I love reading the #MyFirstScience stories! Seeing how tiny moments can change the course of a life.

Mine: my dad was a sailor in the era before GPS. He would take me out and show me the stars, and talk about how to navigate by them. I still have the star chart we used.

#MyFirstScience I was around 4. My mother was showing me how to use a toy microscope, & we were chasing the light with a little mirror.

My mom's 80th birthday is today. Say Happy Birthday Mom!

Stumbled upon some more #MyFirstScience memories:

Grandpa 1 was a hunter, grandpa 2 had a little farm. So hare and rabbit naturally made the menu from time to time - and little Jens was happy being allowed to keep the skulls for anatomic studies.

Still have them today. 😉

Thinking about it, #MyFirstScience probably were the long beach-walks with my father when I was 4, looking for what‘s called '#Donnerkeil' (thunderbolt) in German: the bullet-shaped rostrum of fossil #belemnoids.

Still got many of them in the desk. 😉