#scientist

[honeydropsoftea]

I haven't been able to stop tearing up about Artemis II. How beautiful is this planet, this galaxy, this whole space? How beautiful is creation? How beautiful is it to see humans gather and celebrate science/STEM? To break records for mankind in being the farthest distance from Earth recorded?

Reid Wiseman, the commander of Artemis II, lost his wife Carroll in 2020 after a 5 year long breast cancer battle. But Carroll and their two daughters encouraged Reid to continue following his dreams of being an astronaut. Today, as they went around the moon, they announced one of the brightest moon craters to be named Carroll.

“It's a bright spot on the Moon. And we would like to call it Carroll."

What a day to be alive, to be human, to be part of this creation we call life.

(Image is astrophotographer Ildar Ibatullin colors are exaggerated to show the landscape and minerals of the moon. Thank you Artemis II crew and NASA, and everyone past and current, who has been able to give us this.)

[stiickleback]

ok so yesterday my coworker/friend went to go mop and she saw some little things moving in the mop bucket (don't ask me why there was still water in there because i don't know lol) she looked closer and saw that they were brine shrimp

which is very silly and odd but not quite unexpected because we are aquarists and we have brine shrimp hatching cones that we raise them in to feed our jellies. and sometimes visitors mess with the knobs on the tank and then end up dumping them out (which fills me with RAGE because you can't accidentally do that. you have to be purposefully reaching around the hatching cone so like why the hell are you messing with our stuff but anyways that's not the point) so then we mop them and yeah ok that's how the eggs got into the bucket. but not only have they hatched, they are thriving adults !!!!! and they are thriving so much that some of them even have EGGS!!!!!

ok now here's the kicker

THEY KEEP DYING IN THEIR HATCHING CONES !!!!! SO OUR BATCHES KEEP FAILING!!!!! EVEN WITH THEIR REQUIRED WATER PARAMETERS THEY ARE FAILING.

SO. WHY. THE. HELL. ARE THEY ALIVE IN A MOP BUCKET OF ALL PLACES

so you're telling me that our brine shrimp (that keep dying) that we are dutifully caring for with specific water parameters for maximized hatching etc etc etc are so happy in a Mop Bucket that they are fucking ????? these little shrimps are porking on company time in company supplies ???????

(update: my other friend @plaguedocboi took them home yayyy)

^ the soggy children

edit to add:

no how else are we supposed to get Mop Bucket Shrimp

[forever70s]

physicist Shirley Ann Jackson in 1973; she is the first Black woman to earn a doctorate from MIT

[academic-vampire]

“𝔦 𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔶 𝔞𝔡𝔞𝔪, 𝔟𝔲𝔱 ℑ 𝔞𝔪 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔩…”

-𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔶 𝔰𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔶, “𝔣𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔢𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔦𝔫”

[sugar-petals]

US govt: exits world health organization, cuts cancer research, has RFK 

meanwhile, international scientists: find cures to HPV, blood cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, and paralysis

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS SPREAD THE WORD

[blondebrainpowered]

Annie Easley, a rocket scientist recruited in 1955 by NASA as a “human computer” whose efforts laid the groundwork for later space shuttle launches and communications methods employed in military, communication and weather satellites.

[alextwt-art]

casually asking about your medical history