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Nelly Armstrong

@biosciphd.bsky.social

Working on a graduate degree in biosciences. Love nature, mushrooms, amphibians, astronomy and beach combing. Hoping that one day people of all colours, genders and sexual orientations can be safe in the US. Hope science funding is restored.

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Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy birthday to Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), scientist and Augustinian friar who posthumously gained fame for establishing many of the rules of heredity, fundamental to modern genetics. 🧪🐡 #histsci By carefully crossbreeding pea plants and tracing seven characteristics (plant height,

My linocut portrait of Happy birthday to Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), scientist and Augustinian friar wearing small glasses, cassock and cross on chain, printed in green. He is surrounded by pea plants specifically coloured to be reminiscent of a Punnett square with mauve flowers on the top, left and right, and bottom left but white flowers on the bottom right. The each print is 11" by 14" (28 cm by 35.6 cm), on ivory Japanese kozo paper with "chine-collé" white and mauve paper.⁠ ⁠
Igor Adameyko@adameykolab.bsky.social · 3w ago

This pulsing orb is the advanced 1 mm larva of a sea angel ✨🌊🔬. Kattegat, The North Sea. Sea angels are my fav mollusks, and I’ve always been dreaming about seeing an advanced larva.

Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy birthday to amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women’s rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases &correctly concluded that increasing carbon dioxide levels would affect atmospheric

My linocut shows a Victorian woman in dress with apron and sleeves working at a table. She’s viewed from over her shoulder so you can only see her cheek and not her whole face. She has an open book in which she is writing. There is an air pump to one side and two large glass cylinders, each with two thermometers inside. She is printed in a gradient of pale blue at the bottom to bronze at the top on cream coloured washi paper. The numbered and signed print is titled “Eunice Newton Foote.”
Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy birthday to German-American theoretical #physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972), the 2nd woman to win the Nobel Prize for #physics. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡🎢 #histsci As the series of increasingly large atomic nuclei grows with additional nucleons (protons p & neutrons n) from hydrogen to transuranic elements

My linocut portrait of Maria Goeppert Mayer on 11” x 14” white Japanese paper shows the nuclear shell model energy states in lime green up the left side. Next to this are the magic numbers rising vertically (sums of available energy states): 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126 and associated elements for nuclei with those numbers of protons: He, O, Ca, Ni, Sn, Pb with the final hypothetical element unlabelled, all in dark blue. A 3/4 portrait from the chest up in dark blue is all the right side. Mayer has short hair, and wears a dark blouse with long thin white scarf draped around her neck, untied. Below the magic numbers are increasingly large representations of nuclei with increasing numbers of gold and white nucleons like clumps of balls.