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PhD in Neuroscience. Electrophysiology nerd.

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The Movement to Stop Dollar Stores from Suffocating Black Communities

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www.outsideonline.com 7y ago

Mount Hood's Deadliest Disaster

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www.wsj.com 7y ago

The Worst Job in Tech: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook

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www.washingtonpost.com 8y ago

A religious couple didn’t believe in medical care. They’re headed to prison

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

The Transgender Scientist Who Changed Our View of the Brain

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www.npr.org 8y ago

How the food industry uses cavitation

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

David Hume, the Buddha, and a Search for the Eastern Roots of the Enlightenment

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www.newyorker.com 8y ago

Why Aren’t Mothers Worth Anything to Venture Capitalists?

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www.rollingstone.com 9y ago

The “Doomsday” glacier that could raise sea level by 10 ft

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www.latimes.com 9y ago

Audit says UC administration is paying excessive salaries and mishandling funds

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Doctors and the Pitfalls of Extending Life

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The Women's Marches maybe the largest in US history

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www.theatlantic.com 9y ago

No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep

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Jury finds all Oregon standoff defendants not guilty

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Doctor Confesses: I Lied to Protect Colleague in Malpractice Suit

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A Surgeon's Belated Confession

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Why Do We Judge Parents for Putting Kids at Perceived – But Unreal – Risk?

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Dead Certainty: How “Making a Murder” Goes Wrong

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The Student Loan Crisis Is Overblown

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www.npr.org 10y ago

Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are?

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www.sciencemag.org 10y ago

We need to do more for women in science

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bigbytes.mobyus.com 10y ago

Commute Map: Daily commute flow by county

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American Airlines to spend $4M on private security checkpoint workers

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Rule #1 for female academics: Don't have a baby

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Swap-the-Baby Test: NPR commentary on pregnant while fundraising

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Universities brace for overtime overhaul

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An unbelievable story of rape

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In Search of Forty Winks: Gizmos for a good night’s sleep

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In Search of Forty Winks

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sci-hub.io 10y ago

Daily Eating Patterns and Their Impact on Health and Disease

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For those interested in learning more about circadian rhythms, I highly recommend checking out the materials that UCSD's BioClock Studio has put out. As you might be noticing, there's a dearth of accessible circadian biology materials. The BioClock Studio has interested undergrads create movies and media addressing critical circadian biology concepts, experiments, and researchers.

https://ccb.ucsd.edu/the-bioclock-studio/about-bioclock-stud...

Seconding the support for COS. When they test reproducibility, they actually pair labs that are proficient in the particular technique with the original authors. The two labs (the originator and reproducer) work together to try to replicate the findings in the new environment. It's a smart way to work around the problem of labs trying (and failing) new techniques.

I appreciate your comment, and I second your point about the education and social structure being different for girls/women. In my experience, it can be difficult for folks to understand just how different it can be - whether by gender, race, or lower socioeconomic status - which is completely fair. There are always exceptions to generalizations, which makes making progress in these arguments difficult.

For those who still believe it's a feminist conspiracy, I encourage you to read this brief report (with links to an excellent full report) with hard numbers on the experience of women in STEM: https://hbr.org/2015/03/the-5-biases-pushing-women-out-of-st...

And if you think you're above bias, or that it doesn't exist against women, please challenge yourself with the unconscious bias test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html Stats are available after the test. I am a woman with a PhD in a STEM field, and guess what - I have biases against my own sex.

I switched advisors in my fourth year of a neuroscience PhD. I distinctly recall wondering if it was worth burning 2+ years in a different lab for an experience that might not be better. For me, switching labs was 100% the right decision. I'm still in science, love what I do, and I'm glad I changed even if it was "too late."

Try to distance yourself a little to get perspective. Even from a one week vacation, a month in a collaborator's lab, anything to try to remove yourself and then re-evaluate. Your advisory committee can also help, once you articulate that you're considering leaving.

I did that, and I love the taste of coffee. Check out Dandy Blend - it's got the body of coffee, and you can add cream to it, but there's no caffeine. It's not for everyone, but it got me through those dark winter days when I just craved a cup of coffee.