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2 years ago

Take the STEM Works for Me Quiz to help you figure out what area of STEM best suits you!

Take The STEM Works For Me Quiz To Help You Figure Out What Area Of STEM Best Suits You!

https://www.dosomething.org/us/campaigns/stem-works-for-me/action

Problem

STEM education has largely prioritized the work of white men, while minimizing, omitting, or perpetuating harmful stereotypes about the knowledge and contributions of STEM leaders of color.

Students from communities underrepresented in STEM careers may be unaware of STEM career opportunities beyond the basics, and they often don’t “see” themselves represented in the field, making them feel like they don’t belong.

Solution

Educate yourself about how you can get paid to follow your passion and do world-changing work through STEM. Then educate your friend(s) about real-life STEM professionals, so that they can find their dream STEM careers, too.


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2 months ago

Sometimes I wanna know what mother nature was smoking

My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's an enlarged Wiwaxia, an animal (possibly a mollusc) from the Early and Middle Cambrian.


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2 months ago

...o k

My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's an enlarged hyolith (Lophotrochozoa), this one is from the Cambrian.


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2 months ago

I had to do a double take on the third image

My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2013 I built a life-size model of Thecodontosaurus for the Bristol Dinosaur Project. Here is how it was built, part 2 of 9.


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2 months ago
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2013 I built a life-size model of Thecodontosaurus for the Bristol Dinosaur Project. Here is how it was built, part 7 of 9.


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2 months ago
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2013 I built a life-size model of Thecodontosaurus for the Bristol Dinosaur Project. Here is how it was built, part 8 of 9.


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1 month ago
Here's A Closer Look At The 565 Million Years Old Haootia Quadriformis What A Beautiful Animal! Again,

Here's a closer look at the 565 Million years old Haootia quadriformis – what a beautiful animal! Again, it is time to stop reconstructing these animals standing on discs.


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7 years ago
Last Spring At @WildThingsChi I Went To A Talk By Dr. Amy Chabot About The @MidewinNatTP Shrikes & I

Last spring at @WildThingsChi I went to a talk by Dr. Amy Chabot about the @MidewinNatTP shrikes & I love them. I am def going to expand on this in the future


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7 years ago
Lets Talk About Prairie, History, And Language. For Communities So Focused Onnative Plants/native Gardening/etc

Let’s talk about prairie, history, and language. For communities so focused on “native plants”/”native gardening”/etc there’s so little acknowledgement or engagement with indigenous Americans and their history. 

When we talk about science, there’s a baseline assumption of objectivity. Science is Truth, something apart from messy cultural ideas. The reality is, culture and all it’s messes bleed into science, like here in ecology. We gotta be conscious of the histories we inherit in science.


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1 year ago
alt="comic book page in warm earthy and green tones

weedy plants often take over in the aboveground while grassland plants hold the underground
some weedy plants are successful because they spread tons of seeds
some leaf out early, grabbing sunlight before other plants can
these weedy neighbors use their skills from their home environments to creep into communities that aren't used to them
fire takes out the above-ground parts of plants but deep, older roots carry on to grow the next year"

piece of my dissertation in progress on prairie, fire, and people


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2 months ago
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...
My 25 Years Of Palaeoart Chronology...

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's a modestly sized Meganeura, from the Carboniferous.


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