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  • Diversity in Science Carnival #14: Women’s History Month–Exploring the role of women in the STEM enterprise

    …and I close with a quote from it. It’s a letter by Chitra Thakur-Mahadik, who earned her PhD in biochemistry and hemoglobinopathy from the University of Mumbai and served as staff scientist a Mumbai children’s hospital for 25 years. She wrote to her younger, “partially sighted” self that, “The future is ahead and it is not bad!” She goes on to say, “Be fearless but be compassionate to yourself and others… be brave, keep your eyes and ears open…

    Authored by on March 29, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Darlene Cavalier of Science Cheerleader and SciStarter

    creatic cancer. That criticism that’s ill informed is the worst type. Putting them in a bad light and they don’t deserve it. They volunteer to do this. They do it because they really believe in it. There are an estimated 3 to 4 million cheerleaders in the US. They want to reach that group, let them know it’s OK to love math and science, (to say) here’s my experience, here’s how I learned what an engineer is, here’s what my day is like. They’re al…

    Authored by on April 18, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Karyn Traphagen, co-founder of ScienceOnline

    …e the one of two females on our Math League squad and to have access to advanced science courses and labs in high school. It seems I always took a circuitous route though. I helped change the rules so that I could graduate in 3 years. I was very fortunate to have lots of opportunities after graduation (including being recruited for the first female class at West Point). But then, I took on other responsibilities and went back to school later to f…

    Authored by on July 9, 2012

  • Don’t worry so much about being the right type of science role model

    …udy was designed to answer this question but is much weaker in design so it’s difficult to say what it adds to the discussion. They used a similar design but with only the STEM role models, feminine and non-feminine (and only 42 students, 20% of whom didn’t receive part of the questionnaire due to an error). The only difference was instead of asking about students interest in studying math they tried to look at the combination of femininity and m…

    Authored by on May 30, 2012

  • Mariette DiChristina

    …dia, so we need to understand how to flex the approach a bit to appeal to those different audiences. In print, for instance, according to the most recent data we have from MRI, the median age of Scientific American readers is 47, with 70 percent men and 30 percent women. The picture is quite different online, where, according to Nielsen, our median age is 40 and the male/female ratio is closer to half and half, with 56.5 percent men to 43.5 perce…

    Authored by on February 17, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Debbie Berebichez, PhD Physicist

    …m.  My femininity allows me to be a voice in a field that has tended to isolate themselves from the public, which is bad. Some of my colleagues have become a little snobbish.  The fact that I have serious credentials (PhD and 2 postdocs) shows that I had to work like crazy – looks and personality can only go so far.  It s hard work that gets you there! Serious science communication has a lot of math and problem solving in order to explain things…

    Authored by on June 2, 2012

  • Good Deeds, Good Science: IAmScience Kickstarter

    Kevin Zelnio, husband, father, musician, scientist, human. As someone who is not only into science, but also doesscience, I was over the moon to see the #IAmScience hashtag in my tweet stream on the evening of January 26th, 2012.  This is because, like hundreds, if not thousands, of others, my trajectory into science did not necessarily follow the stereotypical blueprint associated with becoming a scientist.  Furthermore, and quite f…

    Authored by on February 24, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Liz Neeley, Science Communicator Extraordinaire

    …s of turning skeptics into something other than skeptics – I might not change them into believers, but they will at least be surprised and interested onlookers.  Liz Neeley’s Favorite Focaccia INGREDIENTS: Scant 4 cups white bread flour 1 tablespoon salt Scant 1/2 cup olive oil 1 packet of active dry yeast 1 1/4 cups warm water Favorite olives, roughly chopped if you prefer Handful of fresh basil TIME: Start this m…

    Authored by on June 11, 2012

  • Evidence Based Parenting Carnival

    ans for us. Melinda Wenner Moyer, of The Kids column at Slate, @lindy2350 Melinda is a freelance science and health journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She writes The Kids, Slate’s parenting advice column, and won the 2012 Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Media Award for her Slate piece The Truth About Epidurals. Polly Palumbo, Momma Data, @mommadata Momma Data debunks, demystifies and elaborates on information in the…

    Authored by on April 2, 2013

  • Double Xpressions: Jennifer Canale, the self-proclaimed "Flamboyant Scientist"

    …. My uncle Joe said to me, “Jennifer, you mean a nurse like your cousin Joanie, right?” My cousin Joan applied to Medical School in the sixties and the same group of uncles convinced her that her fiancé, Warren, wouldn’t wait 4 years to get married and it was more lady-like to be a nurse. Today she is a retired left-handed OR nurse that specializes in cracking open chests for cardiac surgery, not so lady-like after all. So in an attempt to not ha…

    Authored by on November 30, 2012

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