April 2012
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Montclare Lab Group: A State of Equilibrium →
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Recently, I was intrigued to learn that rivers operate in a state of equilibrium. Rivers alter two independent variables, their sinuosity, or channel pattern, and slope to maintain a delicate equilibrium. Why would a science and engineering student like me find that surprising?…
March 2012
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#IamScience The Moment I Knew I Was A Science Geek... →
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Has science changed your life? Tell us your story!
At HuffPost, we’re kicking off an exciting new project, and we’d love you to participate. It’s called “The Moment I Knew,” a user-submitted video series where readers tell the stories of life-changing moments they have experienced. Each section of HuffPost has chosen a different theme — whether it...
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@ihearttheroad: Blog for International Women's Day... →
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Dr. Darleane Hoffman, a career actinide chemist who will be 86 years old this year. That’s right—Dr. Hoffman earned a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry in 1951. NINETEEN FIFTY-ONE! This daughter of a high school principal and a music teacher was inspired to science by a female chemistry professor. In those days, women were not typically found in the science classroom, but the...
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#IamScience Happy International Women’s Day 2012! →
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How can we change this stereotypical perception and encourage girls and women to follow their passion and take up science as a career? One way is to provide more and better role models of female scientists, both in traditional print media and online. A great resource is the website “Making women visible online” by the UKRC. This website offers guides and codes of good practice for...
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#IamScience Science Decoded: Am I Science? →
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Scientists don’t really wear white lab coats. They usually don’t stand in front of old cabinets full of glass jars and beakers containing a rainbow of colored liquids. Unless someone has had an unfortunate bunsen burner accident it is unlikely that there is smoke wafting through the lab, or beakers bubbling over with a frothy white foam. If these images are what come to...
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#IamScience What were you, or what were you going... →
So, when you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up? Was the answer always “ecologist”? I doubt it, unless one of your parents was an ecologist. So, if not an ecologist, what did you want to be?
Lot’s of stories in the comments!
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You Really Can Go Home by @blackfemarch... →
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I was a fish out of water, I was a stranger in a strange land. The graduate school thing proved to be harder than I had ever imagined. I was alone, isolated and intimidated. I felt that all the wonderful moments I had the summer before my first graduate seminar was slipping fast from my memory and this new thing was a reality that I could not grasp. I struggled with my readings, I froze...
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“#iamscience 9th grade not smart enough for bio. 12th grade don’t cry when...”
– @BradyburyCynthia
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#IamScience Neil deGrasse Tyson On Exploring... →
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“#iamscience Wanted to join the Muppets > took a biodiversity class > Hon...”
– @MuseumGirlROM
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#IamScience Lenses on Biology: Inside and Outside... →
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You may not like the sciences, but everyone has a small curiosity hidden inside and it’s humbling to understand even a small part of the amazing things going on in the universe. As a high school student, I’ve found that the more I advance in my biology studies, the more I appreciate everything around me.
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#IamScience Lenses on Biology: An Artist’s Angle –... →
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However, until a few years ago, I felt my journey into science was lacking something. Only when I discovered science art and scientific illustration did things fall more into place for me. Despite a commonly held misconception that science and art are incompatible with each other, I found, like many others, how much they can complement each other. When paired together, they can inspire...
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#IamScience Lenses on Biology: From Geckos to Grad... →
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I’m not one of those people who wanted to be a biologist for as long as I can remember. Don’t get me wrong – everyone else who knew me as a kid could have seen it coming. There’s a note in my school record from when I was five about how I liked to “find dead geckos and open their mouths to see their tongues.” I just didn’t realize that I could turn that passion for animals and the...
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@BranVanChemist: #IamScience: Going Mad Before... →
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I decided to submit my story. I was never really pushed towards science so I knew this was important. I sat down and thought about the last ten years. I honestly just started writing. By the end of the blog. I didn’t know it was going to be that long and I had no idea that I would seriously just sit there and stare at the screen and re-read it 10 times. Honestly, this was the most...
February 2012
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“@SyTpp: My chemistry teacher told me “Whatever you do in the future, never...”
– https://twitter.com/#!/SyTpp/status/174613706678870016
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@LeadingEdgeSci: Look who’s talking about science... →
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Although many people with know of it, the hashtag IamScience is always worth mentioning. It was started by Kevin Zelnio (@kzelnio) and exploded onto the twitter scene about a month ago. The uptake of this concept has been unbelievable and has subsequently made for compelling and often emotional reading (storify can be found here). The “everyman” message that is conveyed in these stories...
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Diversity Award Winners Recognized for Helping to... →
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The daughter of a postal worker who immigrated to the United States from Jamaica, Noelle Bowlin never even heard of the field of oceanography when she was growing up in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.
“I never heard of those kind of things. It wasn’t a discussion topic at the dinner table – not at my house,” she said. “It’s not for lack of trying. My parents killed...
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@DNLee5: #IamScience: Charlette Clark, Geologist →
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Geology was never the vision for me as a young girl. I grew up drawing pictures of butterflies and flowers. I wanted to believe in fairies, flying horses, dragons and the power of what I considered to be the innate goodness of mankind. Because I connected so well with people of various backgrounds (beyond race, age, gender and class) I was told to go into social work or teaching. ...
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@DoubleXSci: Good Deeds, Good Science: #IAmScience... →
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We at Double X Science believe in the breaking down of stereotypes when it comes to science and scientists, and we encourage you to donate to this worthy cause. For a closer look at the #IAmScience stories, you can check out the IAmScience Tumblr, or read Emily Willingham’s touching and poetic post about her science experience.
Making these types of stories available to the public...
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“@mckmat: Mom=artist. Dad=history teacher. Sister=pianist. Was told I’m not...”
– https://twitter.com/#!/mckmat/status/172824292818550784
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Chemist Tebello Nyokong’s Letter to her... →
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Dr. Nyokong’s is the director of the Nanotechnology Innovation Center at Rhodes University, South Africa and the first South African scientist to win the L’Oréal-UNESCO award for women in science. Her research focus on the development of molecules similar to the ones used to dye blue jeans, which can be used as chemical sensors to detect disease-related molecules and organisms, as an...
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Going Mad Before Going Science
I was raised by two great individuals who worked for a living. They never had any “fancy education” (their words). My mother took tests to graduate high school while staying with a foster family in Kansas. My father graduated high school from a small town in Oklahoma by mere luck. They didn’t want him back because he was considered a ‘trouble-maker.’ He ended up going...
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Support #IamScience on KickStarter!
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via @rgb3: #IAMSCIENCE kickstarter →
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The #IamScience hashtag was started on twitter a month ago, and the day it started I watched with glee as my twitter feed became this science confessional of sorts. I was nothing short of inspired, and I cannot say this clearly enough, this is one of the most important messages for young scientists to hear. In the microcosm of my lab world, I’m surrounded by a lot of people who...
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via @DocFreeride: Help high school “nerds” visit... →
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@LSMonster: We Look Like You #IamScience
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The Flaming Lips nailed it. Not only do the scientists racing for ‘the good of all mankind’ on the opening track of 1999’s The Soft Bulletin capture that fear of being beaten to discovery (‘the cure that is the prize’), not only do they encapsulate the fevered obsession that accompanies specialization (‘both of them side by side, so determined’), but Wayne Coyne screeches that...
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Beyond a Trend: Enhancing Science Communication... →
Beyond a Trend: Enhancing Science Communication with Social Media
(Starts at about 20 min.)
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@Lizzie_Crouch: A reflection on the recent... →
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A lot of industries and people deal with misconceptions about what they do and, as demonstrated here, science is no exception. As I said before, this is no a new issue, but when so much of our future is dependent on applied science and technology surely more should be being done to challenge the stereotypes so that more people consider scientific research as a career path
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@SoundingtheSea: I am (in an evolving relationship... →
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I think my relationship with science is a little bit like a human relationship. I feel guilty when I neglect it to go out for a run - those files aren’t going to analyze themselves! At times, it feels like we spend so much time together that I forget why I fell in love with it in the first place. I felt like we spent all our time together doing chores and errands, and...
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via @UTSanDiego: Science Minded: How I became a... →
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No matter what I was doing, I worked hard at it. If I got to the end of a project and realized that it wasn’t for me I moved on, and if I liked it I kept going.
To get these opportunities I had to be persistent. I checked websites, sent emails and knocked on doors, much like my friend Aly. After I made contact, I provided resumes and writing samples, which I followed up with emails and...
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@llmhoopes: Twitteriffic #IAmScience Opens Out... →
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@GeoEvelyn: How a Geochemist Really Dresses... →
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@betul_pamuk: How I Became a Physicist –... →
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I have always been the most indecisive about what I really want to be. When I think about my childhood, I realize that I have never been one of those kids that wanted to be a doctor or an engineer or a lawyer, you know one of the highly respected jobs that every parent want his child to become. At my early teens I wanted to be an archaeologist. My father’s best friends were interested...
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The winding road.
Ph.D. cond. matter — temp office worker — film — part-time prof — mom — particle phys research — post-doc — tenure track
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The Boy Who Played With Fusion: Taylor Wilson... →
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This is before Taylor would transform the family’s garage into a mysterious, glow-in-the-dark cache of rocks and metals and liquids with unimaginable powers. Before he would conceive, in a series of unlikely epiphanies, new ways to use neutrons to confront some of the biggest challenges of our time: cancer and nuclear terrorism. Before he would build a reactor that could hurl atoms...
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Science careers and social media: will #IamScience... →
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As the nature.com communities team conclude, only time will tell if social media initiatives such as #IamScience and ‘This is what a scientist looks like’ will really change the way people think about what a career in science involves. In the meantime, it’s certainly a powerful way to reach a wider audience and engage with the next generation of potential scientists.
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#IamScience on @SRvetenskap: Krokiga vägar till... →
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Anthropo-morphizing Science by @BoneGirlPhD... →
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What a Scientist Looks Like by @sciam #IamScience →
Learn how today’s scientists are working to update people’s perceptions of science, how it’s done and who scientists are
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#IamScience -> Brilliant & Beautiful: Black Female... →
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When most people think of science, especially chemistry, they imagine a man who wears a lab coat, has the periodic table of elements memorized, adorned with black-rimmed bifocals and lives in a laboratory setting. Those stereotypes of yesteryear have been wiped away by a new crop of science and math enthusiasts who are breaking the mold. Jaws often drop when a young, impeccably styled...
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I am Science... or am I? by @DocFreeRide... →
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I wanted to learn science. I wanted to do science. But I lived in a culture that took pains to make it clear that girls and women were not supposed to be into science, so I should just cut it out.
Luckily for my love of science, well-behaved was not really a tool in my personal toolbox, at least when it came to edicts that got in the way of goals that mattered to me.
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February’s #SoNYC: On Science and Social Media –... →
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The Story Collider is an attempt to peer into those questions. Run by Erin Barker, Brian Wecht, and myself, we invite people to tell stories of their personal experience of science, either live on stage — which we recordand podcast— or in essays. Of course, we tweet and post to Facebook, when a new story is published, or an event announced. We’re pretty run-of-the-mill social media...
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via @NYASK12: @smithsonian has wonderful portraits... →
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via @DocFreeride: I am science, and so can you!... →
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As you pursue an education in science, and perhaps consider a career in science, you will encounter challenges. Do not let these challenges put you off. While science can be beautiful, captivating, and deeply satisfying, it can also be hard. The people around you who seem to find it totally easy did not always (or will not always) find it so. If they did, chances are they were just...