Reed Gochberg was digging through the archives at Harvard s Museum of Comparative Zoology when she stumbled on some striking information buried in some old annual reports.
“What I noticed is that starting in 1869 there s this note that talks about how they ve started hiring women as assistants,” she said of the museum s male leaders, “and how they found them to be very good workers.”
An unnamed woman, captured in the far right, works at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, circa 1890. (Courtesy Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard)
One of them was Elizabeth Bangs Bryant. She started as a part-time volunteer in 1898. “And she only began to receive a salary for her work in the 1930s,” Gochberg explained.
MDI Biological Laboratory hosts statewide science symposium April 24, 2021 on News
BAR HARBOR The MDI Biological Laboratory is holding the 48th annual Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium online again this year from April 28-30.
Students, postdoctoral fellows and scientists alike have registered to attend the symposium a symposium that offers unique networking opportunities with Maine scientists and the collaborative space to share research and ideas. Participants can engage with online poster and speaker sessions, while students have access to a career panel. Additionally, this year’s online program will include a panel on COVID-related research in Maine.
The 2021 keynote speaker, Scott V. Edwards, Ph.D., is curator of ornithology, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the director of graduate studies at Harvard University. His keynote presentation, “Wings,
Challenging the lateral-to-sagittal shift in mammalian locomotion
Just because they kind of look like reptiles, does that mean they moved like reptiles? For a long time scientists thought so.
Nonmammalian synapsids, the extinct forerunners to mammals, like living reptiles, had limbs splayed out to the side instead of beneath like today’s mammals. So scientists believed that they must have also moved in similar ways, with spines more suited to the side-to-side flexing of a sashaying lizard instead of the up-and-down bending typical of a mammal in motion. It was thought that, over time, and in response to selective pressures, the mammal spine must have evolved to its present state. The transition is known as the lateral-to-sagittal paradigm.
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