🌍🐒 Dr. Jane Goodall collaborated with #Google to share an environmental message for #EarthDay. This animated #biography explains her work as an ethologist and her dedication to protecting the planet.

The #video also highlights Roots and Shoots, a program that supports young people in over 140 countries who are working on environmental and humanitarian issues in their local communities.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/dr-jane-goodalls-google-doodle-for-earth-day-2018?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=jane-goodall-earth-day

#animals #animation #anthropology #conservation #diy #earth #ecology #environment #nature #primatology #science #womeninSTEM #tksst

Happy birthday to Italian #neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with for her co-discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF)

Youngest of 4 of a Turin Jewish family, she planned to be a writer but the death of a nanny to cancer inspired her to pursue medicine. Inspired by neurohistologist Levi to study nerves as an undergrad, she stayed on after med school in ‘36 as his 🧵
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#womenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #histmed