A more upbeat thing I found on the internet

[rmd]

This had me quite literally squeeing in my house as I watched this video of the SCIENCE CHEERLEADERS. Darlene Cavalier used to be a professional cheerleader, and is now a science writer and all around nerd-enabler. She started Science Cheerleaders, a group of former pro-cheerleaders who have gone on to careers in science and engineering.

Breaking down stereotypes about scientists *and* cheerleaders?

Fuck yeah.

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[dpolicar]

As I was reading this, I parsed "science cheerleaders" as [people who encourage and express enthusiasm for science], and was being really tickled by the idea that there were literal cheerleaders doing this. And then I got to the second half and realized what you actually meant, and cheered.