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Tiny blue-green crystals (there's a green coloured arrow stuck on the specimen to point these out) with some leaf-green illite and blue azurite on a matrix. From Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London's collections.

1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Quetzalcoatlite:
- Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour
- Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
- This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)

📣 In a new paper using data on >11,000 kids, we find children who are #evicted suffer worse mental health & increased sleep problems... but so do children whose families simply struggle to pay the rent each month, implicating the health of 100,000s of young people in the housing crisis. #episky 🧪

SETI Live record button logo. Text: Do Aliens Speak Physics? with Beth Johnson and Daniel Whiteson. Background: A chalkboard covered in physics equations and notations. Inset: Photo of Daniel Whiteson, mockup of the book cover for Do Aliens Speak Physics?

Next #SETILive: Do Aliens Speak Physics?
TODAY, 16 October, 2:30 pm PDT

Join host @planetarypan.bsky.social and co-author @danielwhiteson.bsky.social for a discussion of this mind-bending exploration into what it would mean for humans to communicate with an ET through the language of physics. 🧪 👩‍🔬

We’re waking up our social media presence!🌱Every week, a different CLEAR member will share what life looks like in the lab, from wet lab work to community authorship. Each perspective is unique, showing the diff ways we think about what we do and *how* we do it. Stay tuned! 1/8

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🎇Are you or do you know an outstanding #STEM professional in #Atlantic #Canada? Committed to #equity and ready to share trailblazing research to new audiences?

✅Nominate yourself or a peer TODAY for our SPARK Lecture Tour Award! forms.gle/PPr8cpbn934x...

#inclusioninstem #ResearchExcellence

We welcome Dr. Mita Dasog from Dalhousie University as our Seminar speaker next Friday, October 3rd.

Learn more!
www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghez/

STEM Scientist of the Week!
Andrea Ghez, an American astrophysicist whose pioneering work with Reinhard Genzel garnered them the Nobel Prize in 2020, providing conclusive evidence of the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* at the centre of the Milky Way! ⚫

#womeninSTEM #astro

Truth and Reconciliation Week – Taking Truth to Action The National Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419

The principles of Truth and Reconciliation go beyond the week of September 22 – 26. It is a year-round, lifetime commitment.

Find out various ways to start practicing Truth and Reconciliation today:
🔗 trw-svr.nctr.ca

This week in STEM - researchers at Rice University uncover pieces of Mars' watery history, with profound implications for the planet's past habitability as well as future sites for analysis by the Perserverance Rover.

Read more: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

#STEMNews #mars #spacescience

In this Viewpoint, we hear from a cross section of women, across multiple research fields, discussing their science and the process of setting up a lab as an independent researcher. rupress.org/jem/article/...
@quinascience.bsky.social @aweinstock.bsky.social @osterhoutlab.bsky.social
#WomeninSTEM

📣Application period NOW OPEN for CISE-Atlantic's Catalyze & Facilitate Sponsorship and Partnership Program!

Seed funding opportunity for new initiatives or expansions that advance inclusion in STEM in Atlantic Canada.
Learn more: linktr.ee/cise_atlantic

#InclusioninSTEM #equityineducation

The Safer STEM Lab — Courage to Act Foundation A professional training series by the Courage to Act Foundation. This virtual program equips participants with the skills and tools to prevent sexual harassment and foster safer, more inclusive learni...

Are you an #STEM educator or looking to drive policy change in STEM for safer, inclusive learning spaces?

Register for The Safer STEM Lab, a free online #training series on the prevention of sexual harassment in experiential learning - www.couragetoact.ca/safer-stem-lab
@couragetoact.bsky.social

She is most known for her observation of gravitational waves from a two black hole collision, a phenomena once predicted by Einstein. This helped our understanding of the universe and dark matter. Learn more about Nergis Mavalvala here:
orgchart.mit.edu/leadership/d...

STEM Scientist of the Week: Nergis Mavalvala
Nergis Mavalvala is a queer Pakistani-American astrophysicist, who won the 2014 LGBTQ Scientist of the year. She earned her doctorate in astrophysics at MIT, and later was the first woman to become the Dean of Sciences at MIT in 2020.

June 30th is world asteroid day, which promotes global awareness. It is held on the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, when a meteor air burst destroyed 2150 square kilometers of forest.
Learn more here:
www.un.org/en/observanc...

dalhousie-quantum-camp.github.io

Check out this podcast!

Sally Ride (1951-2012) - NASA Science NASA Astronaut / First American Woman in Space

Learn more about Sally Ride's extraordinary life here: science.nasa.gov/people/sally...

It was a six day mission that took five years of preparation, wherein two communication satellites were deployed. In 1989, she took to teaching at the University of California, San Diego, as the director of their space institute and a professor of physics.

STEM Scientist of The Week: Sally Ride
Sally Ride was a queer American astronaut and physicist, best known for being the first American woman to fly in space, on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18th, 1983.

Happy International Women in Engineering Day!
On June 23rd, we celebrate the successes and achievements of so many remarkable women in engineering. This is also a day to support and encourage young women to pursue a career in engineering.
Learn more here: www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-da....

Ben Barres (1954–2017) Neurobiologist who advocated for gender equality in science.

His work heavily contributed to the discovery that glial cells contribute to brain development, function and disease. Learn more about Ben Barres here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

He is most known for his work on glial cells, the formation of myelin induced by signals and their characteristics, and the lipid sheathing on neurons.

STEM Scientist of the week: Ben Barres.
Ben Barres was an American neurobiologist and advocate for gender equality in science, who transitioned in 1977.

Alan Hart (1890-1962) Alan L. Hart was an Oregon physician, researcher, and writer and one of the first female-to-male transgender persons to undergo a hysterectomy in the United St…

He studied tubercular radiation, and the use of x-ray to detect tuberculosis. Learn more about Alan Hart here: www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/har...

STEM Scientist of the Week: Alan Hart
Alan Hart was a physician, researcher, and writer who transitioned in 1971. He obtained a masters degree in radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, and became the director of radiology at Tacoma general hospital.