All this week, we’ve been posting a series of stories on ASBMB Today about the lab work that led to the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. When I got up at four-thirty in the morning back in October to cover the announcement of the year’s first Nobel Prize – a first for me, and it felt like such a career achievement to even be doing this in the first place – there’s something that didn’t go into the same-day story.

Every so often I like to peek at what was going on 100 years ago in @jbiolchem. This time did not disappoint... 🧵 #WomenInSTEM Let me tell you about what delights me in this paper, “Basal Metabolism of Normal Women,” by Katharine Blunt and Marie Dye (1921). jbc.org/article/S0021-…

This feature story comes from something I noticed in Survey of Earned Doctorates data: Black PhD recipients in the life sciences are more likely to have a master’s degree before enrolling in doctoral programs than their peers of other races. #BLACKandSTEM asbmb.org/asbmb-today/ca… I have a LOT more to say about this, including lots of bonus data that didn’t make it into the feature, so here comes a twitter tree.