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Trying to unify my life by working mindfulness and consideration of larger societal questions into my work as a scientist.

In short: the crazy pace of work and insane competition in even renewable energy research is making our problems worse, not better.

Seeking fellow travelers 🧪 #AcademicSky

Cracking the code on sulfur-based cathodes Changing techniques, not materials, is unlocking sulfur’s potential in solid-state batteries, paving the road for EVs to travel longer distances

Sulfur could power the next generation of EV batteries 🧪 New research, led by UChicago PME Prof. Shirley Meng with postdoctoral researcher Chen-Jui (Ben) Huang, shows that unlocking sulfur’s potential may not require new materials, just smarter ways of assembly.

ms.spr.ly/63327Q59bT

Repeated convergent evolution of bradykinin mimics as defensive toxins Natural selection can drive the evolution of similar traits through convergent evolution. Short peptides identical to the vertebrate hormone bradykinin (BK) have been reported from the venoms and skin...

𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐲𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐬 [via Science.org] 🧪🥼🏞️

"natural selection can result in repeated convergent evolution of identical molecules across distantly related #species."

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#nature #convergent #evolution #bradykinin

Integrating medicine, engineering, and innovation Master of Engineering student Alex Nyx develops his understanding of engineering innovation to open more options in medicine

Through the Master of Engineering program at UChicago PME, Alex Nyx gained tools in bioengineering, commercialization, and project management – skills that help translate science into patient care. 🧪

Read more: ms.spr.ly/63325QgOeW

Criminal... just freaking criminal D:<

Hey if you're a bird photographer and you're using AI to "improve" your photos (like the image on the left, that changes the color of the bird, moves the eye, erases the tail, adds extra feathers that aren't there) know it makes me lose all respect for you, for just photo quality purposes alone.

How we can tell them that Christ would never enter that den of beasts and thieves, that he would never dress as they do, or praise power and money?

🤦

What a cutie!

Tbh since a few last few days you could check the plants, tress, the air and feel that rain was somehow coming...

That moment when the air carries freshness, the smell changes, the pressure too, birds start singing, and the wind blows softly. You climb up to the canopy to look at the horizon and YES! you feel it! It’s raining somewhere, far from here…

P.S. Checking the radar later, it’s raining >1XX km away!

Logo of COMPEX (clouds over complex environment) showing a sketch of an aircraft, satellite, and clouds over sea ice and ocean.

One week from now, #COMPEX will kick off in #Svalbard. #Polar5 from #AWI will be operated to observe clouds over sea ice and around the #AWIPEV research base in #NyAlesund and to perform #EarthCARE underflights. 🧪 #remotesensing #AC3
@unicologne.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @awi.de @esa.int

People often ask what climate change will do to life on Earth. Will species disappear… or will new ones evolve? The fossil record has actually been running that experiment for nearly 500 million… Planetary Cooling Triggered Mass Speciation Events #extinction #evolution

What would happen to marine life if the planet cooled, glaciers grew, and sea levels fell?

The fossil record has been running that experiment for nearly 500 million years… and the answer is surprising.
🧪 #SciComm
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Making march for science posters

Showing off March for science posters

The lab getting ready for the March for Science this Saturday March 7. See you all there!! 🌎🧪🪸🌿🦑

YouTube video by StormCenter Communications | GeoCollaborate Sargassum Short 20260305 1

Sargassum abundance in the Atlantic on the rise. What is it, where's it headed and how to track it in this StormCenter Short. @geocollaborate.bsky.social 🧪

www.youtube.com/shorts/LWL7K...

I just wonder what god will say when he sees them murdering people... what a timeline to be alive when the fundamentalists and nationalists of the three abrahamic religions are directing the shoots everywhere 🤦.

The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds Using a more accurate coastal height baseline means that a 3-foot rise in seas could inundate up to 37% more land and threaten 77 million to 132 million more people, researchers said.

🧪 #ClimateChange is not a hoax!
The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/s...

Scientists created a digital library full of ants Using a synchrotron powered CT scanner, the Antscan project created an open-source digital library cataloguing thousands of 3D ant specimens

Can I interest you in a library cataloging the internal body structures of ants that was created with a particle accelerator? 🧪

(by our stellar intern, @krcallaway.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)

that was also a 50/50 on both occasions, it is not like we will have 5 candidates each time making the probability so hard and the conditions to guess both right are (If I am not wrong) 25%.

Which is not super high but hardly impossible, not need for a PhD here, just watch people's pulse 2/2

Kind of amazed at how people get impressed by someone predicting Trump would win two of the last three elections in the news...

I mean, after the Gaza stuff, the GOP’s lack of a strong candidate, the blowback after Obama, and the fake news; I’m pretty sure several million saw that coming dudes 1/2

HIRING: The #JRC is recruiting policy/communication officers, lab technicians & researchers for our facilities in Italy, Belgium and Spain.

➡️ link.europa.eu/CJ6kwR

We are also offering a PhD vacancy.

➡️ link.europa.eu/XBkRfp

🧪 We post new vacancies every week.

#AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

Visual with the text: Full conference programme announced for the BioMonWeek 2026

Join experts across science, policy & industry at the 2026 Biodiversity Monitoring Week to discuss the future of biodiversity 🧪

You can submit an abstract for a talk, poster or booth under one of the 9 conference themes by 18 March 2026.

More: bit.ly/46nrveY

@euenvironmentandclimate.ec.europa.eu

Post a Pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

Hi friends! I’m hoping for some fresh painting references as it’s still wintery here.
Anyone have photos that they took of rural landscapes or seascapes in spring/summer/ or tropical?
Please post them below!

Remember that today is #WhaleWednesday guys!

P.S. Yes, it is almost #Towerthursday or #Trainthursday! I know!

It. Is. Us.

#repost
#WhaleTalesPodcast #WhaleWednesday
#WhaleTales

A whale's fluke is entangled in rope from commercial fishing gear

Whale entanglement in active or derelict fishing gear is a leading cause of injury and mortality for large whales. Entangled whales can suffer from drowning, starvation, infection, and sometimes carrying gear for months or years. #WetTribe #WhaleWednesday

Anybody else??? 🙋‍♀️

#WhaleWednesday

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🧪🌊🦑🐳 #WhaleWednesday #AlaskaSky

Pipes and wires inside a Lelit Mira X espresso machine

Broken 3 way solenoid valve removed from espresso machine

Espresso machine down!

This valve broke and spilled water all over the counter.

Still, I love opening it up, it's so steam punk in here.