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.
You Should Know: Dr. EE Just, Forgotten Father of Epigenetics
Welcome to the twenty-fourth installment of You Should Know. Today I am shining a Black History Month spotlight on #BLACKandSTEM historical figure and scientific leader, Dr.
You Should Know: Michelle Hunter and Exploring Neuroscience Through Art
Welcome to the twenty-third installment of You Should Know, where I give my own #ScholarSunday salute to Science Bloggers and the Blogs you may not yet know about.
Happy Bornday Darwin
Today marks the 206th anniversary of Charles Darwin‘s bornday. February 12 is celebrated as International Darwin Day and many communities and colleges host events and town hall informal science events.
You Should Know: Dr J Marshall Shepherd, host of the The WxGeeks Show
Welcome to the twenty-second installment of You Should Know, where I give my own #ScholarSunday salute to Science Bloggers and the Blogs you may not yet know about.
Wordless Wednesday: Heavy Weight
You Should Know: Dr. Anna Wood and The Science of Scientific Learning
Welcome to the twenty-first installment of You Should Know, where I give my own #ScholarSunday salute to Science Bloggers and the Blogs you may not yet know about.
Apply for Science Communication Awards, Fellowships and Internship Programs
Participation of broader audiences in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) requires engaging under-served audiences. The conduit of this engagement is communication.
Remembering NASA Challenger and #STEMDiversity
The crew of STS-51-L: Front row from left, Mike Smith, Dick Scobee, Ron McNair. Back row from left, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, Judith Resnik.
You Should Know: Nadia Myrthil and A Lady in Neurophilosophy
It’s the 20th installment of this series, and the first one of the new year. Happy 2015! You Should Know introduces you to scientists (and engineers), science blogs and now science communicators that offer value information via social media to wider and broader audiences.
Weekend To Do: Apply for paid Summer Research Programs in STEM
Lately, I’ve been posting a lot of REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) on Facebook (Like my Fan Pages and get updates, too.
Time To Teach: Supporting Technology for Science Education in Special Education Classrooms
As regular readers of this blog are aware, I am deep proponent of science outreach to the under-served. However, I acknowledge one of the areas that I am weak and that’s in my science outreach to individuals with special education needs.
#ReclaimMLK: The Revolutionary and Geek – my thoughts on rejecting sanitized images of Dr. King
The United States national holiday that commemorates the birth of human and civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is always a somber occasion for me.
Undergraduate Research Highlights from #SICB2015
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a restorative holiday break. I spent nearly two weeks with family and friends and it was glorious. I capped off the break attending the annual meeting Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Hip Hop Evolution Files: Anaconda Educational Version
I love a great HipHopEd Science Explainer. This one is timely, entertaining, creative, and quite accurate. It’s a satire of Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda.
You Should Know: Dr. Brandeis Marshall and csdoctorsister chits
Welcome to the nineteenth installment of You Should Know, where I give my own #ScholarSunday salute to Science Bloggers and Blogs you may not yet know about.
You Should Know: Paulette Vincent Ruz and Adventures in Chemistryland
Welcome to the eighteenth installment of You Should Know, where I give my own #ScholarSunday salute to Science Bloggers and the Blogs you may not yet know about.
Wordless Wednesday: 2015 TED Fellows named
I am over the moon excited to be included among the 2015 class of TED Fellows. The genius represented by this list blows my mind. I’m trying not to let nervousness and anxiety keep me from bringing my A game to the TED meeting in March 2015.
Wordless Wednesdays: here, have a science cookie
Wordless Wednesday: This Stops Today
fergusonaction.com #ThisStopsToday: Some of the last words of Eric Garner, the man who died on camera in police custody while being taken down in an illegal choke hold on July 17, 2014.
Black Girls serving as their own Role Models in STEM
This world sends many different messages. Today a rather poignant message was sent to America, it was directed at Americans who care about justice in particular.
You Should Know: Dr. Umberto Cannella and Dr. Cinnamon blog
Welcome to the seventeenth installment of You Should Know, where I give my own#ScholarSunday salute to Science Bloggers and the Blogs you may not yet know about.
Wordless Wednesday: #EBONYPower100 for Social Media (& Science Outreach) Influence
EBONY Magazine announces the 2014 honorees of their 2014 Power 100 List – names of the most influential African Americans in every facet of life from politics, entertainment, health, science, academics, and media.
You Should Know: Dr. Cynthia Coleman and Musings on Native Science
Welcome to the sixteenth installment of You Should Know, where I give my own #ScholarSunday salute to Science Bloggers and the Blogs you may not yet know about.
You Should Know Dr John A Johnson and Mahalo.ne.Trash
Welcome to fifteenth installment of my You Should Know Series. It's where I give my own #ScholarSunday salute to Science Bloggers and Blogs I believe the rest of the world should follow.