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The Scientist Remembers Poetry
I do not know how I ended up here, clicking on document after document in an old abandoned computer folder called “Old Writing.” I guess after months of trying to figure out the statistics for my master’s thesis (i.e., trying to run up a very long, very fast down-escalator), I needed to engage with whatever…
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No One Warned Me About the Wasps…Life as an Avian Ecologist
I should have turned back when the first wasp nearly collided with my face. I should have closed my car’s back passenger door and just gone back inside. But I had an appointment to make. And besides, how crazy would I have to be to suspect that a nestful of them had infiltrated my car…
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Practically perfect in every way…how to find a Mary Poppins Mentor
Forever in pursuit of equally maintaining my scientific and writing skills, I was applying to some freelance writing positions. As I was looking for writing samples to send in, I realized…my published pieces don’t live on the internet forever. Pieces I wrote over the years on CollegeXPress or Critterfacts have been taken down. Moreover, some…
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Microaggressions, Stand-by, and Korean: Diary of an Ecology Master’s Student
There are days when a person just needs to be surrounded by strangers. I don’t mean meetable strangers, like people at a party who might want to socialize with you. I mean, going to an area with people who do not know you and do not wish to know you. Just enough people to know…
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Top 3 Culture Shocks Experienced by an American in Korea: What they don’t tell you
I’m in the basement. Tanks of nitrogen, scuffed floors, and the printer-like sounds of a machine running. I direct the infrared laser through a piece of plastic I’ve collected from a bird nest (all with proper permitting and training!). With a Fourier transform equation, I can determine which compounds make up my material by gauging…
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ChatGPT Predicted my Future: Career Preparedness and Ethics of AI
Earlier this week, I asked ChatGPT to forecast my future. 2 years… 5 years… 10 years… 20 years. From a Fulbright scholar to a PhD student to a professor. At each step, carving out a research niche for myself at the intersection of ecology and social meaning. ChatGPT was Right… How could ChatGPT forecast my…
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