Who Are You People?

Bachelor's in math. Work as an actuary at EMB America in San Antonio. You're on my google reader.

D) None of the above.

I'm in IT with an intense interest in science. Never finished college, it's on the plate, but then, what isn't?

I'm just here for the conversations with your dog.

Actually, I had three years of engineering in college and no contact with that area since then. I like the blog because I fancy myself well rounded and this is a good place to see some interesting topics presented in a way that doesn't require an advanced degree.

My self assessment may be skewed. My friends look at me funny when I recommend they read In Search of Schrodinger's Cat for fun.

Color me annother eccentric data point:

BS and MS in chemistry (synthetic organic) working in Medicinal Chemistry at small-medium Biotechs in the Cambridge, MA area for 10 years now. Pick 3 at random and you'll probably guess 1-2 of the 3 i've actually worked for :)

Anthro Major in College back in the 70's dude, but now have one kid majoring in Chem E at a Big Ten School that plays rugby, and a skid that plays travel baseball and takes a Soph geometry course in 8th grade.

PhD in theoretical particle physics. Denied tenure. Now in disaster management.

Systems and network administrator, but you knew that.

I've got a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry, and I'm currently an experimental optical materials researcher at a US defense lab.

I read your site because it talks about a lot of the things I find interesting: science, politics, sceince fiction, music, dogs, and the like. We have very different ideas about what constitutes good music and fiction, but at least you make up for your bad taste (what the heck kind of SF fan doesn't love Stross?) with interesting writing.

Physics/Materials Science background and Postdoc researcher (according to my title), but I run a lab and have a permanent contract(!). I was going to say I'm not a physics nerd, but.. well... I'm at work at 8 in the evening on a Friday (the equipment is working hard)...

I'm a sales guy in the IT world; I have a degree in anthropology and it's probably not unreasonable to describe me as a science groupie. I've always been interested in science but as a student didn't have the math chops to do it. What I get from the several ScienceBlogs I follow is science explained by actual scientists as opposed to science explained by journalists who probably don't grasp the original sources much better than I do.

I've got a bachelors in math, a focus on pure math (enumerative geometry, lie theory and all that jazz) - currently I work in a tech start-up, developing collaborative filtering algorithms, and doing general programming. I'll (hopefully) be in law school in 2 years or so.

I read your blog, among many other of your Sciblings, because I feel bad about leaving academia and thus try to assuage my guilt by keeping up-to-date with science news.

(And for your corporate masters' benefit, this is true: As soon as I have a home lasting more than 2 months, I'm subscribing to Seed, based on what I read from you guys)

Master's degree and a bit more, many decades ago.

Favorite quote today, found at http://naturalpatriot.org
___________________________________________________________
As Mahatma Gandhi presciently observed, when asked whether India would attain British standards of living:
"It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?"

BSEE, MSEE, MSCS.

Token defense engineer, of the hardbitten, pragmatic, dirt under my fingernails, I've rolled up my sleeves and just gotten it the fuck done variety.

Token computer scientist, of the more academic-dreamer variety.

I tend to confuse people at work by switching between those stances. I'll do the same if I ever go back to school. It's good clean fun. But you knew most or all of that.

Bioengineering undergrad degree, worked in industry for a while, currently in law school and going to do IP.

I read this, Derek Lowe (In The Pipeline), and a smattering of other science blogs to keep up with the state of things, now that I'm not surrounded by people who talk about this stuff daily.

I also another outlier: I am an undergraduate in Earth Sciences. Which makes feel out of place.

I guess as a postdoc (in soft condensed matter) I'm a standard reader. I read because professors' blogs are a good (and entertaining) way to get acquainted with future career challenges, and yours is usually interesting.

BS in computer science, JD, patent lawyer. I remember you from the days when I was reading rasfwrj, though, which is what brought me to your blog before it moved to scienceblogs.com

Jack of all Internet things, including UNIX system administration, network engineering and security. SF fan. I read voraciously. I live in a cave with 47 computers and a high-speed net connection... and also my wife, kids and cats.

I don't read every post, but I'm a 4th year engineering grad student. Interesting that you have only 18 commenters here and I know one of them, even though I didn't start reading this blog because of her.

Master in Computer Science trying to work for a PhD in it. I like reading blogs that expand my view of academia in general, or are about things I'm generally interested in (like cs, math, physics, astronomy, scifi, etc.). Your blog really offers all kinds of stuff I'm interested about, so I've kept reading it faithfully ever since I discovered it.

Physics geek. Physics faculty at Wabash College. AMO guy. Regular reader- infrequent commenter.

Post-doc in theoretical high-energy physics. I like it here because of the diversity of topics and the lack of self-righteousness(common in other blogs).

Ph.D in biology, been a faculty member running a research lab, now working with faculty teaching in any science, math or engineering field to incorporate technology in their teaching. I visit Science Blogs several times a day, reading some blogs routinely and visiting others. It's my favorite site.

Physics geek, natch. BS in physics, currently an astronomy grad student.

Science librarian at a large Canadian university. BCompSci, worked as a software developer for 12 years before becoming a librarian. I read science blogs to learn about how scientists do their work.

By day: UNIX systems administrator that works from home.

By night: Sophomore Physics/Math Undergrad about to transfer to a 4 year university.

=)

Masters in Library & Info Science, Bachelors in English. I always liked science and stay up to date. I work for a professional association of medical product professionals. Looking above, it looks like I'm not the only one that is a non professional science geek:)

I have a PhD in Physics, then went into the software industry and various other things. I mainly read your blog and others at scienceblogs because I still enjoy science.

Former Christian minister with BA in history. Lifelong interest in science finally made faith unsupportable, atheist today. Age 50, my job is staff computer support at state university.

Enjoy reading SciBlogs because I prefer reading what scientists actually say over what journalists misunderstand scientists to be saying.

sys admin at a university, BA history, SF reader (rasfwrj)

I'm a Computer Science and Asian Studies major, who happens to be a Physics geek (still want to get a Physics degree at some point) and blogger/technology news writer at both theInput.net and Homotron.net.

I have a PhD in Physics. I work at the same defense lab as that Nick fellow in post #8 and stop by your blog from time to time for similar reasons. (Often it's shortly after Nick says, "hey did you catch Chad's post on . . .")

Just got my BA in political science and now work in politics. I found out about it from a random link to a dog post, and saw a few interesting posts so I stuck around. I do like the dog stuff and the science fiction posts, the actual science posts are OK-to-good (especially the ones that don't assume much physics knowledge--"what kind of stuff do I use in my lab" was very interesting), and the basketball posts are completely boring. But hey, I'm just one guy.

I am not an academic -- I am barely a high school graduate. I do data analysis for a pro sports team. I come here for genre fiction talk and the low-key humour on all subjects. You need to do more crime fiction so I can comment more often.

Associate Professor of English at medium-sized state university. M.A. in Renaissance Literature, Ph.D. in Medieval Literature. Atheist. Delighted to see Intelligent Design exposed as the creationist stalking horse that it is. Fascinated at the notion that non-avian dinosaurs are roosting in the trees outside my house. Extremely concerned with finding ways to help all my students--but especially my freshman composition students--become critical thinkers. Grateful for the fact that I can find lots of examples of critical thinking, skepticism, debunking, and fisking at ScienceBlogs.

BS Math, 1980. had some Physics as an undergrad (E&M, Mechanics). Toying with the idea of an evening Masters in Physics if I ever get back to Seattle.

Currently software engineer. Working through the exercises in Griffith's Intro to Particle Physics for the hell of it.

Will probably finish by the end of this century, when it will all be obsolete.

I fall into the first part - physics nerd. Although in a previous life I was an Aerospace Engineering major, a bundle of joy has put that on hold until (hopefully) next fall!

Autodidact who collects large or clever words.

Criminal justice undergraduate, political science minor; next to go for a master's in Law and Public Policy.

Among many other things, I love learning, and I love science. That's why I get a kick out of the Scienceblogs network.

I enjoy the atheist point of view which you support, Dr. Orzel.

Lawyer, Christian, I read this blog because an old friend writes it. Although I was also a science major in college.

Out-outlier this one-- 59 year old high school dropout. Also a science freak. ScinceBlogs feed, Google reader.

Undergrad, Math and Theology (BA), Christian, and what posts I read vary but I like the blog overall.

Working on my BS in Chemistry at a small public school in New York.

Another outlier. Was working on BSc in univesity way back in the 60s but ended up going into financial planning. I read this (and many other sciencey blogs and popular science books) because this universe is so damn interesting and science is the best (only?) way to understand it.

Recent BS in physics from a small liberal arts college. Currently doing research in a lab in Spain to have a neat experience before diving head-first into grad school (the idea being to have one year between kindergarten and retirement that's not on an a set academic track).

I think that there are more outliers than inliers.

I am a generic post-PhD researcher, not tenure track but still works in a university doing astronomy.

I forget how I found this weblog, maybe from Steinn, but am interested in the full gamut of stuff, ranging from sports to neat physics in the AMO world to science fiction to whatever else pops into Chad's brain. Though the dog pictures are cute, I am still not a dog person.

Physical chemistry graduate student.

I'm a first-year grad student in molecular biology, but I started reading your blog in college, when I was an organic chemistry major (I found you via Derek Lowe). I mainly started reading Scienceblogs because you moved to it from Steelypips. I liked your blog mainly because

1) Genre fiction is/was a guilty pleasure of mine, and so it was reassuring to me that a professor reads it much more than I, and

2) I was in a phys-chem/AMO physics kick at the time. The hook that got me was your ASCII-art Feynman diagrams. But even though I'm now in biology, still can't deny that I like physics.

Computer technician for a middle school, hold a degree in political science and music, and am currently a grad student in education (K-12 Social Studies).

I think I found you via Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish (linking, I'm sure, to a conversation with Emmy).

Physics grad student, W&M by way of CU. Found your blog from a link on Kevin Drum's blog back before you joined the ScienceBlogs Borg. Haven't you done this sort of survey before?

Never graduated from college - was a theoretical physics major, switched to computer science, burned out. I found out about your blog because of your connection (via your wife?) to either the Lois McMaster Bujold or Liaden Universe mailing list. I continue to read it because I am generally interested in science.

Physics grad student

Applied for quantum optics, did atmospheric last summer, and ended up in dynamo theory (geophysics). *shrug*

I actually found science blogs by searching "Science Blogs" on google a while ago, with no idea what I would find.

A software engineer with a masters degree in computer science.

I have always had a love of computers, chemistry, physics, the scientific method and the self deception of everyday human experiences.

My favorite quote is from Richard Feynman on the importance of doubt:

The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darned sure of what the result is going to be, he is in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize the ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

Previously a physics undergrad (ahem, Chad's advisee btw), then a web developer, now a web developer AND a physics undergrad. How thrilling.

I enjoy the opinion bits about popular physics debates because they seem well thought out. And I'm a sucker for Real Lab Stories.

Another (partial) anomaly.

Bachelor's in Psychology, previously a physics undergrad.

Fairly typical, I guess. Second year physics grad student, currently doing experimental high energy physics, though with an eye towards ultimately going the theory route. I'm always interested in seeing how different people attempt to present physics to popular audiences, and while AMO is pretty far from what I actually want to do, I find a lot of it interesting to read about.

Philosophy Prof. Mostly philosophy of physics, and philosophy of mind.

Another outlier, but close to home. I'm a retired medical librarian, but have always been curious about other sciences. I was here on ScienceBlogs before you arrived, so checked you out and liked what I found, including the fact that you're quite local to where I live (Saratoga County). I enjoy the physics, the academics, some of the sports, your photography, the thoughts on beer, and The Queen of Niskayuna.

Another outlier: CS/Math undergrad, interested primarily in 3D graphics and secondarily computational intelligence/optimization. Read a variety of science blogs because I like science.

Late youth closing in on middle age, English BA, only occasionally published writer, corporate executive assistant so I can eat, Dawkins/PZ-style atheist. Strictly amateur science enthusiast since childhood, increasingly so in adulthood.

Software developer, CS degree. Used to study physics.. General abiding interest in science of all (or at least many) stripes.

Currently a HS Bio teacher in Texas (it's not that bad in my school, but I worry), Anthropology minor, with an interest in a wide variety of things. Read your blog (and the others) for both science and commentary that gets me thinking. Keep it up.

PhD in theoretical nuclear physics, working in my second career teaching future engineers after a decade or so doing the research faculty gig. I read your blog because you give a heads up on important breaking stories that I don't have time to keep track of on my own, and for the insight into the state of the AMO experimental world that is not too far removed from what some of my students might be working with in the world of applied non-linear optics but infinitely removed from my own areas of expertise.

Huge anomaly:

Just a high school junior from Canada that really loves science. Yeah.

Bachelors in Maths turned code slinger from the "if we have to make this mistake every time, can we maybe automate it" school.

I'm just trying to understand everything on my bookshelf before it falls on top of me.

Part-time bio prof at a small, liberal arts school. I started ScienceBlogs over in Cognitive Daily and picked up your feed because I felt like branching out the sciences I pay attention to on my bloglines. The sci-fi reviews are a bonus.

Undergrad in Computer Science, with an interest in, well, just about everything.

Computer science grad. Software developer. I read SB because of Deltoid, Good Math Bad Math, Pharyngula and yourself, among a few others. Higher education for the win.

BS in Chemistry, QA Lab Manager for a specialty chemical manufacturer. I've got the Science Blogs:Combined Feed (RSS) on my iGoogle and I get the weekly recap by email.

I agree with what #29 said: "Enjoy reading SciBlogs because I prefer reading what scientists actually say over what journalists misunderstand scientists to be saying."

I also enjoy the geek humor and the blogs exposing what the evolution and AGW denialists are up to.

MA Econ, software company owner. I just enjoy reading about Physics, Astronomy, and science in general, so I stop by here from time to time.

B.Sc. Astrophysics and Physics, B.Ed. Physical Science, currently teaching high school physics and astronomy in Alberta.

Always on the lookout for physics that goes past what was done in 1930 or so (more or less the limit of what our high school program covers) so as to not forget that I was once much smarter than this...

BTech, MS Chemical Eng. MBA in progress. Hard drive manufacturing. It was cool to first read about the GMR Nobel prize from your website.

As for why I came here, well, it's to do with the death of Usenet as we knew it. Now I return here often because of Emmy.

Biology nerd here, just read to kill time.

BS in Electrical Engineering (from U of Maryland, actually). After a stint as a software engineer, I got a JD and now work as a patent lawyer.

I started reading a long time ago, probably with one of your explanations of elementary particles. I still like the explanations of points of physics, especially because it makes me feel like I actually retained some information from my undergrad classes. Oh, and I do love the Real Lab Stories.

Until Kris posted in #64 I felt pretty young among the others... I'm my second year of undergraduate studies, looking towards pure math after starting out in physics.

(I'm normally really, really comment-shy)

BS astrophysics, MS math, retired from a career in IT.

Was a Unix programmer, took the logical next step and became a grad student in mine hydrogeology in Australia. Came for the science fiction, stayed for the physics.

Bachelor's degree in philosophy followed by you-know-what school. Basically a high-school science education plus a lot of reading about physics which I can usually follow quite well until the heavy math kicks in. Strongly partial to bunnies made of cheese.

MSc, majors in Computer Engineering and Applied Physics. I'm also a Licentiate in Signal Processing. For those who don't know what a Lic. is, it's half-a-PhD: includes theoretical studies, but skips the dissertation. Its one of the old academic relics we have here in Finland, and being phased out.

During my working career I was first Global (meteorology), then upgraded to Universal (space engineering), and now I'm Virtual (communications, especially Internet).

I'm reading Sb with Firefox via the RSS feed, so I just cherry pick the headlines without seeing whose blog it is. Uncertain Principles is one of the more common hits, on a par with Good Math, Bad Math.

Former engineer, now a marketing consultant. Lifelong interest in all sorts of science, but don't like lab work. I read many of the Scienceblog blogs.

(Also, I believe in God! *Ducks*)

BSc in Computer Science. Just "finished" BAppSci (Biomedical Science). I say "finished" as here in Australia the normal thing is 3 year degree with an optional (research based) 4th year that puts you on the grad school track. I'm doing 4th year next year and nothing anybody says will stop me going to grad school ;-).
I did some electrical engineering training during my first degree, and have kept an interested eye on physics ever since. I like the condensed matter stuff as I don't get alot of that anywhere else. The rest of my blog reading is biology, medicine and chemistry based.

HS math teacher, former computer programmer (without a relevant degree). I read the academia and teaching posts, skim the physics posts but neither know nor care enough to read them in depth (science-wise I'm more interested in biology/evolution), like your moderate attitude toward the Sciblings' religious wars.

I am a housewife with fantasies of being a renaissance woman. BS in humanities from MIT 36 years ago. Computer programmer for 10 years, aviation student and then flight instructor for 10 years. Now "retired". Wrote a book (self-published, sold 15 copies, heh). Active on text-based virtual communities (more previously, less so now). I sew quilts. I play piano. I draw and paint. I play chess, but not well. I aspire to be "well read", which includes paying attention to science. I appreciate your writing skill and style and enjoy your blog very much.

Mathematical physics undergrad from Nottingham, UK.

Geeky autodidact blogger with no formal education beyond high school. My girlfriend teaches high school science; she turned me on to ScienceBlogs. I'm also the best fiddler in the Hannibal, Mo area, though I admit I am biased!

Evolutionary Biology grad student at the University of Rochester (NY).

Bachelors in Biology many years ago and working as a clinical laboratorian. I enjoy articles about science, math, human interest and dogs. I love science/math but not smart enough (or maybe lack of diligence, creativity and critical thinking) to be a researcher or engineer. I nearly flunked out of grade school but I fell in love with science in the 8th grade when suddenly things actually began to make sense.

PhD in statistics. Currently work at the Census Bureau.

Met you through the rasfw-j group. Basically, I just find the blog interesting in general.

marketing research consultant; no surprise, I was led here by the dog posts and the genre discussions. I have slowly moved from an occasional visitor to a regular reader of several SB feeds. I greatly enjoy your writing style and thoughtfulness.

I shall have to agree with the previous comments, it's much better to get one's science news from actual scientists than from the journalists busy misunderstanding scientists.

Junior faculty in physics at a research university. I recently stopped reading blogs more or less altogether due to time constraints, but I keep finding myself drawn back to this one. (Also Steinn's, a great source for astrophysics gossip and news.) The writing is nicely non-polemical, and covers interesting topics.

Academic politics, science, and dog stuff catches my interest. Lab trivia is particularly cool to me since, as a theorist, I have no idea how the hell you do that stuff without accidentally lighting your clothes on fire.

Graduate student, computer science.

post-doc in life-sciences

Undergrad zoology major/anthro and ecology minors.

Ph. D. in chemistry, but changed gears shortly afterward, and I've been doing software development and business analysis for the last 8 years or so.

Researcher in Biochemistry. Enjoy the dog posts, as well as the music posts. I just like your writing style in general!

I'm a second year undergraduate, studying Biology, Experimental Physics and Mathematics at NUI Maynooth.

I read on Google Reader, but rarely click through for comments, unfortunately.

PhD in 2001 at Berkeley, now faculty member in London, UK area. I just enjoy a frequent stroll thru the web, and as I care about public engagement with science, I like to see how it's going. It's going...

I'm an undergraduate physics major in my last year, hopefully bound for graduate school next year with an interest in experimental or applied side of things.

I'm a physics undergrad at McGill, though hoping to be a grad student in a year or so.

I generally read blogs like this to get "up to date" with popular physics (in case any of my friends ask me about some strange topic...which never happens). I also like to figure out what I don't know, and what interesting things I could research in the future.

BS in Astrophysics. Big nerd. Currently working at a pharmaceutical contract lab. I read science blogs because it's interesting, informative, and always entertaining.

Not to idealize scientists, but they really are better bloggers :)

A senior at Union, actually (though I started reading this blog before I realized you were a Union professor). I'm a math major, and although I've seen you around campus I don't think you'd recognize me.

Undergrad Bio and math major.

1990 BS in Physics. Now writing educational software, propaganda for young nerds.

59 year old educational software developer. Started college as Physics major, graduated with a degree is Sociology and History. Earned M.A. in Fine Arts. Became a hardware/software hacker in the 70's. Worked as a journalist, professional photographer, advertising copywriter, media specialist, and computer analyst/consultant prior to current gig. Scienceblogs offers intelligently written, insightful commentary regarding matters interesting and important.

BS, Physics '07,

I may stay in physics or head towards more Engineering type work.

I enjoy reading several blogs at SB, including CogDaily, Good Math..., Adventures in Ethics and Science, Dispatches..., Retrospectical and a couple of others. I enjoy the broadness of the science discussion.

I also appreciate your moderate position on the atheism/religion debate.

Just finished a DPhil in quantum information. Now a junior research fellow in Oxford.

I guess I read the blog as a way to legitimize procrastination.

Prototypical reader here: PhD in physics, postdoc in experimental CMB cosmology.

Faculty (newly enough that it's still a kick to say so) in (sorta) neuroendocrinology. Physics/Math only to A-level; but wandered here via Whatever and stayed via RSS. The overlap 'tween blog topics and I is about right for maximal interest, minimal redundancy.

Middle-aged SF fan and librarian who once considered becoming a physicist and continues to have a strong interest in science and technology.

PhD in physics, still on the soft money track in the magnetosphere. I like to hear what's going on elsewhere in the physics world. I don't remember what link I followed to get to scienceblogs, but I read you and Steinn regularly.

You shouldn't assume that everyone who reads you is on your side. I'm just waiting for you to say something stupid.

I'm a final (4th) year British Physics undergraduate. I read practically all the physics posts you make because they're normally interesting. Not so keen on the American football stuff though. I listened to Boys and Girls of America by The Hold Steady because of your recommendation and liked it.

BS Environmental Biology (~30% unemployment there) part of a Masters in telecom something (but the bubble burst in 2000, so what was the point in completing) and recently a Masters in Health Services Administration (so now I can tell you how the kewl lab instrument, surgical robot or new drug works, plot the ROI and develop a business plan to get the physicians to adopt it and make the kewl gadgets talk to each other and to the billing system). But they pay me because I know how to make control charts in Excel. OMG. They are pretty charts. I can format, too.

Former Physics major (settled for a BS in the social sciences), SF geek, music geek. So a good match for the topics discussed here.

(Bonus points: my father was a graduate of your department, who encouraged me to go there too.)

Physics BS, EE MSE (telecom optics), now working as a contractor doing Systems Engineering (?) for the Navy.

Faculty in Engineering at a Big Ten school

Read the blog for the geek humor

High School Physics and Astronomy teacher. BS in Physics. I read the blog for 'current' academic trends to keep myself 'in the loop'. Want to do more with technology in the classroom!! You are on my RSS feed...read you every day!

Next month I finish my PhD in materials science and engineering. I currently perform research on fuel cells. I came to ScienceBlogs for Chris's "the Intersection", and I found your site while searching for someone here who represents the physical sciences. I love the lab stories and the music posts.

Post-doc in cognitive psychology, but interested in all sorts of science. I haven't taken a physics class since high school though (wasn't a requirement for my college major). I enjoy your writing and your ability to explain stuff I wouldn't understand otherwise.

PhD Atomic physics, working on atomic clock research. (Met you at a DAMOP a few years back; maybe the one at UConn?)

BS, Physics in '06. Thought about graduate school and decided that it wasn't for me. (Or was it that they didn't accept me . . .?) Now working for a semi-conductor wafer company. I come looking for new nerd material, because people friends and family expect me to know every nerd thing there is.

Grad student in genomics/bioinformatics. I have hopes of teaching at a SLAC one of these days, and enjoyed the descriptions of life as a tenure-track faculty.

BSc. Physics, work in Systems Engineering in the telecom field.

I haven't posted in quite some time, between the new job, returning from Iraq, and rebuilding this computer after a catastrophic crash (all Hard drives lost lots of files gone forever) so I do not think you could clasify me as a regular commenter.

Regardless of that though I a married 34 year old male, I'm a Sergeant First Class in the US Army, a Platoon Sergeant in one of the Wounded Warrior Units (no I am not a Wounded Warrior I'm assigned as Cadre). I do not have my college degree as of yet, I am working towards my Bachelors in Business Management. Later plans are for my Masters in Education with a minor in Mathematics with the end all goal of teaching High School Math. I know that may seem an odd course of action to reach that goal but it has to do with what degrees I can work towards while I'm still on active duty.

I'm a postdoc working on a detector to search for dark matter. I subscribed to this blog when I found some science fiction related post. Combining two of my interests, this has to be a good blog :-)

General life sciences groupie and atheist, no college. I work in software dev due strictly to being in the right place at the right time. Late 30s, two kids. I subscribe to the ScienceBlogs firehose; Uncertain Principles catches my attention pretty regularly. Thanks for the work you do.

# 125 | Jake B:

You are a genuine American hero! I'm so proud to read that you not only support our troops in such a crucial way, but also: "Later plans are for my Masters in Education with a minor in Mathematics with the end all goal of teaching High School Math."

I believe that the War on Ignorance and Innumeracy here at home is crucial to our national security, as well as prosperity, progress, and civilization itself. You are lucky to have a spouse who agrees with your choice of honor and sacrifice for all that makes America great. Thank you for all you have done, and thank you in advance for what you may yet achieve.

Never went to college, myself - just geeky, hahah.

BS, Physics, Maryland, '95 (we overlapped but I don't think you were my T.A. or anything). Masters Library Science, and now pursuing a PhD in information studies concentrating on various aspects of scientists' information behavior. I follow of ton of science blogs for basically all of the reasons mentioned above by other commenters and I'm also interested in how blogs and blogging can help scientists in their work.

Student from ASU. I will graduate with my BS in Computer Science in May and am going on to grad school. I also work as a network programmer at ASU.

Oops, I never answered this. BA Chemistry, BMus Trumpet, MMus Trumpet, MA Music Theory Pedagogy, PhD Music Theory. Research interests in acoustics, cognition, phenomenology. You know, typical. (But yes, your predicted professor type.)

Historian of science, freelance, mostly Renaissance, mostly mathematical, dog owner (but who actually owns whom I'm not really sure!).

Work in the software industry in Europe. BS in Zoology from a UC campus, which is where a lot of my science enthousiasm comes from (although it has realy been a life long thing). I read many different blogs focused mostly on the Mac and Science (generally around biology, physics and astronomy)

Another IT guy - Systems Support and Programming, for a grocery retailer in Michigan. I found my way here through Pharyngula originally, I think. I stay here for the dog stories, the pictures, and the science.

Interesting people are still posting to this.

As you know, Bob, I'm a physics groupie. I read this because I love physics, humor, sf, and dogs. Basketball not so much, but what the hell I can skip those.

I have a BS in Language Arts Education, and and MLIS. That's a Masters in Library and Information Science. Yes, I have a Masters degree -- *In Science*.

Currently I'm a kept woman, having a husband who has degrees in Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Astrophysics. He does hardware geeking as a hobby.

No, I'm not a geek -- I just hang out with them. Because they're just adorable. Brains are *so* sexy.

MKK

BA in Computer Science, 4 or 5 months ago. I like hearing about academia from the professor's side, and about your dog, and about True Lab Stories. I work as a programmer for a Psychology professor. Thanks for asking :-)

Russian teacher who loves astronomy and physics but has to work to get it. Blogs like this keep that work fun.

BS in Physics, some graduate work in Astrophysics, but eventually ended up with a MS in Comp. Sci. Work as a computer geek.

I love the true lab stories... I miss real lab work.

4th year undergrad in Music and Philosophy.

I don't read (nor, no doubt, understand) every single post, but I'm a fan of science, particularly physics.

I'm kind of fascinated by how many readers studied computer science here.