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📣🦝 The Brain Scoop RELAUNCH! | thebrainscoop

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It’s been ages since I made any Brain Scoop fan art... and technically this isn’t either... BUT Emily Graslie is finally going long format with a three part TV-series on PBS called Prehistoric Road Trip. It airs Wednesday June 17th at 9 pm US central time and I’ve been looking at way more preview clips than I thought I would find and I think it has a lot of that special Brain Scoop vibe. Apart from Emily goofing around and being scientific at the same time and meeting tons of experts it has music and high quality and fun graphics of the same sort. I’ve been waiting for this since November 2018 and I’m soooo looking forward to catch it as it premieres (here). The only catch is it’s 4 am mid work week here in Sweden. I gonna be so tired Thursday :S X) 8D

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Eternally Grateful

The Vlogbrothers and the Nerdfighter community have seriously impacted my life in so many ways, it's insane. I remember my first encounter with the community – my sister showed me the 2D glasses on DFTBA Records. As a person who suffers from headaches while watching 3D films, I found these glasses absolutely amazing. This led me to look at the YouTube channel and really integrate myself into the community. I started reading John's books when I saw the amazing display of box sets in a bookshop in Kuala Lumpur. As a Nerdfighter in a rural area of Western Australia, the Vlogbrothers certainly hasn't found me any social benefits. And because of this, it makes me completely fangirl to see John's books start to appear in bookstores, and Pizza John shirts occasionally popping up in the city, and that feeling, as you probably know, is the best feeling in the world.

To feel pride and passion about something just feels so amazing, and that's what I love about this community – because here it's okay to feel like that. The most beneficial thing that the Vlogbrothers could have done for me was launch Crash Course, SciShow, and introduce Emily Graslie and the Brainscoop. It's because of Crash Course that I actually passed S&E and science last year, and it's because of SciShow and the Brainscoop that I did my work experience in April at the Western Australian Museum.

For this, I am eternally grateful – I enjoyed it so much. Other things like the P4A, have seriously increased my levels of hope for this world. Again, as an Asian girl living in a country where the Prime Minister is a racist and misogynistic twat, I had completely lost hope in this world. But witnessing the P4A and how everyone comes together to help people, not as the usual western saviors, but as equals, is, basically, really freaking cool. So really – I'm so grateful for this community. It's benefited me in educational, inspirational and, most importantly, entertaining ways. It's helped me discover what I'm really passionate about, what I would like to do more, and that I actually can do it. That, just because I, and my family, are not necessarily welcome in my country, doesn't mean that I'm unable to pursue the things that I enjoy. Thank you so much, and DFTBA.

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Sometimes, the internet is really great.

Four years ago tomorrow, @thebrainscoop​ moved to the Field Museum in Chicago. Since she posted about how much the channel has meant to her (and I’m waiting on a shipment of rats to feed tegus), I want to post about what it means to me.

Around three years ago, I discovered the Brain Scoop in the midst of a bunch of Nerdfighteria-related content. Emily has a kind of presence on camera that made me want to just listen to anything and everything she had to say about natural history/museums. When I dove back enough to find out she was making content in a university museum, I wanted to see if my university had one.

Surprise, we do! I emailed the person in charge of volunteers about starting to help out. He took me on a tour of the museum and the very next week, I got started on a project in invertebrates. I instantly fell in love with this small museum.

Since then, I’ve volunteered in all of the collections, become a docent, and worked somewhere between part and full time in 4 different paid jobs at the museum. I got bitten real hard by the museum bug.

At this point, I’ve effectively become my own collections manager. I’m running the big projects in the collection, I accession new specimens, I identify specimens (sometimes). I get to show off something that I’m very proud of.

Work aside, the community is something I’ve fallen deeply in love with. Our museum is small, so we know pretty much everybody. We hang out after work, we go play Pokemon, we get food, and we play with each other’s dogs. They’ve become so incredibly important to me. The day one of the collections managers told me I was officially a part of the family, I just about cried.

The museum has afforded me so many opportunities. I’ve interned not only with my museum, but also the friggin’ Smithsonian! I worked in the invertebrate collection there and got to work on a number of projects with a bunch of groups I don’t get to work with at my own museum. The community there too is incredible. The invertebrate lab at the offsite facility are some of the nicest, funniest, most sarcastic and welcoming people I’ve ever met. And I’m very lucky.

So really, thanks Emily. Thank you for inspiring me to go try something new and finding out that I love it.

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I got to meet @egraslie of The Brain Scoop @thebrainscoop at The Field Museum and get the inside track on some of their dioramas. What a treat and an honor! #fieldmuseum #thebrainscoop #emilygraslie #naturalhistory #allismarkham #taxidermy #akeley #preytaxidermy (at The Field Museum)

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Hey Nerdfighters! It’s that time again! Go to thegreenlightzine.wixsite.com/home/get-involved if you want to be a part of The Green Light! Next issue coming March 1st.