pipeline Support Scientist for the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Mission.
#Writer and #scientist Susan Abulhawa is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organization dedicated to uplifting #Palestinian#children.
📣“I am a #scientist, a #PhD student, a mom, a friend, a hockey player.”
🎥1st video of the 3rd season of the Women [& Girls] in #Science series features Gabriela Retamales, doctoral researcher in #Biotechnology at the University of #Luxembourg
Animation of annual mean near-surface temperature anomalies in the Arctic for each year from 1950 to 2023. Data is from ERA5. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1951 to 1980 climate baseline. Graphic was updated on "1/11/2024".
Starting Monday, I will no longer be a Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
I will be a SCIENTIST.
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Dear Shawn Jones,
We are pleased to offer you the position of Scientist 2 in the Information Sciences Group (CCS-3). This represents a conversion of your student/postdoc appointment.
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You may previously heard me mention: #climatechange or better term #climate instability is a part of the problem; its total cascading ecological collapse
Well, I present the most depressing scientific article, maybe ever?😭
"UK Chief #Scientist John Beddington’s argument the #world faces a ‘perfect storm’ of #global events by 2030; become a prescient warning. Research shows ‘ghastly futures’: cascading ecosystem collapse"
30 Dec 1691: Robert Boyle FRS, #philosopher, #scientist, patron of the Bible in #Irish#Gaeilge (with his sister Katherine Ranelagh) spends his last full day on earth #otd - he would die in the early hours of 31 Dec
23 Dec 1691: d. Lady Katherine Jones (Boyle), patron & intellectual, #scientist, supporter of #Gaelic#bible#otd (Her daughters, Frances & Catherine, with a servant BM, I couldn't track down an image of her)
#Antarctica might be thousands of kilometres away, but it affects us all like no other continent. As world leaders gather for the #COP28 climate summit, we bring you a report on how even the most remote place on Earth is beginning to crumble...
In 2023, archaeologists found evidence of architecture and art beginning earlier than we thought, and uncovered data that rewrites our ideas of how much power women had in ancient societies