I am planning to teach introduction to biology next year to adults (mostly friends for the time being) who doesn't have natural science background. If anybody have experience and suggestions on this it would be really nice. #iTeachBio

Granted, these people have probably never seen vaccine-preventable disease #VPDs & therefore don’t believe they exist.

"Luckily", my mom had #polio, and I can still recall the shapes of her twisted arm. Her elbow being on the wrong side.

Attached is a link to a reel of Smiley, aka Tiny Dancer, with the fatal neurological disease distemper.

I've been privileged to work/volunteer O/S & see these awful diseases.

shorturl.at/K1Ffr

🧪 #Science #Microbiology #SciComm #iTeachBio🧬 #VaccinesWork

🧪 On this day in 1885 Louis Pasteur administered the very first rabies vaccination 💉

Happy #WorldZoonosesDay

#DYK? 🦠 60% of pathogens 🦠 that cause human diseases come from animals?

#Science #OTD #Microbiology #iTeachBio #VaccinesWork

Interrupted Rations

Death cap’s pale allure
Whispers promises, then chokes
Amanita’s kiss

#Science #MycologyMonday #Haiku #SciComm #iTeachBio #Poetry #Secret #Mushroom #HiddenMessage

Can you work out the secret message hiding in plain sight?

https://allpoetry.com/poem/17888952-Interrupted-Rations-by-David-Wakeham

One of my clients asking for help identifying this skull they found in Lowood QLD near water.

My guess was a Corvus mellori (Australian Little Raven) based on size and location.

Length ~ 890 mm
Cranium length ~ 415 mm
Cranium width ~ 370 mm

Alternative IDs welcome

#Education #STEMeducation #Science🧪 #iTeachBio🧬 #Birds #Ornithology #Skulls