I’m over the moon that my book What the Wild Sea Can Be is the Science Friday Book Club pick 🌊🐋🐟💙🪼🦭🦈🦑 Read along from September 1 And I’m doing a livestream Q&A Sept 25 @groveatlantic.bsky.social

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It’s Wednesday. Time for a new episode of the #MattersMicrobial podcast! Dr. Mónica Medina of UCLA joins the #QualityQuorum to talk about the holobiont concept as it applies to corals and jellyfish. E plurbius unum! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @microbe.tv youtu.be/sO_TPJAHfWM?...

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Mercury, final prompt for #printerSolstice2425, made me think of #alchemy. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci #printmaking 🧵

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March 22 is #WorldWaterDay & an apt birthday for Japanese #geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. 🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci

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Miyake Yasuo, who had a strict policy against gender discrimination. She developed the first tool to measure CO2 in the oceans using pH & chlorinity, called Saruhashi’s Table. She enrolled in the PhD program at the renowned U of Tokyo in ‘57, where she was the 1st woman to earn a science doctorate.

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