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Katie Leap, PhD

@katieleap.bsky.social

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Biostatistician infiltrating molecular biology | PhD in uterus | why menstruation | how endometriosis | 🇺🇸 in 🇫🇷

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/03/2025

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 06/03/2025

Science, research & public health face unprecedented attacks in the U.S. We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call. Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊ 📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu 🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr #StandUpForScience

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Katie Leap, PhD @katieleap.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A little 🧪 break from doomscrolling: Last month I asked a room full of 12 year olds to imagine what a pig’s uterus might look like. They were given a diagram of a human uterus and told to draw a pig uterus, thinking about how litter size might affect the shape. They all chose so many ovaries.

A child’s drawing of a pig uterus in blue pen. There are six fallopian tubes and six ovaries attached to a single uterine body.

A child’s drawing of a pig uterus in pencil. There are ten fallopian tubes attached to ten ovaries. The uterine body is large like a balloon.

A child’s color pencil drawing of a pig uterus with fourteen fallopian tubes and fourteen attached ovaries. The uterine body is round like a beach ball with a triangle of endometrium seen within. A heart is drawn above from a previous prompt and a stick figure horse below for unknown reasons.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/02/2025

RNA xkcd.com/3056

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 10/02/2025

Nature valentines. Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."

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Camille Berthelot @camilleberthelot.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

@clavergne-anth.bsky.social presented their work at ALPHY-AIEM, asking the hard questions: did the evolution of mensuration associate with diversifications in immune genes, to fulfill their new functions in the uterine cycle?

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Camille Berthelot @camilleberthelot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Our first foray into the evolution of the mammalian uterus, spearheaded by Axelle Brulport, Malgorzata Gazda and @eulalieliorzou.bsky.social ! Some highlights below... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (A first version was submitted during my maternity leave, this is a new and updated version!)

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Katie Leap, PhD @katieleap.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I never know what to put in a first post, so how about a fun fact: Did you know that the pig uterus has two horns that are each about a meter (3 ft) long?

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