He turned up in overalls and gumboots, removed his dentures because they rattled, and shuffled off the line. While the professionals slept, he kept going. By morning Cliff Young led a race nobody thought he could enter: the farmer who didn't stop.

https://oddlet.com/p/8vq

#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

RE: https://mastodon.social/@2Scientists/116668214851793307

This is the second part of a conversation for the #CancerInOurCommunity podcast, which is produced by: COE at Moffitt Cancer Center and Artha Science Media.

You can find the full episode here: https://2scientists.org/podcast/caregiver2

#SciencePodcast #scicomm

He coined the word cell, wrote a law every bridge obeys, surveyed four thousand burned plots after the Great Fire, and invented three experiments a week for forty years. Nobody knows what Robert Hooke looked like. The man without a face.

https://oddlet.com/p/bxg

#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

Today, it is 70 years since #GeorgeMurrayLevick passed away. This British Antarctic explorer made observations on penguins that were considered too shocking for the world. They are recounted in A Polar Affair, an unusual and colourful book of #PolarExploration, #Penguins, and perversion.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/02/20/book-review-a-polar-affair-antarcticas-forgotten-hero-and-the-secret-love-lives-of-penguins/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #SciComm

I hugely enjoyed ‘Ocean Art'. It’s teeming with wondrous creatures, & human perceptions changing due to both art & science. Helen Scales' first book was on seahorses, & here it’s her first image.
🎨 Hashime Murayama, 1920

#IconicFishes #seahorse #NewBook #OceanArt #HelenScales #ocean #SeaLife #SciComm

RE: https://flipping.rocks/@frankashwood/116661492786428411

I'm looking forward so much to this book about #soilLife #soil! @frankashwood is a great nature photographer and when the soil ecologist starts to talk about these wonderful creatures ...
Just follow him not to miss it!
More about the book: https://www.frankashwood.com/twbof

#biodiversity #macroPhotography #naturePhotography #natureWriting #soilFauna #SciComm #soilBiodiversity #followFriday #ecology #soilEcology

🤔 Wir haben nachgefragt:
Welche Chancen für die #Medizin bietet das Projekt „SpiriPharm“?

"Im #Labor ⚗️ machen wir eine erste chemische Erfassung dieser natürlichen #Heilmittel und untersuchen pharmakologische Effekte." 💬 berichtet Fabien Schultz, Ethnopharmakologe.

Die gesamte Story: https://sohub.io/p962

#Wissenschaft #SciComm #WirStiftenWissen #Grundlagenforschung #Ethnopharmakologie #Biodiversität #IndigenousKnowledge #GlobalHealth #Forschung

Fotocredits: Inken Dworak-Schultz

I've been quiet on here recently, as things have been extremely busy with juggling teaching alongside making the final touches on my book.

It's worth the hard work though, as the book is almost ready for publication, and early endorsements and book reviews are starting to come in either side of the pond (including from some of my environmental science communication heroes!). Waking up today to this glowing review by the illustrious Publishers Weekly was so lovely!

Now that the academic teaching semester is over, hopefully I can get back to posting some new macrophotography and book updates on here more regularly.

#TheWorldBeneathOurFeet #Soil #SoilBiodiversity #Author #SciComm #ScientificNonFiction #Writing #MacroPhotography