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Congratulations to Michael E. Mann! He's received the Planet Earth Award for 2025 from the Alliance of World Scientists! ncse.ngo/michael-e-ma... #CelebrateScience #SciSky @michaelemann.bsky.social

Michael E. Mann receives a Planet Earth Award | National Center for Science Education

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February 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM

National Center for Science Education

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In case you missed it, our 2024 Friend of Darwin/Friend of the Planet awards celebration is now uploaded to our youtube. Come see! youtu.be/MlxwetQcLck?... #celebratescience #FoD #FoP #NCSE #SciSky

2024 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet Celebration

YouTube video by NatCen4ScienceEd

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December 20, 2024 at 1:08 AM

Romi Burks

@profromi.bsky.social

Nice big group of young scientists from #SouthwesternU attending @txacsci.bsky.social 2025 - molecular ecologists, physiologists, neurobiologists, chemists, engineers, computer scientists. It’s good to #celebratescience

March 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM

Roddenberry Podcasts

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🚀 Yuri’s Night LA is TOMORROW!

Celebrate space, science, and music under the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Dance the night away with astronauts, artists, and fellow dreamers.

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#YurisNight #SpaceParty #CelebrateScience #FirstContactDay

Yuri's Night – Los Angeles

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April 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Dr Vicky Fawcett

@astrofawcett.bsky.social

A couple of pics from #CelebrateScience last October in Durham ✨

Image credit: @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

January 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM

National Center for Science Education

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Our Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet Awards Celebration happens tomorrow, 12/5 at 3 PT/6 ET! Please join us as we honor our amazing awardees. Register to receive a zoom link to the event - us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#celebratescience #ncse #edusky #climatesky #scisky #biosky #webinar

Honoring Riley Black, Kostas Kampourakis, Jonathan B. Losos, GMU’s Center for Climate Change Communication, Dawn J. Wright, and Lorne Trottier

December 4, 2024 at 8:20 PM

National Center for Science Education

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Join us virtually on 12/5 at 6 ET as we celebrate our 2024 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet recipients. Register in advance for a link - us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#fop #fod #ncse #celebratescience #sciencelove

Collage of our Friend of Darwin/Friend of the Planet awards recipents

Friend of Darwin recipients: Kostas Kampourakis, Riley Black, Jonathan B. Losos

Friend of the Planet recipients: Dawn J. Wright, Lorne Trottier, Center for Climate Change Communication

November 20, 2024 at 10:49 PM

Durham Psychology

@durhampsych.bsky.social

We had an amazing time at #CelebrateScience last week! We had hundreds of children participate in fun psychology activities at our booth. A big thank you to our volunteers and to @samhforbes.bsky.social for leading our psychology team!

November 8, 2023 at 10:59 AM

Malia Gehan

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~290 participants at our Annual @nappn.bsky.social meeting this year! This is a virtual conference with in-person activities at several 'hub' sites @danforthcenter.bsky.social, MSU, Winnepeg/Manitoba, NCSU, UMN, and Corteva. #CelebrateScience @noahfahlgren.bsky.social @kmurphyphd.bsky.social

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February 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Al Czarnecki

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Tell a scientist AND science teachers and professors.

#StandUpForScience

Science majors are everywhere, hidden in plain sight.

Scientific discipline and analytical thinking keeps us well and will save our planet.

#BSc #CelebrateScience

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · Mar 4

👇 #StandUpForScience 🧪
Be there March 7th

We must defend our right to know!

March 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM

UofT Department of Chemistry

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🎉✨ WICTO is celebrating 10 years of promoting inclusivity in Chemistry! 🧪🌈 Read a story by present and former members, celebrating a decade of diversity, innovation, and community. #WICTO10 #InclusiveChemistry #DiversityInSTEM #CelebrateScience

www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/news/wicto-a...

December 10, 2024 at 6:28 PM

National Center for Science Education

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Join us virtually on 12/4 at 6 ET as we celebrate our 2025 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet recipients. Register in advance for a link - us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CelebrateScience #ScienceSky #ClimateSky

Flyer image. The text reads: 2025 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet Awards. December 4 at 6:00 ET. Register for this virtual event to receive a link.
6 images featuring this year's recepients: Katie Hinde, a group photo of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Vanderbilt, Randolph M. Nesse, John Toohey-Morales, a group photo of the CLEO Institute, and Kim Cobb.

November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM

Daicel Chiral Technologies

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Today, we celebrate the vital role of lab professionals in innovation. Did you know over 90% of drugs are chiral? 🧪 Chiral chromatography ensures the right isomer is used. Cheers to all lab heroes! 💡🔍 #WorldLaboratoryDay #CelebrateScience

April 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM

National Center for Science Education

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Today we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Lucy! Lucy was discovered by paleoanthropologist and long-time supporter of NCSE Donald Johanson and Tom Gray. Her discovery transformed our understanding of human origins.
#lucy50 #humanorigins #evolution #celebratescience

Intelligence? Bipedalism? Before Lucy's discovery, there was considerable debate about whuch trait first distinguished our early human ancestors from our ape relatives. In 1924, the first specimen of Australopithecus was uncovered. It was first studied by anatomist, Raymond Dart. It was the skull of Australopithecus africanus and became known as the Taung Child. The skull suggested a species with a small brain. There was somethingly distinctly human about it though. The foramen magnum was located at the bottom of the skull rather than toward the back of the skull. This provided the first clue that bipedalism evolved first.

Scientists were slow to warm up to the idea of bipedalism evolving before large brains. There were pieces of the puzzle still missing. Lucy put the debate to rest. In 1973, a knee joint was discovered in Ethiopia by paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson. The knee joint was nearly identical to a modern human and clearly from one of our bipedal ancestors. Johanson and grad student Tom Gray returned to the site the following year and uncovered 40% of a 3.2 million-year-old fossilized skeleton that is now known as Lucy. A new species was named: Australopithecus afarensis. Before Lucy, we didn't know what Australopithecus looked like from the neck down. Lucy gave us the rest of the picture. Her locomotion was strikingly similar to modern humans. She revealed that our human ancestors stood up long before our brain size expanded substantially.

Lucy was infamously named after the Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. To this day, she has retained her rockstar status. She remains an icon, invoking a sense of inspiration and awe, even amongst non-scientists of the story of our species. In Ethiopia, Lucy is known as Dinkinesh. This translates to "You are marvelous". In 2021, NASA launched the Lucy Space Mission. Lucy will be exploring Jupiter's trojan asteroids, which will greatly expand our knowledge of our solar system's origins. In 2023, Lucy reached her first destination: An asteroid called Dinkinesh.

November 24, 2024 at 11:24 PM

ProtiFi

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So grateful for the conversations and connections made at JHUPO2026 in Kumamoto, Japan. Always a highlight: ProtiFi Founder and CEO Dr. John Wilson, Ph.D., enjoying a "post-conference beer" moment!

#JHUPO2026 #ConferenceNetworking #SiTrap™ #SamplePreparation #Biotech #Multiomics #CelebrateScience

Photo of ProtiFi LLC Founder and CEO Dr. John Wilson Ph. D. enjoying a beer post-conference.

August 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM

Jen

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To celebrate #RFK and his anti vax conspiracies, I received two vaccines today. #ScienceFTW #CelebrateScience

January 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM

Materials Research Society

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🔗 Learn more & apply: MRS.org/Fall-Awards

Know someone who deserves recognition? Tag them or share this post! 👏

#MRSAwards #MaterialsResearch #CelebrateScience

March 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM

Promega Corporation

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A study by Klein et al. explores how methylation modulates the regulation of microtubules during neuronal differentiation. Read the summary: https://www.promega.com/en/resources/pubhub/research-highlights/research-summaries/2024/klein-p-2024
#PeerReviewedScience #CelebrateScience🧪

October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM

Promega Corporation

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🧪Can fungi help clean up environmental pollution? This study explores how native fungi and chitin-based biostimulation enhance PAH degradation, offering a sustainable solution for contaminated sites. https://bit.ly/4ilVqY8 #PeerReviewedScience #CelebrateScience 🧪

April 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Promega Corporation

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🧪 NEVs push astrocytes toward glycolysis, increasing lactate—key for neuronal support. Using the Lactate-Glo™ Assay, researchers measured this shift with precision. Read more: https://bit.ly/3GcAGot 🧪 #PeerReviewedScience #CelebrateScience