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For example, James Davenport, an astronomy postdoctoral fellow at Western Washington University in Bellingham who similarly  at a 2014 astronomy conference, says that asking questions helped him gain a foothold in his field early in his career. “[It] was a way for me to get my presence and ideas known without having to write 100 research articles or have one-on-ones,” he says. Asking questions has also helped him develop his thinking about his research, he says. But he recognizes that the social cues he’s received as a white male have helped confer the confidence to put himself in the spotlight.