An Eight-Week Vegan Diet May Slow Biological Aging, study out of Stanford University, published by BMC Medicine

by @grrlscientist

#GoVegan🥕 #HealthyEating🌶️ #foods🫘 #Twins #Aging #EpigeneticClock #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/30/an-eight-week-vegan-diet-may-slow-biological-aging/

COVID-19 Is Widespread In ‘Common Backyard Wildlife’ In US, study out of Virginia Tech & Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, published by Nature Communications

by @grrlscientist

#Covid_19🦠 #epidemiology #PublicHealth🛟 #wildlife #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/29/covid-19-is-widespread-in-common-backyard-wildlife-in-us/

Shingrix, The Shingles Vaccine, Could Reduce Your Risk Of Dementia, study out of University of Oxford, published by Nature Medicine

by @grrlscientist

#Vaccines💉 #shingles🦠 #virus #Shingrix #dementia #PublicHealth🩺 #Healthcare⚕️ #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/28/shingrix-the-shingles-vaccine-could-reduce-your-risk-of-dementia/

Cancer Risk From Pesticides Comparable To Smoking For Some Cancers, study out of Rocky Vista University, published by Frontiers in Cancer Control and Society

by @grrlscientist

#Cancer #pesticides #smoking🚬 #agriculture🚜 #FoodSecurity #health🩺⚕️ #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/25/cancer-risk-from-pesticides-comparable-to-smoking-for-some-cancers/

Sharks On Cocaine: Recreational Narcotics Are Contaminating Ecosystems | Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, published by Science of the Total Environment

#sharks🦈 #narcotics #ecosystems #environment⛰️ #pollution #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/23/sharks-on-cocaine-recreational-narcotics-are-contaminating-ecosystems/

Domesticating The Ground Cherry Using CRISPR Gene Editing, out of Cornell University / Physalis Improvement Project, Boyce Thompson Institute / published by #Plants, People, #Planet

by @grrlscientist

#food #crop #botany #groundcherry #CRISPR #domestication #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/22/domesticating-the-ground-cherry-using-crispr-gene-editing/

Rare Genetic Mutation Turns Green Frog Blue💙, Surprising Scientists, via Australian🇦🇺 Wildlife Conservancy

by @grrlscientist

#frogs🐸 #amphibians #colors #Mutation #Australia #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/18/rare-genetic-mutation-turns-green-frog-blue-surprising-scientists/

Ancient Genomes Reveal Dingoes Are Not Related To Modern Domesticated Dogs | out of Queensland University of Technology + University of Adelaide, published by PNAS

by @grrlscientist

#dingo🐾 #genetics🧬 #conservation🌏 #Australia🇦🇺 #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/15/ancient-genomes-reveal-dingoes-are-not-related-to-modern-domesticated-dogs/

When Hippos🦛 Fly: Hippopotamuses Can Move So Fast They Become Airborne, out of #RoyalVeterinaryCollege published by the PeerJ

by @grrlscientist

#hippos🦛 #biomechanics #Movement #veterinary #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/05/when-hippos-fly-hippopotamuses-can-run-so-fast-they-become-airborne/

exquisite writing, fascinating story

Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity by Lee Alan Dugatkin

#behavior #science #history #biography #booklovers #mustread #amreading #books UChicagoPress https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo239362319.html

Frog ‘Saunas’ Help Endangered Frogs Survive A Deadly Fungal Pandemic, via Macquarie University + University of Melbourne, published by Nature

by @grrlscientist

#amphibians🐸 #chytrid #mycology #ecology🌏 #conservation💉 #epidemiology🛟 #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/28/frog-saunas-help-endangered-frogs-survive-a-deadly-fungal-pandemic/

Wild Boar🐗 Has Five Times More Toxic PFAS Than Humans Allowed To Eat, by James Hutton Institute + University of Graz, published by Science of the Total Environment

by @grrlscientist

#ForeverChemicals #PFAS #toxins #pollution🏭 #environment⛰️ #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/26/wild-boar-has-five-times-more-toxic-pfas-than-humans-allowed-to-eat/

Climate Change Could Make Fungi More Dangerous To Humans, published by Nature Microbiology

by @grrlscientist

#mycology🔬 #microbiology🦠 #PathogenicFungus #PublicHealth🛟 #epidemiology😷💉 #EmergingDiseases #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/24/climate-change-could-make-fungi-more-dangerous-to-humans/

Genome Of The Last Living Wild Horse Species Has Now Been Mapped, from University of #Minnesota & #MinnesotaZoo, published by G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics

by @grrlscientist

#horses🐴 #genomics🖥️ 🧬 #conservation🌏 #bioinformatics #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/17/genome-of-the-last-living-wild-horse-species-has-now-been-mapped/

this paperback, The Shadow Docket by Stephen Vladeck, just arrived in the mail, thanks to Oriel the outstanding & BasicBooks📚

An acclaimed legal scholar’s exposé of how #SCOTUS uses unsigned & unexplained orders to change the law behind closed doors

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephen-vladeck/the-shadow-docket/9781541602632/

Does Size Matter? Penis Dissatisfaction And Gun Ownership In America | University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas A&M University, Florida State University, pub'd by American Journal of Men's Health

by @grrlscientist

#GunOwnership #PenisSize #Men #Sociology #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/12/does-size-matter-penis-dissatisfaction-and-gun-ownership-in-america/

Simply Looking At The Natural World Can Improve Well-Being, a study out of Bangor University + Technion-Israel, published by People and Nature

by @grrlscientist

#UrbanPlanning🏙️ #CityLife #Trees🌲🌳 #Nature🌱 #environment⛰️ #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/09/simply-looking-at-the-natural-world-can-improve-well-being/

Shark Barfs Up A Spiky Echidna In Front Of Surprised Scientists, via James Cook University

by @grrlscientist

#sharks🦈 #echidna #MarineBiology🌊 #tagging #Australia🇦🇺 #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/07/shark-barfs-up-a-spiky-echidna-in-front-of-surprised-scientists/

Frequent Mowing May Transform Poisonous Weeds Into ‘Superweeds’, from University of Arkansas + University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, published by Scientific Reports

by @grrlscientist

#weeds #superweeds #plants #evolution #ecology #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/05/frequent-mowing-may-transform-poisonous-weeds-into-superweeds/

Watch: How A Frog Is Helping Scientists Understand A Deadly Amphibian Pandemic

by @grrlscientist with video by bioGraphic

#amphibian #frogs🐸 #pandemic #chytrid #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/05/31/watch-how-a-frog-is-helping-scientists-understand-a-deadly-amphibian-pandemic/