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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...
Welcome to our next Saturn Week curator – Sierra Ferguson (@SaturnSierra)! Sierra is currently a PhD student in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and earned her B.S. in...
Up next for Cassini Week is Divya M. Persaud (@Divya_M_P) a planetary scientist, composer, and writer of Indo-Caribbean heritage. With an ongoing focus in remote sensing for planetary geology and geophysics, Divya’s...
Our next curator is astrophysicist, Dr Ben Pope (@fringetracker). Ben recently completed his doctorate in astrophysics at Oxford University and is currently in Australia at the University of Sydney. We’ll be hearing from him...
Gabriela Romero (@Reina_Remis) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and joined RealScientists in mid-May. We were lucky enough to learn that parasites can be cute! Proof: During my PhD I...
What’s on this week at Real Scientists? It’s the last week of the amazing 20 year long journey of the spacecraft Cassini. Launched in 1997, Cassini has been studying Saturn, its rings and icy...