In a great new video, chemist and science educator David K. Smith breaks down the importance of visibility for queer folks working in the sciences—because who we elevate as role models helps determine what GLBT kids envision themselves doing in the future. And, right now, science really isn’t where we’re finding queer role models.
Published by Jeremy Yoder
Jeremy B. Yoder is a founding collaborator on the Queer in STEM Project. He is an Assistant Professor of Biology at California State University Northridge, studying the evolution and coevolution of interacting species, especially mutualists, and a collaborator with the
Joshua Tree Genome Project. He edits
the Molecular Ecologist, a blog about the uses of genetic data in ecology and evolutionary biology, and has written for the website of
Scientific American, the
LA Review of Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Awl, and Slate.
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