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Lisa M.P. Munoz

@lisampmunoz.bsky.social
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Science communicator: Passionate about science, family, endless forms most beautiful...and Swiss chocolate. Author of WOMEN IN SCIENCE NOW (amazon.com/Women-Science-Now-Strate…) via @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Kris Willis @kawillis.bsky.social · 13h
The drive to help patients is the fundamental source of the culture of urgency that permeates so much of biomedical research. Delays cost literal lives. 🧪 #SupportBreakthroughs #SupportScience
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 12h
"Published anonymized data of the sexual misconduct complaints every semester, outcomes, sanctions, lengths of interim suspensions-these can be anonymized, and they're done by other universities in our Ivy League cohorts" More of this pls. Applaud the student journalists! www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...
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'Cornell Daily Sun' reporting brought light to alleged campus assault
Sophia Dasser, editor-in-chief at The Cornell Daily Sun, talks with NPR's Juana Summers about an alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell and the campus fallout.
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Eleonore @eleonore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving. No shortcut gets you there: the process leaves a trace."
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Nature @nature.com · 11/09/2026
The most successful early-career researchers often rely on a network of mentors who each have different roles — from advising on research and grants to making professional introductions and providing emotional support go.nature.com/46U5PXy
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Successful early-career scientists rely on network of mentors
Large networks are particularly beneficial to researchers in under-represented groups.
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Can you use AI for that?" I get asked that a lot, today after filming students at the Uni of Cambridge. Can I use AI to help storyboard the videos? Probably. But why would I? I travel all this way to find and tell those stories. It's about the journey, not just the endpoint. #stories #scicomm
Camera setup in library in front of small shelf with portable light behind; at U of CambridgePhoto from a bridge over the Cam River in Cambridge with view of boat (punting) and stone and trees
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Nancy Grace Roman was paid 60% of her male colleague's wages. 'the Nobel prize-winning physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ... told her: “We don’t discriminate against women. We can just get them for less.”' #WomenInSTEM 🧪 🔭
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Nasa’s new telescope is named after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman – but who was she?
The US astronomer battled discrimination in a male dominated field.
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"No words to describe it. Poetry. They should have sent a poet.” #TotalEclipse #Mallorca #Spain #awe #science #nature (and yes, these are my photos from viewing the eclipse with my family off the coast of Mallorca in Spain)
View of total solar eclipse over water off coast of Mallorca with a boat and small bit of land belowView of total solar eclipse over water off coast of Mallorca with people sitting on rocks to see the event
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This feels very targeted
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How dystopian can things get, while many of us still do not experience a day-to-day dystopia?!? Books, words, stories are humanity's lifeline and legacy. AI cannot be that.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Rocks are like time capsules. They reveal ancient life and climates. They’ll help us fight climate change. They record the birth, life, and death of continents. They give us a framework for understanding lithosphere-biosphere dynamics at a global-scale. They’re ace, frankly [2/2]
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I learned a lovely thing yesterday: a group of brittle stars (either fossilised or dancing very slowly in a Devon rockpool) is called …a galaxy:
A group of fossilised brittle stars
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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It’s impressive that autonomous AI agents is only the second most unreal idea in this sentence, behind the magic “press to get data” button. Just a huge devaluing of the process of data collection. Science is not just interpretation of data! There’s a reason many scientists want their own lab.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One of the hardest parts of writing books is the long publication timeline. It means I sometimes appear to get scooped. Like this NYT piece on a wonderful microbiome research team, who I've been talking to for 4 yrs and are featured in my forthcoming book: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/m... #scicomm
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Our Bacteria Are Talking. We’ve Just Begun to Understand What They’re Saying.
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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Mari-nerd friends can we blow up BlueSky with stars and anemones and other gorgeous explosions, of any taxonomy? Go 💥 💥 💥
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What is it with people in the last year or so increasingly using cell phones for calls, music, or viewing something audibly but without headphones? On trails, at the mall, walking through the neighborhood... #RandomMusing
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Spotted at the @cornelluniversity.bsky.social Store this morning! Exciting to still see it available in bookstores and on campuses! #WomeninScience #scicomm #authors #Cornellian @columbiaup.bsky.social
Selfie of Lisa M.P. Munoz in a purple shirt pointing to a paperback copy of her book Women in Science Now on a shelf called "Cornellians in Print"
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#Science 🧪 Who knew it could solve real-life problems?!? 😏 ... so sad to see so many digs their heads in the sand
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
They exacerbate the Matilda Effect...because that's what it's modeled on. Ugh! #WomeninScience
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I should have anticipated that field-based researchers who have the time to peer review my new book on scientific fieldwork would be hard to come by during spring/summer field season...sigh! Just putting this out in the universe to get some good vibes to help move the manuscript along...😎 #scicomm
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A global thank-you to all the scientists who talked to me, on the record and off, for this. I hope I accurately conveyed how they're feeling about...all of the everything.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In a field near Wicken, Cambridgeshire larkspur is grown for London florists along with cornflowers & Nigella. It’s quite a sight just now-some floral dopamine for you 🌿:
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
You can: 1) Contact your senators and reps, especially in coastal states. 2) Urge scientific societies and advocacy groups to speak out and mobilize their members. 3) Write op eds, posts, threads, etc. explaining what the OOI actually does and why it matters. 4) Share articles like this:
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Trump Administration to Remove Hundreds of Deep-Ocean Observation Instruments, Dismantling $368 Million Program - Eos
The Trump administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun dismantling the infrastructure of a $368 million deep-ocean observing program critical to monitoring marine ecosystems, global cu...
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Sarah Schwartz @flaskandquill.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Lovely time of year for fieldwork in Switzerland. 🧪🇨🇭
A field of red poppies and tall grasses A brown and white cow walking in a field in front of buildings on a hillside
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 26/05/2026
“Academic science is not only about productivity, it is also about deep understanding, exploring creative solutions and training critical thinkers to be the next generation of researchers.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails
Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
On its 40th anniversary, we reassess 1986's SpaceCamp arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
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Reassessing 1986's SpaceCamp
Is it a hidden gem, a cult classic, or hopelessly dumb? Senior Space Editor Eric Berger and Senior Technology Editor Lee Hutchinson vote "all of the above."
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Our species’ ability to come up with unexpected and original ideas is something to protect and nurture. That’s especially true for today’s adolescents." Yes, with every fiber of my being! #AI #scicomm
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
An analysis of 370,000 college student essays found that human-written essays contain 8X more novel ideas than those generated by A.I! Though AI works often contain more flowery language, story lines are more homogeneous and lack distinctive ideas. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Never knew I wanted to understand how erasers work until I read this piece. Science never ceases to impress with its seemingly simple wonders! 🧪 #scicomm
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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Today we celebrate Mary Anning's birthday (21 May 1799) — pioneering fossil collector, palaeontologist, and one of the most influential figures in the history of Earth science. To mark her birthday and her discoveries, check out Moon's phylogenetic study of ichthyosaurs: buff.ly/ovaAjuM #PaleoSky
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:
A spiral of crinoid ossicles from the Jurassic arranged in a spiral according to size on a white glazed plate
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If you feel sluggish and unproductive, just remember that hot spring archaea need decades to make a single copy of themselves. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Screenshot of a preprint on bioarxiv: Lipid Hydrogen Stable Isotope Probing Reveals Decadal-Scale Generation Times for Archaea in Hot Spring Sediments.
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Lost Women of Science @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, grandmothers, and mother-figures in our lives. We stand on the shoulders of formidable women, without whom, none of our collective achievements and discoveries would be possible.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
One of my students who isn't going to the field with us will be spending the next week counting which species of snakes were for sale in the classifieds of local newspapers (I swear there's a hypothesis we're testing!) and lollllll at everyone thinking an LLM can do that.
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
At @dcswa.bsky.social PD, @ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social talks about elements in her favorite stories & echoes for me: something new people may have never heard of, has a people angle, may be a little weird or offbeat, and may reflect broader trends in society, metaphorically or otherwise 👍 #scicomm
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Attended a great session at @dcswa.bsky.social PD on creating a sustainable career in #scicomm Biggest takeaways, which I endorse as a biz owner for 15 yrs, is to diversify client base, be a confident advocate for yourself, and to use networking to seize opportunities @beebrookshire.bsky.social
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
At the @dcswa.bsky.social professional development workshop today at GWU and appreciate that keynote speaker Prof David Michaels kicks off his talk about scientific integrity by disclosing his funding sources #scicomm
David Michaels lists funding sources on slide, including GWU salary, at DCSWA PD (live posting so if want more info, can add to this later)
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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Sir David Attenborough inspired generations of wildlife researchers and presenters, but who inspired him? Step forward diminutive, dismissed but indomitable Evelyn Cheesman, whose books about the natural world inspired the young David Attenborough. But not for her well-resourced expeditions.../1
Portrait of Evelyn Cheesman,  1924,  before her first expedition to the south Pacific, in her role as curator of insects at London Zoo
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STAT @statnews.com · 04/05/2026
In survey of NIH-funded researchers, 14% said immigration changes had forced scientists, students, postdocs to turn down jobs in their labs. www.statnews.com/2026/05/04/t...
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Immigration changes are driving foreign researchers to leave the U.S. — or not come to begin with
Labs are seeing fewer applications from international students and researchers, and some doctoral students are considering leaving early.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Good morning
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Mohith M. Varma (Mo) @mohithvarma.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Happy to contribute my reflections on some of the cutting edge research presented in a symposium #CNS2026 on the topic of mapping our emotional experiences in the brain. It was fun working on this blog post with @lisampmunoz.bsky.social ☺️
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026
When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins
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Lisa M.P. Munoz @lisampmunoz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Wow, is Florida OJ going to become future nostalgia? From 242 million boxes of FL oranges in 2003 to 12 million boxes of oranges now! An interesting looking at a fruit under different types of environmental pressures: slate.com/business/202... #scicomm 🧪
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It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It.
The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.
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