As I get ready for another cozy weekend of Olympics watching, I'm seeing lots of chatter about ice quality for different sports. As a Minnesotan and a science journalist, just wanted to reshare this video about why ice temps matter!
It turns out that not all ice is created equal. Ice rinks are calibrated specifically for different sports, and at the Olympics these sport specifics are tightly controlled by the event’s "ice meisters."
🎤✏️: Marta Hill
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Let the SciAm summer reading challenge begin!!! I am returning to my original form (an elementary schooler who is VERY invested in reading challenges) and so excited to read lots of fun science books this summer! Send me your book recs :)
#SciAmReading #SciAmSummerReading
Marta Hill
Started a new book on my commute yesterday and I am thoroughly enjoying!
And as a bonus it checks off some #SciAmBookBingo boxes including (but not limited to):
📝 Reviewed by SciAm!
👩🔬 Scientists protagonist
📚 Borrowed from library
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Two weeks into #SciAmBookBingo and finished two books over the weekend!
🤗 Sublimation which I’m buddy reading with several lovely SciAm staff
🌕 When the moon hits your eye (which I emphatically recommend) which checks off award winning and reviewed by SciAm
#SciAmSummerReading
A few days in to the @sciam.bsky.social summer reading challenge and I've got my first bingo!
🎧 The Botanist's Assistant
☀️ It's Hard to Be an Animal
📝 Started the journal!
🧑🚀 Dinner With An Astronaut
📚 Event at Greenlight Bookstore
Happy reading!
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Contested paper on vaccines, autism in rats retracted by journal
@martajhill.bsky.social in @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Scientific American
Marta Hill
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Another SciAm staff reader getting a head start on Fall reading, this time featuring a lovable bear hired to break things for science! What can I say @martajhill.bsky.social has seriously great taste in books 🐻🧪📚 thanks for the ARC of this one @wwnorton.com 💫
Marta Hill
More than a year after garnering pushback on social media for its methods, a study claiming prenatal COVID-19 vaccine exposure caused autism-like behaviors in rats has been retracted.
By @martajhill.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/con...
Retraction Watch
Some parts of the Drosophila olfactory circuit have evolved more than others, according to a new comparison of two fruit fly species’ connectomes.
By @martajhill.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/c...
The Transmitter
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Bri 💝
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It turns out that not all ice is created equal. Ice rinks are calibrated specifically for different sports, and at the Olympics these sport specifics are tightly controlled by the event’s "ice meisters."
🎤✏️: Marta Hill
📸: Getty Images
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Scientific American
The first-ever Scientific American Summer Reading Challenge is here! 📚☀️
All summer long, we’re reading nonfiction deep dives, page-turning thrillers, and fiction that sparks scientific curiosity. (1/2)
#SciAmReading #SciAmSummerReading
The editor-in-chief cited “inconsistencies in the number of subjects” as the reason for the retraction.
The findings start to reveal evolutionary changes that may have helped two species develop different olfactory preferences and adapt to their particular environments.
