Socializing with Scientists

About Socializing with Scientists

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. https://socializingwithscientists.com/ Our music is called "Discussion," and was composed by Folk Acoustic. Socializing with Scientists also helps people who like science, but don't know yet what they want to be when they grow up. Listen to learn more about careers in science, science jobs, how graduate school and postdocs work, what it takes to work in a laboratory, and what kind of training is necessary to be a variety of different types of scientists.

Publisher

Rachael Moeller Gorman

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2025

Latest episode

28 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Jun 2026

   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 study Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. She also explores the ice on foot, braving polar bears and frozen food to determine how the frozen ocean is changing over time. You can find Sinéad at @dr-slfarr...

2. 

   10 Jun 2026

   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 degree in biology and language. With his formative years spent exploring nature, research in animal communication inevitably followed. Logan James is now a postdoctoral fellow at McGill, in partnershi...

3. 

   13 Apr 2026

   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 bacteria and the antibiotic resistance they sometimes develop. She recently discovered that in regions of the world that have experienced a drought, the amount of antibiotic resistant bacteri...

Who has been a guest on Socializing with Scientists

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Brad Nelson
• Melissa Harrison
• Case van Genuchten
• Cassia Low Manting
• Charlotte Stagg

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 43 / 100

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Quality

66

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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