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Samantha Yammine is a Canadian science communicator and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

Education

Yammine is a PhD candidate in the Department of Molecular Genetics researching in Derek van der Kooy's neurobiology lab at the University of Toronto.[1] She researches activation and quiescence of neural stem cells and the fate specification of their progeny using clonal lineage tracing and single cell transcriptomics strategies.[2][3][4][5]

Career

Yammine is a science communicator. Her primary platform is Instagram, where she shares photographs, neuroscience news and facts, and items pertaining to daily life as a scientist.[6][7]

In August 2017 she joined a group of science communicators to launch the Scientist Selfies project, a crowd-funded experiment using social media to test whether scientists sharing science through selfies on Instagram are rated differently in terms of warmth, trustworthiness, and competency.[8][9][10]

She was an invited speaker at the 2018 USA Science and Engineering Festival and the 2018 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada.[11][12]

Yammine was given a bursary as an 'emerging producer' by the World Congress for Science and Factual Producers in 2017.[13]

In March 2018, Science magazine published a personal essay by a PhD candidate that critiqued academia's readiness to celebrate Yammine's and others' use of Instagram as a way to correct for systemic gender biases in STEM fields.[14][15] Yammine and three coauthors replied with a letter in Science the following month.[16][17]

References

  1. ^ "Derek van der Kooy Lab | Neurobiology | Research University of Toronto". sites.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  2. ^ Reeve, Rachel L.; Yammine, Samantha Z.; Morshead, Cindi M.; van der Kooy, Derek (September 2017). "Quiescent Oct4+Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) Repopulate Ablated Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein+NSCs in the Adult Mouse Brain". Stem Cells. 35 (9): 2071–2082. doi:10.1002/stem.2662. ISSN 1549-4918. PMID 28733998.
  3. ^ "My PhD Research". samantha yammine. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  4. ^ Reeve, Rachel L.; Yammine, Samantha Z.; DeVeale, Brian; van der Kooy, Derek (2016). "Targeted activation of primitive neural stem cells in the mouse brain". The European Journal of Neuroscience. 43 (11): 1474–1485. doi:10.1111/ejn.13228. ISSN 1460-9568. PMID 26946195.
  5. ^ Samantha Y (2016-10-28), Samantha Yammine OIRM Pitchfest 2016 Audition, retrieved 2018-04-09
  6. ^ "Meet the PhD student who makes science accessible through social media". CBC Radio. 2018-03-18. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  7. ^ Krishna, Yasmin (2018-06-30). "Science Sam discusses discrimination in STEM and Instagram as a tool for science communication". Syfy Wire. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  8. ^ "This U of T PhD student is fostering public trust in science, one selfie at a time". University of Toronto News. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  9. ^ "To Selfie or Not to Selfie - How Can Scientists Foster Public Trust on Instagram?". Experiment - Moving Science Forward. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  10. ^ Qaiser, Farah (2019-05-09). "How Scientists Are Using Selfies To Challenge Stereotypes". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  11. ^ "Science Writers and Communicators of Canada - 2018 Program". sciencewriters.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  12. ^ "Samantha Yammine | USASEF". USASEF. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  13. ^ "World Congress of Science & Factual Producers". www.wcsfp.com. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  14. ^ Wright, Meghan (2018-03-14). "Why I don't use Instagram for science outreach". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  15. ^ Chen, Angela (2018-03-16). "Scolding female scientists for embracing Instagram doesn't solve the gender gap in STEM". The Verge. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  16. ^ Yammine, Samantha; Liu, Christine; Jarreau, Paige B.; Coe, Imogen R. (2018-03-18). "Social media for social change in science". Science. 360 (6385): 162–163. doi:10.1126/science.aat7303.
  17. ^ Strapagiel, Lauren (2018-04-23). "These Women Scientists Refuse To Stop Taking Selfies For Science". Buzzfeed News. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
    Burgess, Kaya (2018-04-25). "Rise of lab 'cutie' provokes storm in a Petri dish". The Times. Retrieved 2019-08-07.
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