@carnegiescience.bsky.socialArchivist Kit Whitten opens the vault for #AskAnArchivist Day!
🔒 Keeping data safe isn’t a new problem. George Ellery Hale built a vault to protect our astronomers’ glass plates from fire—it now holds 200,000+ from 1892–1994. #Carnegie125
Got questions for Kit? Reply below!👇
@carnegiescience.bsky.socialFor #NobelWeek: a white-eyed fly, a crowded lab, and discoveries that helped build modern genetics.
Explore the Carnegie Science-supported research behind Thomas Hunt Morgan’s 1933 #NobelPrize and Edith Wallace’s gorgeous scientific illustrations.
@carnegiescience.bsky.socialNot every rivalry at Carnegie goes through peer review. 🏓 👀
Postdocs come from around the world & stay only a few years, so the community has to grow fast. At EPL, that's what ping-pong is for! Our #Carnegie125 object for #PostdocAppreciationWeek 👇
https://bit.ly/3TPcIqk
@carnegiescience.bsky.socialThe telescopes at Las Campanas may stay up in the mountains, but this lab is on the move!
Object 22 of #Carnegie125 is Las Campanas Observatory's LabMĂłvil, a 30-foot mobile lab bringing hands-on astronomy to schools across northern Chile.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4yd9mwk
