Announcing the SciCommBites 2025 Team!

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Institution/affiliation: National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Title/position: Lead Instructor
Fact: I started reading at age 2. My favorite reading material was the local newspaper.

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Institution/affiliation: University of Minnesota
Title/position: Postdoctoral researcher
Fact: I love to crochet! I especially love to crochet neurons.

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Institution/affiliation: North Carolina State University
Title/position: Research Assistant in Nuclear Physics
Fact: I played collegiate soccer at my undergraduate institution.

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Institution/affiliation: KU Leuven
Title/position: PhD student & Kavli Scholar in machine learning for astrophysics
Fact: Nik loves fantasy books, horror movies, black tea, and doing outreach. He has recently co-organised and narrated a catwalk in spacesuits.

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Institution/affiliation: University of Georgia
Title/position: Graduate Research Assistant & M.S. Geography student
Fact: I collect vintage maps and clothing!

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Institution/Affiliation: The Ohio State University
Title/Position: Clinical Research Specialist
Fact: I love reading speculative fiction especially, but try to read a little bit of everything! I’m currently in 3 book clubs.

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Institution/affiliation: None
Title/position: Early Career Freelance Science Writer
Fact: “Biologist” was one of the first words I learned in English. I was 4 years old then and from then on I knew what I wanted to study when I grew up.

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Institution/affiliation: None
Title/position: Early-career Science Communicator
Fact: I’ve lived in many places, but wherever I go, I make sure to find a lindy hop club and a choir!

Héctor started working with SciCommBites in 2023 and began administrative work in 2024. He is responsible for many of the backend management of SciCommBites, including managing and maintaining the website, post scheduling, and more.

Madeline joined the SciCommBites administration in the summer of 2024. Her extensive work as a science writer, editor, and writing instructor has been crucial to updating SciCommBites’ author onboarding processes, and writing and editing guidelines.

Sarah was an author in the 2013 SciCommBites authors cohort and joined the admin team in December of 2024. She has been assisting Madeline during the updates to SciCommBites, and looks forward to offering editing and fact checking support to authors during the writing process.