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Everyone needs science; science needs everyone! Online Specific Benefit Corp bookstore celebrating & promoting DEI in STEM. catalystbooks.org
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A fantastic book! If you happen to want to buy it here’s a link :) catalystbooks.org/book/9781984...

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Happy birthday to #astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution of our universe! 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭#histsci 🧵1/n

My linocut portrait of astronomer Vera Rubin with short hair, glasses and resting her face in her hand in burgundy on a background of outer space with stars and galaxies in black with blue and pink splotches to mimic how dust bends light in space. At the base of the print is a large spiral galaxy with a plot of orbital velocity versus distance going out from its centre (so the distance axis is indeed distance from centre). There are two lines labelled “observed” which goes up from the origin and then is a pretty flat wavy line all the way across. This line marks the bottom of Rubin. Below it is a wide empty gap of visible white paper down to the second line labelled “predicted”. The Predicted line goes up from the origin to a peak where it diverges from the observed and falls smoothly back down in a gentle curve.
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There is never any shame in using the library, and much benefit in doing so. They are the closest thing to an unmitigated social good that we have in these United States, which is why the hard right is gunning so fervently for them these days. A world without libraries and librarians is a poor one.

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Happy birthday to #astrophysicist#histsci

My linocut print ‘Jocelyn Bell and the LGM-1’ showing the young astronomer in dark grey ink holding a sheet of paper, smiling while looking over her shoulder, dressed in a pea coat, cat’s eye glasses and pigtails. Behind her in green is her famous pulsar dataset like a series of horizontal parallel lines, each with an irregular peak in the middle, resembling a mountain range on a topographical map.
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GRAD STUDENTS: Navigating career paths this summer? Curious to step outside the lab and build up your science communications and public engagement skills? Explore our National Association of Science Writers and consider joining as a #SciWriStudenthttps://www.nasw.org/

Animated GIF of a chemistry lab rack set up with various flasks and cylinders boiling and putting out smoke, in that cliched mad scientist fashion.
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Are you looking for some summer reading recommendations? In the latest episode of Universe of Art, we share a list of science-y summer reads, straight from those familiar with the best on the shelf. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/1680530900

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Everyone needs science; science needs everyone! Online Specific Benefit Corp bookstore celebrating & promoting DEI in STEM. catalystbooks.org
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