Sarah Crews became a scientist through a combination of chance and pure determination. While trying to find her direction in life, spilled wine on a borrowed book led to a career studying spiders around the world. Sarah tells us how she went from an upbringing in rural Kentucky to respected scientist in her field. Even if the job means sleeping on the ground in foreign countries, flipping random rocks and chasing specimens without the luxury of grant money to keep you afloat. Sounds pretty punk rock to us.
Links:
Sarah Crews Publications
https://sarahnopidae.com/about/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah_Crews
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bqvzxYAAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.calacademy.org/press/releases/new-study-reveals-a-life-aquatic-for-many-spider-species
Flattie Spider Interview w Sarah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IvEZklFigM
Stuyvesant High School Current Club List
https://www.stuyactivities.org/catalog
https://www.stuyactivities.org/stuyentomology
Spiders and Snakes - Loretta and Conway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysa74QA-7E
The Snakes Crawl at Night - Charlie Pride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE-Fu56y3xg
Selenopids- Flattie Spiders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenopidae
Heteropoda Venatoria - Banana Loving Spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteropoda_venatoria
Greenpoint Brooklyn
https://worldfootprints.com/greenpoint-brooklyn-a-polish-neighborhood/
Maspeth Spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%27s_Lounge
Spider Paws
https://www.buzznicked.com/spiders-have-adorable-paws-21-pics/
Bug Eric
Explorers Club NYC
https://explorers.org/about/about_the_club
Snakeless Wasteland
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=141
Chicken Island
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/science/in-hawaii-chickens-gone-wild.html
Ghost Lepers
https://www.ghosttowns.com/states/hi/kalaupapa.html
True Bugs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera
Assassin Bugs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduviidae
Scorpion Interview w Sarah’s Boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQazaeKdDrI
Polarized Light Detection in Spiders
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/204/14/2481
Study Study Study
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/77343895-8cf8-4f0b-b9fa-ffdb169be7f4
Norm Platnick
https://www.amnh.org/research/staff-directory/norman-i.-platnick
Spider Private Parts
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2020/the-ungentle-joy-spider-sex
The Mummies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKabdkIknh8
Book Lice
https://www.rottler.com/blog/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-a-book-lice-infestation
Termites are Roaches
https://www.livescience.com/1447-termites-social-cockroaches.html
Hal Roach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Roach_Studios
Cannibal Rats
The Cramps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIQR_3TPtJw
Gun Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEOwF3zO8Uc
The Damned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyt5FNDx9IY
Mr Majestyk
Brown Recluse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider
Ted Williams Head
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=124808&page=1
Bug Tunnel
Flash Gordon