STPF fellow Morgan, PE, PhD, one of #ASCE 's 2024 New Faces honorees, shares her #scicomm purpose:
'It comes from how confused I felt right at the beginning when I was outnumbered...There is a real call for friendly faces, intentional ways to include people.' Read more below!

Do you have Ph.D., M.D., or other advanced degree? Help us review the 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting proposals! Reviewers will evaluate approximately 7-9 proposals during the period of May 15 – May 30, 2024.

Sign up by April 25. meetings.aaas.org/reviewers #AAASmtg AAAS S&TPolicyFellowships

Members: Get your questions answered at our #EarthDay Live Q&A on April 22 at 12:30 p.m. ET with Anja Brandon, PhD. Anja got her Ph.D. Stanford University ➡ Became a @aaas_stpf fellow ➡ Now plastics policy expert Ocean Conservancy.

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Check out the Williams Institute’s new report, which focuses on the legal landscape for collecting SOGI data at higher education institutions. This report is part of the AAAS project working to increase the success of LGBTQ persons in STEMM. brnw.ch/21wILKn

#MirzayanFellow Luis Delgado spent the day talking with #Pennsylvania congresspeople and staffers about science & technology funding through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Congressional Visit Day.
#mirzayan2024 #scipol #congress #nasem #stem #engineering

Join us on 4/26 as we honor this year's winners of the Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award. The recipients, Richard DiMarchi & Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, dedicated decades of work researching the GLP-1 drug class agonist. Tune into the livestream: brnw.ch/21wIGLB

Satisfying photos for perfectionists - thread 🧵

1. Crescent Moon bridge by Yier Wang

👀: AAAS expert Rebecca Aicher discussing the implications of the Environmental Protection Agency's official ruling on #PFAS in @AZCentral.
The Agency announced the first official limits on six types of PFAS, known as 'forever chemicals', this morning. brnw.ch/21wIH3n

Congratulations, Adriana! We can't wait for your AAAS STPF #scipol journey to begin 🎉

The power of the STPF community reaches far, especially the ability to connect with people 'from all different...backgrounds with the same mission to...look at how we can use our #science to inform better #policy .' ~STPF alum Zack Valdez, U.S. Department of Energy
Watch: bit.ly/3LWTtED

The evolution of the nervous system may have followed multiple paths and risen independently in two early lineages of animals, according to a Science study in comb jellies.

Check out that research from last year: scim.ag/6wl #ScienceMagArchives

Solar Eclipse 2024 - a thread 🧵

1. Cleveland by Gabe Wasylko

🎉STPF alum Gail Webster, 2021-23 U.S. Department of Energy fellow, was bestowed the The POGIL Project POGIL Impact Award:
'The [STPF] fellowship provided an opportunity...to apply my experience as a professor...and to expand my career goals beyond the campus and classroom.'
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Many STPF alumni return to #academia post-fellowship, but as S&TPolicyFellowships alums Gillian Bowser, Matthew Druckenmiller, and Ramón Barthelemy show us, their #scipol journey doesn’t end there.
Read more: aaas.org/news/rocky-mou… #STPFcareerpath

Thank you for this awesome piece AAAS and S&TPolicyFellowships! Being a fellow was an honor and highlight of my training and career, and was only possible by the support from American Physical Society and AIP Publishing who sponsored my inclusion.

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'We have the opportunity to define what are the parameters for the use of AI in aging.' ~George Demiris, Penn Nursing.
STPF alum Becky Krupenevich joined experts to discuss the use of Large language models and Generative #ArtificialIntelligence in gerontology. Read more below!

Members, will you be in the solar #eclipse path this Monday? Share your photos on Member Community -- we'd love to see! 🌞
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In 1919, gravitational lensing from a #SolarEclipse was used to confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Today, solar eclipses remain awe-inspiring sources of scientific discovery and wonder.

Explore #SolarPhysics resources for today's eclipse: ow.ly/X4RE50R7vF0

New in Science: A vocal brain region is identified in bats and leveraged in comparative genomic analyses to reveal the evolution of mammalian vocal behavior. The results implicate networks of genes related to human autism.

Learn more: scim.ag/6vA #Zoonomia

Ethan Hunt, take a back seat 😎

During the #totalsolareclipse today, the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V research aircraft will engage in a high-speed chase of the moon’s moving shadow.

Tag along & track the GV in flight here: bit.ly/4cP69bP

📷: Carlye Calvin