
Black Women, perms and uterine fibroids: A call for authentic science journalism in the Black Media
DNLee is a biologist and she studies animal behavior, mammalogy, and ecology . She uses social media, informal experiential science experiences, and draws from hip hop culture to share science with general audiences, particularly under-served groups.

Black Women, perms and uterine fibroids: A call for authentic science journalism in the Black Media

Feministing Friday: Why Serial Monogamy is bad propaganda for women
Feminsiting Friday is a series of posts dissecting hip-hop and pop culture for its sexist influences and/or portrayals on women and girls. Offering insight as an evolutionary biologist, I promise to be analytical, scathing, and downright snarky. I began the series at my previous blog, SouthernPlayalisticEvolutionMusic on the Southern Fried Science Network.

Chemical relaxers linked to high uterine fibroid risk among African-American Women? I doubt it

Wordless Wednesday: Adventures in Science Scribing

#IamScience: Charlette Clark, Geologist

Black & Green, the New Integration – 5 Names in Urban Ecology you should know
The older I get and the more ‘seasoned’ I become in this science outreach arena, I come to believe more and more that role models matter.

Black & Green, the New Intergration - 5 Names in Urban Ecology you should know

Hip Hop Evolution Files: Heritable Traits vs. Inherited Traits

Wordless Wednesday: This is what scientists look like

Roger Arliner Young, Zoologist

Charles Henry Turner, Animal Behavior Scientist
In celebration of Black History Month, I will be sharing stories about the African-American experience in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

A Hip Hop Maven Mourns – Whitney Houston dead at age 48
It was spring 1985. And I was in the spring of my adolescence. I was in sixth grade and hung with a motley crew of girls in my homeroom class from A.B.

Black History Month: Celebrating Blacks in Science, Promoting Diversity in STEM

Happy Ground Hogs Day

Diversity in Science Carnival #12: Broadening Participation in Science online and on the ground, a #scio12 #diversity summary

Musings on #Diversity at #Scio12, Guest Post by Daniela Hernandez

#scio12: The Big Takeaway from the Broadening Participation Panel

#Scio12: Broadening participation in STEM - Advice for Allies

#Scio12: Broadening Participation of Underrepresented populations science & science communication

On Being Conspicuously Invisible

I'm a Post-doc at Oklahoma State. Go Pokes!

Hip Hop Evolution Files: Quick & Dirty explanation of Natural Selection by Daft Punk

I'm Oklahoma bound!

If I were a wealthy white suburbanite