🎙️New episode! We sat down with Dr. Phillip Scott at Penn Vet to talk about leishmaniasis; a disease spread by sandflies that affects millions worldwide. We dig into the science, the 90-year-old drug still used to treat it, and the research that's coming out of Dr. Scott's lab. Link in our bio! 🦟

📣Join us for our conversation with Penn Bioengineering professor @danisbassett.bsky.social, studying the connectivity of the brain. We discuss Dr. Bassett's journey into academia, interdisciplinary approaches to scientific questions, and their perspective on scientific communication and advocacy! 📕🧠

Hey. Wanna help @standupforscience.bsky.social? Take this flyer (or your local event flyer) and the blurb in the next post and send it to 10 of your favorite scientists. BONUS POINTS IF YOU POST ON YOUR TOP THREE FAVORITE SUBREDDITS!!!

New episode is out 🙌 Listen to Dr. Franklin Staback Rodríguez talk about his science and personal journeys in our newest Scientist Spotlight episode. As a postdoc at CHOP in Janis Burkhardt’s lab, Dr. Staback Rodríguez tells us about his beginnings in science and the program Hablemos Ciencia!

“The Misinformation Toolkit”: Part 2 is out now! Join us for an interview with Dr. Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social, Cornell University professor and misinformation expert. Tune in for a chat on how scientists, governments, and platforms can work together to fight misinformation. Link in our bio!!

🚨 New Episode Alert!: “The Misinformation Toolkit”: Part 1 of a two part mini-series is out now! 🎙️ Learn how to separate fact from fiction in today’s info-overloaded world.
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#ScienceCommunication #Misinformation #CriticalThinking #FactCheck 🎧 Listen now at the link in our bio!

🎙 NEW EPISODE: Dr. Pankhuri Singhal shares her journey, building AI tools to detect complex diseases using health records. We talk research, mentorship, and life during a postdoc.

🌌 NEW EPISODE: "Exploring Exoplanets: The Search Beyond Our Solar System" takes you on an interstellar journey! Join us as we venture beyond our solar system with exclusive insights from exoplanet experts Dr. Cullen Blake and Dr. Sam Halverson. 🎧 Listen now - open.spotify.com/episode/7gl4...

My 1st op-ed with Devin Burris & Mark Bray (@mark531.bsky.social)! We look at how Trump’s funding cuts/changes to scientific resesrch threaten American biomedical research for small institutions & young scientists. Feedback/comments welcome! #scicomm markbraywrites.medium.com/the-goal-of-...

The Goal of Killing Academia: ‘Small’ Science as a First Stop

Co-written by Jordan Williams, Devin Burris, & Mark Bray

markbraywrites.medium.com

Amazonian deforestation is making wet seasons wetter and dry seasons dryer, according to research in Nature. The analysis highlights the local and regional effects of removing trees from the tropical region. https://go.nature.com/41jCClO 🧪

Higher ed workers from GETUP-UAW, AAUP-Penn, and more are out with allies across Philly at City Hall today to speak out and STAND UP FOR SCIENCE!

A great crowd here in Philadelphia at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally! #standupforscience

When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves: