Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
From AcademicBlogs
GrrlScientist is the online nom de plume for a molecular evolutionary biologist who studies the evolution of parrots that are endemic to the South Pacific Islands. GrrlScientist is a Seattle native who moved to NYC to accept a postdoc after defending her dissertation in Zoology at the University of Washington, where she studied the sex lives of songbirds. On her way to the PhD, she worked in a variety of jobs, ranging from a groom at a racetrack, a waitress, a sales clerk at a clothing store, a nurse's aid, a lab technician at several hospitals, the manager for a pet store, a cancer researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, an in-house science book editor and fact-checker, a book reviewer, a teaching assistant, a bird-watching field guide, a professional petsitter and dog walker, handfeeding baby parrots and other birds, and she also owned her own flock of parrots (mostly lories) that she bred and handfed for many years while in Seattle.
GrrlScientist is currently an independent scholar whose life is devoted to caring for her companion parrots and other birds; to thinking and reading about evolution, dinosaurs, birds and ornithology, mental illnesses, politics and atheism; and to writing about science, nature and medicine on her blog and for a variety of print media. She especially enjoys "translating" peer-reviewed scientific papers for the public to read on her blog.
GrrlScientist has written a public science blog since 4 August 2004. The first year and a half of this blog was hosted on the Google site, Blogger, under the same name, Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted). The original site, http://girlscientist.blogspot.com/, is now known as the "deep archives" although the new site has more archived writing than the original site does. Based on the strength and versatility of writing that appeared on the original site, GrrlScientist was recruited by Seed Media Group to join their online pilot project, ScienceBlogs, which she accepted. Her blog is now located here; http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/, where it will hopefully remain. GrrlScientist was a member of the "first wave" of ScienceBlog recruits whose blogs were moved to the ScienceBlogs site during the last days of 2005.
GrrlScientist is looking for a stable job that pays a living wage as either a scientific researcher or a science writer/editor! Further, she plans to keep writing the blog, regardless of employment.
