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Clinicians, lactation professionals, and public health professionals:

✨ You are not alone. ✨

There are other fields of health and science that have been long targeted by denialism, and they have been field-testing #SciComm tools for decades. There are tools for navigating these...milky waters!🥛

👐 Ivo Starý from IOCB Prague was a guest on Czech Television today.

He discussed this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded today to French chemist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese chemist Kensō Soai for discoveries related to asymmetric synthesis and chirality.

#scicomm #NobelPrize #chirality

“Breastfeeding Science Denialism: Unpacking a Hidden Harm" out in Maternal & Child Nutrition w/ my colleagues Christina Raimondi & Meghan Azad, PhD is the first to apply a #ScienceDenialism framework to this.

🌶️ title, I know. But this is a #SciComm & #PublicHealth issue, not a "lifestyle choice."

❝ wisskomm.de: How do platforms decide which content gets seen?

The brochure "Platform Power" from @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social explains the influence of data, algorithms, and business models on public communication—and presents alternatives that serve the common good 👇

#SciComm

Taking into consideration sex differences in clinical trial design, diagnosis, and treatment will be a major milestone toward personalized medicine.

#MolecularBiology #Genetics #SexChromosomes #PersonalizedMedicine #SciComm

Study the fundamentals of atmospheric science - including weather systems, atmospheric composition, air quality, and climate - with @ncas-uk.bsky.social!

🗓️ 8-12 February 2027
📌 University of Leeds

Learn more & apply today:
ncas.ac.uk/study-with-u...

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#earth-science #SciComm 🧪

#WIMMinFocus 🧪

New for Wednesdays: we are unpacking some of the terms you often hear in biomedical research.

First up: patient samples.

Studying donated samples helps researchers understand disease and develop new therapies.

#SciComm #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

Can a virus accidentally help its roommate? 🦠

In HIV–HBV co-infection, HIV boosts Hepatitis B surface antigen production in liver cells. Blog no. 30 unpacks the new Doherty Institute study on why co-infection means worse liver outcomes.

#SciComm #Virology #HIV

Did you know that Atlantic cod are known to use a lek mating system during spawning? This is a type of courtship behaviour: displayed behaviour to attract mates (usually a male attracting females) to reproduce successfully.
🌊🐟🦑🌎🧪🌿
#icefishresearch #scicomm #funfact #iceland

Sunday painter... Oil sketch, 9 x 12 in. Edgerton Park, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #scicomm #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #LandscapePainting #Painting

The Yale Bright Star Catalogue lists every star brighter than magnitude 6.5, the naked-eye limit: 9,096 across the entire sky. Only half the sky is above the horizon at once, so a perfect dark night offers about 4,500 - a city night, a few hundred. Nobody has ever seen millions.

#science #SciComm

Live tonight to check out the new @GearsofWar entry, E-Day and chat in game science, focusing on locusts tonight and the in game connection! #keymailer

9pm EDT

#science #twitch #TwitchPartner #live #stem #sciants #livestream #scicomm #twitchambassador

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O.C. Marsh named Brontosaurus excelsus in 1879. In 1903 Elmer Riggs folded it into Apatosaurus, and for a century every well-read child knew it was a mistake. A 2015 specimen-by-specimen study of the diplodocids in PeerJ found differences large enough to restore the genus. It...

#science #SciComm

Does splashing water on your face when you're upset actually help? This week's post by Stephanie Uroda dives (pun intended) into how submerging your face in cold water may actually calm your nervous system during stress! Learn more here!
pennneuroknow.com/2026/10/06/w...

#PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦 🧪

Henry Agard Wallace was FDRs Veep and then ran against Truman as a leftist. He also started the Green Revolution. Probably the most interesting American politician I've ever read about.
#USpolitics #agtech #scicomm

Free will, reframed as a terms-of-service agreement you never read and can't opt out of. A short, funny essay on being authored without your consent.

#philosophy #humor #essay #freewill #SciComm

Meet Stentor coeruleus, an #ogre of the microbial world. It is big, green & gobbles up any prey that dares to swim close. It is often attached to something in murky waters, waiting to attack. It creates a water current around the mouth using the hair-like cilia. #inktober2026 #scicomm #microbiology

How to improve your ability to keep up to date with medical publication ?
Set your own publication alert relevant to your topic and set your own standards

#Cardiology #MedEd #SciComm