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featuring STEM graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds | founded by @olivia_jerram

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At the Roots has a new look! Check out the logo design by the talented @emehlferber (who is also a PhD candidate in Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley) and keep an eye out for a website redesign coming soon 👀
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Ever wanted to learn about toxic phytoplankton? Well, you can in the latest story from At the Roots featuring Tatiana Gamez! Tatiana works with seawater samples and ocean core data to study the advantages of toxicity in plankton #SciComm #PhDChat attheroots.org/2021/02/10/tat…
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Congrats to our recently featured scientist, Peter Kloess (@BeakyThings), for his new paper out yesterday! In it, he describes the oldest known fossils representing an extinct group of "toothed" birds nature.com/articles/s4159…
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He's also a practicing Muslim, and he says his religiosity has grown the more he learns about science. Check out one of his favorite papers by Theodosius Dobzhansky, which reconciles religion and biology online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/35…
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There's a new At the Roots feature coming out this afternoon! Any ideas what we talked about? #PhDChat #SciComm
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🚨New feature alert!🚨 Check out our conversation with Haider Ali Bhatti about how to make STEM education more inclusive, what it's like being Muslim in grad school, and why science and religion aren't really that different after all #SciComm #phdchat attheroots.org/2020/10/23/hai…
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The new website is here! Now you can read, share and comment on all the features you already know and love, as well as meet the team behind the scenes #SciComm #PhDchat attheroots.org
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*drumroll please* It’s @BeakyThings!! He‘s a paleontologist who studies turtles using CT scanners & loves board games. Before coming to @berkeleyIB, he worked on construction sites as an ecological consultant!
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What do these four things have in common? . . . We talked about all of them in my newest feature, coming out this afternoon!! Can you guess who I talked to? #SciComm #phdChat
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After a quick break, At the Roots is back with a feature on Teena Bajaj! She spoke with me about growing up in India with two older sisters, her experiences as an international student @UCBerkeley and her research on the COVID-19 virus #SciComm #PhDchat attheroots.org/bajaj.html
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The newest feature on At the Roots spotlights Alexander Alvara, a grad student in mechanical engineering @UCBerkeley. He spoke with me about his research in microrobotics and his work for countless advocacy groups, including Bias Busters #SciComm #PhDchat attheroots.org/alvara.html
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