Confession time. I’ve never truly outgrown my tween-girl phase. Sure, by day I play a super serious aerospace engineering professor, but deep down, my true inner self is singing along to every Taylor Swift heartbreak song, dreaming about my future marriage to JC Chasez from *N SYNC. Justin Timberlake would be best man, of course. […]
Year: 2016
The confidence factor
Here’s something that might surprise you: One of biggest hurdles we face getting guests on our podcast is not stage fright or scheduling conflicts but confidence. We send a lot of emails to friends, friends of friends and women we have some tangential connection to in order to convince them to take an hour out of […]
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Retraction Watch: Nerd tabloid or societal good?
We work hard for the privilege of being scientists. We study, we do research, we struggle and we fail. We spend time in dark rooms and cold rooms and mouse rooms and we work weekends and nights and holidays. And when we’re very lucky, we publish the product of all that effort. But stuff happens, […]
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(Micro)bio – Meet Tiffany Gasbarrini
Happiest of new years, dearest listeners! To ease in to 2016, we present to you another installment of our (Micro)bio series. It’s only three minutes! So grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and learn all about Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Editor for Power, Energy and Sustainability Engineering at Springer Nature.