GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in 
How can you resist doing as the Bard of the Internetz asks?
She should be first on any list --
GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist!Let no one's vote be lost or miss'd --
GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist!Let one and all her cause assist --
Come join with me; I must insist!
Just move your fingers, hands, and wrist --
GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist!Come raise your voice and clench your fist --
GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist!Come march, or strut, or do the twist --
GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist!Her cause is just; you can't resist;
Don't let her lose, or I'll be pissed!
(I'll stop for now -- you've got the gist)
GrrlScientist! GrrlScientist!
If you'd like to listen to some music while you vote, tune in to my Blip.fm station -- kinda like a personal online radio station.
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