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Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes at Louisiana State University, Prosanta Chakrabarty (@PREAUX_FISH) joined RealScientists in March. and began by introducing us to a completely new metaphor for lab management. Walking dogs is a good...
Photobiologist and plant geneticist Jen Ro (@OshnGirl) joined RealScientists at the end of April. A dedicated fangirl and card-carrying member of #TeamAutotroph, Jen truly gave us an appreciation of the wondrous variety of plants we...
This week we are excited to welcome Tracy Burrows (@DrTracyBurrows) as our curator. Tracy is Senior lecturer in the School of Health Sciences (Nutrition and Dietetics), in the Faculty of Health and Medicine at...
We are delighted to welcome our next curator, Dr Matt Kuchta (@kuchtam), Associate Professor of Geology, University of Wisconsin–Stout, USA. Matt’s research focuses on the diversity and biogeography of landsnails in the upper midwest, and...
Liz Silva (@lizatucsf) joined RealScientists for a week towards the end of February. Having trained as a geneticist, Liz came to her current role managing a career exploration program at UCSF via a position as senior...
We’re delighted to welcome our next curator, entomologist Dr Gwen Pearson (@bug_gwen); former researcher, and current Education and Outreach Coordinator, Department of Entomology at Purdue University, USA. Gwen is a freelance science journalist whose work has...
We welcomed psychologist and neuroscientist Chris Madan (@cMadan) to Real Scientists in January. A postdoc at Boston College, Chris is interested in how memories are formed. To some degree, brings us to the question:...
Shaun O’Boyle (@shaunoboyle), research coordinator at the Science Gallery Dublin joined Real Scientists in early February. We were taken on a journey through citizen science, the ins and outs of what really happens at...
We are delighted to welcome our next curator, Dr Michael Hultström (@mhultstrom), Associate Professor of Physiology, Uppsala University, Sweden. Michael is an anaesthesiologist and nephrophysiologist who studies the functioning and diseases of the kidney. He writes...