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Raven the Science Maven

“Only once did she mention race. There was no anger or finger-pointing.” was part of the “positive feedback” I got after a recent keynote. Yikes.1) someone assumed I was an

Storytime: Over 100 years ago, a physician was treating a patient who could barely remember basic details of their own life. When the patient passed, the doctor examined the patients

Hi! I'm Raven, and I have ADHD. This is a thread and very much an incomplete collection of my early childhood shenanigans and experiences that will be in my book

From someone who is old enough to remember what happened in the year 1978: I want to know what the general consensus was when The Village People released YMCA. We're

This is Twitter. We probably don't know each other. If you ever see someone running their mouth about me, guarantee they didn't have the courage or maturity to speak to

DO NOT shut people down if they are explaining science in their own way. Negative reinforcement and shaming is NOT how we help people build positive relationships with science. I'm

I'm crying. This is from someone in the biology department at UB. The dept. didn't want to accept me as a PhD because I was passionate about education just as

Why did I start @BlackInSciComm? Black people are not born social justice warriors. I want to talk about science and chill 99.9% of the time. Instead, because y'alls people don't

A rare thread from me so pull up a seat because I have time today: You all have to stop projecting this idea that Black women are not capable of

The problem with STEM culture is that we are forcing people into a dominant narrative that scientists must look and act a certain way, SO MUCH that people think

My fellow twitter scientists: a fellow scientist blocked me because I said she was nitpicking me when she was saying my point was invalid due to the debatable nature of

Do y'all wanna hear about the time that I was offered a science faculty position and the university withdrew their offer after I asked about their policies regarding maternity leave?