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Elise Andrew
Born1989 (age 34–35)
NationalityBritish
Education(B.Sc. Biology)
Occupation(s)Blog writer, science communicator and webmaster
Known forFounder of "I Fucking Love Science"

Elise Andrew (born 1989) is a British blogger, social media specialist, science communicator, and webmaster. She is the founder and maintainer of the popular science Facebook page "I Fucking Love Science".[1]

Personal life and education

Elise Andrew is originally from Suffolk. Andrew studied biology at the University of Sheffield and graduated in 2012.[2] She specialised in animal sciences and evolution.[3] Her favourite scientist is Rita Levi-Montalcini and favourite authors are Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson. She also credits the work of Carl Sagan for inspiring her interest in science.[4] She currently lives and works in Midland, Ontario.[5]

Career

Andrew currently works for LabX Media Group as a Social Media Content Manager.[3] She was hired by LabX based on the Facebook pages she maintains as a volunteer: "I Fucking Love Science", "Earth Story", "Evolution", and "The Universe".[2] Her work with social media and science has been covered by ScienceWorld, National Geographic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maclean's, Geeked, The Huffington Post, CBS This Morning, New York Daily News, Mashable and Süddeutsche Zeitung.[4][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

I Fucking Love Science

Andrew started the Facebook page "I Fucking Love Science" in March 2012,[4] saying of the creation that "I was always finding bizarre facts and cool pictures and one day I decided to create somewhere to put them – it was never supposed to be more than me posting to a few dozen of my friends." After the first day of being on Facebook, the page had over 1,000 likes,[3] and passed 1 million likes in September 2012.[3] As of January 2014, the page has over 9.4 million likes.[15] Elise is currently the sole maintainer of the page.[4]

In March 2013, Andrew created a Twitter account. She used a photograph of herself for her Twitter avatar and then posted a link to the Twitter account on the "I Fucking Love Science" Facebook page.[6] Facebook fans were surprised that Andrew was a woman, and responses were a mix of sexist and supportive comments.[8] Kevin Morris of the Daily Dot was supportive; he called her "the Neil deGrasse Tyson of Facebook".[1] Andrew was baffled by the surprise of her Facebook followers about her gender, because there had been a photograph of her with Richard Dawkins on the page's "about" section since November 2012, along with media coverage interviewing Andrew.[5] When questioned about the cause of the gender misunderstanding, Andrew claimed she had no idea, but admitted that the use of swear words "is not very lady-like".[11] She also runs the mirror page Science is Awesome, for those offended by the strong language, which, as of January 2014, has more than 620,000 likes.[16]

On 23 April 2013, Scientific American blogger Alex Wild accused Andrew of pirating photographs and artwork for her Facebook page without requesting permission from the copyright holders. According to unnamed sources within Facebook, Facebook has received over 6,000 copyright complaints in 2013 regarding IFLS. [17] [18]

References

  1. ^ a b Morris, Kevin. "Facebook shocked that a woman runs I F*cking Love Science". Society. The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  2. ^ a b Woolf, Nicky. "Elise Andrew: "There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the internet"". Nicky Woolf in America. New Statesman. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  3. ^ a b c d Hudson, Richard. "Interview with Elise Andrew". The Chemical Blog. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  4. ^ a b c d Stoianovici, Alex. "Mad about science. Interview with Elise Andrew, creator of I Fucking Love Science". Features. Science World. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  5. ^ a b Lunau, Kate. "Elise Andrew on why she loves science". Science. Maclean's. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  6. ^ a b Dell'Amore, Christine. "Why Is a Woman Who Loves Science So Surprising?". Daily News. National Geographic. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  7. ^ Cheng, Hannah. "She F***ing Loves Science". Scope. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  8. ^ a b "Elise Andrew on science and sexism: 'Is this really 2013?'". Need to Know. Maclean's. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  9. ^ "Technically Speaking - Women in Science". We Geeked This. Retrieved 2013-03-30. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  10. ^ York, Christopher. "I Fucking Love Science Founder, Elise Andrew, Joins Twitter, Gets 'Sexist' Comments". UK. Huffington Post. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  11. ^ a b "Female science blogger stuns fans". CBS. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  12. ^ Taylor, Victoria. "Sexism in science lives on as Facebook users admit their surprise to learn 'I f---ing love science' creator is a woman". U.S. New York Daily News. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  13. ^ Wills, Amanda. "Why Everyone F*cking Loves Science — and Elise Andrew". Mashable. Retrieved 2013-09-11.
  14. ^ Jakat, Lena. "Women in science: Elise fucking loves Science". Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  15. ^ "I fucking love science".
  16. ^ Holpuch, Amanda. "Popular science blog is run by a woman – to the surprise of some on Facebook". US News Blog. US News. Retrieved 2013-04-08.
  17. ^ Wild, Alex (23 April 2013). "Facebook's "I F*cking Love Science" does not f*cking love artists". Scientific American. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  18. ^ http://www.dailydot.com/society/fucking-love-science-facebook-theft-elise-andrew/

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