The Ubiquitous Scientist

04/23/2025

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women which has generated data over the last 3 decades on women health 🤦🏾‍♂️

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

04/18/2025

The moves also affect a temporary work program heavily used by STEM graduates

02/26/2025

Do your part!

02/26/2025

Creating microswimmers to navigate blood vessels for targeted chemotherapy or clot removal. https://link.ie.social/gGHBAQ

01/02/2025

11/23/2024

How are nerve impulses exchanged between cells?

The nervous system in people and animals consists of many different cells. In cells, signals are conveyed by small electrical currents and by chemical substances. By measuring changes in electrical charges in a very large nerve fiber from a species of octopus, Andrew Huxley (pictured), together with Alan Hodgkin was able to show how nerve impulses are exchanged between cells.

In 1952 they demonstrated that a fundamental mechanism involves the passage of sodium and potassium ions in opposite directions in and out through the cell wall, which gives rise to electrical charges.

Huxley and Hodgkin were awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3BRGI6G

11/23/2024

https://alleninstitute.org/careers/internships-and-postbac/shanahan-foundation-fellowship/

The Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience was created to provide freedom and flexibility to promising young scientists from diverse fields, as they work alongside neuroscientists

11/09/2024

Scientists capture images of a new quantum phase in electron molecular crystals

Electrons typically travel at high speeds, zipping through matter unbound. In the 1930s, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted that electrons could be coaxed into stillness at low densities and cold temperatures, forming an electron ice that would later be called the Wigner crystal.

05/12/2023

Jonathan Pruitt An investigation at McMaster University found that Jonathan Pruitt, a behavioral ecologist by training who has had 15 papers retracted in the last three years, “engaged in fabricati…

01/27/2023

01/07/2023

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00016-1 Unearned authorship pervades science

Research-integrity survey also suggests that there is a split in US- and Europe-based researchers’ perceptions of ‘questionable research practices’.