Socializing with Scientists
The surprising secrets of curious people
Socializing with Scientists presents the untold stories of immunologists, neuroscientists, environmental chemists, and more, recounting how their early life built their current life, and sharing what they do now to make the world a better place. And how do they define success, anyway? Listen to find out the surprising secrets of curious people.
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Our music is called "Discussion," and was composed by Folk Acoustic.
Sinéad Farrell marvels at the icy oceans (she's a geophysicist)
Sinéad was born a scientist. As a child, she asked for extra math and physics lessons on the weekends, and she thrived at University College London upon finding fellow science folks. Now, Sinéad Farrell, PhD, is a geophysicist at the University of Maryland, and she uses remote sensing satellites to ...
Logan James interprets animal song (he's a biologist)
Logan grew up in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, bears ambling through his Colorado backyard and summers full of prairie dog census volunteer work. But it wasn't until an Introduction to Linguistics class during his first semester at McGill University that he realized he wanted to pursue a deg...
Dianne Newman links antibiotic resistance to climate (she's a microbiologist)
In college, Dianne didn't take any biology classes (she was a German studies major). But she was curious about almost everything, so in her first semester of graduate school, she tried an environmental microbiology class. She fell in love. Dianne Newmann is now a microbiologist at Caltech, studying ...
Dylan Jervis spots methane emissions from low Earth orbit (he's a physicist)
Dylan was a kid who found comfort in math and fun in music, but ultimately he followed a path to science. He became a physicist and was inspired to study climate change by a speech that US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu gave, as well as his time working at a backcountry lodge in the Canadian Rockies...
Katie McMahon considers humidity's effect on babies' growth (she's a human environment geographer)
Katie was a curious, hard-working kid, but it wasn't until her freshman year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that she found her calling. That year, she happened to be placed in two geography classes, and her career trajectory started falling into place. Katie McMahon is now a PhD ...