

What is your passion? For me, it’s music. But when I got to college, there wasn’t a place for someone like me, a STEM major, to play music for fun.
Read moreI’m a huge believer in the idea that to make a difference, you should start where you’re already at. For me, that’s a graduate student studying bioengineering in Arizona.
Read moreChronological order. Sections for education and work experience. Name and address at the top. Fits on one page. For many years, these were the rules I was told about what a resume should look like.
Read moreThe societies that refuse to protect their membership from sexual misconduct lie to victims and our allies in four ways.
Read more“Flattery feels a lot better than insults,” they say, but have you ever felt uncomfortable accepting praise?
Read moreUpon the start of my PhD and towards the end of it, I was faced with the choice of choosing a lab mentor.
Read moreMany students are not even aware of the skills the apply on a daily basis during their PhD.
Read moreWhile I had my first job in technology, a good friend from high school came to visit. As I was describing my work scraping and analyzing Twitter data, a look of surprise came over her face. “That sounds like it involves coding.”
Read moreThere is a lack of queer visibility in science fields. For transgender people, this visibility is even lower.
Read moreThe business case for investing in women-led companies is strong, but investors and accelerator programs still have a lot of work to do.
Read moreYou can make Wikipedia more representative from wherever you are — here’s how!
Read moreAre science communicators supposed to be journalists, scientists, or are we allowed to exist somewhere in between?
Read moreA few months ago, I spoke openly about an incident of gendered bullying and intimidation at a workshop. I was bullied as a nursing mother, and I was also cornered and intimidated by the host of the workshop.
Read moreSurprisingly, it’s not. How can we enact real change if many leaders lack the most basic knowledge about the issue?
Read moreWomen are scientists, community members, and changemakers, and they made a difference in our 2018 U.S. midterm elections.
Read moreWhite women during the past week have, arguably, failed at intersectionality even more than usual.
Read moreThe Bank of England is accepting nominations of historic scientists to appear on the new £50 note. Nina Chhita discusses why it should be a woman.
Read moreI will be the first member in my family to earn a PhD degree. However, graduate school was not in my parents’ plans when they enrolled me in an excellent, yet expensive, private school in Mexico City.
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