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Yay!
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I think I've seen this colour after drinking it...
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There are magnets beneath and on top of the bags so the pairs just hold the plastic together to limit their range of motion
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๐ so good. Gosh I'm so glad you're in my world (with your content, and your directions to other content)
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The magnets were there to limit the amount of kicking. The fetal sheep were kicking the bags, and Alan and team surmised that this was fictive running training. So they had to put the magnets in place to make sure they didn't breach the bags.
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Seems harsh to have Alan Flake's sheep-in-a-bag as a bodyoid. Those were real brainful sheeplings!
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Just spotted this might help some folk:
bsky.app/profile/altm...
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Still behaving on this side of the pond
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Whatever your alt text just said it was (sorry, I don't watch much telly)
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For a moment I thought that was a picture of Abba
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When scoping labs, speak to current and especially past members to hear their experiences. Check out the publications. If the PI is always last author then they aren't nurturing and growing their team enough
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There was a huge amount of insitutional sexism then, even more so than now. If you have the time and inclination check out Angela Creager & Gregory Morgan's article on her which gives a lot more nuance to the story www.academia.edu/302725/After...
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And James Watson appears to have been quite the a-hole in many ways, including what he wrote about her. But even he credited her for her contributions. She became good friends with the Cricks. John Bernal and Aaron Klug tried their best to ensure she was credited.
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Yes...but it's more complex. I think the Nobel Prize committee should have awarded her the joint prize. By the time they awarded the prize for DNA, she'd died of ovarian cancer. Today, awards can't be given posthumously but back then it wasn't a rule - it just wasn't usually done.
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Here are some brain cells as a welcome present for you ๐งฌ๐งช๐ง
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Welcome @uclqsion.bsky.social! Lovely to have you in the nice blue place
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Finally, I learned that, on her gravestone, her contributions to virology were recognised. Buried in Willesden Jewish Cemetery, 3 miles from my house. So on a chilly morning today, 8th January I went there and took this picture. Each stone placed by someone showing her honour and respect.
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Here is a nice interview with Franklinโs younger sister, Jenifer Glynn www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8z_... and a really good article "After the double helix" by Angela Creager and Gregory Morgan: www.academia.edu/302725/After...
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So much more to learn about Rosalind Franklin than the oversimplification that Watson and Crick stole the Nobel Prize from her, doing her a disservice: that up to her death aged 37 she was a formidable force in genetics and structural biology and her work was fundamental to two Nobel prizes.
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L to R: Anne Cullis, Francis Crick, Donald Caspar, Aaron Klug, Rosalind Franklin, Odile Crick, and John Kendrew
April 1956, Madrid, International Union of Crystallography
Creager ANH, Morgan GJ. After the Double Helix. Isis. 2008;99(2):239-72. (photo by Caspar)
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The more I dug, the more I realised how fundamental her work had been not only to the double helix Nobel prize, but also that of Klugโs. And that she had a much better relationship with many researchers, including Watson, and particularly Odile and Francis Crick (Francis Crick was Odileโs husband).
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I knew when I reached Franklin I had to do more than write about Photo 51 that led to the discovery of the DNA double helix. I disappeared into a cavern of her subsequent work on plant viruses genome packing, her work with Aaron Klug and Donald Caspar did a fellowship under her.
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(This is the 6th in this mini-series of women in genetics and some more general genetics history) โช@1000womeninstem.bsky.socialโฌ @cathyabbott.bsky.social @tanialouis.frโฌ @doudna-lab.bsky.social @ucl-ifwh.bsky.social (Picture credit Henry Grant Collection/Mol/Shutterstock)Ros
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Water has to be at least 30โ for me to even dip my toes
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And now wishing you and yours a restful merryneum
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But here's a human for comparison
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The scale is difficult to convey in photos, and even difficult to comprehend when you're there