Dr. Jessica Wade on Science, Art and Diversity
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/ Dr. Jessica Wade is a fantastic physicist with multiple scientific awards under the belt of her lab coat. By day she works on her post-doc on chiral organic light-emitting diodes at Imperial College London and by night she is a whizz on Wikipedia.
Amongst many other professional projects, Jess is aiming to diversify the science world through her work and voice. She has now written over 1150 Wikipedia profiles on women and underrepresented communities since she started to tackle the power dynamics of information online. The aim is to tackle an overwhelming bias in the history of science on the world's largest online public encyclopedia. And she’s part of a group of awesome scientists and activists pushing back on what they call “pseudoscience” in its many forms at a global scale
Jess is leading the charge to reclaim this space…
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