Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social

"so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate" | Grant manager @CivicNE | Ex-scicomm @UNLincoln. Blinkers & coasters. #BlackLivesMatter

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

A multidisciplinary team helmed by @NebEngineering is exploring how to grow food on space stations, the moon, Mars & other celestial bodies that might eventually sustain the human kind.

Another aim? Establish the first academic center for space ag.

https://t.co/yTYt78x5hT

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

@GeitnerSimmons Thank you, Geitner! Grateful for your support throughout this whole transition. For the record: The university's fortunate that you (and many others) are still there to tell its stories. And you can be sure that I'll still be reading them. 😌

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

@SciTalker @NebToday Thank *you*, friend! It's been a blast to relive these stories via this awesome bracket. 🙏🙏 And "Droplet" has always been one of my faves, so I was thrilled to see it wind up on top. 😌

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

@szintri @SciTalker I'm still awaiting the breathless coverage those other departures received. 😏 But I'm afraid so. Wasn't by choice; I'll miss covering research here more than I can say. I'll keep reading my colleagues' stories after I'm gone, though, so I plan to stay up on your work!

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

A @UNLFoodScience study has ID'd gut bacteria with a resistance to cadmium — and the potential to help their more susceptible cousins tolerate the toxic contaminant. @UNL_IANR #PocketScience

https://t.co/3KZv6Ar7T8

[Nebraska Public Media News @NebPubMediaNews]

Meteorologists and climatologists often have a tough job explaining climate change to the public. In the Midwest and Great Plains, strong resistance has pushed some out of the field. From @ekrembert: https://t.co/dWkThdzma5

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

"It's working as a spider web for catching spiders."

Laura Segura Hernández (@Laurachne) & colleagues were venturing through a rainforest when they came along a pirate spider — one about to unleash a hunting technique never before seen. @unlcas @UNLsbs

https://t.co/CsTlFElSjl

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

The @RaikesSchool's Luke Farritor has helped decipher a scroll that went unread for nearly 2,000 years. And he's letting neither fame nor $40,000 distract him from an even grander achievement. @NebEngineering

https://t.co/oRgCKgwuwx

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

This week's random bit of interview transcript:

"There's no magic buttons I can press to get faster internet in my dorm."

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

U.S. college students majoring in STEM fields graduate about 20% less often than their non-STEM peers.

An experiment led by @NebEngineering's Mohammad Hasan suggests that AI-based interventions could help. #PocketScience

https://t.co/zOMlR1yRRQ

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

"When you have so many things out there, and some of them are in conflict or totally opposite, which ones do you use?" —Qi "Steve" Hu, @UNLSNR/@unlcas

A new Scientific American piece on farmers' almanacs & winter weather addresses that very question. 👇

https://t.co/7iAb9zwPbc

[Rodney D. Bennett @RodneyDBennett]

Exciting news in the world of agriculture and space exploration! A @UNLincoln team led by @NebEngineering is on a mission to launch a one-of-a-kind center for space agriculture. This big idea aims to grow crops on space stations, the moon, Mars & beyond. https://t.co/ce7Ursj0jo

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

"Every time that we've found anything at those super extreme elevations, we're completely blown away. It's really hard to overstate how inhospitable these environments are." —@UNLincoln's Jay Storz on the discovery of mouse mummies atop Andean volcanoes

https://t.co/yV8ti3eRQM

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

The rupturing of arterial plaque can lead to heart attacks & strokes. But a @NebEngineering-led team has now shown that restoring blood flow to arteries may help stabilize it — a finding that could inform new treatments for heart disease. #PocketScience

https://t.co/ZzLd8RTW99

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

Some mummies and blood for #Halloween:

Jay Storz didn't plan for his discovery of mummified mice — 13 of them, no less — to drop in late October. But it didn't hurt, as an avalanche of media coverage would attest. @unlcas @UNLsbs

https://t.co/maQcJZlyJG

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

@mhermanUNLsbs @UNLsbs @unlcas @UNLresearch 🙏 Serendipitous timing, yeah? (The study's already making the rounds at Science, Nature, Popular Science, Scientific American, Newsweek and elsewhere, too.)

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

.@UNLincoln's Jay Storz and colleagues have discovered mummified mice atop Andean volcanoes nearly 4 miles above sea level.

Analyses suggest that the modest mice scaled the Mars-like peaks on their own — and are somehow managing to live on them. @unlcas

https://t.co/TYXB9rfns7

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

@JayStafstrom @unlchemistry @NebEngineering @unlcas Right?? Hydrogels are never not interesting. Also: Now that I'm thinking about that photo through the eyes of an arachnologist, I can see why it might've caught yours. 👀👀👀👀

[Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social @ScottSchrage]

A @unlchemistry-@NebEngineering team has crafted minuscule lenses that it can expand or contract in mere seconds — modifying their magnification, focal length & other optical properties in the process. @unlcas

https://t.co/W8HpFS7Gry

[Wilson Lab UNL @WilsonLab]

Delighted to see our recent #NSFfunded work highlighted @NSF!
https://t.co/eWnCnnGgyC