Samantha Yammine

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Samantha Yammine
Samantha Yammine on Science Showcase.jpg
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (PhD)
OccupationScience communicator, Neuroscientist
WebsiteSamanthaYammine.com

Samantha Yammine is a Canadian science communicator. She completed her PhD in 2019 at the University of Toronto.

Education[]

Yammine earned her PhD in the Department of Molecular Genetics researching in Derek van der Kooy's neurobiology lab at the University of Toronto.[1][2] She investigated activation and quiescence of neural stem cells and the fate specification of their progeny using clonal lineage tracing and single cell transcriptomics strategies.[3][4][5][6]

Career[]

Yammine is a science communicator. Her primary platform is Instagram, where she shares photographs, neuroscience news and facts, and items pertaining to daily life as a scientist.[7][8]

In August 2017 she joined a group of science communicators to launch the Scientist Selfies project, a crowd-funded experiment using social media to test whether scientists sharing science through selfies on Instagram are rated differently in terms of warmth, trustworthiness, and competency.[9][10][11] Using the hashtag "#ScientistsWhoSelfie", the international and interdisciplinary team raised over $10,000 and collected over one thousand images from across the world.[12]

She was an invited speaker at the 2018 USA Science and Engineering Festival and the 2018 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada.[13][14]

Yammine was given a bursary as an 'emerging producer' by the World Congress for Science and Factual Producers in 2017.[15]

In March 2018, Science magazine published a personal essay by a PhD candidate that critiqued academia's readiness to celebrate Yammine's and others' use of Instagram as a way to correct for systemic gender biases in STEM fields.[16][17] Yammine and three coauthors replied with a letter in Science the following month.[18][19]

In March 2019, Yammine interviewed Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques live while he was at the International Space Station.[20]

She is one of the spokespersons for ScienceUpFirst, a science communication initiative aiming at reducing the impact of COVID-19 misinformation online.[21]

Selected publications[]

  • Paige Brown Jarreau, Imogene A Cancellare, Becky J Carmichael, Lance Porter, Daniel Toker, Samantha Z Yammine. 2019. Using selfies to challenge public stereotypes of scientists. PLoS ONE; 14(5): e0216625. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216625.
  • Samantha Z Yammine, Christine Liu, Paige B Jarreau, Imogen R Coe. 2018. Social media for social change in science. Science; 360(6385): 162-163. doi: 10.1126/science.aat7303.
  • Rachel L Reeve, Samantha Z Yammine, Cindi M Morshead, Derek van der Kooy. 2017. Quiescent Oct4 + Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) Repopulate Ablated Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein + NSCs in the Adult Mouse Brain. Stem Cells; (9): 2071-2082. doi: 10.1002/stem.2662.
  • Samantha Yammine. 2020. Fight coronavirus misinformation. Nature; 581: 345-346.

References[]

  1. ^ "Derek van der Kooy Lab | Neurobiology | Research University of Toronto". sites.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  2. ^ "PhD Research". Samantha Yammine (Science Sam). Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  3. ^ Reeve, Rachel L.; Yammine, Samantha Z.; Morshead, Cindi M.; van der Kooy, Derek (September 2017). "Quiescent Oct4+Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) Repopulate Ablated Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein+NSCs in the Adult Mouse Brain". Stem Cells. 35 (9): 2071–2082. doi:10.1002/stem.2662. ISSN 1549-4918. PMID 28733998.
  4. ^ "My PhD Research". samantha yammine. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  5. ^ Reeve, Rachel L.; Yammine, Samantha Z.; DeVeale, Brian; van der Kooy, Derek (2016). "Targeted activation of primitive neural stem cells in the mouse brain". The European Journal of Neuroscience. 43 (11): 1474–1485. doi:10.1111/ejn.13228. ISSN 1460-9568. PMID 26946195. S2CID 6554773.
  6. ^ Samantha Y (2016-10-28), Samantha Yammine OIRM Pitchfest 2016 Audition, retrieved 2018-04-09
  7. ^ "Meet the PhD student who makes science accessible through social media". CBC Radio. 2018-03-18. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  8. ^ Krishna, Yasmin (2018-06-30). "Science Sam discusses discrimination in STEM and Instagram as a tool for science communication". Syfy Wire. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  9. ^ "This U of T PhD student is fostering public trust in science, one selfie at a time". University of Toronto News. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  10. ^ "To Selfie or Not to Selfie - How Can Scientists Foster Public Trust on Instagram?". Experiment - Moving Science Forward. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  11. ^ Qaiser, Farah (2019-05-09). "How Scientists Are Using Selfies To Challenge Stereotypes". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  12. ^ "Building trust in scientists one selfie at a time | University Affairs". University Affairs. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  13. ^ "Science Writers and Communicators of Canada - 2018 Program". sciencewriters.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  14. ^ "Samantha Yammine | USASEF". USASEF. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  15. ^ "World Congress of Science & Factual Producers". www.wcsfp.com. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  16. ^ Wright, Meghan (2018-03-14). "Why I don't use Instagram for science outreach". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  17. ^ Chen, Angela (2018-03-16). "Scolding female scientists for embracing Instagram doesn't solve the gender gap in STEM". The Verge. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  18. ^ Yammine, Samantha; Liu, Christine; Jarreau, Paige B.; Coe, Imogen R. (2018-03-18). "Social media for social change in science". Science. 360 (6385): 162–163. doi:10.1126/science.aat7303. PMID 29650665.
  19. ^ Strapagiel, Lauren (2018-04-23). "These Women Scientists Refuse To Stop Taking Selfies For Science". Buzzfeed News. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
    Burgess, Kaya (2018-04-25). "Rise of lab 'cutie' provokes storm in a Petri dish". The Times. Retrieved 2019-08-07.
  20. ^ LIVE - David Saint-Jacques answers questions from social media community from space, retrieved 2019-10-29
  21. ^ "Who are ScienceUpFirst". ScienceUpFirst. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.

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