Emily Graslie is the host of the Youtube channel The Brain Scoop and works at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois as their Chief Curiosity Correspondent.

Background

Emily's speech "From Landscapes to Taxidermy" is her own telling of her beginnings in art and how she became involved in science.

Emily grew up in South Dakota. Her family had moved there around 1913 to homestead some land near Faith, SD. Her mother was a prominent doctor where she lived, notably being the first woman doctor in the town to deliver a baby as the acting physician. The strenuous nature of her mother's work turned Emily away from the sciences, despite her fervent love of animals, and she attended the University of Montana intending to double major in Violin Performance and Studio Art. She would eventually drop the Violin Performance major due to time constraints, but kept up her violin playing as part of the UM Symphony for the entirety of her undergraduate degree.

During her senior year at UM, she was introduced to the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum on campus by friends. She immediately wanted to make use of the zoological museum in her art degree, and began using the museum's specimens as models to draw. Emily arranged for an independent study in scientific illustration, overseen by the museum's lone curator.

Throughout the independent study, Emily familiarized herself with the processes of the museum. She became involved with much of the museums operations, including cleaning and preparing specimens and managing the catalog. Drawing the specimens also led to her greatly increasing her knowledge of zoology in general. Emily graduated from the University of Montana in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

After graduating, she stayed on with the zoological museum as a volunteer and continued to become more involved with the processes there. She began coordinating community outreach to both bring awareness to the museum's existence, and bring its usefulness to a larger audience, including giving tours of the museum and organizing shows. She then became a TA for the university's class on Vertebrate Osteology.

Eventually Emily decided to focus her life more on zoology. This involved quitting a job she held as a baker and applying to Johns Hopkins University's Museum Studies masters programs.

During the summer of 2012, the zoological museum was visited by Hank Green to film part of the Crash Course episode on the skeletal system. Emily had been a long-time nerdfighter at this point, and while there, Hank floated the idea of her eventually appearing in videos for SciShow or Vlogbrothers. The Crash Course episode was posted on August 20, 2012.

The Brain Scoop

On December 7, 2012, Hank Green posted a video of a tour Emily had given him to the Vlogbrothers channel. He then offered to help Emily create her own Youtube series, titled The Brain Scoop, co-produced by Hank Green and Michael Aranda. The Brain Scoop posted several teaser videos throughout December before officially launching on January 14, 2013. Emily's videos provided virtual tours of the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, and often discussed specific museum specimens and showed the museum's process of taking in a specimen. Around this time she also began hosting episodes of SciShow.

In April of that year, Emily attended Chicago's Field Museum to film an event. While there, she was given a three day behind-the-scenes tour which culminated in her being offered a job as their Chief Curiosity Correspondent. She left the University of Montana and moved to Chicago, and as of August 21, 2013's video, The Brain Scoop began operating out of Chicago and filming the Field Museum of Natural History.

Women in STEM

Emily posted on January 27, 2013, about comments she had received critiquing her appearance. Later, on November 27, 2013, Emily posted a video to The Brain Scoop addressing the gender divide of Youtube STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) channels. She talked of the sexism and misogyny she receives in the comments to her videos, how males hosting similar channels do not experience this, and the need to make STEM education (on Youtube and elsewhere) a less derisive place for women. Her video gained massive attention and was featured NPR, Yahoo News, and a variety of other news outlets and blogs.

Nerdfighteria & Present

Emily was part of the nerdfighter community back in the days of Brotherhood 2.0, and first met Hank Green when he visited the zoological museum to film an episode of Crash Course. She later appeared in several videos by Hank for hankschannel, hankgames and vlogbrothers. She attended VidCon in 2013, and was a co-host of the 2012 and 2013 Projects for Awesome. On November 17, 2013, she launched her vlog channel ehmteevee. She continues to host The Brain Scoop from Chicago's Field Museum while working on her masters degree from Johns Hopkins University.

External Links
The Brain Scoop on Youtube
EhmTeeVee on Youtube
Emily Graslie on Wikipedia
Emily Graslie on Twitter
The Brain Scoop on Tumblr
Emily Graslie on Tumblr
 

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2016-12-08 Project For Awesome 2016 Livestream - KICKOFF! 7:25:48 102,391
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2016-10-05 Botflies, Chicago Parakeets, and the Smallest Collection | Ask Emily 06:22 43,987
2016-09-29 Sex Lives of Peregrine Falcons & Time Travel Discoveries | Ep. 2 06:15 41,726
2016-09-21 Behind-the-scenes on our new set! 08:51 58,651
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2016-08-11 Campaigning for CHANGE! Don't be Shallow - Vote for Mallow 06:43 27,151
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2016-07-15 The flapper who brought pandas to America 09:22 96,193
2016-06-30 A Lifetime of Curiosity 10:46 39,081
2016-06-15 Hotline Edition | Ask Emily 06:38 63,619
2016-06-02 The MAGNETO SNAIL! (and other marine gastropods) 07:13 69,474
2016-05-25 Quiz Show: Michael Aranda vs. Emily Graslie 17:06 380,512
2016-05-20 Endangered Species: an explainer 07:51 53,231
2016-05-05 Tully monster mystery SOLVED! 07:28 218,627
2016-04-30 2016 Crash Course Patreon Livestream NOW! 8:00:02 79,704
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2016-04-07 These beetles breathe out of their butts & we had questions 06:59 67,756
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2016-03-10 What is a species? 06:53 192,204
2016-02-25 Restoring Habitats with Magic Beans 07:22 74,714
2016-02-10 Periods + Fieldwork 08:13 161,093
2016-01-28 Carl Akeley's Striped Hyenas 06:55 60,086
2016-01-13 Painting the Diorama 07:14 56,741
2016-01-11 FROM THE ARCHIVE: The Final Museum Tour With Emily 08:29 61,108
2015-12-30 Death Rocks 09:02 108,106
2015-12-17 Bending Fossils: Experiments In Paleontology (Harvard Adventures, Part 3) 06:28 39,542
2015-12-07 Project For Awesome 2015 Livestream - Part 5 7:27:35 83,223
2015-12-03 Fisher Dissection: Harvard Adventures, Part 2 18:23 151,482
2015-11-23 The Origin of Mammal Movement: Harvard Adventures, Part I 04:43 53,542
2015-11-04 Clearing and Staining Fishes 06:49 146,611
2015-10-21 Plants in Space? | Ask Emily 06:31 66,025
2015-10-14 Spiders: The First Web Developers 05:31 143,038
2015-09-23 Millipedes: The First Land Animals 07:17 248,902
2015-08-21 Taking a short break -- see you soon! 00:49 44,942
2015-08-12 The First Brachiosaurus 05:41 74,596
2015-07-29 Banding Baby Dinosaurs 04:37 69,950
2015-07-15 The Chicago Peregrine Program 05:22 46,986
2015-07-01 How to Protect the Rainforest 05:23 83,615
2015-06-18 The Naked Mole-Rat 10:04 185,753
2015-06-03 Bullet Ant Venom 06:27 2,135,127
2015-05-20 Dissecting Ants 08:06 298,793
2015-05-07 How to Cut a Trail in Amazonia 10:10 74,449
2015-05-01 A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone 04:00 349,610
2015-04-23 Dead or Alive? A visit from Emily Graslie 12:16 63,264
2015-04-22 An Electric Eel and a Caiman 06:21 71,963
2015-04-08 How To Taxidermy A Squirrel: Part II 07:53 95,887
2015-04-06 Project Hyena Diorama: Indiegogo Campaign! 09:46 68,132
2015-04-05 SciShow Quiz Show: With the Brain Scoop's Emily Graslie! 14:05 246,475
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2015-03-05 Emily Grasile's Science Inspiration 00:24 190
2015-03-04 Jungle Atop A Desert 07:02 83,039
2015-02-18 Mummy Brains 07:35 911,726
2015-02-04 Bird Calls of Amazonia 07:00 81,447
2015-01-21 Ask Emily #10 07:10 91,482
2015-01-07 Two Bats and a Spider 04:57 90,489
2014-12-19 BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town! 03:59 180,363
2014-12-19 13 Inventions and Innovations Creating a Better Future for Women - List Show (Ep. 238) 07:35 269,758
2014-12-17 The Fer-de-Lance 03:43 151,002
2014-12-15 Emily Graslie Hair Braid Tutorial 09:16 72,661
2014-12-14 Project For Awesome Part 7 6:01:24 73,661
2014-12-11 The Anthropocene and the Near Future: Crash Course Big History #9 12:20 1,233,576
2014-12-03 Investigating the Trees of Amazonia 08:34 79,089
2014-11-19 In Search of Night Life 05:54 60,119
2014-11-05 Into the Bat Caves of Kenya: Pt. 2 09:10 37,918
2014-10-29 The Evolutionary Epic: Crash Course Big History #5 15:05 1,217,404
2014-10-22 Into the Bat Caves of Kenya: Pt. I 06:38 44,585
2014-10-08 Into PerĂº 13:02 96,308
2014-10-07 How to Adult Bloopers #2! 02:36 12,353
2014-10-04 Emily Graslie (Part 2) // The Brain Scoop 13:40 2,890
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2014-10-02 The Sun & The Earth: Crash Course Big History #3 14:33 1,298,022
2014-09-30 Updates with Emily 00:57 49,534
2014-09-25 Fossil Fish, PT. III: The Preparation 05:59 73,608
2014-09-24 Exploring the Universe: Crash Course Big History #2 14:37 1,605,668
2014-09-10 Year of the Passenger Pigeon 06:54 102,451
2014-09-08 How to Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies (ft. Emily Graslie)! 05:38 22,977
2014-09-07 Voices in Science 02:21 28,028
2014-09-01 How to Get Your Dream Job (ft. Emily Graslie)! 04:36 54,215
2014-08-27 Fossil Meteorites 10:36 107,359
2014-08-15 Sharks Sharks Sharks & More Sharks 06:16 119,251
2014-08-14 Shark Fin CSI 02:44 75,508
2014-08-14 Shark Weapons 03:28 132,751
2014-08-13 Fossil Sharks 03:35 102,964
2014-08-11 Why Sharks? 02:40 93,694
2014-07-30 Fossil Fish, Pt. II: A History 06:36 81,772
2014-07-24 The Art Assignment: Vidcon Edition | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios 12:42 36,852
2014-07-16 In Search of Fossil Fish 08:41 218,123
2014-07-05 Emily Graslie 04:16 2,635
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2014-06-25 The Tiger Beetle 01:12 59,850
2014-06-18 How to Pin an Insect 07:10 296,369
2014-06-04 Where'd you get all those dead animals? 05:47 110,245
2014-05-21 Dimetrodon is Not A Dinosaur 06:03 214,245
2014-05-14 The Favorites Episode | Ask Emily 05:24 75,677
2014-05-07 The Breast Episode Ever 06:03 221,008
2014-04-30 The Heat Theater 09:36 88,009
2014-04-23 The Audubon Field Guide 05:24 54,991
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2014-04-16 Crocodiles vs. Alligators 04:06 190,728
2014-04-09 The Replicator 09:37 186,261
2014-04-02 The Interactives Shop 07:57 60,015
2014-03-26 The Two-Faced Calf, Part II 09:42 140,648
2014-03-19 The Two-Faced Calf, Part I 16:15 260,271
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2014-03-12 Starstuff and Nanodiamonds 06:40 88,372
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2014-02-19 Meteorites From Spaaaaaace! 07:46 94,030
2014-02-13 Romantic Ants 07:11 129,056
2014-02-05 Bloopers, Deleted Scenes, and Other Oddities, Part Seven 04:53 100,480
2014-02-03 Emily Bakes: Chocolate Sriracha Cookies 13:36 24,635
2014-01-29 The Economic Botanical Collection 09:21 111,061
2014-01-22 1893 World's Columbian Exposition 06:57 108,895
2014-01-15 Q&A with Anna Goldman 22:38 105,479
2014-01-14 Happy Anniversary! 01:44 62,526
2014-01-09 How Do I Get A Museum Job? | Ask Emily 08:22 90,130
2014-01-01 Siats meekerorum 08:00 98,307
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2013-12-24 Emily Makes: Lefse! 06:27 27,379
2013-12-20 Best Moments of the Project for Awesome 04:00 227,724
2013-12-19 Squirrel McNastyface 12:05 306,565
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2013-11-20 Outtakes 2! - mental_floss on YouTube (Ep. 35.5) 04:18 231,258
2013-11-17 Emily Bakes: Gingerbread Biscotti 10:26 24,437
2013-11-13 The Gem Room 10:46 232,433
2013-11-07 Insect Adventure, Part Two 08:21 85,184
2013-10-30 Insect Adventure, Part One 09:50 116,071
2013-10-30 Emily Loves Dead Things 05:46 37,642
2013-10-23 Zebra Bits 09:56 320,898
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2013-10-09 Moths vs Butterflies 04:37 260,623
2013-10-04 Is a bigger brain better? w/ Brain Scoop | BBC Earth Explore 05:06 65,009
2013-10-02 The Hero Shrew 05:17 148,885
2013-09-25 Hosenose, Part Two 13:22 142,946
2013-09-19 Hosenose, Part One 14:25 198,730
2013-09-11 ARTHROPOD! | Ask Emily 06:37 136,164
2013-09-04 What is a Museum? 03:05 151,905
2013-08-28 Cute Skulls and Cute Cavies: SciShow Talk Show #17 11:44 236,988
2013-08-28 Olinguito 06:04 120,752
2013-08-21 Welcome to The Field Museum 03:00 277,023
2013-08-14 Farewell, Montana 14:25 130,374
2013-08-12 "The Warehouse" - Episode 3 - So Much New Merch 02:57 8,923
2013-08-07 Ask Emily #4 05:20 94,747
2013-08-04 A note from Emily 01:58 104,225
2013-07-28 Chicago Adventure, Part Eight: How to be an Insect 05:10 87,071
2013-07-22 Chicago Adventure, Part Seven: Octopus Sex 06:27 127,501
2013-07-17 Chicago Adventure, Part Six: The Spice of Life 04:34 92,168
2013-07-16 Unstumped Hank & A Chinese Water Dragon: SciShow Talk Show #14 08:08 183,109
2013-07-15 Hank Green is Inappropriate 06:50 92,911
2013-07-08 Chicago Adventure, Part Five: The Platypus, The Skin, & The Cold 05:45 91,247
2013-06-27 Chicago Adventure, Part Four: Rodents of Unusual Size (And Other Mammals, Too) 06:48 99,709
2013-06-21 New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News 03:54 377,959
2013-06-17 Chicago Adventure, Part Three: Little Skeletons 05:35 159,901
2013-06-12 Emily Vlogs: On Dissection 04:19 74,950
2013-06-03 Mammalian Diversification 03:48 216,104
2013-05-29 Chicago Adventure, Part Two: Catalogue Dialogue 07:16 97,338
2013-05-25 Chicago Adventure, Part One: Beetles 'n Bats 05:46 145,207
2013-05-21 Telepathic Rats and a Red-lored Amazon: SciShow Talk Show #10 12:29 177,910
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2013-05-11 De-Extinction, Part One: How It Works, Kinda 03:20 120,460
2013-04-30 Kids' Q&A 04:16 113,106
2013-04-12 Most of a Bear 11:48 185,601
2013-04-04 Owls 02:45 135,840
2013-04-01 Outtakes, Volume 2 03:15 84,880
2013-03-29 Caviar Brownies - The Second Annual Hungry Games 04:00 387,402
2013-03-27 Ask Emily #3 05:19 110,295
2013-03-21 Pangolins 04:20 230,866
2013-03-18 Horns vs. Antlers 01:57 252,108
2013-03-17 STORY WAR #4 - HankGames IRL - Final Thoughts 10:05 47,115
2013-03-12 Domestication 03:14 137,771
2013-03-10 HankGames IRL: Story War #3 - The Cockatrice Ring 06:26 73,590
2013-03-08 Wolf Head CSI Fun Time 14:48 203,949
2013-03-04 Story War Round #2 - THE CRYSTAL CAVE 06:58 63,666
2013-03-03 STORY WAR! HankGames IRL 09:55 96,549
2013-02-28 Tetrapodal Locomotion 02:33 116,054
2013-02-27 Emily and Hank Meet a Blue-Tongued Skink: SciShow Talk Show Episode 5 10:46 271,511
2013-02-21 Ask Emily #2 04:49 133,926
2013-02-18 Hungry Like The Wolf 05:09 160,967
2013-02-14 Emily Gets a Valentine 04:57 228,293
2013-02-13 Gutting the Wolf 14:40 416,272
2013-02-09 Asteroid Fly-By! 04:18 191,672
2013-02-08 Discussing the Wolf 02:52 133,997
2013-02-05 Skinning the Wolf 14:54 1,541,051
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2013-01-28 Getting the Wolf 03:27 255,898
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2013-01-24 A Bear Skull 04:06 117,413
2013-01-21 The Spirit Collection 06:40 189,249
2013-01-18 Thoughts from Carnegie Hall 03:58 303,919
2013-01-17 Ask Emily #1 05:00 188,730
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2012-12-27 Just to Tide You Over 02:53 138,459
2012-12-27 Michael and Emily Bake Cookies 03:31 87,020
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