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Over at Neurotic Physiology, yours truly is hosting this month's Diversity in Science Carnival, and this one is explicitly dedicated to imposter syndrome! It is clearly something that that struck a chord with a lot of people, we had a huge number of entries! So head over there to check them out, find out about imposter syndrome, where it might come from, and what you can do about it!