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Elise Andrew
Elise Andrew at an event for I Fucking Love Science
Elise Andrew at an event for I Fucking Love Science
Born1989 (age 34–35)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield (B.Sc.)
Occupation(s)Blog writer, science communicator and webmaster
Known forFounder of the website and Facebook page "I fucking love science"

Elise Andrew (born 1989) is a British blogger, and a science communicator. She is the founder and maintainer of the Facebook page "I fucking love science" (IFLS), a page on popular science that will feature as a television show in late 2014.[1]

Early life and education

Andrew was raised in Long Melford, Suffolk, United Kingdom (UK).[2] Andrew graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2012 with a Bachelor's of Science in biology.[3] Her undergraduate degree covered subjects such as ecology, animal sciences and evolution.[4]

Career

Andrew works for LabX Media Group as a Social Media Content Manager,[4] a position that remains current—according to the IFLS Facebook page—in March 2014.[5] LabX publishes The Scientist magazine; several of Andrew's articles appeared in the September 2012 issue. 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".[3] Her work with social media and science has been covered by Cosmopolitan,[2] ScienceWorld, National Geographic, Maclean's, Geeked, The Huffington Post, CBS This Morning, New York Daily News, Mashable and Süddeutsche Zeitung.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

"I fucking love science"

Andrew started the Facebook page "I fucking love science" in March 2012,[6] 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."[4] After the first day of being on Facebook, the page had over 1,000 likes, and passed 1 million likes in September 2012.[4] In January 2014 it had 9.4 million likes.[16] Andrew said to Maclean's magazine in March 2013 that her page has not only high numbers of people who "like" it, but also that posts to IFLS generate a large amount of user discussion, often putting IFLS at the top of Facebook's engagement statistics.[17] Andrew is currently the sole maintainer of the page.[6] She also runs the mirror page Science is Awesome, which hosts similar content to IFLS without featuring profanity in the title. The mirror had more than 250,000 likes in March 2013.[18]

In March 2013, Andrew posted a link her new Twitter account on the IFLS page, which used a photo of herself as its avatar.[7] Many Facebook fans were surprised that Andrew was a woman, and responses were a mix of sexist and supportive comments.[19][9][20] Computer scientist Diana Franklin noted that even some of the so-called positive responses were sexist, with readers making sexual comments about Andrew.[21][22] Journalists such as Kevin Morris of the Daily Dot were supportive; he called her "the Neil deGrasse Tyson of Facebook".[1] Andrew was baffled by the surprise of her Facebook followers about her gender, as she had made her identity known earlier in photographs and media interviews posted to the page, which listed her in the "about" section since its creation.[17]

On 23 April 2013, Scientific American blogger Alex Wild saw that Andrew had used one of his insect photographs without attribution or permission. He determined that 59 of the 100 most recent photographs used by Andrew were not credited to the original source. Wild accused Andrew of pirating photographs and artwork for her Facebook page without requesting permission from the copyright holders.[23] Similarly, after complaining to Facebook about the uncredited use of his infographics on the IFLS page, Yemeni scientist Hashem AL-ghaili claims to have been told by the Facebook that IFLS was the subject of over 6,000 copyright complaints in 2013.[24][25]

In August 2013 Andrew collaborated with Discovery Communications to create an online video series based on IFLS. The first weekly segment appeared at Discovery's online TestTube network. Episodes were also made available at the IFLS page on YouTube.[26]

Andrew has been invited to speak at engagements around the world including a series in Australia in August 2013 dedicated to IFLS,[27] a science communication program at MIT Museum in September,[28] a science-culture conference in Chile in October,[29] and the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers in Montreal in December 2013.[30] Andrew is listed as a speaker by the Scientista Foundation for its 5 April 2014 symposium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[31] She is scheduled to appear at a science and skepticism conference in New York City later that month, hosted by the New England Skeptical Society.[16]

Television personality and comedian Craig Ferguson announced at the 2014 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, US that he would be collaborating with the Science Channel and Andrew on the IFLS television program. Ferguson will serve as the show's executive producer and it will debut in late 2014. The show will have the same name as the Facebook page and will consist of animation and live-action within a one-hour format.[32]

Personal life

Andrew lives and works in Midland, Ontario, Canada.[17] On 13 September 2013, she married her fiancé Jake Rivett and has stated that she will wait "a long time" to have children.[19] Her favourite scientist is Rita Levi-Montalcini and favourite authors are Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Morris, Kevin. "Facebook shocked that a woman runs I F*cking Love Science". Society. The Daily Dot. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Millions log on to share Elise's passion for bizarre science". Suffolk Free Press. Johnston Publishing. 12 April 2013.
  3. ^ 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 30 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d Hudson, Richard (24 September 2012). "Interview with Elise Andrew". The Chemical Blog. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  5. ^ "About". I fucking love science on Facebook. Facebook. 9 March 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  6. ^ a b c d Stoianovici, Alex. "Mad about science. Interview with Elise Andrew, creator of I Fucking Love Science". Features. Science World. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  7. ^ a b Dell'Amore, Christine. "Why Is a Woman Who Loves Science So Surprising?". Daily News. National Geographic. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  8. ^ Cheng, Hannah (18 December 2012). "She F***ing Loves Science". Scope. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Graduate Program in Science Writing. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  9. ^ a b "Elise Andrew on science and sexism: 'Is this really 2013?'". Maclean's. 27 March 2013.
  10. ^ Sofia (28 March 2013). "Technically Speaking - Women in Science". We Geeked This. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  11. ^ York, Christopher. "I Fucking Love Science Founder, Elise Andrew, Joins Twitter, Gets 'Sexist' Comments". UK. Huffington Post. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  12. ^ "Female science blogger stuns fans". CBS. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  13. ^ 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 30 March 2013.
  14. ^ Wills, Amanda. "Why Everyone F*cking Loves Science — and Elise Andrew". Mashable. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  15. ^ Jakat, Lena. "Women in science: Elise fucking loves Science". Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  16. ^ a b "Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism 2014". Reasonable New York. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  17. ^ a b c Lunau, Kate (28 March 2013). "Elise Andrew on why she loves science". Mclean's.
  18. ^ Holpuch, Amanda (20 March 2013). "Popular science blog is run by a woman – to the surprise of some on Facebook". The Guardian: US News Blog.
  19. ^ a b Teeman, Tim (12 October 2013). "Why millions love Elise Andrew's science page". The Guardian.
  20. ^ "Science blogger with 4.2 million followers receives slew of sexist comments after she revealed herself as a woman on Twitter". MailOnline. 22 March 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  21. ^ Franklin, Diana (2013). A Practical Guide to Gender Diversity for Computer Science Faculty. Synthesis Lectures on Professionalism for Researchers in Science and Engineering. Morgan & Claypool. p. 34. ISBN 1627050817.
  22. ^ Tannenbaum, Melanie (2 April 2013). "The Problem When Sexism Just Sounds So Darn Friendly…". Scientific American.
  23. ^ Wild, Alex (23 April 2013). "Facebook's "I F*cking Love Science" does not f*cking love artists". Scientific American. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  24. ^ Morris, Kevin (24 April 2013). "I F**king Love Science and Facebook's problem with content theft". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  25. ^ Weisblott, Marc. "Science blogger accused of stealing images". o.canada.com. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  26. ^ Spangler, Todd (23 August 2013). "Discovery Bringing Facebook's 'I F***ing Love Science' to Online Video and Science Channel". Variety.
  27. ^ "Elise Andrew: she f*cking loves science (video)". Radio National: Life Matters. ABC News. 12 August 2013.
  28. ^ "SHASS hosts Science Engagement event: Science outreach programs expand in form and content". MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences. 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  29. ^ "1st International Conference on Scientific Culture". Santiago, Chile: Center for Science Communication. October 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  30. ^ Anderson, Kelly (3 December 2013). "WCSFP '13: Alison Leigh on the evolution of science". RealScreen. Brunico Communications. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  31. ^ "Symposium Speakers 2014". Scientista Foundation. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  32. ^ Annie Colbert (9 March 2014). "Craig Ferguson to Produce 'I F*cking Love Science' for TV". Mashable. Mashable. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
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