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Announcing The Scientific Blogging Dating Service
By Erin Richards | April 1st 2009 02:30 AM | 16 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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About Erin Richards

I am a current graduate student at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. I write for Neon Tommy, the digital news website, as a science writer.

My undergraduate degree is from... Full Bio

We're always looking for new ways to add value to the science community.   Sure, other sites may offer the usual boring job placement listings or forums on how to write effective grant proposals, but we all know how to get jobs.   

What not everyone knows is how to get a date.   

So  today we are unveiling our newest feature for the science community; the Scientific Blogging Dating Service.    

If you are one of the millions of lonely scientists that cant seem to find anybody nearly as smart or interesting as you, look no further!   We have compiled a unique love matching system specifically for  scientists and science enthusiasts.  We've already have a few sign-ups so browse our selection and let science guide you to love.

Name: Eugene, geneticist

Looking for: Sexy science sweetheart that shares my love of nucleotide bases and is willing to dedicate time to reducing bacterial resistance, and tending to my pea garden…wink wink

Favorite color: Definitely phosphorescent green

Favorite organism: Euglena, because they swing both ways

Hero: Gregor Mendel

Enjoys: solving punnet squares, throwing famous scientists parties, drinking shots out of beakers and wearing lab coat in public

Ideal first date: Comic-Con convention dressed as Luke and Mayra Jade Skywalker

Favorite TV show: Battlestar Galactica

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Name: Matilda, theoretical astrophysics

Looking for: Intelligent hunk interesting in pondering the mysteries of the universe

Favorite color: inky purple, representing far off nebulas

Favorite organism: bacterial organisms found on other plants sustaining life

Hero: Neil Armstrong, Buffy the Vampire slayer

Enjoys: Euclidian Geometry; discussing the properties of dark matter, and of course, astronomy

Ideal First date: star-gazing, planetarium

Favorite TV show: Battlestar Galactica

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Name: William, biochemistry

Looking for: Biochemistry researcher looking for a covalent bond or some spontaneous reactions

Favorite color: Amber

Favorite organism: yeast baby

Hero:  Arthur Harden, Nobel Prize winning scientist for studies on enzymatic fermentation, tied with Jean Luc Picard

Enjoys: The science of brewing beer, culturing own strain of yeast, organic chemistry problems, writing out the chemical compositions of illicit substances

Ideal First date: Enjoying a batch of my homemade beer with some Star Trek: Next Generation

Favorite TV show: Battlestar Galactica

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Name: Ed, computer science

Looking for: super fine female with intelligence and a passion for compelling conversation and WOW (even my cat plays)

Favorite color: black

Favorite organism: none, I prefer cold, hard silicon chips

Hero: Bill Gates, and ashamedly Steve Jobs

Enjoys: programming, pointing out mistakes in movies that pretend to know about computers, pwning n00bs with my level 70 hunter night elf

Ideal first date: epic WOW battle, with pizza

Favorite TV show: Battlestar Galactica


To contact of of these eligible scientists, contact AprilFools@scientificblogging.com

Comments

Science Pirate's picture
Me hearties at scientificblogg'n is do'n th' right thing by have'n a personals section fer scientists.

I can't even rememberrr th' last time I got me timbers shivered, it's harrrd t' find likeminded lasses with a nice booty when yer a science pirate, arrrg.

I be yer typical science buccaneer; I like treasure hunt'n, long walks on th' plank and fight'n ninjas.

I'd like to fine me a sturrrdy legged rum lover that can keep up with me fightin' and carousin' the high seas.

Capt'n Ron Dagg... | 04/01/09 | 04:27 AM
Alternate Allele's picture
Ooooo la la!  Maybe it's the lab coat or the fact that Battlestar Galactica is his favorite show... but Helloooooooooo Eugene ;-)

I call dibs and that makes me first in line for this science hottie, so every one else can BACK OFF.

Thanks, my single girl prayers have been answered!


Hayley Mann | 04/01/09 | 04:37 AM
logicman's picture
Dear agony aunt.

I have an IQ which is pi times my age and my physique is a perfect example of situs solitus at 0.5379 of my sister's height times my income.  According to a function which I have developed based on a compromised semi-sequential non-inverting hyper-matrix of the hyperbolic n-space I should have been married 7.39 years ago and, by now, have 3.33371 children.  Alas!  I remain unattached.

I have checked and re-checked - my math is irrefutable, and yet - I never get invited to parties.  Do you think it possible that the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture might account for this odd fact?

Patrick Lockerby | 04/01/09 | 05:00 AM
Becky Jungbauer's picture
I hypothesize that it's because you look like one of those creepy people that paint themselves in metallic colors and pretend to be still-life statues on city streets. Just throwing that out there. ;)

Becky Jungbauer | 04/01/09 | 08:53 AM
logicman's picture
I hypothesize that it's because you look like one of those creepy
people that paint themselves in metallic colors and pretend to be
still-life statues on city streets. Just throwing that out there. ;)

Aw, shucks, Becky! You got me!
The name for that sort of person is a mime. Mime makes considerable sacrifice of efficiency in the interest of simplicity.
:)

Patrick Lockerby | 04/01/09 | 13:12 PM
Becky Jungbauer's picture
I can't figure out if that MIME doc is a joke or real! It's definitely funny, though.

Becky Jungbauer | 04/02/09 | 08:33 AM
logicman's picture
I can't figure out if that MIME doc is a joke or real!


Becky: an RFC is a Request For Comments issued by the web standards people: the Internet Engineering Task Force.  There is a long-standing tradition of issuing special RFCs on April 1st in exactly the same style as the genuine ones. There have been some real classics - e.g. avian carriers and statements of boredom.

Patrick Lockerby | 04/02/09 | 09:08 AM
Becky Jungbauer's picture
Ok, that makes much more sense. I do love a good April Fool's joke. Who knew computer nerds had a sense of humor? :)

Becky Jungbauer | 04/02/09 | 09:11 AM
logicman's picture
Who knew computer nerds had a sense of humor?

Steve Wozniac, founder of Apple Computer (Apple Inc.) perhaps? 
Check out his Zaltair computer brochure.

Patrick Lockerby | 04/02/09 | 09:46 AM
spinner's picture
The Woz (who incidentally lives in my hometown) also has a hankering for air-time, as per his appearance on Dancing with the Stars (which may also reflect his sense of humor).

Erin Richards | 04/06/09 | 11:25 AM
Hank's picture
I think I met Matilda.   I was at a 'Maxwell's Equations For The Weekend' talk and this spidery, rather translucent girl said, "What say we skip this nerd-fest and hit an all-night symposium on Euclidean Geometry?"

I thought that was rather rude, since I was the one giving the Maxwell's Equations talk.  But she was the only one in the audience so I didn't want to offend her.

Hank Campbell | 04/01/09 | 09:25 AM
Stellare's picture
You sly Maxwellian freak, you, Hank! :-))

Bente Lilja Bye | 04/01/09 | 10:20 AM
Becky Jungbauer's picture
Is it sad that I know who Mayra Jade Skywalker is, or that I've used "covalent bond" in a pickup line? Maybe this service is a little too perfect...

Becky Jungbauer | 04/01/09 | 09:55 AM
Gerhard Adam's picture
Hmmm ... sort of likely offering to get quantumly entangled with someone and then saying we won't know how it turns out until we look.

Gerhard Adam | 04/01/09 | 13:01 PM
Kimberly Crandell's picture
I'm not sure I'm interested in any of these candidates, but Ed's cat looks kind of cute.

Kimberly Crandell | 04/02/09 | 16:46 PM
Hank's picture
He will pwn you at WOW.    He has a Vorpal Whisker of Cuteness which he uses to devastating effect.

Hank Campbell | 04/02/09 | 16:54 PM

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