Dr. Jenn Jackson - I grew up in Oakland, CA with my single mom. My dad was in and out of my life. Mostly out. We...
Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng - My persistence in science enraged my biology teacher. Every lesson, she publicly shamed me in front of the class, proclaiming how...
I feel very grateful to have found this path. But it hasn’t been easy. Academia is incredibly stressful, and I am an anxiety-prone perfectionist who tends...
Citizen scientists — as biologist Caren Cooper writes in her book, Citizen Science — can be anyone, often not trained as a scientist, who collaborates with trained researchers in “collective...
If it had not been for my friends and the little voice inside telling me to focus on why I had started research in the first...
Dr. Mages: I look down at the seedlings in my hands. Then I say, “These seedlings are a bit like the children you’ll teach. Each will...
Dr. Chika Ejikeugwu is a Lecturer at Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki in Nigeria where he teaches microbiology to undergraduate students. He is also an ‘associate’ Development...
Jim is the CEO of NeuroLex which is focused on making voice computing accessible to everyone. Below is a poem he wrote for Stories in Science.
"Being a research professor is not a 9-5 job. The work is never finished and there is always the next question. That is the fun of...
Around half of all Ph.D. students across fields don’t complete their program. I never thought I would be one of them.
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