Sentences with phrase «as a female scientist»

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Polish scientists have shown that male and female preferences for a height difference (known scientifically as sexual dimorphism) change based on how tall they are, perhaps so that people can widen their own dating pool.

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

Well, it's been rebooted with better animation, better voices (sorry, Peter Cullen), better stories and a powerful princess / pilot, as well as a female (or maybe trans - boy) scientist pilot.

Five early - career female scientists were honored Thursday evening as this year's recipients of the L'Oréal USA For Women in Science fellowship awards that grant each winner $ 60,000 to further their postdoctoral research.

Five early - career female scientists were honored Thursday evening as this year's recipients of the L'Oréal USA For Women in Science fellowship awards.

The researchers found that male applicants were more likely than female applicants to receive «excellent» letters, characterized by comments such as «brilliant scientist,» «trailblazer,» and «one of the best students I've ever had.»

And of course, it is not lost on Markovic — and certainly not on his wife, he says — that this promising line of inquiry might never have been explored, had that female colleague not been working as a medical research scientist at the Mayo clinic eight years back; had she not volunteered to donate her blood for Markovic's research; and had she not continued to work — and donate — after becoming pregnant.

However, until now scientists did not know the range over which street lamps attract moths, whether illuminated streets act as a barrier to moth movement, or whether female or male moths are affected differently.

The scientists, however, did not observe any difference in the attraction radius between male and female moths, as originally expected.

As an African - American female engineer and scientist who has sacrificed much and persevered many years in order to earn a Ph.D., I believe that most of my experiences mirror that of many of my peers, whether or not they have an advanced degree or even a college education.

«But the larger significance will possibly be one less reason for any person, male or female, to argue that women are not as capable as men in the role of scientist,» she said.»

Miller also offers a recommendation for further progress toward decreasing the prevalence and strength of these stereotypes: «integrating discussion of diverse female scientists into science curriculums «so it's not seen as atypical to discuss a woman scientist.»»

«Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy builds girl» could be the tagline for this stunningly realized early futuristic film, as scientist C. A. Rotwang (Rudolf Klein - Rogge) replaces the woman he loved with an erotic female robot.

However, «a strong fear on behalf of «older» scientists, perceiving you as being better than them, due to you having gained new knowledge, being well accepted within the host institution, and having established a lot of new contacts, exists,» pointed out a 36 - year - old female from Slovenia.

In an example that has been getting wide attention in the media — both journalistic and social — University of Hawaii, Manoa, geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, a full professor who has spent decades building a successful career in academe, warns fellow female scientists of one pattern they are pretty likely to encounter as they try to make their way in academic science: the telltale strategy of a male colleague or superior bent on an exploitative sexual relationship.

Female Ph.D. scientists «who do not secure ladder - track [i.e., tenure - track] appointments,» they add, «are more likely to stay in academia [than men], either as contingent instructors or in nonteaching appointments.»

And although Zuber is not the first women to chair the board, NSF's press release touts her as part of the first all - female leadership team at the agency, joining NSF Director France Córdova and the board's new vice-chair, Diane Souvaine, a theoretical computer scientist and vice provost for research at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

MUMMIFIED The 6 - inch - long body of a fetal mummy known as Ata, who scientists now say was a female, was preserved due to the arid conditions of Chile's Atacama Desert.

Recent laboratory work from Virginia Tech University scientists found that when mice are exposed, both males and females have some unsettling impacts, such as weaker sperm and decreased ovulation.

As a novelist, I found myself inspecting my female cast list, and finding not a scientist among them.

But only those three males, such as the one in the photo above, became proficient with the tool and successfully retrieved the nuts, the scientists report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. None of the females did so; nor did any of the birds, male or female, in the ghost demonstrator group.

As a result, in recent years, programs have arisen to assist scientists in re-entering the work force with an eye to increasing the proportion of female scientists.

But it disturbs me that these efforts are celebrated as ways to correct for the long held and deeply structured forms of discrimination and exclusion that female scientists face.

The brain of a female migraineur looks so unlike the brain of a male migraineur, asserts Harvard scientist Nasim Maleki, that we should think of migraines in men and women as «different diseases altogether.»

Female scientists spend demonstrably more time teaching, mentoring, and participating in community outreach than their male colleagues, just as there are far more female #scicommers on Instagram thanFemale scientists spend demonstrably more time teaching, mentoring, and participating in community outreach than their male colleagues, just as there are far more female #scicommers on Instagram thanfemale #scicommers on Instagram than male.

I have come to understand #scicomm on Instagram as a digital demonstration of the efforts that many female scientists exert daily to correct for gender disparities.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have developed a mouse model to study Zika virus transmitted sexually from males to females, as well as vertically from a pregnant female to her fetus.

The attacking female used a male orangutan as a «hired gun» to help corner and attack the victim in what scientists say is the first observed incident of lethal aggression among orangutans

Scientists studying blue whales in the waters of Chile through DNA profiling and photo - identification may have solved the mystery of where these huge animals go to breed, as revealed by a single female blue whale named «Isabela,» according to a recent study by the Chile's Blue Whale Center / Universidad Austral de Chile, NOAA and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

EVATAR also will help scientists understand diseases of the female reproductive tract such as endometriosis, fibroids (which affect up to 80 percent of women), cancer and infertility.

With a technique known as two - photon calcium imaging, the scientists were then able to visualize the activity of mPOA neurons in awake, behaving female mice.

Even more surprising is that the attacking female used a male orangutan as a «hired gun» to help corner and attack the victim, the scientist said.

As a black female scientist, my agenda is different.

«It is a difficult career so I would advise women in particular to make sure they really want it and are ready to make all the necessary sacrifices before starting,» warns Isabelle Mansuy, although Anu Suomalainen - Wartiovaara wants to «encourage young female scientists — as a mother of three — by saying that family and science do not exclude each other.

For years, scientists have posed questions about «the California population,» as if it were a homogenous entity, but now they realize that otters, especially adult females, rarely leave their original 10 - to 30 - kilometer stretch of coastline.

In addition to the female scientist, the $ 100 note also includes a picture of a vial of insulin, which represents the discovery of insulin as a treatment for diabetes by Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best (along with non-Canadian John Macleod).

That means ossicones may not have evolved as a courtship strategy — helping males vie for female attention — as scientists thought.

«We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues,» she added.

Scientists assumed the females were «talking» to other mothers, not the infants, as a way of showing they had no ill intent toward the youngsters.

In addition to the trials early career scientists must overcome, female researchers experience additional hurdles in the workplace, such as limited opportunities for equal pay and promotions, and insufficient maternity leave.

Some 575 seventh - to tenth - grade girls from throughout New Jersey, as well as Pennsylvania and Maryland, found fun and inspiration doing myriad hands - on activities and meeting female scientists at The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's 15th annual Young Women's Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) on March 18.

Once described as the «Queen of Carbon,» Professor Dresselhaus has served as a role model and mentor for many young female scientists.

In these organs, sperm can remain viable for weeks or months, or can be displaced by the sperm of a new suitor as the female remates.JOHN BELOTE, MOLLIE MANIER, AND SCOTT PITNICKVISUALIZING SPERM WARS Though it is difficult to see what goes on inside a female fruit fly after copulation, recent genetic advances have allowed scientists to image sperm competition inside storage organs — the seminal receptacle and spermathecae — of female Drosophila melanogaster.

While the contest is open to male and female students, the companies selected Rosalind Elsie Franklin as a figurehead for the contest to support their joint interest in encouraging young female scientists to pursue career paths in chemistry and to increase public awareness of an important female scientist.

Scientists are working on a form of IVF where egg cells would be removed from the remaining females, fertilized with semen collected from Sudan and other northern white males, and then inserted into female southern white rhinos who would serve as surrogates.

Science News for Students staff writer Bethany Brookshire moderated one such panel: «Brave New Girls: Women in STEM,» where female scientists and educators shared their experiences in academia, revealing key moments of inspiration, struggles they face as women in addition to their brighter moments and successes.

Hundreds of scientists, male and female alike, used the hashtag as well as #StrongerTogether to share why and how they use IG as scientists.

STUDY ONE — scientists fed a hydro - alcoholic extract of nettle to 50 male and female diabetics, and after 8 weeks, the pro-inflammatory chemical interleukin 6 fell, as did c - reactive protein.

Known as the female ginseng, it is a hormone balancer and scientists believe it may contain mild estrogen - like qualities and work to stabilize your blood vessels, reducing hot flashes and decreasing vaginal dryness.

«Annihilation» follows a group of female scientists who set out on what is essentially a suicide mission to a top - secret location known as Area X, where a shimmering energetic border has appeared, cordoning off an amorphous portion of wilderness, changing its landscape.