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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 27/01/2026

Canada has lost a true champion for science with the passing of the Hon. Kirsty Duncan. Dr. Duncan was a medical geographer, Minister for Science, and a huge inspiration to many for her advocacy for basic science and uplifting women in STEM. We'll continue your legacy while you rest in peace <3

Kirsty Duncan in front of a black chalk board at the perimeter institute, smiling at a podium with her hair in its classic pony tail

sam and kirsty smiling in a pink hued selfie

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 19/01/2026

Somehow @astrokatie.com always finds a way to make me laugh — even when she’s talking about the end of the universe 😅 Catch our full conversation on the latest episode of Curiosity Weekly: bit.ly/CuriosityWeekly 🔭🧪

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 27/11/2025

Thanks for sharing this! It was a STEM-themed gingerbread house too 🥰 Isomalt windows, dry ice “smoke” on the chimney, and a homemade circuit lighting up the tree out front

Cookies of women in stem in front of gingerbread house with dry ice smoke out the chimney

Sam and Mary Berg posing with the house and cookies of women in STEM

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 06/11/2025

You can see more results below. LEFT: The videos shown to participants are on the left. RIGHT: the AI's descriptions after 100 iterations interpreting brain activity from each of the 6 participants.

Four stills from four film reels on the left. Example outputs on the right. For example "Two women are dancing and are laughing with a teenage boy" to describe a film about "Two guys and a well-dressed woman are dancing."

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 06/11/2025

Watch the journey of AI models trying to describe a video someone was watching -- going off nothing but their brain activity. Over 100 iterations, it went from "Given these principles" ... to "A circular and rotating shape is formed with subtly moving sections." Pretty impressive???!

Four stills of a film reel showing some kind of metallic trophy. Below are outputs from the AI over multiple iterations, as described in the post.

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 15/10/2025

The winners for the largest photo microscopy competition were just announced and they do NOT disappoint!! [Photos shared with permission courtesy of the 2025 Nikon Small World Photo Competition] 🧪🔬

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 25/09/2025

Dear friends with access to microscopes, If you would ever permit me to share your microscopy videos, I can’t promise I’ll pronounce things properly but I absolutely will find the perfect song that captures the biology (wait for it). 🧪

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 24/09/2025

The beauty of microscopic life 🔬🧪✨ The winners of the 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion competition are in and they are all GORGEOUS!!!

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 06/08/2025

Two headlines in my inbox on the exact same day. 🧪

mRNA vaccines show promise for HIV
Two vaccine candidates that use mRNA technology elicit a potent immune response against HIV. These vaccines use mRNA to instruct a cell to make proteins called envelope proteins that are attached to the cell membrane — similar to how they are found in live HIV. In a small trial, some 80% of the participants who received three doses of either of the vaccines went on to produce antibodies that could block that protein from entering cells.

Nature | 5 min read

RFK Jr. cancels $500M US in funding for vaccine development, targeting mRNA

The longtime vaccine critic’s decision targets vaccines using mRNA technology

The Associated Press · Posted: Aug 05, 2025

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 03/07/2025

Are you wearing enough sunscreen??! @labmuffin.com spills the chemisTEA behind SPF, sunscreen policy & more on the latest episode of the Curiosity Weekly pod 🧪 Listen & lmk if you can tell I’m fangirling the entire time 🙂‍↕️ podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 13/05/2025

There are 2 types of people in this world: 1) those who LOVE the Merlin Bird ID app, and 2) those who are about to fall in love with it thanks to @corinanewsome.bsky.social. 🧪 Which one are you? 🤭

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 04/04/2025

"We've lost the plot a bit on what it means to be healthy." @jessicamalaty.bsky.social dropped SO MANY GEMS as a guest expert on our latest episode of the Curiosity Weekly podcast. We talked all about the measles outbreaks in the U.S. & the MMR vaccine. Don't miss it: bit.ly/CuriosityWeekly 🧪

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 19/03/2025

One of my favourite recent examples of community science: Park volunteer Deb Manley discovered an entirely new genus & species of plant after uploading it to @inaturalist.bsky.social & realizing no one knew what it was! It was the first such discovery in a US national park in nearly 50 years! 🧪

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 13/03/2025

TONIGHT: a “blood moon” aka #TotalLunarEclipse!! ☀️🌎🌕 Here’s everything you need to know so you don’t miss it! 🧪

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 06/03/2025

tell me you’re at a neuroscience conference without telling me you’re at a neuroscience conference 🧠 #neuroskyence

Three stickers on black background. Leftmost is a friendly brain with the text “I lobe you”, in the middle is a beaker with a mole climbing out and it say 1 mole/L. On the right is a waving friendly brain cartoon and it says brain wave

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 28/02/2025

Dr. Tiara Moore—marine ecologist & founder of Black in Marine Science—was such a wonderful guest on this week’s episode of the Curiosity Weekly podcast 🎙️ bit.ly/CuriosityWeekly 🧪

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 20/02/2025

Science vs. Engineering, an astrobiologist’s perspective. What a thrill to chat with Dr. Lynn Rothschild for the latest episode of Curiosity Weekly, the marquee science podcast for Discovery 🧪

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 16/02/2025

Funny enough, they compared their periodic cooking method to the classic 1-hr sous vide method, below. They did different visual & sensory analyses plus tested nutritional value and found their method “won” on all fronts. Though, debatable and … unclear if worth the effort 😅

Pictures of an egg cut in half prepared, from left to right: raw, hard boiled, soft boiled, sous vide, periodic (their method)

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 16/02/2025

I think about the eggs I ate on my last trip to Paris at least once a week 😪 I love eggs this style, though I think they were purposely going for a former albumen (they did direct comparisons to eggs cooked for 1hr sous vide, which I think is similar to œuf parfait?)

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 29/01/2025

Know thy science policy history. #DeathOfEvidence funeral, Ottawa 2012: www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1218019

Grim reaper standing in front of scientists in lab coats on Canadian parliament hill next to a fake coffin representing the dead “body of evidence”

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 29/01/2025

Throwback to July 2012, when the science community held a mock "Death of Evidence" funeral on the Canadian Parliament Hill. In white lab coats or dressed in black, the protest mourned cuts to federal science programs, legislative changes & the muzzling of scientists by the government at the time. 🧪

Scientists in lab coats carrying a black coffin with signs saying things like, "no science, no evidence, no truth, no democracy." A photo from July 10, 2012, with a mock funeral through downtown Ottawa marking 'the death of evidence.' These rallies helped renew attention to the role of science in government. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright.

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 19/12/2024

2 days of brain development in a few seconds ⚡️ Magnified 40x, blue- & red-coloured axons extend out in search of new connections. Captured in a chick embryo, but a similar process takes place in our brains 🧠 🎥: Dr. Alexandre Dumoulin; 1st place in the 2023 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition 🧪

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 27/11/2024

Finger-like projections lining the small intestine of a mouse. You have these same types of folds in your gut, too. Just like how you fold your clothes to pack more in a suitcase, the lining of the gut does the same to pack in more surface area for absorbing nutrients from things you eat & drink.

Fluorescent microscopy image of mouse gut lining, showing tall, finger-like villi structures in vivid colors. On a black background, the villi are outlined in purple, with internal structures glowing in bright yellow, green, and blue, highlighting cellular detail and differentiation. The image emphasizes the intricate architecture and vibrant patterns of the gut tissue.

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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 22/11/2024

Introducing the 100th woman to fly in space: ✨ASTRONAUT✨EMILY CALANDRELLI!!!!!!!! Keep reaching for the stars, Emily, we are SO proud of you 🥹

Emily Calandrelli smiling wide with hands on her heart in her blue space suit the Texan desert after finishing her first space flight. The lower third says her name and NS-28 astronaut.

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