Are you interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths? If you study, teach or work in STEM you might like STEM-DC. I'm looking at that, thanks to our own barakta.( Read more... )
I sadly can't commit to it as much as I'd like dayjob wise cos I tend to want to do ALL THE THINGS and 'extra interest groups' which is just impossible so people who can do more or bits is good cos it needs as many people as possible.
I wonder how many computer scientists, programmers and statisticians are disabled.My reply doesn't seek to directly answer this quantitatively, and qualitatively, all I can present is my highly flawed gut feeling based on years of working in the scientific software development industry and say "probably higher than average". Aside from anything else, I suspect that any more concrete answers would depend rather on whether you're using the social or medical model of disability, and how people self-identify
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Interesting what you say about Bioinformatics. I started out studying Medicine, but changed degree halfway through my 3rd year in a bout of depression. Looking back, I think my exhaustion and confusion were due to MS, but this was years before I was diagnosed.. All I knew was that I was tired and not coping and desperately unhappy. I looked at the future, with the insane workload of a pre-registration house officer, and thought "I just can't do this".
So, I switched to Biomedical Sciences. One of my units was Bioinformatics. I enjoyed it, and went on to study it as an MSc.
I feel lucky that I work in a field where my work isn't disrupted by symptoms like hand tremor, spasticity etc. I feel unlucky that most science jobs are short fixed-term contracts so that I'm regularly faced with the extra work and high stress of job applications, interviews and settling into a new team and new workplace (after all, stress is a key exacerbating factor in MS).
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Interesting what you say about Bioinformatics. I started out studying Medicine, but changed degree halfway through my 3rd year in a bout of depression. Looking back, I think my exhaustion and confusion were due to MS, but this was years before I was diagnosed.. All I knew was that I was tired and not coping and desperately unhappy. I looked at the future, with the insane workload of a pre-registration house officer, and thought "I just can't do this".
So, I switched to Biomedical Sciences. One of my units was Bioinformatics. I enjoyed it, and went on to study it as an MSc.
I feel lucky that I work in a field where my work isn't disrupted by symptoms like hand tremor, spasticity etc. I feel unlucky that most science jobs are short fixed-term contracts so that I'm regularly faced with the extra work and high stress of job applications, interviews and settling into a new team and new workplace (after all, stress is a key exacerbating factor in MS).
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