[DIYbio] Re: experiences on contributing to DIY bio communities as a social scientist / non-STEM person?

Hi everyone

I'm curious wether there are any people out there with social science or humanities, or other non-science backgrounds that have any experiences on being able to draw on that in contributing to DIY biology communities.   

I'm currently starting to try and involve myself a bit in my local DIY biology community, partly as research for my sociology thesis, though also motivated by personal curiosity and excitement on learning more about various projects and practices. My background is mostly in sociology, mixed up with a bit of anthropology, misc. humanities stuff and some journalism and communications. I've had some amount of interest in social studies of science / STS stuff, but I've never had taken any actual university-level science classes.  

I recently started thinking about, in the case that I want to get more involved in DIY biology after finishing my thesis,  whether there'd actually be any ways that I could use my background to contribute in interesting ways. So I'd love to hear about if there are any other people with backgrounds similar to mine, or just in some other ways have entered DIY biology without a STEM-background, that have managed to find ways to make their knowledge and skills useful and which experiences you have with that.   

Cheers, 

Bue

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