How I used my research skills to help diagnose myself
It's hard to leave the science at the lab bench
Microbiology and Immunology
University of Louisville
As a scientist, sometimes I understand too much about my brother's cystic fibrosis
My knowledge of his disease can be helpful, but also supremely frustrating
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Neurobiology
Why I'm quitting GMO research
Constantly confronting people who think my research will harm them is profoundly distressing
Genomics
University of Alberta
3 peer comments
My life in butterflies: how a childhood hobby shaped my career
Citizen scientists make tangible contributions to data collection
Ecology
Wake Forest University
I’m a Russian scientist. Why can’t Americans see past my citizenship?
In my adopted home, I've found distrust divorced from the reality of my work
Molecular Pharmacology
University of Pittsburgh
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The beautiful merger of art and science that inspired generations of neuroscientists
"Perhaps only an artist's eye could have seen so much in a slice of brain"
Computational Neuroscience
How I realized that LGBT+ scientists like me can inspire others in their field
Far too many LGBT+ scientists still report fear in their workplaces, but I have hope for change
Molecular Biology
National Louis University
How theater, startup culture, and business history helped us become better neuroscientists
The sciences would benefit enormously from applying lessons from art and business
Neuroscience
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Comparative Neuroscience
Champalimaud Foundation
I had to learn assembly language to truly understand my grandfather
He didn't process the world like the rest of us
Computational Neuroscience
The time I solved a tricky lab problem with Google and Vaseline
Yup, scientists use search engines, too
Biochemistry
University of Bristol
People ask about my experiments on mice. The answers are … complicated
Behind most breakthroughs is animal research. Let's stop pretending otherwise
Neuroscience
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory