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Back in June, we were joined by Julieta Martinez (@yoknapathawa). Julieta PhD candidate in computer science at the University of British Colombia. Julieta applies computer science to the fascinating and relevant problem of object recognition, which can...
We are pleased to have post-doctoral researcher Jesse Miller (@Texosporium) talking about botany and wildlife ecology on Real Scientists this week! Here is a short interview with Jesse: Why/How did you end up in...
Zarah Pattison (@ZarahPattison) is a postdoctoral researcher in invasion biology and joined Real Scientists in early June. Zarah started her week with a bang, kicking off the #fieldworkhome hashtag, with folks from all over...
Jason Thalken (@JasonThalken) has a PhD in computational condensed matter physics from the University of Southern California, and bachelor’s degrees in physics, mathematics, and philosophy from the University of Texas. He is the...
We’re delighted to introduce our next curator, astrophysicist, Technical Consultant and aerospace engineer DrErin Macdonald (@drerinmac). Here’s how Erin ends up in science: As a kid, I was equally interested in the arts...
Post-doctoral fellow Dr. Nipun Chopra (@nipunchopra7) curates Real Scientists this week! He studies the neuroscience of Alzheimer’s and also works on traumatic brain injury (TBI) research. Here he is, in his own words: Why/How did you...
At the end of May, we were joined by Nafisa Jadavji (@Nafisa_10). Nafisa is a postdoctoral neuroscience researcher and instructor at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. Nafisa shared with us, amongst other things, some...
Our curator this week is Olga Pena (@OlgaPena), a research scientist working on sepsis at the Center for Microbial and Immunity Research & Sepset Biosciences in Canada. Her work is paving the way to...
Toby Fountain (@toby_fountain) is Postdoctoral Researcher in Molecular Ecology at Uppsala University and joined RealScientists in May. One of the highlights was Toby’s easy-to-grok genetics lesson carried out with simple coloured markers on paper....
Our final Icy Moons curator and Iapetus specialist on Saturn Week is Edgard Rivera-Valentín (@Planetreky), a Staff Planetary Scientist with the Universities Space Research Association at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Ed holds bachelor’s...