'Science Selfies' Spotlight Scientists, Geeks Doing What They Love Best (PHOTOS)

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Science is all around us, and nearly everyone can get involved -- from conducting a critical lab experiment to strolling through a natural history museum to simply browsing through a book on the Big Bang.

Whether you're a science nerd or a Nobel-prize winning scientist, we wanted to highlight YOU doing or simply enjoying science. So we asked readers to share their "science selfies" -- and here are our favorites. Click through and see if you can spot the girl who caught a bat... or the guy holding a real human brain!

Please share your own science selfies by adding them to the slideshow below.

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"Catching crayfish in Scotland."

"For all of my fellow bird nerds out there!"

"When our scientists' hands are busy with science, they get some help with their #scienceselfies." Here, physicist Farid El Gabaly aligns a battery electrode sample for analysis with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

Celebrating Halloween at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA.

Junior high students experiment with fire in science class.

"I analyzed assimilable organic carbon in drinking water samples! "

A behind-the-scenes look into a quarantine area!

Posing like Einstein at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA.

"This is how I spend my holidays, in Costa Rica catching bats +beach time in between!"

"Spent a day doing field work electrofishing for research! A brook trout we caught!"

"Me doing a basic drug extraction!!!"

"Medicine is a science, and therefore I present Jack Sexton, CRNA!"

"Talkin bout autopsies all day."

"Nearby and in the distance exploration. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ? Carl Sagan." Taken at the Liberty Science Center.

"Love my job." At the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.

"Data data data data data today's data data data."

"My kiddos a few years back @ Spark!Lab in DC."

"This #realtimechem video summarizes a standard day in a synth chem lab."

"Oh hi I just extracted a human brain."

"Inside a faraday cage with a human brain."

This is what a lot of science actually looks like... "Reading/correcting the Methods chapter of my student's PhD thesis."

"Imaging my cells on the fluorescent microscope."

"This weekend was spent playing with crayfish and an ROV. The ROV before use."

Taken at the Washington University in St. Louis: "@WUSTLdbbs and @WUSTLmedschool have lots of #scienceselfies."

"I'm a bookworm, a scientist, and world traveler."

In a science classroom.

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First photos of Algeria’s Bouteflika since mini-stroke

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ALGIERS, June 12, 2013 (AFP)

The first pictures to emerge of Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika since he was hospitalised in France in April after a mini-stroke were published by the national APS news agency on Wednesday.

Wearing a dressing gown, he was pictured on Tuesday receiving Algeria’s Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal and army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah in the Paris hospital where he is convalescing.

The pictures were published to dispel rumours circulating in both Algiers and Paris about the 76-year-old president’s condition deteriorating.

Following Tuesday’s two-hour meeting, Sellal said Bouteflika had given detailed instructions on running the country, adding that he had “responded very well and his health seemed fine”.

Shortly beforehand, a health bulletin was published by the state news agency, in which the president’s doctors in Paris had “recommended that he observe a period of convalescence and functional rehabilitation to consolidate his recovery”.

It said that Bouteflika had suffered a transient ischaemic attack, or mini-stroke, on April 27, which had “not affected his vital functions”, and that he had been transferred to the Val de Grace hospital in Paris for further tests.

Bouteflika’s health has been a source of speculation in Algeria since 2005 when he had surgery at the same Paris hospital for a bleeding stomach ulcer, according to officials, and spent a long period convalescing.

The president’s latest health-related absence has prompted local media to increasingly question the implications for Algeria’s government, given Bouteflika’s central constitutional role in running the country.

It has also sparked intense discussion about next year’s presidential elections, now that it appears extremely unlikely that he will seek a fourth term.

Calls have grown in the Algerian press for the application of Article 88 of the constitution, which provides for the transfer of power if the head of state falls seriously ill.

Bouteflika rose to power in 1999, and was re-elected in 2004 and again in 2009, after changes to the constitution allowed him to run for more than two terms.