Hildabast

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Mind the GapThis editor wants to close Wikipedia's gender gap.

My name is Hilda Bastian. My interests revolve around ensuring people have easy, free access to the highest quality information based on reliable research - and increasing understanding about evidence and bias. On Wikipedia, I work mostly on biographies and images of women in STEM, as well as other under-represented groups and issues in STEM. I also sometimes edit medical pages.

I'm an Australian who moved to Germany to work on Gesundheitsinformation.de (German version) / Informed Health Online (English version). In 2011, I moved to the USA to work on PubMed projects at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), with its National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). In 2018, I moved back to Australia, finishing my doctoral dissertation (PhD awarded in 2020), and working on a biography.

I have a newsletter called Living With Evidence that's my central internet "home". I comment on the science of unbiased health research with cartoons, called Statistically Funny, and dig into the evidence on grief in memory of my son, Adam, at Grief Collection. I have a science-based blog Absolutely Maybe (blogging at Scientific American from 2013 to 2014, and from 2014 at PLOS Blogs Network). I was one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration, and I advise them on some controversial systematic reviews. I write at The Atlantic (my stories are here), and I'm active on Mastodon: @hildabast@mastodon.online.

The views I express in Wikipedia are my own, not official positions of organizations with which I am, or have been, involved.

Hildabast (talk) 04:03, 16 February 2020 (UTC)