🧪A reminder of how measles made headlines over a century ago. Headline From The Bridgeport Evening Farmer November 22, 1913 We have forgotten. History rhymes. #ImpeachRFKJr #SackTheQuack

🧪We joined the party and provided a detailed response to RFK and Trump's latest statement on Tylenol use during pregnancy and Autism: www.lbscience.org/en/2025/09/2... @lbscience.org

Great news. Let's do this everywhere. www.krqe.com/news/politic...

Handheld test for urinary tract infections takes 30 min After an easy prep, samples are loaded directly into a detector and can be tested for antibiotic resistance. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪

Barbie, in the eponymous 2023 hit movie, sings, What Was I Made For? A new version of the celeb Mattel doll has a clear answer: to help children who have type 1 diabetes feel more included. scim.ag/4eSKAsg

Congratulations to this year’s Frontiers Planet Prize winners. Launched in 2022, the prize aims to accelerate breakthrough solutions for planetary health. Prof Zahra Kalantari, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Dr Arunima Malik, University of Sydney, are the first women to receive this honor. 🧪

🧠 Parenthood in academia affects mental health – but not equally Academic mothers face a much higher risk of depression than fathers or non-mothers. Risk is greatest for those without support, or who are Black or have disabled children. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #AcademicSky 🧪

Congratulations to Salk Assistant Professor, Deepshika Ramanan, who has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The distinction comes with funding for up to five years to support her research on the mechanism of maternal immunity transmission through breastmilk. 🧪

🧪 For the first time, women have won the $1.1M Frontiers Planet Prize. The shift follows criticism of past all-male winners, but the award's solo-winner model is still debated for obscuring the work of large research teams.

Sally Ride became the first US woman in space #OTD in 1983. She was one of three mission specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. At age 32 she was also the youngest US astronaut. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Image: NASA

🌾🔥 Climate shifts, failed crops – and women’s health suffers In drought-prone southern Ethiopia, changing rainfall and crop failures are linked to rising malnutrition in women. Food insecurity directly mediates this climate–health crisis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #SciComm #ClimateHealth 🧪

Congratulations to Dr. Tova Holmes and colleagues on receiving a grant from the Simon’s Foundation. Their proposal aims to advance the field of particle physics by working towards the creation of a muon collider. 🧪 @tovaholmes.bsky.social

Adelaide Ames was born #OTD in 1900. She worked with H. Shapley at Harvard, publishing a catalog of galaxies that pointed to an heterogeneous distribution across the sky, eventually leading to the concept of superclusters. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaid...

A quarter for your thoughts? 🪙 We think Vera C. Rubin is a great choice to be honored with a quarter... and with an observatory! Rubin was an accomplished astronomer who provided the first convincing evidence of dark matter, influencing a new subfield of astrophysics. 🧪🔭

A fungal metabolite from the gut helps counter liver disease by reducing metabolic disorders. A surprising ally for liver health! PMID:40310928, Science 2025, @ScienceMagazine https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adx1789 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

The authors of a Comment article in Nature “urge STEMM scientists in the United States to avoid the mistakes of the past and instead stand together and fight for both personal and academic freedom.” #Academicsky 🧪

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 🧪

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

#DorothyHodgkin unveiled the structures of penicillin, B12 & insulin using X-ray crystallography—earning the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her work shaped modern medicine & broke barriers for women in science. #WomenInSTEM #NobelPrize 🧪

Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator and writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)!⁠ 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮 #histsci Nightingale earned the nickname “The Lady with the Lamp” during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her 🧵

🧠🔬 Hidden Cause of Alzheimer’s? A new study found the brain protein PHGDH can drive Alzheimer’s even without risky genes. Blocking it helped brain models recover – offering a new treatment idea. 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #SciComm 🧪

I can think of a long list of things that would do more for women. Like, oh I don’t know, maybe actually supporting women who don’t have millions of dollars to spend on going to space for a 10min joy ride. 🔭🧪

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

2/2 depth of her research career, whose work revolutionized medicine, biology, and agriculture. The scope of his legacy is immense. Read this article: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 ⚛️ #histsci #WomenInStem #WomenInScience

RFK Jr is criminally insane. He will be responsible for the deaths of more people than the rest of the regime combined when the next pandemic comes. 🧪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

April 12 is Yuri's Night! Today we celebrate the International Day of Human Spaceflight. The focus is on the first man in space, but have you ever wondered about the life of Valentina Ivanovna Goryacheva, who married him? 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

An unprecedented dataset of high resolution anatomical images of individual cells in mouse visual cortex, mapped on to their responses - a foundation for discovering the computational bases of cortical circuits. A tour de force from the MICrONS consortium 🧪 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

A new history of the race to decipher DNA reveals Shakespearean plots of scheming. "Photograph No. 51 remains one of the most egregious ripoffs in the history of science.” 🧪

Mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson was born #OTD in 1921. Jackson worked at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics until it was succeeded by NASA in 1958. She then became the first black woman to work as a NASA engineer. 🧪 🚀 👩🏾‍🔬 www.nasa.gov/history/mary...

For access to federal grant funds in 2025, you need to be more aware of what types of words you are using, and are not using, in your grant applications. Holly Rustick offers advice in her podcast: Banned and Trigger Words in Federal Grant Writing in the Trump Administration 2.0.

New Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (JITC) case report: First reported case of a spontaneous and healthy pregnancy in a woman with persistent CAR T-cells 5 years after treatment for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma bit.ly/3XLyjih 🧪 #JITC #MedSky #OncSky #lymphoma

What happens to health research when ‘women’ and ‘diversity’ are banned words? 🧪 www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

There is currently no oral birth control option available to men to prevent pregnancy in their sexual partners. A study in Communications Medicine lays the groundwork for human trials of YCT-529, a non-hormonal male contraceptive. 🧪

🧪Word of the Day Biobank Biobanks are “banks” of biological specimens. Organoids are a "miniaturized" & more simple version of organs. They are derived from stem cells or from patients. Building biobanks is a growing field. Why? b/c breast cancer is heterogeneous. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.” wapo.st/4jdXL8m

The paper highlights—“As is the case with other forms of relational labors, sci-comm is often an area of work that is under-recognized and undervalued, primarily because it is predominately performed by women and is associated with femininity—it is devalued because it is feminized.” 🧪

The gender gap in research publications shows some improvement - especially in health research 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hormone therapy used to treat menopausal symptoms in younger, healthy women is not only safe for the heart but may even offer some cardiovascular benefits. A cardiologist (Matthew Nudy, Penn State) explains: buff.ly/Qz4UzUO 🩺 #medsky

Just did the UCI podcast on Women in Science - historic barriers, current barriers, promoting women in science, why it matters that we do so. Very not on trend for right now. news.uci.edu/2025/03/31/u...

US women deserve better

Study in Nature shows older adults who had shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those not vaccinated. 🧪💉👵🏼 "For the first time we are able to say .. the shingles vaccine causes a reduction in dementia risk." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

😷📈🧪🛟 Medsky sociology demography www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪Apparently 678 research projects have been terminated by NIH, including work on breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and HIV prevention, among other topics. The amount of canceled grants cost $2.4 billion. That’s a lot of money pulled just b/c you don’t like the words in the research proposal.

Eunice Newton Foote’s contribution to science went largely unrecognized for 163 years. The rediscovery of her work underscores the need for targeted efforts to accurately depict women’s contributions throughout history. 💚👩‍🔬🧪

On International Transgender Day of Visibility, we affirm your right to be seen and respected, and stand in solidarity with you. #WeSeeYou #TransDayOfVisibility

For final submitters: Our WAC women in archaeology theme received such overwhelming interest that WAC asked us to split into into two. Find our sessions in Themes 18 & 26. Deadline: 31 March! I think the huge response says a lot about how desperately women want to see change in the discipline...

"Removal of DEI programs will demoralize and disincentivize an entire generation of scientists in training. It will greatly reduce the scientific workforce and remove top talent from our training programs as funding mechanisms are dismantled." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...