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Ecologist Anne Hilborn (@annewhilborn) of Virginia Tech joined RealScientists for CHEETAH WEEK in January. To say we were a little bit excited would be an enormous understatement. Anne started off by doing a pretty...
Paleo diets, Atkins diets, the soup diet, the cabbage diet – in the era of the superfoods, kale smoothies and cleansing rituals, it’s difficult to tease apart fact from pseudoscience. We are surrounded by self-proclaimed wellness gurus...
Kimberly Kowal Arcand (@kimberlykowal), visualisation lead at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory joined Real Scientists in January. As a scientist focused on visual communication, our content expectations were pretty high and Kim certainly did not disappoint....
To kick off the 2016 new year Real Scientists welcomed Jehannine Austin (@J9_Austin)Associate Professor at the Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia. Jehannine specialises in the genetics of psychiatric disorders and...
I realised World Science Festival Brisbane was a big deal at 30,000 feet above ground level — the flight attendants were discussing how to catch a few events (science-loving airhostesses equals stereotype-breaking at its...
This week we are delighted to welcome Dr Ian Street (@IHStreet), a plant developmental biologist at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Ian writes for SciLogs at The Quiet Branches, and also runs a plant science...
As has become our very own RealScientists tradition, we mixed things up a little over the Christmas/New Year break period welcoming back two former curators. First up was astrophysicist Brad Tucker of the Australian...
We are thrilled to welcome our next curator, PhD researcher from the University of Reading, Samantha Buzzard (@treacherousbuzz). Sammie is studying the role of surface melt in the break up of Antarctic ice sheets. The...
Tropical meteorologist and climatologist Rodrigo Bombardi (@Dr_Monsoon) joined RealScientists back in November. Rodrigo introduced us to some of the quirks of forecasting and meteorology with aplomb. For example, there is an atmospheric river called...
We are delighted to welcome our next curator, Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty/@LSU_FISH, Curator of Fishes and Associate Professor, Museum of Natural Science and Louisiana State University. Prosanta earned his PhD in zoology at the University of Michigan, USA. Prosanta...