AskScience Panel of Scientists XXVI

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/s93rpe/askscience_panel_of_scientists_xxvi/

created by AskScienceModerator on 21/01/2022 at 05:56 UTC

365 upvotes, 9 top-level comments (showing 9)

*Please read this entire post carefully and format your application appropriately.**

This post is for new panelist recruitment! The previous one is here[1].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/or5p3q/askscience_panel_of_scientists_xxv/

The panel is an informal group of Redditors who are **either professional scientists or those in training to become so**. All panelists have at least a graduate-level familiarity within their declared field of expertise and answer questions from related areas of study. A panelist's expertise is summarized in a color-coded AskScience flair.

Membership in the panel comes with access to a panelist subreddit. It is a place for panelists to interact with each other, voice concerns to the moderators, and where the moderators make announcements to the whole panel. It's a good place to network with people who share your interests!

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*You are eligible to join the panel if you:**

Are studying for at least an MSc. or equivalent degree in the sciences, AND,
Are able to communicate your knowledge of your field at a level accessible to various audiences.

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*Instructions for formatting your panelist application:**

Choose exactly one general field from the side-bar (Physics, Engineering, Social Sciences, etc.).
State your specific field in one word or phrase (Neuropathology, Quantum Chemistry, etc.)
Succinctly describe your particular area of research in a few words (carbon nanotube dielectric properties, myelin sheath degradation in Parkinsons patients, etc.)
Give us a brief synopsis of your education: are you a research scientist for three decades, or a first-year Ph.D. student?
Provide links to comments you've made in AskScience which you feel are indicative of your scholarship. Applications will not be approved without several comments made in /r/AskScience itself.

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Ideally, these comments should clearly indicate your fluency in the fundamentals of your discipline as well as your expertise. We favor comments that contain citations so we can assess its correctness without specific domain knowledge.

Here's an example application:

`Username: /u/foretopsail`

`General field: Anthropology`

`Specific field: Maritime Archaeology`

`Particular areas of research include historical archaeology, archaeometry, and ship construction.`

`Education: MA in archaeology, researcher for several years.`

`Comments: 1, 2, 3, 4.`

Please do not give us personally identifiable information and please follow the template. We're not going to do real-life background checks - we're just asking for reddit's best behavior. However, several moderators are tasked with monitoring panelist activity, and your credentials will be checked against the academic content of your posts on a continuing basis.

You can submit your application by replying to this post.

Comments

Comment by mikerowave at 13/02/2022 at 19:04 UTC*

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/mikerowave

General field: Astronomy

Specific field: Observational Astronomy

Particular areas of research include accreting binary systems (white dwarfs and neutron stars), space based astronomy

Education: MS in Astronomy, 13+ years work with Hubble Space Telescope in various technical support roles

Comments: Experience with terrestrial astronomy, IUE, RXTE, HST, JWST data collection and processing

Comment by kilotesla at 10/03/2022 at 17:30 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/kilotesla

General field: engineering

Specific field: electrical engineering

Particular areas of research include electromagnetics, power electronics, and power/energy applications.

Education: PhD in electrical engineering, more than two decades of experience including research and teaching in industry and academia.

Comments. None of these actually have required dipping much into my specific expertise, but they demonstrate basic fluency and ability to explain things: 1[1] . . . 2[2] . . . 3[3] . . . 4[4].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ta9mvx/ask_anything_wednesday_engineering_mathematics/hzzmdd7/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/t69jth/how_can_you_determine_the_most_efficient_gear/hzdfsu5/

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/t2w4wv/why_do_some_metals_rust_and_some_dont/hyoxebg/

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/szcrrh/how_we_will_take_energy_from_future_fusion/hy4dkr0/

Comment by mime454 at 29/04/2022 at 21:08 UTC*

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Application

/u/mime454

General Field: Biology

Specific Field: Evolutionary Biology/Animal Behavior

Research: My lab research/thesis is about the evolution of cognition and animal behavior. My other interests in this field are sexual selection/mate conflict, evolution of natural products and psychoactive compounds, game theory in evolution and general philosophy of science and argumentation.

Education: MS Biology (awarded next week), researcher in multiple labs over 8 years.

Comments: 1[1], [2][2], [3][3] 4[4]

1: https://reddit.com/r/science/comments/t4z9e9/_/hz3vamv/?context=1

2: https://reddit.com/r/NotHowGirlsWork/comments/uc37f7/_/i6969sj/?context=1

3: https://reddit.com/r/science/comments/u52usr/_/i5eyvtv/?context=1

4: https://reddit.com/r/NotHowGirlsWork/comments/uc37f7/_/i69h7j0/?context=1

Is there a way to find your comments in /r/askscience specifically? I’ve redditted too long and too often. I use this subreddit occasionally when I see a question I can answer in my news feed but it’s kind of sporadic compared to the main science subreddit and other places on Reddit where people are asking questions about biology. I’m sure I could get you comments specifically from here if I looked through ten years of my posting (around the same amount of time I’ve been a scientist/in training to be one). I just chose the last 4 comments I made anywhere about things in my field. My field one that people love to speculate/bullshit about so the commenter with the most free time wins. I would use this subreddit more often if I had a way out of this problem.

Comment by ArcturusStream at 25/06/2022 at 09:53 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/ArcturusStream

General Field: Astronomy

Specific Field: Exoplanets, Spectroscopy, Modelling

Modelling exoplanetary atmospheric structures and spectra (particularly transmission spectra) in non-local thermodynamic equilibrium.

Education: Postdoctoral Researcher with 4 years experience

Comments: 1[1], 2[2], 3[3], 4[4]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/vjsshw/comment/ido4qzp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/vi5y3b/comment/idez6v1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/vgh5xw/comment/ida47ln/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/vjsshw/comment/ido2yx6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3