Vanessa Vieites

Psychology

Florida International University

I am a doctoral candidate in psychology at Florida International University considering a transition from science to science writing. I study sex and individual differences in young children’s spatial experiences, spatial learning and memory skills, and their underlying neurobiology.

A photo of a koala asleep in a tree.

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Yes, you can put a price on nature. Doing so could stop environmental destruction

Gretchen C. Daily won the "Nobel Prize for the Environment" for her work on natural capital

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A scientist using a scale to weigh out reagents for sample analysis.

CDC

Not surprisingly, science still has a huge racism and sexism problem

All STEM fields have this problem, with physics having particularly large gaps

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child MRI machine baby

By Quinn Dombrowski on Flickr.

Instead of climbing into an MRI machine, a new test asks children to just blink

We can now bypass MRIs and instead use trace eyeblink conditioning to measure brain function

Vanessa Vieites