At the Roots

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 👀

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…

Our very first featured scientist, Maryam Sedaghatpour (@MaryamSedaghat), has launched a community science project to help conserve Bilad al-Sham biodiversity — check it out! spark.adobe.com/page/3l7UoUv4Z…

To learn more about his amazing research, check out our conversation from a few weeks back: attheroots.org/2020/09/18/pet…

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…

Intrigued? Read the feature to learn more! attheroots.org/2020/10/23/hai…

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…

There's a new At the Roots feature coming out this afternoon! Any ideas what we talked about? #PhDChat #SciComm

🚨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…

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

There’s a new feature out at At the Roots! Read to see how paleontologist Peter Kloess (@BeakyThings) studies turtles, why he loves teaching, and what he really thinks about board games #SciComm #PhDchat attheroots.org/kloess.html

*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!

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

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

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

This week on At the Roots, @sara_kahanamoku spoke with me about growing up on the beach in Haleʻiwa, becoming a paleoecologist and the work she’s done to protect Mauna Kea from the construction of TMT — give it a read #SciComm #PhDchat #DecolonizeScience oliviajerram.github.io/kahanamoku.html

In the latest feature on At the Roots, @astro_goni spoke with me about white dwarf and black hole mergers, what it’s like to be a woman in astrophysics @Princeton and her experience teaching at a state prison — give it a read #SciComm #PhDchat #WomenInSTEM oliviajerram.github.io/halevi.html

This week on At the Roots, @kwasiscientific spoke with me about his animal behavior research in @berkeleyIB, his fieldwork in the Sierra Nevada and what he loves to do in addition to being a biologist — give it a read #SciComm #PhDchat #BLACKandSTEM oliviajerram.github.io/wrensford.html