#UniqueScientists on hiatus
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We embrace diversity in STEM & highlight the journey of #UniqueScientists worldwide almost daily! *on hiatus* #ScienceIsForEveryone
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✊🏿✊🏽My latest editorial tackles racism 𝘢𝘯𝘥 academia✊🏾✊🏻
It's a little personal, and very close to the heart. But if you're going to read just one more thing on this topic, let this be it.
Academic Chatter™ #ScienceTwitter #phdchat #BlackJoy
neuro-central.com/racism-and-aca…
I'm looking for guest speakers for fall to speak on barriers that women, particularly women of color, face as they pursue careers in science, and strategies for support for my #ProjectGPS scholars & small campus community #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdchat
Starts today! Show your support for #BlackBirdersWeek and those in our community that are #BlackandSTEM . Continue to show that #ScienceIsForEveryone !
Meet Amanda Hyman, Ph.D., whose love of the outdoors led her to study how to ensure stable social-ecological systems & optimize conservation budget use.
It's perhaps unsurprising that Amanda loves rock-climbing in her free time!
#WomenInSTEM #QueerInSTEM
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Let's meet @ro_leni, a self-described 'colorful scientist' from Greece 🇬🇷 now in the UK🇬🇧 working to remove dyes from water to reduce pollution from the textile industry!
Eleni also loves makeup, skincare, and inspiring young #WomenInSTEM !
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Meet @girlbossdoinsci, a food biotechnologist from India🇮🇳 hoping to pursue at PhD in Animal and Food Science in the US one day!
Rachna loves writing when not in lab, having published poetry while hoping to write her own book soon!
#WomenInSTEM
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Say hi to Jake Shurba, M.Sc., AWB®, a wildlife disease ecologist at Clemson in the USA🇺🇸 whose love of science started with Jurassic Park!
Jacob loves wildlife photography & writing for his blog, The Art of Infection (artofinfection.blogspot.com)
#FirstGenInSTEM
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Let's meet Charlotte Hacker, Ph.D., a conservation biologist Duquesne University studying how Chinese snow leopards adapt to high altitudes!
This tall, pink-loving, feces-dissecting #WomenInSTEM also loves to practice Mandarin, play lacrosse, & share science thru #scicomm .
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My, oh my has the time flown! It's #UniqueTBT day! 🎉
Let's take it WAY back to our THIRD highlighted scientists, Liza Brusman (Liza Brusman)! Liza recently started her #PhD at CU Boulder 🦬, is a proud queer Jewish woman, and knows several martial arts!
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Meet @NoraSci! She's a PhD student UChiPhysicalSciences studying how planets move around other stars.
When not unraveling the mysteries of the Universe she's probably baking, training for her next half-marathon, or hanging out with her bunnies!
#WomenInSTEM
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Say hi to Dr. Cynthia Fadem (she/her) 🏳️🌈! She's a geology prof Earlham College studying geoarchaeology, environmental science, & geoscience education.
When not studying our past she plays violin in her community orchestra!
#WomenInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #BiInSci #STEMatSLAC
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Meet Christina Fitzsimmons! She's a postdoc NCI Center for Cancer Research studying how changes in the cell metabolic rates influence gene expression & RNA modification.
Outside of lab, you can find her hiking, playing board games, or reading sci-fi!
#WomenInSTEM
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Friday is almost here so happy #UniqueTBT everyone! 🎉
Today let's look back at our July highlight, Adam Netzer Zimmer (Adam Netzer Zimmer 🏳️🌈 🇮🇸 ⚕), a bioarcheologist and forensic anthropologist who loves singing! 🕵️♀️💀🎤
✨Read more!: ow.ly/ZE5D50yrzOC✨
#QueerInSTEM #LGTBInSTEM
Meet Simone Blomberg, whose early love of lizards 🦎 led to a PhD in ecology! Now at the U. of Queenland🇦🇺 she develops mathematical models to describe macroevolution.
You can also find her strumming bass guitar or meditating! #WomenInSTEM #QueerInSTEM
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Have to say, a few years ago I would have been mortified by this. But embracing my diversity instead of running from it has been the most freeing thing for me.
I also can't emphasize how much of an impact Mary Kearney has had on me as a person and scientist. #UniqueScientists
Meet Michael Bale, MSc 🏳️🌈🇵🇷, a post-bac researcher from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 now NCI HIV Dynamics and Replication Program in the USA 🇺🇸studying HIV-host interactions!
Outside of lab, you can find him playing Ultimate Frisbee or viola in the NIH Philharmonia!
#QueerInSTEM #LatinxInSTEM
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Those almost Friday feels mean it’s #UniqueTBT day! 🎉
Let’s look back to Dr. Joaquín Navajas Acedo, a developmental biologist in USA 🇺🇸 originally from Spain 🇪🇸!
Joaquín loves creativity and as a kid loved learning about all critters!
✨Read more: ow.ly/t00830qhtME
Meet @KendyllMartin, a neuroscientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA 🇺🇸who images neurons in the brain to measures changes in communication.
Lasting effects of childhood concussions inspire her research. What fuels your interests?
#WomenInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM
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