Biology friending meme?

[sciatrix]

It occurs to me that I have an awful lot of subscribers and friends who have varying interests and expertises in biology, psychology, and all sorts of related topics and ideas. 'Related' being read broadly here--if it touches on natural or social sciences and you want to share, please do.

Therefore, I thought I'd spin up a biology friending meme. What kind of background in the subject do you have? What things do you find interesting?

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Most of my background is in social and counselling psychology, as in undergraduate and a Masters degree. In the process, I read a bunch of sociological and social work papers as well. I have an interest in both qualitative and quantitative sides, but my personal experience is more quantitative. I had a particular interest in the issues of research reproducibility in psychology several years ago when writing my thesis - but I haven't stayed on top of recent updates since graduation, so I didn't feel comfortable commenting specifically on your post on reproducibility.

I had an interest in biology since early age. I was going through a diagram of animal cells in an atlas around age 7 or 8 or something. I hated classifications but I loved learning things about biological and behavioural mechanisms. Growing up in post-Perestroika Russia, nobody knew how to make a living doing science any more, so I was shipped off to study business instead. I switched to psychology a number of years later. I took one additional class each in psychopharmacology and human physiology while doing it.

My partner and I have also currently stumbled into involvement with some conservation organizations in Costa Rica: not field work by any means, more of a general/strategic involvement.