Week 6: Twitter!

Hello all! Another week, another set of Twitter posts! This week, we sought to summarize and present our three sources to our classmates by sharing them through Twitter. My scicomm article is going to be primarily centered around the science of dog cloning and so I found several articles on the topic.

The first article was about the first clones of a clone of a dog, dubbed "reclones." Specifically, the three puppies were reclones of the first ever cloned dog, Snuppy, hailing from Seoul National University. The second article talked about the application of cloning in the creation of elite working dogs, something which fascinates me quite a lot considering the possibilities of enhancing their abilities through precise genetic manipulation. This article's accompanying Tweet was also my favorite of today's set since I think its the most interesting and is most applicable to our own lives as humans. To create a new class of elite, cloned working dogs as even best-er friends to mankind sounds amazing to me! Lastly, my third article concerned the birth of the first viable FEMALE dog clones which I found notable for much the same reasons as the second article. The ability to clone both male and female dogs opens up even more genetic possibilities for breeders. Especially remarkable dogs can have their genetic material preserved for many years and thus their lineage can be kept safe for far longer.

We were also tasked with looking at three hashtags other than our own #UCAnimals. Today, I looked at 1. #PLOSONE, a hashtag for the peer reviewed scientific journal PLOS ONE. I found a lot of cool articles, though most of them were pretty hard to decipher in layman's terms.

2. #dogintelligence was not particularly scientific, but there were a lot of videos of amazingly intelligent dogs on there.

3. #dogscience produced considerably more "scientific" material than #dogintelligence, which was a pleasure to sift through. Through this hashtag, I learned of a gene in Labrador Retrievers that might create a genetic predisposition to feel insatiably hungry at all times... I think my last dog might have had that.

Today, I also responded to a classmate, Shawn Lee. Due to issues I was having with Wix, I responded to her blog posts through Twitter by mentioning her username. I found her breakdown of her article to be incredibly well detailed, well thought out, and most certainly a great starting point for her scicomm article. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of it!