Gal Science

  1. As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we will be running a ton of wonderful one-off pieces by female scientists of all shapes and sizes and fields and education levels, which we are sure you will enjoy. They’ll live here, so you can always find them. Most recently: Get Some Sleep. Many times in my life, beginning very early but increasing exponentially after I became a psychology major in college, I have…

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  2. As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we will be running a ton of wonderful one-off pieces by female scientists of all shapes and sizes and fields and education levels, which we are sure you will enjoy. They’ll live here, so you can always find them. Most recently: How to Build a Galaxy and Fight an Army. Hi, Toast! As a brief instroduction, my own research is focused in the areas of…

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  3. As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we will be running a ton of wonderful one-off pieces by female scientists of all shapes and sizes and fields and education levels, which we are sure you will enjoy. They’ll live here, so you can always find them. Most recently: Parasite Tales for Every Occasion. This column is sponsored by the author herself, who nicely waived her fee. It was an epic battle.

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  4. As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we will be running a ton of wonderful one-off pieces by female scientists of all shapes and sizes and fields and education levels, which we are sure you will enjoy. They’ll live here, so you can always find them. Most recently: Mansplaining Physics. Today's column is sponsored by the lovely Sarah Redmond, so blame her for your nightmares. Parasites make for great…

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  5. As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we will be running a ton of wonderful one-off pieces by female scientists of all shapes and sizes and fields and education levels, which we are sure you will enjoy. They’ll live here, so you can always find them. Most recently: When a Scientist Tries to be Funny. I can’t pinpoint exactly when, but at some point in the six years between…

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  6. As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we will be running a ton of wonderful one-off pieces by female scientists of all shapes and sizes and fields and education levels, which we are sure you will enjoy. They'll live here, so you can always find them. Science is often thought of as the antithesis to a language-based art like comedy. But I think there's a rich overlap between the two,…

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  7. You may or may not have noticed that The Toast's official Twitter account (accept no imitations!) featured a brief call for female scientists last week. After it was RT'd eleventy billion (we're not scientists) times, and we got a ton of emails from, like, dudes who don't even read The Toast, we decided to talk a little more specifically about what we're looking for. Our dream is to have a recurring science column authored…

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