Dr Michelle @Drosmel@qoto.org

Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.

Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.

Image: NASA

zuhause sein funktioniert besser als gedacht und ist ein schönes Gefühl / being home works better than expected and feels nice

Narzissen die jetzt bei mir auf dem Esstisch stehen und hoffentlich bald wachsen und blühen / narcissus flowers on my table which will hopefully grow and start blooming soon

ich glaube der eine Mitpatient findet mich wirklich sympathisch und redet nicht nur mit mir weil ihm immer so langweilig ist, und wir hatten heute eine gute Unterhaltung / I think the one fellow patient actually likes me and doesn’t only talk to me because he’s so bored, and we had a good conversation today

#3goodThings #3GuteDingeDesTages

"in New York City, 14-year-old Miles Wu was astonished to find that a simple piece of paper, folded into a Miura-ori origami pattern, could hold 10,000 times its own weight. For a total of more than 250 hours, Wu had diligently designed, folded and tested...a series of tessellating parallelograms that can fold or unfold in one fell swoop...to build deployable shelters for emergency situations like natural disasters."

Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/
#Science #ClimateCrisis

#BlackHistoryMonth: Janina Simmons—woops sorry, that's Sergeant Major Janina Simmons!—is the first Black woman to graduate from US Army Ranger School. She's also a cancer warrior, mentor, and bad-ass. READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/blackhistorymonth-janina-simmons

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PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh and Flor Iacaruso. Read details below 👇.

Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27).

UK candidates will be given preference unfortunately because of the source of funding, but it is open to all.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-convergence-science/phd-opportunities/

#neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience

𝐌𝐏𝐋 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

At MPL, we attach great importance to equal opportunities. 33% of our scientists are women, among them Dr. Clara Wanjura, #research group leader “Topology and Neuromorphic Computing”. She encourages young people with an interest in #science: “Don't be afraid to take a chance. If you ask ‘Should I really do this?’ – then my answer is ‘Yes, just give it a try.’”

For example on Girls'Day 👉 https://mpl.mpg.de/events/event/girlsday-2026

#equality #diversity

Carter G. Woodson, the “father of Black history,” founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a “life-and-death struggle”

Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/a-white-historian-claimed-that-black-people-had-no-history-this-trailblazing-scholar-dedicated-his-life-to-proving-otherwise-180988144/
#BlackHistoyMonth #historyMatters

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

It’s important to remember that actively working towards a welcoming safe environment for everyone in science isn’t just the decent thing to do (I’d argue it’s the bare minimum), it also means we do better science!

Take, for example, this study showing underrepresented groups innovate more than their peers (but their work is not taken up by the wider community):

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117

#AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM

Pretty sure #Trump and company would hate it if this ad were boosted and boosted some more. You all know what to do.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-survivors-slam-pam-bondi-in-new-super-bowl-ad/

#USPol
#Survivors
#Epstein

PROMOTE BLACK VOICES (on this platform and in general.)

Thank you.

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The "G" pronunciation is hard sound, as in "Grass" or "Girl"

the place I work is after a senior software engineer - good people, full remote, 4-day weeks at full pay
https://assemblyfour.com/careers/senior-software-engineer/

READ

#Minnesota #StPaul #LaserLoon

If you see an invitation to participate in a trans or genderqueer study sponsored by Northwestern University, steer clear. It's a rigged, unethical scheme to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #trans #transgender #TransRightsAreHumanRights

So the Trump regime has arrested two Black journalists.

How many white journalists are going to speak out about this? The answer should be "every single one."

This is a test to see what they can get away with and who they can target. Our response as journalists matters.

Postdoc position open in my lab (UK) to study a disease model in #Drosophila with comparative connectomics:
https://mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/appcentre-int/brand-3/spa-1/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/2765-Postdoctoral-Scientist-Neurobiology-Dr-Albert-Cardona-LMB-2765/en-GB

My lab:
* our page: https://syn.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/
* institutional page: https://mrclmb.ac.uk/research-leaders/albert-cardona/

#neuroscience #PhDJobs #Parkinson