#IamScience
There is no "traditional" route to a career in science. Each of us has had unique experiences and struggles that we dealt with which shape who we are.
- My twitter reflections came after seeing the back and forth going on the internets concerning @Mireyamayor's keynote at #scio12. In particular The post, Mireya's response and the ensuing thread at Thus Spake Zuska.
- Things I Found Ponderable: #scio12 Report the First | Thus Spake ZuskaOnce in New Orleans I went on a late night walking ghost tour. The ghost stories, the architectural beauty, the historical tidbits have a...
- Andrea Kuszewski tweeted some remarks that I felt didn't do the aforementioned conversation justice, but reflected upon her personal experiences in dealing with gender issues online.
You know what's amusing? I've heard more complaining and criticizing of @MireyaMayor's #scio12 keynote from WOMEN than men. Hypocrites much?
@AndreaKuszewski Looking at Zuska's comment thread I actually only saw dudes criticizing her, but maybe I missed some? #scio12- @KateClancy Thinly veiled comments/posts don't fool me. I know what this whole debate/discussion is really about, because I lived it last yr
- The conversation continues between Andrea and the twitterverse. But I thought the lessons of Mireya's talk were lost amongst the chatter on Zuska's blog and twitter.
@mireyamayor and @docfreeride had parallel stories. Point was to be yourself. Don't hide behind pink tiaras OR hairy legs #scio12- So I openly opined that perhaps we need to be better at recognizing the diversity of our experiences. We all struggled in one or another to get to where we are. The result? An awesome group of people that I've grown to love and respect in SO many ways over my 5 years of being a member of this amazing community. Thus, #IamScience was born! I was shocked by the response!
- #scio12 Let's all tweet our nontraditional paths to our current involvement in science whether research, journalism, or other #IAmScio12
Oh, maybe I do have a non-traditional part: I barely made it through undergrad with a GPA of 2! #IAmScio12
#IAmScio12 Mostly a traditional path to a physics prof, though I *did* nearly fail jr. high algebra! (Math didn't come easy at first.)
@drskyskull What an interesting hashtag! Facinating tweets rolling in with it. #IAmScio12- #IAmScience RT @JackLScanlan: @kzelnio Is being obsessed with science since the age of 5 a nontraditional path? #scio12
- Check out the #iamscience and #iamscio12 hashtag tweets. Really interesting stories being tweeted. Not all started off geniuses.
Fell in love in statistics when worked as Marketing Analyst at Coca cola Co in Ukraine while trying to get to grad school in US #IAmScio12- #IamScience RT @ChuckPellCAP: @mireyamayor @kzelnio My path is nontraditional: BFA, MFA, Hollywood, Biomechanics, $$$ success, medicine.
