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Nonilex

…A GoFundMe page set up by Anderson for #KseniyaPetrova said that the researcher was hired to work for #Harvard Medical School & had entered the US on a #WorkVisa. Anderson did not specify which work #visa category Petrova was under.
…Reports of Petrova’s detention come just weeks after a French #scientist was denied entry in the US this month after US #immigration officers searched his phone & found messages critical of #Trump.
#immigration #law #Constitution #DueProcess #CivilRights #DualState

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Nonilex

Russian #scientist from #Harvard Medical School detained by #ICE
Cora Anderson, a friend & colleague of #KseniyaPetrova, shared the news of Petrova’s detention, saying Petrova arrived at #Boston’s Logan airport on 16 Feb from a trip to France when she was stopped by US authorities who revoked her #visa & told her she was to be deported to #Russia. In response, Petrova said she feared political persecution & was then sent to a #detention facility.

#immigration #law #Trump
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airportBy Maya Yang
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Local Agency

Hi, are you a cheesed off #scientist ?

How are you refocusing your research without budget support?

What resources will you need to contribute to the grand sum of human knowledge?

#climatecrisis
Boost for greater sample size.

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Garrett Sharpe
It may not look like much, but the light coloring on this little piece of filter paper is around 2 billion marine bacteria. While I've been out sailing along Line P, I'm trapping bacteria on these slips of paper by pumping water through the tiny little holes in the paper that are smaller than the bacteria but large enough for water to slip through. Once I get these to the lab, I can pop the bacteria open to collect their DNA and see who lives in the water and what they can do.

#science #scientist #marinescience #marinebiology #biology #microbiology #bacteria #pacificocean #environment #water
#water
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John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡✊🏻✊🏿

This a wonderfully nerdy paper on the story of the word "scientist" after it was coined by William Whewell in 1834. Basically, it took around a century for it to be generally accepted. The prolonged resistance to the term by Establishment "men of science", "philosophers" etc, especially in the UK is wittily teased 🤓. I *think* the pdf at this link may be freely available to all 🤞 . Apologies if not... #Scientist
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108

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John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡✊🏻✊🏿

@History_of_Geology Also first to use the word "scientist" in print, while writing a extremely admiring review of Mary Somerville's "On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences" in 1834. He didn't say that he intended the word to be gender-neutral, but it certainly provided that function. Available on Google books here (look at P 54-68) #Scientist
books.google.com/books?id=uWsJ

Screenshot of an 1834 printed text . It reads: "....no general term by which these gentlemen could describe them- selves with reference to their pursuits. Philosophers was felt to be too wide and too lofty a term, and was very properly forbidden them by Mr. Coleridge, both in his capacity of philologer and metaphysician ; savans was rather assuming, besides being French instead of English ; some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form scientist, and added that there could be no scruple in making free with this termination when we have such words as sciolist, economist, and atheist..."
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Ms. Que Banh

#Pioneering female #Chinese #American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who worked with Robert #Oppenheimer on the #ManhattanProject, was also the first to confirm #QuantumEntanglement – just 14 years after Albert #Einstein questioned the phenomenon. The largely forgotten achievement was included in a profile of Wu, one of the most influential experimental physicists of the 20th century, published in the December 2024 issue of Physics Today.

Wu is also believed to have been the only Chinese scientist involved in the Manhattan Project, the World War II initiative to develop an #AtomicBomb led by Oppenheimer, who affectionately referred to her as Jiejie, which means elder sister, the article said.

Wu’s experiment – detailed in a paper published in 1950 – was conducted before the #scientific community had fully grasped the significance of quantum entanglement, the article noted.

amp.scmp.com/news/china/scienc

South China Morning Post · Quantum entanglement theory first proved by Chinese woman in 1949Chien-Shiung Wu’s trailblazing but largely forgotten achievement features in a recent profile of the influential physicist.
#AsianMastodon#ChineseScientists#WomenInScience
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Warren Currie 🦠🦐

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐
Some people have a legendary life full of adventure and accolades. One of these is Fridtjof Nansen, #Norwegian explorer, #scientist, and plankton pioneer. He intentionally froze the specially designed ship #Fram into the ice for 3 years to study #Arctic #oceanography (a whole story on that!), invented water samplers and a closing plankton net named for him, became a diplomat, and was awarded the #Nobel Peace Prize for refugee works post WWI.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtj

image/jpeg a black and white portrait of a rugged man with long mustache, wearing a furred coat stares into the camera. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fridtjof_Nansen_LOC_03377u-3.jpg
image/jpeg a man smokes a pipe sitting on a bank of ice with a wooden sailing ship locked in the ice behind him. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:No-nb_bldsa_q3c062.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
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Ana Viñuela

When did we decided that scientist need all to be entrepreneurs keen to start business, patent ideas and make money? Because not all scientist are good or want to do that but the push is there. Also, basic science exists and is important. Or is this just a recent thing in biomedicine*?

#academia #scientist

* 'Cause I'm guessing here that engineering may had always have that push (?).

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Laura

New main account, formerly virelai@octodon.social

Time for re- #introduction.
I'm Laura, currently 37 years old. #Environmental #scientist by trade, working with #geodata currently.
I'm into different kinds of crafts & #fiberarts, mostly #knitting and #sewing. I like #boardgames and some computer games & some #rpg, like #shadowrun or #falloutrpg

My languages are 🇩🇪​, 🇬🇧​ & 🇫🇷​, this account will mostly be English though, folllow @virelai@ruhr.social for German.

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