I'm on leave for the next several weeks, so I have queued up a series of "reboot" posts, revisiting evergreen material of mine from this blog and other corners of the interwebs.
Last year, my co-host Virginia Schutte and I aired our third season of Meteor: The (overly) honest podcast about scicomm with impact. We've been rolling with this podcast for three years now, and there isn't much else I enjoy as much (work-wise) as this self-assigned project. As a matter of fact, I don't report on this podcast in my job at all. It's a hobby, a pleasure, a delight -- as much as something directly related to what I do professionally can be.
It's possible you missed our launch announcement back in the day. Or, maybe you're looking for something to binge during a summer road trip. Could be you're hoping to find some professional community in the scicomm space -- there's a host of ways to be a scicomm professional, but one commonality is that most of us do this work solo (as freelancers or as the comms person in our neck of the woods.
People have said pretty amazing things about the podcast, which is why I'm flagging it for you today.
I'm pointing you at season 3 in particular because we focused on what we'd change, how, and why (with regards to scicomm systems). We covered topics ranging from our hot takes on scicomm systems and being unavailable to build an empire this week to dealing with success (oh sh*t!), and more.
Even though I’ve been stumping for team “say no” lately, mutual care and professional generosity are vital for us to change scicomm systems and the world. That's why my favorite episode this season was "Reciprocity and Underpants." My co-host Virginia Schutte and I dug into asking for help, being willing to receive help, refusing to make aid transactional, and the role that new panties play in our healthy professional relationship!
After that episode, we're open to pretty much anything. 🩲🤣 So, if you have thoughts about what you'd like tackled on the Meteor podcast, lemme know!
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