Can you #FindThatLizard? One scientist is tapping the tools of social media to transform her field

Scientists of color are disrupting the rules of historically colonial institutions in Stem and academia. For Earyn McGee, that means engaging with her public through gamesFor five years now, obscure amphibians and reptiles have been scurrying on to the internet as part of a wildly popular social media science challenge, #FindThatLizard.The Twitter and Instagram campaign, created by Earyn McGee, a 27-year-old Los Angeles-based herpetologist, does more than just share McGee's obsession with lizards and their kin; it seeks to inspire a passion for science, particularly ecology, in Black and brown communities. Continue reading...