Hello again! My name is Alyssa Croft, and I am currently conducting research and designing an experiment with funding from the IDEA Grant. For a quick review, I am working on developing an experiment to test a method of a common phenomenon known as scienceploitation. Scienceploitation is the use of misleading scientific claims as aContinue reading “Spreading the Word on Scienceploitation”
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Much Ado About This Poisoned, Vengeful Shrew: Shifting to Live Theatre
Greetings readers, I am coming to you one final time from across the pond! As June and my time studying in England conclude, this update too concludes a month full of theatre and introspection about my project on reclaiming feminine rage. Perhaps its biggest development has been consolidating the material it covers to focus solelyContinue reading “Much Ado About This Poisoned, Vengeful Shrew: Shifting to Live Theatre”
The Impacts of Reclaiming Hetero-centric Interpretations of Ambiguous Histories
With this project I am reinstating the ambiguity into art historical paintings that are typically read from a flattened perspective. By introducing a new extreme into the realm of historical art interpretations I am building a wider spectrum of possible perspectives for contemporary art historians. This reflection based in antiquity that I am taking onContinue reading “The Impacts of Reclaiming Hetero-centric Interpretations of Ambiguous Histories”
Research Update: Addressing the Struggles & Surprises
Project Title: Algorithmic Law Enforcement: Exploring the Human and Civil Rights Implications of Predictive Policing Reflecting on my first three weeks dedicated to my research project exploring the human and civil rights implications of data-driven and predictive policing, I am feeling satisfied with my project, and grateful for all I have learned through this process.Continue reading “Research Update: Addressing the Struggles & Surprises”
Research with a Purpose: The Apalachicola Oyster Fishery
Hello! This month I continued to work with my mentor to develop and implement a method for acidifying sediment samples. This process will allow me to remove inorganic carbon, specifically carbonates, and keep the organic carbon compounds for isotopic analysis. These isotopic ratios that I discussed in my last blog post will allow us toContinue reading “Research with a Purpose: The Apalachicola Oyster Fishery”
Navigating Challenges in My Research
The goal of my summer research seems fairly straightforward – build an application that takes in the DNA sequencing data of cancer cells and infer their evolutionary history. However, as I began to delve deeper into my project, I have encountered several challenges. This is my first time undertaking a computational project at this scale.Continue reading “Navigating Challenges in My Research”
Chemical Gardens and Measuring Bubbles
My experience with my research so far in May has been very progressive. When I first started after my little summer break, only a week, I got straight into work, however, I didn’t know just what I was doing yet. After coming back my research mentor and I discussed that I would be continuing anotherContinue reading “Chemical Gardens and Measuring Bubbles”
Begrudgingly Introspective
“My initial proposal expressed a special kind of vitriol for anyone who would dare interrogate the motivations of someone in a D/s relationship. Rather, a dynamic where one partner exerts an agreed upon amount of control over the other. My first attempts to explain such a relationship on paper were quickly scrapped, leading to theContinue reading “Begrudgingly Introspective”
Incremental Improvement in Experimental Design
During May, I have been primarily working on fixing some of the issues that we previously encountered with our current way of developing chips. As we continue to work on the development of 3-D printed chips, the improvement of our current photolithography-based devices has become a priority. The current issues we have encountered are mainlyContinue reading “Incremental Improvement in Experimental Design”
Uncovering the Mysteries of Scorpion Venom
Hello again, this is a quick update on everything that’s been going on with my project this last month, along with some potential issues that may be popping up soon. First and foremost, I dissected two male and two female scorpions for tissues to use for genome sequencing. While performing these dissections, I also preservedContinue reading “Uncovering the Mysteries of Scorpion Venom”
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