Somehow, astonishingly, it's been 10 years since The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was published. I'm in awe, and so grateful for all that's happened since 2010 to honor Henrietta and her family. More details here: facebook.com/rebeccaskloot/…

Once again today, I received a call from parents of a child in class 7, on how to get enrolled in IISc. Parents, please let your child play and have fun, and enjoy their education. You are destroying their childhood by trying to prepare them for a PhD when they 12 years old !!

Aloo in biryani is AMAZE. That's it. That's the tweet.

@McknightLaura For those reading, their gofund is available here: Jen Heemstra gofundme.com/f/helping-laur…

So for the first time in history there is one more than one living female physics #NobelPrize winner 🤯 #NobelPrize2020 #WomenInSTEM

In "other awards" today, Monika Schleier-Smith is a winner of a MacArthur Genius Award! macfound.org/fellows/1070/

Is my headache from dehydration, over caffeination, barometric pressure, allergies, staring at a screen all day, or stress???

A cool piece about Jeff Gore and what we do in the Gore Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

A poem for today concerning the fifty-percent-terribleness of the world, by @maggiesmithpoet

A more experienced colleague suggested today that when I assign students to groups for collaborative work (very complicated these days!) I should avoid pairing boys with boys because without a girl in the group they can get too unruly 1/5

This dog is both a good dog and a bad dog at the same time.

Winter city.

Idk about you guys but doing a PhD from my kitchen table is definitely a weird experience

Hey The New York Times and Dennis Overbye how did you manage to write a whole piece on this and leave out the two analysis leaders... who just both happen to be women? Credit and quotes for Dr. Monika Moscibrodzka (co-lead of the polarization group) and Sara Issaoun, please!

There is INCREDIBLE stress on the health system right now in many parts of the country. Health professionals over worked, burning out, turning positive with families in droves. And sometimes cannot find beds for themselves or their family in the hospitals they are working in.

We are a global coalition - IndiaCovidSOS with 100+ academics, clinicians, bioengineers, community members to bring clinically validated solutions and help. Check our first infographic on #homecare in COVID. We need global community to engage - time is running out! (1/)

I’m seeing a massive disconnect (more so than usual) between the two twitter worlds I usually inhabit — the US and India. It is important to bridge the two now for a very important reason: #CovidIndia Please read the whole thread and amplify. THREAD 1/17

If you find someone from India talking about “market mechanisms” to explain why vaccines can’t be free, please do take inspiration from Batman here.

We will be collecting all brands of plastic and aluminum drink pouches for #AmericaRecyclesDay! Be sure to remove straws and squeeze out excess liquid. Drop off at Anita Purves Nature Center from November 15-20. Start saving your drink pouches at home today!