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Following a week of tremendous tweeting about diversity and inequity (and great big hairy spiders) by Dr Maggie Hardy of the IMB in Brisbane, we cross the breadth of Australia to meet another researcher with...
Protecting water quality from invasive species, pesticides, pollution and eutrophication from nutrient runoff is the mission of our curator of the week of March 8, Dr Melanie Harrison-Okoro (@DrHarrisonOkoro) of the US National Oceanic and...
Meet Dr Maggie Hardy (@DrMaggieHardy), biochemist and entomologist, and our curator for this week on @RealScientists. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts in the United States, Maggie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of...
Marine researcher Marah Hardt took the reins of RealScientists this February 8-15th. Marah, as you may recall, is the Research Co-Director for Future Of Fish, an innovative initiative of systems change consultancy Flip Labs,...
Back in November, the RealScientists community was privileged to hear from Professor Jeff Dunn/@jeffreyfdunn, of the Department of Radiology, University of Calgary in Canada. Calgary is well known as the home of the Stampede, the...
To our knowledge, Mars is the only planet in the universe which is solely inhabited by robots. The fact that Mars is apparently free of traffic lights, roadworks and fast-lane slowcoaches doesn’t mean travel...
Sex. As Alfred Kinsey and colleagues put it in their 1953 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, “there are few aspects of human biology with which more persons are more often concerned”....
Seasonally appropriate holiday greeting to all! Over the next two weeks (December 21st to January 3rd) we’ll be bringing back some of the people who curated @RealScientists in its very early days, when the...
Each week on @RealScientists, as we welcome a new curator, we bid farewell to another; so goes the nature of our account, and curator farewells from RS are never a final goodbye, just an...
This week on @realscientists will be a bit different. For a change, we don’t have a solo scientist curating the account, but a museum! The Museum of Human Disease is the medical pathology teaching...
