bring your fandom to work day

[sciatrix]

Yeah, that's it. Bring me a character, and if I know them I'll tell you what kind of biologist I think they are. Surprise me!

Alternatively: if you have a job and you want to play the same game, comment with your job and ask people to prompt you characters.

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[brainwane]

Professor Harold Hill, "The Music Man".

Janine Kishi, "Babysitters' Club".

[sciatrix]

I don't know Harold Hill very well, but Janine struck me as rather like some of the infectious disease specialists I know--which happen to be... HIV and Ebola researchers. Exacting, very interested in systems, but also really also interested in practical applications at the same time.

[tozka]

Sailor Moon. :P

[lazaefair]

Gamora and/or Nebula. Any and all of the other GotG characters, if you're feeling up to it. This could accidentally turn into an entire university science AU.

[lazaefair]

And I'll play! I'm a videographer/photographer/editor (all lumped in under "media producer") who used to be a journalist. I'll tell you who works for public radio, who works for Buzzfeed News, who's an edgy fuckboi running around geek conventions trying to promo his podcast, etc. etc. etc.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Gritty!

Catra, (She-Ra)

The Swedish Chef

[sciatrix]

god help us all, Gritty is totally a conservationist--and not one of the theoretical ones, either, but one of the more feral fish and game warden types. If I'm going for research, Gritty quite resembles... several of the field ecologists I've known. I can think of several dudes in my department at varying levels of Gritty, and at least one who rivals Gritty at his most malevolent.

[opensummer]

Jake and Terry from B99!

[sciatrix]

I feel like Terry studies something to do with social behavior in mammals, and I'm pretty sure it's involved in parenting or attachment. Not parental investment, but I think Terry gets curious about how and why social connections form.

Alternatively, Terry is the best goddamn lab manager I've ever seen, which is pretty much the role he plays for Holt anyway.

EDIT because I forgot Jake!

Jake is an integrative biologist of the sort that works with me--he can't make up his mind what the hell he wants to study, he gets very excited about a whole number of things, and he periodically bounces off on great ideas and has to be wrangled back to actually finishing his first ones.

which is to say, I have a hard time disentangling Jake-the-person from Jake-the-textbook-case-of-adult-ADHD, and I know an awful lot of Jakes in my department, too. Ha!

[opensummer]

ADHD!Jake is very important to me and I fully accept your reasoning there.

I love the idea of Terry as somebody who studies parenting!

[endotoxin]

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky the IV.

Alternatively, Gregor Mendel.

[jadislefeu]

Well, since she's your icon, Yukio!

[sciatrix]

Yukio is totally a science educator! A good one, too, and probably one who works with the internet in a non-textual medium.

[jadislefeu]

I'm now imagining her as an extremely bubbly derivation of Vi Hart. (Yukio was so cute. I hope she gets more screen time next movie.)

[glorious_spoon]

Peter Quill :D

[sciatrix]

Oh, that's easy. Quill is--oh shit, you know what, I was going to say a herper, but that's wrong. Quill is a spider guy. Specifically, Quill is very into jumping spiders--they're very flashy and they like to wave things around and they talk to each other by dancing, you guys. Quill is particularly fond of peacock spiders, but might work on another variety because the whole abdomen drumming thing--they're into the BEAT!

[glorious_spoon]

Ahh, this is PERFECT. Dancing spiders, of course :D

[sylvaine]

Oh man, I love this idea :D Gamora or Rose Diaz?