Improbable Research

Thom Adams has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). Carl Tracy, who nominated him, says:

Dr. Thom is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as well as one groovy ass dude.

Thomas M. Adams, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
ROSE-HULMAN Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, Indiana, USA

Hayley Dunning has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:

My hair is so long and luxuriant I even attract inanimate objects! After gaining an ‘Undergrad Masters’ from the University of Bristol, UK, I’m now pursuing a ‘Graduate Masters’ at the University of Alberta, Canada. I love things that explode, in this case volcanoes, and study their ashes.

Hayley Dunning, LFHCfS
Graduate student in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

News reports (in Iran and in the New York Times) lead us to suspect that the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) is now banned in Iran. The photo here, showing non-banned hair styles, is from an Iranian source:

Membership in The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), a sibling organization of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) is presumably not banned, and may even be encouraged.

We would enjoy hearing from anyone who can inform us as to the legal status in Iran of either the LFHCfS or the LFHCfS or both.

(Thanks to investigator David Kessler for bringing this to our attention.)

Diane Pham has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:

Since I was young, I have been told that I have perfect hair – straight, soft, and shiny, and I have been the envy of many people since.  Currently, I am a graduate student in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware on my work on selenoproteins in both Dr. Bahnson‘s and Dr. Rozovsky‘s groups.

Diane Pham, LFHCfS
Graduate student in chemistry and biochemistry
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware, USA

Tobias Maile has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I have a German PhD in Molecular Biology, which I did in cooperation of  University of Hohenheim and the UC Riverside in California. I moved to London for my Postdoc in 2007 where I work in cancer research for CRUK in their London Research Institute (LRI). I am working mostly biochemically with the fruit fly Drosphila melanogaster where I investigate the regulation of certain growth inducing transcription factors which are closely conserved in mammals as well. About 500 scientists or so work in the LRI and with no more than a handful of long-haired male scientists, we are certainly an endangered species within the institute.

Tobias Maile, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Postdoctoral Scientist
London Research Institute
Cancer Research UK
London, UK

Moira Howes has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:

I am a philosopher of science who regularly practices “Armchair Science.”  After my BSc in biology and eight months in an immunology Master’s program, I defected to the arts so to study the conceptual foundations of science and problems in scientific reasoning.  I am currently working on intellectual virtue and character in the sciences, with a specific focus on how the promotion, clarification and cultivation of intellectual virtue might solve two problems: first, the rather low quality of public debate about science and the need for better public policy about science; and second, some philosophical problems concerning scientific objectivity.  My critical work on scientific reasoning has thus far only annoyed one or two scientists  — or so I think.

Moira Howes, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Chair, Department of Philosophy
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada