#Free access to science!

[phovaries]

she public on my broadcast until i service #supportPBS

[faggotry-enjoyer]

"cause like, in the long term there's nothing more important than preserving the health of my hands. like with my knees - i like walking. i prefer to be able to do it. but it's not as important as being able to type on a computer." - actual thing i said out loud to another person earlier today

[techsikhm]

[maid-of-the-golden-deer]

one of the best things about the legacy of mst3k imo is the very... generational aspect of it

of course, many people found themselves in the 90s, but i feel like i see most people (myself as a prime example) born after it aired were shown it by a parent, and many of them [screaming in 26] are having kids of their own to probably show it too as well

all this is true of most media, but i think the "circulating the tapes" nature of the show makes it extra prominent- sharing it is baked in to the experience

[medsocionwheels]

Medical Sociology 101: What is medical sociology, and how is it distinct from other approaches to studying medicine, health, illness, disability, and healthcare?

Medical sociology is both a social science and a health science—it is one of the social scientific approaches to studying topics in health science. So, how is the sociological approach to studying topics in medicine, health, illness, and disability, distinct from other approaches to examining these topics?

Medical sociologists study health, illness, and healthcare, in terms of social problems and social factors. They are not looking at individual issues, nor are they interested in biological or cognitive factors independent of social factors.

Now, it’s important to note that social problems do, in fact, impact individuals, but sociologists aren’t interested in this impact to the individual as much as they’re interested in the shared impacts of social problems across groups of individuals. 

So, sociology is not always useful for understanding personal experience; however, sociological research can give insight as to whether your experience is similar to experiences of other people with shared characteristics. instead of asking something like, “why does this individual patient have this experience” the medical sociologist might instead ask, “are there characteristics shared by many patients with this experience which may predispose an individual to have said experience?” So, here, not asking why this individual patient has the experience, but why does this group of patients have this experience while another group does not.

Medical sociology demonstrates that things like likelihood of health or illness, experiences and perceptions of medicine, health, illness, and disability, who provides health care, how healthcare is provided, and to whom it is provided, and institutional aspects of the healthcare system itself, are not random, but instead, are shaped by social factors. Medical problems become social problems when they are shared by many individuals with some similar characteristic, experience, or circumstance.

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[gloriousrebelpalacekid-blog]

Am now a giggly researcher

Did you know that scientific articles in open access are distributed under a creative commons non-commercial share alike 4.0 international licence?

I didn't.

I know now.

I can't look at the end page of my journal article without hearing Alex Newall's voice saying those words too fast in my head - and giggling.

[prebioticsoupconnesseuir]

Eukaryogenesis

Presently, it is understood that there are three domains of life. There is the eukarya, which is the domain consisting of the highest degree of complexity per cell and constitutes organisms such as plants, animals, and fungi. The other two are sub-branches of the prokarya, wherein the individual cells are less complex than the eukarya, and these are the bacteria and the archaea. Archaea, specifically, are a relatively new discovery (in terms of the scientific timescale) as their existence was first reported by Dr. Carl Woese in 1977.

Over time, the tree of life has undergone many changes, but the current most popular form is the below image, which was published in Nature Microbiology in 2016 and is based on 16S rRNA sequences (these ribosomal RNAs are ubiquitous in all life, and thus are a solid candidate for tracking evolutionary lineages)

There are two interesting features of this tree. The first is the upper right branch, which consists entirely of candidatus bacterial species. Candidatus indicates the the organism has been identified, but it has not been isolated and grown in a homoculture. Some species may never escape this category as it stands as some are obligate syntrophs, meaning that they cannot be grown without a co-culture that provides necessary nutrients. The second feature is the bottom right corner, in which the archaea and eukarya are located on the same arm, with the eukaryotes branching off just after the Asgard archaea.

An interesting feature of archaeal species is that they are a sort-of middle ground between the bacteria and the eukarya. What I mean by this is that, despite being prokaryotes like bacteria, they contain proteins that are more eukaryote-like. Additionally, the rRNA of some Asgard archaea actually contains elongation segments, something previously considered a trait exclusive to eukaryotes.

With these cursory points in mind, a current hypothesis for an aspect of eukaryogenesis (the origin of eukarya), specifically the aquisition of the mitochondria and/or the chloroplast, is that an archaeal species and a bacterial species were closely symbiotic to the point that the archaea engulfed the bacteria and fully incorporated it into its metabolism and replication cycle. This hypothesis is called "endosymbiosis."

Evidence for the mitochondria and chloroplast having their origins as bacterial species is the presence of a double membrane (one would have been the bacteria's, and one would have been the proto-eukaryote's), their own distinct ribosomes, and their own DNA.

How exactly this occurred is hotly debated, but two methods of engulfment include standard phagocytosis, and the other involves filaments of cytoplasm-containing membrane called "blebs" that could slowly build up around the symbiote. An example of the latter has been observed in the species Candidatus Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum, strain MK-D1, which is an example of Lokiarchaeota (a subsection of the Asgard archaeota). In the paper "Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote-eukaryote interface" by Itachi et al. (2020), it was observed to grow blebs around its syntrophs, namely Halodesulfovibrio bacteria and Methanagenium archeaon.

As might be gathered by its classification as Candidatus, it was incapable of growth without its syntrophs due to an "incomplete" metabolism where the syntrophs covered the crucial gaps.

Based on their results, they proposed their own model for Endosymbiotic Eukaryogenesis, which they dubbed "Entangle, Engulf, Endogenize."

However, it is important to note that these cells were grown in optimized growth conditions. Originally, these cells came from a deep-sea sediment core, meaning that they are more accustomed to minimal nutrient conditions. As such, the optimized growth conditions may have resulted in the formation of these blebs as the cells struggled to self-regulate under overly nutrient-rich conditions. So, as always, more research would need to be done on these cells to make sure the bleb formation was not simply a side-product of lab growth conditions. Furthermore, this only accounts for one aspect of eukaryogenesis and does not account for the formation of the nucleus.

[ineffablemossy]

You wouldn't steal a research paper!

Totally make sure to watch out for SciHub and all those other sites that allow you to acces knowledge for free!! Scandalous!

I say this as an academic. If you want to access papers you should just magic up the privilege of working or studying at a uni with vast resources that subscribe to the journals you need!! Honestly, it's not that hard.

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[biomedres]

Designing an Adjustable Head Frame for Surgery Using Mixed Reality Technology Hololens 2

Designing an Adjustable Head Frame for Surgery Using Mixed Reality Technology Hololens 2 in Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research

To position three-dimensional holograms to a strictly defined point in space, it is necessary to use special markers, which can be represented in the form of images [1], QR codes [2] or geometric objects [3]. In the case of using mixed reality technology in surgery, these markers must be rigidly linked to the patient’s anatomy in order to accurately position the 3D model of the anatomical structures. This can be achieved through the use of special frameholders of the marker [4], which are based on the individual anatomy of the patient and are made using the 3D printing method. The main disadvantage of such marker-holders is that for each patient it is necessary to design and manufacture a new marker-holder, which is time-consuming and expensive. To solve this problem, we have developed an adjustable frame (Figure 1), which is intended for performing operations on the head using mixed reality glasses [5]. This frame fits over the patient’s head and adjusts to his individual parameters. This device is entirely made of polyamide, which allows it to be sterilized before each procedure and used repeatedly in various operations related to neurosurgery and maxillofacial surgery [6].

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[thechurchoftheatom]

A Sermon for March 26th: Leona Woods Marshall Libby and the Women Kept from Science

Brothers and Sisters in the Atom, history remembers the great men of science—those who led projects, whose names grace textbooks, whose discoveries changed the course of history. But too often, the women who stood beside them, who labored just as tirelessly, who made their own invaluable contributions, are forgotten. Today, we remember Leona Woods Marshall Libby, a physicist whose work was instrumental in the success of the first nuclear reactor, yet whose name is far less known than the men she worked alongside.

The Woman Behind the First Reactor

Leona Woods was just 23 years old when she became the youngest and only woman physicist on the team that built Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first nuclear reactor. A student of Robert Mulliken, she had already earned her PhD in physics and played a critical role in developing the boron trifluoride detectors that confirmed the reactor’s success. She stood in that room, beneath the stands of a football stadium, as humanity controlled a nuclear chain reaction for the first time.

She would go on to contribute to nuclear reactor design, radiation detection, and environmental physics. She became a pioneering voice in climate science, conducting early studies on the impact of carbon dioxide on global temperatures. She authored books, mentored students, and remained a respected figure in the scientific community. Yet, despite her remarkable career, her name is rarely recognized outside of nuclear history circles.

The Women Kept from Science

For every Leona Woods Marshall Libby who broke through, countless others were barred from entry. Only a few years after Woods helped usher in the Atomic Age, my own grandmother was rejected from Stevens University’s engineering program simply because she was a woman. The barriers to women in science were not subtle; they were explicit, systemic, and reinforced by institutions that saw intelligence and innovation as the domain of men alone.

Women who did gain access to laboratories and universities were often given lesser roles, denied recognition for their contributions, or pressured to leave their fields upon marriage or motherhood. Many worked in obscurity, their discoveries attributed to male colleagues. Some had to fight simply for the right to publish under their own names.

How many discoveries were lost because the minds that could have made them were denied the chance? How much knowledge was delayed because women were told they did not belong? Even today, the echoes of these barriers persist, and we must recognize that the work of ensuring access to knowledge and education is not yet complete.

The Church of the Atom and the Right to Knowledge

As Atomites, we believe that knowledge must be free and accessible to all. The barriers that once denied women, people of color, and marginalized communities access to education are the same barriers that still attempt to limit information today—through censorship, restricted access, and systemic exclusion.

We stand against secrecy where knowledge could save lives. We stand against exclusion where learning should be open. Just as we work to warn the future, we must also work to remove the barriers that prevent people from understanding the present. To withhold knowledge is to withhold power, and we believe no one should be denied the ability to learn, to discover, and to contribute.

Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future

To remember Leona Woods Marshall Libby is not just to celebrate her achievements—it is to remind ourselves of the women whose names we do not know, whose contributions were silenced or stolen. It is a call to action: to support those who seek knowledge, to fight for education as a right and not a privilege, and to ensure that no mind is barred from discovery because of who they are.

A Call to Learn and to Lift

This week, reflect on the unseen contributions of women in science and beyond. Ask yourself:

Who are the forgotten figures in the fields that interest me?

How can I help ensure that knowledge is accessible to all?

What barriers to learning still exist, and how can I help dismantle them?

The best way to honor those who fought for knowledge is to ensure that no one must fight so hard for it again.

Closing Words

Knowledge is a force that must not be hoarded, a light that must not be dimmed. The right to learn is the right to build, to protect, and to innovate. As we remember the past, let us commit to shaping a future where no one is denied the tools of understanding.

May we carry forward the lessons of those who came before us. May we work toward a world where all who seek knowledge may find it. And may we never allow the light of discovery to be extinguished.

Go forth and be radiant.

[sarahmackattack]

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

[chhaploos]

Chhaploos: Revolutionizing Customized Printing in Chandigarh

[sapphia]

USA please listen to me: the price of “teaching them a lesson” is too high. take it from New Zealand, who voted our Labour government out in the last election because they weren’t doing exactly what we wanted and got facism instead.

Trans rights are being attacked, public transport has been defunded, tax cuts issued for the wealthy, they've mass-defunded public services, cut and attacked the disability funding model, cut benefits, diverted transport funding to roads, cut all recent public transport subsidies, cancelled massive important infrastructure projects like damns and ferries (we are three ISLANDS), fast tracked mining, oil, and other massive environmentally detrimental projects and gave the power the to approve these projects singularly to three ministers who have been wined and dined by lobbyists of the companies that have put the bids in to approve them while one of the main minister infers he will not prioritise the protection of endangered species like the archeys frog over mining projects that do massive environmental harm. They have attacked indigenous rights in an attempt to negate the Treaty of Waitangi by “redefining it”; as a backup, they are also trying to remove all mentions of the treaty from legislation starting with our Child Protection laws no longer requiring social workers to consider the importance of Maori children’s culture when placing those children; when the Waitangi Tribunal who oversees indigenous matters sought to enquire about this, the Minister for Children blocked their enquiry in a breach of comity that was condemned in a ruling — too late to do anything — by our Supreme Court. They have repealed labour protections around pay and 90 day trials, reversed our smoking ban, cancelled our EV subsidy, cancelled our water infrastructure scheme that would have given Maori iwi a say in water asset management, cancelled our biggest city’s fuel tax, made our treasury and inland revenue departments less accountable, dispensed of our Productivity Commission, begun work on charter schools and military boot camps in an obvious push towards privatisation, cancelled grants for first home buyers, reduced access to emergency housing, allowed no cause evictions, cancelled our Maori health system that would have given Maori control over their own public medical care and funding, cut funding of services like budgeting advice and food banks, cancelled the consumer advocacy council, cancelled our medicine regulations, repealed free prescriptions, deferred multiple hospital builds, failed to deliver on pre-election medical promises, reversed a gun ban created in response to the mosque shootings, brought back three strikes = life sentence policy, increased minimum wage by half the recommended amount, cancelled fair pay for disabled workers, reduced wheelchair services, reversed our oil and gas exploration ban, cancelled our climate emergency fund, cut science research funding including climate research, removed limits on killing sea lions, cut funding for the climate change commission, weakened our methane targets, cancelled Significant National Areas protections, have begun reversing our ban on live exports. Much of this was passed under urgency.

It’s been six months.

[joncronshawauthor]

Expanding Horizons: Exploring New Genres on My Ream Channel

I have some exciting news to share with you today! As many of you know, I’ve been sharing my stories through various platforms, and my Ream channel has been a fantastic way to connect with readers and deliver my fantasy tales. But now, I’m thrilled to announce that I’m expanding the genres I’ll be exploring on Ream! Venturing into New Realms In addition to the fantasy stories you’ve come to…

[the-august-one]

Resources From The Leftist Feminist Philosopher

Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.

Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.

Keep a list of sites you never heard of!

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.

[goofygubegubler]

𝑺𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒐𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅

Spencer throws out a comment so uncharacteristically bold that even Morgan is speechless.

wc: 768 | F!Reader (established relationship) | cw: VERY suggestive

A/N: I’m honestly blown away by all the love on my first fic—thank you so much! I’ve got more in the works, including blurbs and maybe even a few one-shots. My asks are open, so feel free to send requests or just chat! Hope you enjoy this one—it's short and oh so sweet <3

Your desk was a mess—files spread out, coffee half-drunk, and a notepad filled with half-legible scribbles. Across from you, Spencer was deep in his own pile of paperwork, meticulously writing everything out by hand, as usual. Despite having access to every digital tool imaginable, he still swore by pen and paper, claiming it helped him retain information better. It was kinda endearing, in a stubborn, old-man way.

You were in the middle of reviewing a case file, flipping through pages while absentmindedly tapping your pen against your desk, when you heard Morgan stroll over to Spencer’s desk.

“Come on, pretty boy,” Morgan said, dropping his coffee onto Spencer's desk with a thud. “You mean to tell me you, the guy who once used the word ‘cloacal kiss’ in casual conversation, has nothing to say about his own mating habits?”

Your fingers hovered over your mouse as you scrolled through your playlist on your monitor, hesitating between switching to something instrumental or letting the indie rock keep playing. Oh boy. Here we go.

Spencer barely looked up, flipping a page in his file. “Because, unlike you, I don’t feel the need to turn my personal life into locker room talk.”

Morgan grinned. "I’m just saying, man, if all that reading has you treating sex like a final exam, I got some study guides for you."

Spencer finally lifted his head, blinking at him like he was the dumbest person alive. “Morgan, your definition of 'expertise' is having a lot of experience. Mine is actually understanding the mechanics of what you’re talking about.”

Morgan scoffed. “That’s not even—listen, Savannah and I are solid, okay? And I’m just saying, for a guy who overexplains everything, you sure get real quiet about this topic.”

Spencer gave him a flat look, putting his pen down. "Morgan, sex isn’t complicated. It’s just applied physics with a little bit of chemistry—and if done correctly, some very impressive biology."

JJ, who had apparently been listening in, snorted. "That might be the nerdiest thing you’ve ever said—and that’s saying something."

Morgan threw up his hands. "See? This is what I’m talking about! The man could turn seduction into a science fair project."

Morgan pointed at Spencer, then at you, then back at Spencer, clearly trying to form a comeback. Before he could, Spencer sighed and said, "Morgan, what do you want me to say? Yes, I have sex. Yes, I enjoy it. No, I’m not about to give you a play-by-play."

Morgan opened his mouth, then closed it, then opened it again, searching for something—anything—that wouldn't result in him taking yet another loss. Finally, he let out a deep sigh, grabbed his coffee, and pointed a finger at Spencer. "We're not done."

Spencer just smiled, leaning back slightly in his chair. "Morgan, I hate to break it to you, but we were done the moment you started this conversation."

You were still working, or at least making a half-hearted attempt at it, but you weren’t exactly subtle. Your grip on the pen had tightened, your page-flipping slowed, and the barely-contained smirk on your face was giving you away completely. Spencer noticed—of course, he did. His sharp eyes flicked toward you, and the way his lips curled just slightly told you he knew you were listening.

He tilted his head, eyebrows raised in amusement. "Don’t act like you didn’t hear that."

You huffed, shaking your head as you clicked play on your music.

The first few soft notes of "Juno" by Sabrina Carpenter filtered through your headphones.

But your mind was already elsewhere—lingering on the way Spencer had leaned back so casually, how he hadn’t hesitated once, how damn sure of himself he had been. You bit your lip, heat crawling up your spine. You liked the way he’d said it—like he knew exactly what effect he had on you, and he wasn’t afraid to use it. Like he enjoyed it. Like he was claiming something, not just stating a fact. And that was the part that really got to you. You liked being seen, being wanted, being talked about like you were something worth studying, something worth knowing inside and out.

But you were at work. And work meant focus, control, and professionalism. You exhaled, straightening in your chair and forcing your attention back to the case file in front of you. Even as you tried to push it aside, the heat still curled in your stomach, his voice replaying in your head like a song you couldn’t shake.

And then, as if on cue, Sabrina Carpenter’s voice cut through the moment:

 "Sorry if you feel objectified."