#Biology

Mustapha Mond

PM_Travel_Tours

A small thread on stress and immunity. And how the former causes more damage than we care to acknowledge. Let us start with the simplest axis - the Hypothalamic Pituitary

Dmitri Petrov

PetrovADmitri

A quick poll for the evolution peeps. Is fitness a phenotype? For me "of course it isn't". Phenotype for me is the physical manifestation of the organism that determines its

Angela R. Cox

KQscholar

The traditionally "feminine" arts really are a crash course in #STEM education. Want to teach kids STEM concepts? Teach them to make things and keep house. Want to teach someone

Nick Wignall

ndwignall

Habits are the soul of mental health.Everything from biology to social environment plays *some* role in our mental health. But for most of us, the thing we have the most

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Winter is coming! If we do not get this virus under control now, we are in for a perfect and terrible stormWe are not taking the expected seasonality of this

Harriet Marsden

harriet1marsden

Frustrated that the (huge) cost of childcare and the career sacrifices of having a small child is still seen as a “woman’s issue”. Where are the fathers in this? Is

Marcel Bucher

mb_bucherlab

To improve my teaching I collect instructive examples of students misconceptions about plant biology (e.g. all plants make photosynthesis) beyond photosynthesis and respiration. Many are formed at a very young

Efra Rivera-Serrano, PhD

NakedCapsid

Regardless of our relationship with our biological mother, we cannot run away from the fact that we inherited our mitochondrial DNA from that human. So, before I scream #HappyMothersDay ,

American Horror Callie

DeathCab4Callie

On expecting things to get "better" for students with disabilities elsewhere and handing them off, a thread (PLZ RT-and please read. Listen. Learn.):This one is important. This is actually one

Dr. Emmy Zje 💜🌺

Emmy_Zje

For all the things transphobes say about “biological sex," I will just say this…if we sniffed each other and smelled each other's urine for identifying, congregating, and mating, I’d be

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

This combination of essays by @gcaw--together--is particularly powerful and suggests why we might not want to have a degenerate culture that glamorizes violence. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/there-no-defense-looting/615

Dr. Jessica F. Hebert

Dame_DNA

I played Auntie Em and Glinda, Aunt March, the Red Queen, older roles. I wanted to be Dorothy. "You don't have the right look," the director said, casting a tiny

Dr. Emmy Zje 💜🌺

Emmy_Zje

I want to own a mistake. When intersex conditions are used to discuss complexity of biology (even in butterflies) and advocate for trans ppl, it’s important to not erase painful

Alan Henness Esq.

zeno001

Hi @GMB_union The Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form in your job application asks, under the heading 'Gender', "What is your gender?", with the options, 'Male', 'Female' and 'Non-binary'.https://ww

Dr. Michael B.C. Rivera 趙凱聰

riveramichael

I honestly feel like if I were to be in a room with some of these people, it’ll just be them getting the calipers out and me having my head

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MackayIM

..as may every PCR -based test used for any pathogen. Ever. This isn't news, it just (clearly) hasn't been explained to the public (& some media) before. Obviously top shelf