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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[siderea]

I don't usually participate in friending memes, because I'm not generally looking for more friends just to have more friends, and also because it feels a big gauche for me to do so? What with me blogging on DW professionally.

But I thought I'd introduce myself, for people who have seen me around here commenting. I'm a psychotherapist. More specifically, I'm what's called a clinical mental health counselor. I am a medical professional, and not a scientist. However, I am a consumer of medical research, a critic of medical research, and on occasion have professionally consulted to research projects in a variety of domains. Also, a very, very long time ago, I went to college to become a scientist, but then transferred into engineering, then dropped out of school to program computers for a living for about a decade.

I have a passionate interest in the history and anthropology of everything Western society all professional fields medicine, particularly psychiatry and mental health. I am also Full Of Thoughts And Feels about psychiatric nosology, and maybe all nosology.

I have a specialty in the history of homosexuality as a psychiatric pathology.

I am very political and often rant about the intersections of social justice, mental health, public policy, and healthcare. My healthcare tag is a good place to see some of that.

Also of potential interests to biologists: (1) I would also like to get around to posting more about climate change, but that's both not in my lane and something that will have to wait until I have a few more spoons. (2) I am more critical of biological engineering than I have gotten around to explaining, and may at some point post about that.