I decided to try #Bluesky having heard a lot of other science writers are there. Of course, I’ll happily stay at Mastodon, but am curious to check it out.
If anyone wants to connect, my handle is the same there @sheril.bsky.social
Katherine Esau, born in 1898 in Ukraine, was a pioneering botanist who studied plant anatomy & viruses.
Esau began studying agriculture in 1916 in Moscow. Her family fled to Berlin & ultimately arrived in the US in 1922.
Esau earned a PhD & her research on plant structure spanned 7 decades. She wrote 6 textbooks & was the 6th woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
In 1989, Esau received the National Medal of Science. https://ccber.ucsb.edu/ucsb-natural-history-collections-library-and-historical-information-katherine-esau/life-katherine #HistoryRemix #science #history
Scientists in China have found evidence that our ancestors were almost entirely wiped out ~1 million years ago.
Why? #ClimateChange
While not every expert agrees, the research is intriguing & @npub10mwv...xxep has the details:
Globally we produce A LOT of #energy, but did you know the majority of fossil energy gets wasted? In the US alone, two-thirds of that energy is *wasted* as heat.
As Hannah Ritchie has pointed out, we don’t actually need to produce a low carbon equivalent of all of the coal, oil & gas we currently use.
That means we can decarbonize quickly by being less wasteful & more efficient. #ClimateChange #science
