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Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/biochemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biochemist</a> Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts” in DNA - 🧵 <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histmed</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Knowledge Zone<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> Venus_de_Milo, the famous <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Greek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greek</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sculpture</a>, was discovered (1820) by a peasant.Grace Hopper led development of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COBOL</a> (1959).Birth Anniversary of American <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Biochemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biochemist</a> Melvin Calvin (1911) - most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.<a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://knowledgezone.co.in/news</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & <a href="https://spore.social/tags/biochemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biochemist</a> Maud Menten (1879-1960). Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/enzyme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enzyme</a> kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histochemistry</a>, still used in imaging of tissues today & she also performed the first <a href="https://spore.social/tags/electrophoretic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electrophoretic</a> separation of blood haemoglobin in 1944!⁠ 🧵1/n ⁠<a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

michaelnew <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Introduction</a> for the bsky bridge : I’m a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BioChemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BioChemist</a> turned <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceWriter</a>, write a feature for every issue of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CurrentBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CurrentBiology</a>, 2/month, mostly about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environment</a> also <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#human</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cultural</a> things seen thru <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> prism. Plus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceBooks</a>, most recently: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Intertwined" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Intertwined</a>: From insects to icebergs Also writing a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FamilyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FamilyHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> around <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biography</a> of our old <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cello</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PirateLuthier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PirateLuthier</a> fixing unloved <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/violins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoCars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cycling</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trains</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/liveable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liveable</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/townmouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#townmouse</a>

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