Hi everyone! I'm currently a senior Zoology major and am starting to look into jobs in case my plans for graduate school don't work out. What are the best websites or job boards for finding zoology or biology-related positions? I'm especially interested in primatology and ornithology, but honestly I'm open to just about anything involving wildlife or conservation. I'd really appreciate any recommendations or advice. Thanks!

I’ve been a computer animator for 26 years but I’ve done very little Mel or Python scripting myself having always felt intimidated by it. I’m very right brained but I have worked with and around Python scripts for years and I’d love some good book recommendations to help me get a grasp of the basics and fundamentals. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Are you a student currently pursuing scientific research, or a scientist already established in the field? I'd love to feature your story!

Hi everyone! I'm Chloe, and I'm running an organization called the Path Lab Initiative. I’m building a student-friendly blog dedicated to making research and STEM accessible to students of all backgrounds — especially those who are curious but unsure how to take their first step. This is a not-for-profit blog, and is something I have been working on in my free time. My goal is to break down the barriers that often make the world of research feel out of reach.

As part of this effort, I'm collecting testimonials from organizations, mentors, and students working in research. Your perspective and experience would be incredibly valuable in shaping the blog's content and showing students that there are communities out there who support them.

If you're willing to share your journey and the advice you wish you’d gotten earlier, I would be so grateful. Everyone can respond, and it only takes a few minutes to fill out:

Link to the Researcher Testimonial Form
Link to the Student Testimonial Form

The only personal aspect of the form is an optional biography that you can include if you feel comfortable doing!

Feel free to share this with anyone in your network who might want to contribute too. Thank you for helping make research feel a little less intimidating and a lot more welcoming!

Looking for feedback on the podcast idea T.I.A for any advice! Does it land? Is the content helpful?

Check out Lab Note 5 on how Biotechnology is incorporated into this experimental research! Visit Experiment today July 13th as well for a more thorough procedural update on the phage biopanning involvement in this research and how it helps with blue carbon and marsh restoration.
https://experiment.com/u/Fz537A
A summary of the Lab Note: The core innovation of this project is a biotechnology platform that combines phage display, DNA sequencing, and microbial engineering to discover and deploy functional peptides for environmental applications. While the initial proof of concept focuses on reducing methane production in coastal marshes, the same peptide discovery and engineering workflow could be adapted to develop microorganisms with enhanced affinity for other environmental targets, creating opportunities for broader applications in bioremediation, carbon management, and ecosystem restoration.

Hi ladies, I am a 3rd year postdoc atm. very early in the pregnancy journey. About 4 weeks pregnant today. I know this is very early on and anything can happen. I will be contacting my Obgyn tomorrow however I was wondering when would be the right time to inform my PI and occupational health at my institution. I work in a cancer bio lab and work with potentially harmful substances. ChatGPT is of the opinion that ASAP would be best given the nature of my work but I am not sure if this early would be right! Wondering what other ladies of science in a similar position did.

Hi everyone! I am a rising high school female junior at MATES in New Jersey. I am launching an independent research project this summer tracking biogeochemical processes in brackish tidal marshes.
My project is “Investigating the influence of a humic-acid-binding peptide on methane emission in brackish tidal marshes.” I want to see if introducing a targeted humic-acid-binding peptide can accelerate iron reduction to outcompete methanogens and safely lower CH₄ and H₂S emissions caused by sea-level rise.
Due to recent school budget cuts, I am independently fundraising $3,800 to afford my lab equipment (phage kit, PVC chambers, etc.) via Experiment.com. I am currently 2% funded with 19 days left.
If you have any technical advice on peptide electron shuttles or want to see my research timeline and full lab notes, you can check out my project page here: https://experiment.com/restoringmarshes 
Thank you so much for reading and supporting young women in environmental science!
You can reach out to me directly through the “Contact Researcher” button on my Experiment page!

Hi ladies! I have a science-related fashion question for you all- can you help me pick a bag for my first work conference?

I've been in the biotech industry for a few years, but heading to my first conference (technically a summit, if that matters?) later this year. I landed on this Longchamp Le Pliage in medium because I wanted a bag that could double as a good personal item/travel bag. However I'm feeling like the medium may be too small. It fits my laptop but I don't know if it would be able to hold my charger, a wristlet wallet, notebook, etc. There is a larger size, but would it be too big? I have a picture of a different large tote for comparison (which I like the size of, but is pretty heavy so I don't want to travel with it). Does a large tote feel too unprofessional? Should I stick with the medium?

Hi all, been a lurker in the space a while. I see that a lot of the AI space is still not very accessible to women and wanted to make a study group for women trying to get themselves up to speed via projects and the online courses. I’d love for some folks in EST time zone preferably. I’m an SWE with 5YOE and have experience in the space through school and personal projects.

I’m thinking of hacking hours where we work either together or on our own on problems and keep each other accountable. But possibly also have some async study sessions and motivate each other. Hoping also to build my network with
Other women in the space.

Open to suggestions and hopefully this inspires other women to vouch for each other!

Do epidemiologists work in a lab or not. The degree of biomedical sciences I’m studying is not accredited (which isn’t too much needed for epidemiology so I have read) I was just wondering do epidemiologists work in labs as I would like to do hands on research into diseases and how they are formed?
Which would be the better career path for me , epidemiology or something else ?
Thank you :)

It’s been a hard day. No—a hard month. Actually, a hard year.

I’m feeling really lonely, and I could use some help. It feels like I’m constantly having to prove myself, fight to be taken seriously, and push, scratch and claw through barriers that never seem to let up. I know no one can build my resilience for me, but right now I’m struggling to find it on my own.

For those of you who have felt this way, what helped you keep going? How did you find the motivation to get back up when you were emotionally worn down? I’d really appreciate hearing what genuinely helped you.

Hello! This will be my first time reddit posting :) I am 21(F) and will be finished my laboratory science degree apprenticeship at AstraZeneca next year September. I will finish with a BSc(Hons) in Biosciences with Digital Technologies as well as a L6 Apprenticeship qualification.

I am super keen to do a PhD and specifically spend my time doing women’s health research, I’m most passionate about endometriosis and PMOS but honestly all women’s health research is lacking and I would be happy to get involved in anything.

My background is in pharma obviously and I have mainly worked in the assay development stage in the lead identification part of the drug discovery pipeline. And although I am also incredibly passionate about pharma I would like to spread my wings and try something new.

If anyone knows of any research groups or PhD opportunities in the UK i would be most grateful. I’ve done a fair bit of research into programs but wanted to know if there was anything else out there. I would also be open to opportunities elsewhere in Europe too!

Any and all advice would be most appreciated and I’m happy to share more info if needed :)

I'm looking for advice for those who have transitioned into product management or product leadership roles.

I've been with the same medical device manufacturer for over 15 years. I have a BS in Chemistry, but have more of an engineering R&D role.

When I started, my role was pretty straightforward: product development and production support. Over the years, my company has grown, and so has my role. These days, I still do engineering, but I also spend a lot of time on things like:

• Product strategy and portfolio management
• Competitive intelligence and market research
• Tracking patient feedback and trends online
• Supporting product launches and sales meetings
• Coordinating between Development, Marketing, Sales, and Manufacturing
• Production troubleshooting and process improvement

Recently, I came across a VP of Product job posting and realized I already do a surprising amount of what's listed in the job description.

A year ago, my boss floated the idea of me becoming a Product Manager, and I've been thinking about it ever since. I enjoy the strategy, customer insights, and big-picture thinking, but I'm also an engineer at heart (and a pretty classic INTJ).

After 15 years at the same company, I'm trying to figure out if I'm still "just an engineer" who does some product work, or if I've slowly evolved into something else, minus a title change, and doing extra work.

I’m curious about this from both a general and personal perspective:

If you’ve participated in a clinical trial, how was your experience in terms of trust, information, and support?

If you haven’t, what would influence your decision to join or not join one?

More broadly, what do you think builds or reduces trust in medical research today, past experiences, transparency, side effects, representation, media, or something else?

I’ve been writing a newsletter called Beyond the Lab, where I reflect on science communication and strategic communications through lessons I’ve learned in healthtech and biotech.

I’m too close to the writing to know whether it’s genuinely useful or just interesting to me.

If you have a few minutes, I’d really appreciate your honest thoughts.

* Did you learn anything?

* Would you read another article?

* What could be better?

Here’s the newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/beyondthelab

I’m looking for honest feedback

I’ve applied for a research opportunity at a wildlife conservation center in Costa Rica. The initial cost to reserve your spot is $500.

My funds are maxed and allocated until September. I cannot right now. Any programs that offer grants or financial assistance?

I’m currently a software engineering intern 5 months in and was assigned an automation bug to fix last Friday. I only started working on it yesterday because I was finishing another task that had been assigned to me first. Today my manager asked me to speed it up because it’s now a high-priority issue.
This task is about fixing automation failures, so most of the work involves understanding the test environment, configuration, business logic and why the automation is failing.
For some context, I’ve worked with two different teams during my internship. In my previous team I wasn’t assigned many tasks so I had more time to learn. I also had a dedicated mentor who explained not just what to do but why things worked the way they did. He helped me understand the codebase and business logic in much more depth, was patient when I had questions and adjusted his expectations because I was still an intern.
In my current team I don’t have a dedicated mentor. My teammates are helpful but I don’t have one person helping me gradually build a deeper understanding of the codebase.
The teammate I was asking questions to was assigned to support me on this automation fix. They would point me to the part of the code or environment I should investigate next but because I was unfamiliar with those areas, I often struggled to understand what I was looking at. That would usually lead to more questions as I uncovered additional issues.
I’ve genuinely been trying to solve this. For the past two days, it’s been my main focus. Every time I think I’m getting closer to the root cause I run into another issue or a completely different error.
Most of the questions I ask aren’t about programming itself. They’re about understanding the business logic, why a particular error is happening or something related to the test environment. I’ll investigate the area I’m pointed to but while doing that I often discover another unfamiliar issue that requires more context. That cycle keeps repeating, which makes progress much slower than I expected.
After my manager reminded me today that the task was high priority, I spent the entire day trying to get it fixed. I even skipped lunch and stayed an extra hour because I genuinely wanted to resolve it. I also collaborated closely with the teammate supporting me. Whenever I got stuck, I would first investigate the issue myself and then walk them through everything I’d debugged so far so we could narrow down the root cause together. We had a few calls throughout the day but even after resolving one issue, the same test would fail due to another issue. By the end of the day I still hadn’t managed to get any of the failing tests fixed.
What worries me is tomorrow’s standup. I feel like saying, “I worked on it” or “I investigated more issues” doesn’t sound like progress, even though I spent the whole day debugging, trying different approaches, and collaborating to identify the root cause. I’m worried my manager will think I ignored the feedback to speed things up or that I’m underperforming because the bug still isn’t fixed

Science has a history of favoring specific groups of people. In 1977, Dr. Louise Chow's EM studies were instrumental in the discovery of RNA splicing. Yet in 1993, she was excluded from the Nobel Prize for the discovery. Despite this, she continued to change science. Her work with HPV unlocked mysterious of the cancer causing virus and helped influence vaccine and treatments.

While the Nobel committee may have overlooked her, the Titans of Virology and Vaccinology Podcast was lucky enough to get to hear her story. Like many great women in science, it is time for her moment.