Get the latest tech news
Marine biologist for a day: Ars goes shark tagging
Go shark fishing on the RV Garvin, get hooked on the ideas behind it.
"Science in general does not have a great reputation of being welcoming and supportive and inclusive and kind," said David Shiffman, author of the aforementioned book and a grad school friend of MacDonald's. Also linked to the weight was a significant amount of 800-pound test line (meaning a monofilament polymer that won't snap until something exerts over 800 lbs/360 kg of force on it) with a hook at the end. In these cases, the Garvin is filled with a combination of small groups nucleated by one shark fan or people who wanted to be a marine biologist at some point or those who simply have a general interest in science.
Or read this on Hacker News