A detailed digital composite image based on the 1947 historical photograph of geneticist Barbara McClintock. McClintock, with her characteristic short hair and round glasses, is seated at a microscope, using tweezers in a Petri dish. While based on the original photo distributed for her AAUW award, this image presents a significantly expanded and fictionalized laboratory environment. The simple wooden workbench is now densely populated with a vast, colorized collection of complex glassware, numerous amber-colored reagent bottles, intricate distillation columns, and botanical specimens relevant to maize cytogenetics, creating a rich, illustrative narrative of her "jumping gene" research context that was not present in the original photo. The expanded background shows complex vintage laboratory cabinetry. This image explicitly states it is a composite: a digital recreation where Seriously Scientific has taken the historical figure and placed them into an augmented, complex fictionalized environment. Based on original source from Smithsonian Institution Archives. Digital composite by Seriously Scientific.
Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day!
She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome.
Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! π§¬π½
#WomenInScience
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How amazing!
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Quick question: Why is there an oil shortage after we invaded Venezuela, the worldβs most oil-rich country, a few weeks ago?
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Iβm glad we had $200 million to show Secretary Noemβs face at every airportβ¦
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Democrats will be stupid enough to vote in favor instead of letting Trump hold the bag!
04.03.2026 19:05 β
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Donβt send him. While Barron stays safely far from the front lines, Trump will keep spinning the tale of a would-be commando.
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I hope you will be primaried out of office!
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Now that the tariffs are history, I expect the price for coffee, canned goods and other grocery items to immediately go down to pre-Trump levels.
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Image shows a 1940s leaflet for bunker windows. The leaflet depicts a helmet and gas mask wearing man securing a window.
Graphic of a 1940s brochure for bunker windows. The graphic shows two man attempting to free themselves after an areal bombing attack.
This 1940s German brochure on bunker windows offers a fascinating glimpse into historical prepperism
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Image of the headquarter of Mussolini's Italian Fascist Party in 1934
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Bravo! Ich hoffe die Reform der MedienfΓΆrderung hilft der βGesundschrumpfungβ (glaub das ist eine Krone-Wort) der ΓΆsterreichischen Boulevardpresse.
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Sugar cane workers in Central America still have a lower life expectancy, due to chronic kidney disease. This affects 5-35% of the workers (depending on the region and the job), and is most likely caused by dehydration and heat stress.
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Remember βmedbedsβ π€ͺ
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Wild! Reading Stubblebineβs Wiki page it says he was an Oath Keeper and ran a nonprofit that promoted conspiracies about vaccines.
06.02.2026 18:31 β
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FurtwΓ€ngler dirigiert im Grabe mitβ¦
03.02.2026 22:52 β
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Image is showing Melania Trumpβs wearing parka with the words βI really donβt care, do you?β. The image is a response to a report about Melaniaβs movie.
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Was verstehen Sie unter sinnlosem Drill?
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Die Daten bezΓΌglich kognitive Atrophie und Umkehrung des Flynn Effekts sind alarmierend. Obβs an den Sozialen Medien alleine liegt ist fraglich, aber wahrscheinlich mΓΌsste man auch Computer aus den Klassenzimmern entfernen.
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βrubenesqueβ is what Johnny Sac described her..
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Leider durften Deleuze und Foucault diese Ehre nimmer erleben!
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Be beast!
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It appears that we now have federally mandated murder squads in the streets.
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Will you vote to fund ICE? What are you afraid of?
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Shows the overlapping areas of tissue sections in a scientific publication. The representative sections should belong to a different experimental group, but are actually from the same animal.
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Shows the overlapping areas of tissue sections in a scientific publication. The representative sections should belong to a different experimental group, but are actually from the same animal.
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13?!?
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Geht klar wenn Ihr versprecht die gesetzlichen Richtlinien und Gesetze der 9, teils winzigen, BundeslΓ€nder zu vereinheitlichen!
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