Shiyin Lim

Abstract Rodents provide a useful analog for understanding the effects of spaceflight on the human body, offering opportunities for investigations into the relationship between microgravity and the musculoskeletal system. In particular, rodents have often been utilized to improve our understanding of the effects of spaceflight on the spine, including intervertebral disc and vertebral body health.

Almost every woman in engineering I’ve talked to knows the pressure of having to prove herself. She knows what it’s like to be meticulously perfect in her calculations, and to accept that regardless of her intelligence, her work will be checked again by someone who doesn’t trust her. She knows that at the end of the day, mistakes hold more weight than they should. I say almost every woman because I am one of the few that has rarely experienced this. I’m lucky. I’m an anomaly.