Blind Spots: Seeing sexism in STEM
This post originally appeared on the Digital Science guest blog. Two years ago I created STEM Women, an initiative that celebrates the careers of women in STEM fields while highlighting the many challenges we...
Science outreach
This post originally appeared on the Digital Science guest blog. Two years ago I created STEM Women, an initiative that celebrates the careers of women in STEM fields while highlighting the many challenges we...
This article was originally published on the Nature Soapbox Science blog. It was written by STEM Women managers Zuleyka Zevallos, Buddhini Samarasinghe and Rajini Rao. In a New England pub after a conference, our...
A few years ago, I started posting about science publicly on Google+. I did it in my spare time because as a scientist, it was obviously a topic I was interested in. I also...
A recent conversation with a friend brought up a topic I’ve been thinking a lot about – science communication using social media. It was sparked by seeing a tweet from a science communicator who...
This article originally appeared on STEM Women’s Role Models series I was 13 years old when I first read Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. I hadn’t seen the movie, so I had no preconceptions what...
This post originally appeared on The Edge Annual Question for 2014 as a response to “What Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement?” It is a statistical fact that you are more likely to die...