Screenshot of Essay from Martin Schwartz on 'Why would anyone want to be a scientist'. An anniversary article from The Company of Biologists published in Journal of Cell Science.
The first few lines are: It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection. But, strange even to myself, I not only don't question the unfavorable risk-to-reward ratio but consider myself astonishingly lucky to be a scientist. There are three fundamental pleasures that have sustained me through 50 years of this madness.
Why would anyone want to be a scientist?
Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Itโs a furry slinky!
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'Dandelions,' was painted by the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann around 1910. It wasn't an arbitrary choice of a plant to paint: the dandelion was used to promote the womenโs liberation movement in Scandinavia because of its capacity for uncontrolled, strong-willed growth.
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My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDCโs Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.
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Mister Rogers and Big Bird on the set of Sesame Street. Photo courtesy: Muppet History.
Today is Mister Rogers' birthday.
Today is Big Bird's birthday.
And spring has officially sprung.
A beautiful day in the neighborhood, indeed.
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Hahahaha!
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Anyone else feeling like theyโre polishing the brass on the Titanic?
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A screenshot of an X post by Nerdy Pursuit (@nerdypursuit
) posted on March 7, 2025. The post highlights the popularity of Pete Buttigieg's recent Colbert interview, noting that two of the three clips have already surpassed one million views on YouTube. The text mentions that itโs unusual for a guest interview to garner such views, based on scrolling through the YouTube channel. The post includes three thumbnail images of the interview clips: 1) "Fmr. Sec. Pete Buttigieg On How Democrats (And Republicans) Can Resist Tru..." with 616K views, 4 days ago; 2) "Helping Russia And Fighting Canada, Itโs Upside Down - Buttigieg On Trumpโs Foreign..." with 1M views, 4 days ago; and 3) "Let's Be Clear: Tariffs Are A Tax - Fmr. Sec. Pete Buttigieg" with 1M views, 4 days ago. Each thumbnail shows Pete Buttigieg, former Transportation Secretary, speaking on the Colbert set with the "LATE SHOW" logo.
People are hungry for the new voice of the Democratic Party.
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Puscifer album
โRaise a glass to our heterogeneity. Our remarkable resilience to calamityโ
#puscifer
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Yay! Thanks to all the organizers and speakers! #standupforscience2025
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This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.
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Had the honor of speaking at todayโs @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in Philly.
I spoke about the importance of breaking the right rules and harnessing chaos for the greater good.
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Statue of Benjamin Franklin
Ok Philly letโs make Ben proud!
#standupforscience2025
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Unfortunately I think weโre about to find out how long childhood immunizations last
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Yay!
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Iโll be there! And at least some of my lab mates
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For the zebrafish people:
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If Danny-O is trans shouldnโt they be expressing GFP or something? Or am I confusing terms?
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Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
Iโd rather be reading
#worldbookday
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This is a poor argument. Normal was never good enough
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Iโll be standing up in Philly. For Science and for American values
#standupforscience2025
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โYou are increasing the volume of your voice but not the logic of your argument.โ
Wake up, parents of teens and toddlers. New comeback just dropped.
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a tabby and white cat is pictured sitting on her haunches, looking directly at the camera. Behind her is her is the blue and gold Ukrainian flag.
Have courage
Stand up to bullies
Be like President Zelenskyy
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Forwarding to my Trump-voting family members
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This is perfect for my next presentation
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Hi! Iโm Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Fergus and Francie. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
Associate Professor in Bioengineering ๐ฎ๐น@ Linkรถping University ๐ธ๐ช
Bioengineering/Genomics/Development/3R/Teeth/HeavyMetal/Photography
Light microscopy at Bruker Fluorescence Microscopy division.
#lightsheet #multiphoton #superresolution #screening
Cell biologist in my previous life. Alumnus @mpicbg.bsky.social
@turkubioscience.bsky.socialโฌ
In the Hoffman lab, our goal is to understand basic biological mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders, in particular autism spectrum disorders.
US Developmental Origins of Health and Disease โญ๏ธ2026 Annual Meeting โญ๏ธ July 8-10, NC State University - Raleigh, North Carolina
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Fish Scientist & Prof, aka โThe Gar Guyโ | ๐Freshwater Conservation | SciComm โข GarLab | Views mine | he/him | #GarWeek
Wherever you go, there you gar
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Proudly serving the Massachusetts 7th.
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Cancer cell biologist, Research Associate @Clare Waterman lab, Blebs are life or death!!! LOVE to torture..Oops confine cells.. All about cell migration ๐ views are my own, not of employer
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Principal investigator studying virus-associated cancers with a focus on virus-induced mutations and structural variants | Opinions are my own
Scientist, Writer, Yogi, Animal Rights Activist
Veterinarian and PhD Candidate studying wildlife parasitology, evolution, and molecular diagnostics ๐ฆ๐งฌ ๐ชฑ.
https://linktr.ee/kulpamat
I may also post about MSU/FFC/Detroit sports.
Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming from HarperOne | โIn his writing he had a vulgar inclination to make everything clear.โ
Squid biologist
Science communicator
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Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
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Physics of Embryonic Self-Organization and Morphogenesis. Tweets by Otger Campร s (Professor, Chair of Tissue Dynamics and Director
at the Physics of Life Excellence Cluster of TU Dresden)
Migrating on my own path. Cytoskeletal enthusiast with a love for mechanics, development, and biophysical approaches. | BWF CASI Fellow with Orion Weiner at UCSF | PhD Gardel lab at UChicago | HHMI Gilliam, Ford Predoctoral Fellow Alum |
Assistant Prof at Masaryk University. Dioscuri Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Metabolic Diseases #zebrafish #devbio ๐ธ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฟ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ธ , he/him, *All views my own
Johnson Chair/Assoc. Prof., Peds DevBio @ CU Anschutz:
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Associate Professor of Chemistry