Rita-Levi Montalcini was an Italian neurobiologist who lived an extraordinary life. Today would have been her 115th birthday.

Find out more about Rita's life from the illustrations drawn by
Alex Neaverson:

https://thenode.biologists.com/who-was-rita-levi-montalcini/

#WomenInScience #theNodeCorrespondents

New #SciArt profile: Brent Foster

Apart from #ScienceWriting, one of #theNodeCorrespondents Brent Foster also enjoys drawing and painting, and often takes inspiration from the marine invertebrates he works with:

https://thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profile-brent-foster/

A while back #theNodeCorrespondents Alexandra Bisia and Brent Foster published an article featuring researchers working with non-model organisms.

One of them is Dr. Claudia Patricia Ornelas-García from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who works on the Mexican cavefish🐟

Read the full interview:
https://thenode.biologists.com/mexican-cavefish-astyanax-mexicanus-a-non-model-organism-research-story-with-dr-claudia-patricia-ornelas-garcia/interview/

Meet #theNodeCorrespondents—Shreyasi Mukherjee

In this interview, @_smukherjee, a postdoc at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, talks about her ideas for the Node, including writing about stem cell-based embryo models and highlighting scientists from the Global South:

https://thenode.biologists.com/meet-the-node-correspondents-shreyasi-mukherjee/?t=202403071153/

Meet the Node Correspondents — Alex Neaverson

In this interview, we caught up with Alex to find out more about her background, her passion for art, and her plans as a Node correspondent (hint:🎨🖌️)

https://thenode.biologists.com/meet-the-node-correspondents-alex-neaverson/interview/

#theNodeCorrespondents

Meet #theNodeCorrespondents — James Zwierzynski

In this interview, we chatted to James about his research into vascular biology in the placenta and his plans to write about topics in reproductive biology and philosophy of science:

https://thenode.biologists.com/meet-the-node-correspondent-james-zwierzynski/

Please join us in welcoming the new Node correspondents — Alex, James and Shreyasi! 🙌🎉

Find out more about them and the content they plan to contribute as #theNodeCorrespondents ⤵

https://thenode.biologists.com/introducing-the-new-cohort-of-the-node-correspondents/news/

📢Become a correspondent for the Node!

Are you interested in #scicomm and want to broaden your writing experience alongside your research activities?

We're looking for new #theNodeCorrespondents! Find out more and apply now 👇
https://thenode.biologists.com/become-a-node-correspondent-2/

My experience as well: "Maybe the path of a scientific career isn’t linear."

RT @the_node: Cracking the egg

Read this new 'honest conversation' blog post from
@_brentmfoster, one of #theNodeCorrespondents, on the lessons he learned from developmental biology in how to navigate the scientific career-scape:

https://thenode.biologists.com/cracking-the-egg/careers/

Cracking the egg

Read this new 'honest conversation' blog post from
@_brentmfoster, one of #theNodeCorrespondents, on the lessons he learned from developmental biology in how to navigate the scientific career-scape:

https://thenode.biologists.com/cracking-the-egg/careers/

📢New on the Node

In this blog post, our correspondent
Dina Myasnikova talks about her experience as a women researcher in Japan, and how she found support from like-minded people by joining 'Women in Science Japan':

https://thenode.biologists.com/you-are-not-alone/discussion/

#theNodeCorrespondents #WomenInSTEM

Can you believe the Node was launched 13 years ago? 🤯

In the latest Editorial @Dev_journal, Helen Zenner (previous Community Manager of the Node, now at FocalPlane) and Katherine Brown (Development Executive Editor) discuss the most popular features on the Node, as well as introducing some new initiatives, including #theNodeCorrespondents:

➡https://thenode.biologists.com/keeping-up-with-the-node-2023

Meet #theNodeCorrespondents: Alexandra Bisia.

Alex tells us more about her own research and the things she'd like to cover as a correspondent (check out her first post: https://thenode.biologists.com/cut-paste-crick-exhibition-on-the-future-and-ethics-of-genome-editing-invites-the-public-to-give-their-opinion/events/). Also, check out her impressive #WordleStreak!

https://thenode.biologists.com/meet-the-node-correspondents-alexandra-bisia/news/

Check out our interview with Brent Foster, one of the Node correspondents. We find out about Brent’s research, science writing & what he’ll be blogging about on the Node.
https://thenode.biologists.com/meet-our-the-node-correspondents-brent-foster/news/

You can read Brent’s first post here:
https://thenode.biologists.com/if-you-give-a-scientist-a-cuttlefish/research/

All of the posts from our correspondents will appear on our dedicated topic page: https://thenode.biologists.com/the-node-correspondents/

#theNodecorrespondents #sciencewriting #scicomm

New on the Node – If you give a scientist a cuttlefish…

Check out the intriguingly-titled post from our correspondent Brent Foster! Brent talks to Tessa Montague about using dwarf cuttlefish to study neural control of camouflage behaviour.

https://thenode.biologists.com/if-you-give-a-scientist-a-cuttlefish/uncategorized/

#theNodecorrespondents

New on the Node: Announcing the Node correspondents

We are delighted to announce that we have appointed Alexandra Bisia, Brent Foster and Dina Myasnikova as our correspondents for 2023. We are looking forward to working with them on their exciting ideas for the Node!

https://thenode.biologists.com/announcing-the-node-correspondents/news/

#theNodeCorrespondents