As scientists and engineers, we are trained to tune into our minds. Critical thought and mental output is often the quantities recognized and nurtured throughout our career. But our minds don’t exist in a vacuum: they exist as a part of our body system. This episode with Somatic Coach Tami Schweber is all about tuning back into our bodies and why that might help us in our STEM careers.

Check out Tami’s website: https://theknowingwell.ca/ and sign up for her monthly community sessions here.

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Song of the week: Howl at the Moon by MarchFourth

Do you also reject the current STEM culture of overwork and undernourishment physically and mentally but not sure what to do next? I’d love to do a free, 30-minute intro call with you to talk about what you want your STEM experience to look like and start to come up with actionable steps towards your most STEMtastic STEMdentity. Schedule by clicking here or DM me on Instagram, @STEMdentity!

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It’s easy to romanticize science as a series of lightning bolts: researchers have brilliant research questions and hypotheses suddenly come to them out of the blue! So if this doesn’t happen to you, you’re bad at research right? Right?

No! There are simple, easy to apply frameworks for every major part of the research process form coming up with research questions to writing up results. Today, let’s dig into how to come up with research questions. Developing research questions is not a mystery: it’s a process.

Grab your ORA template here!

Look up “4 levels of questioning” for more details here: I like the template from Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Song of the week: Now and Eternity by Scratch Massive, Daniel Agust, Maud Geffrey

Want to demystify your work processes?? I’d love to do a free, 30-minute intro Work Audit call with you to discuss your top blockers at work and start to come up with actionable steps towards your most STEMtastic STEMdentity. Schedule by clicking here or DM me on Instagram, @STEMdentity!

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Welcome to STEMdentity Journal Club! Every month, I find an amazing peer-reviewed journal article and interview one of its lead authors. We talk about their paper, their work, and their STEM identities.

My guest today is Dr. Audrey Lin, who just wrapped up a postdoctoral researcher position at the American Museum of Natural History. We’re discussing her 2025 PNAS paper, “A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs”. We also talk about her winding path from not being particularly into school at all to getting a Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford and working at the Smithsonian and American Museum of Natural History (what!!).

Check out Dr. Lin’s linktr.ee - https://linktr.ee/undeaddandy!

Additionally, check out her Science article on Woolly dogs: “The history of Coast Salish “woolly dogs” revealed by ancient genomics and Indigenous Knowledge”, Lin et al., 2023.

Song of the week: Dogs Days Are Over by Florence + the Machine

Science isn’t done in a vacuum, and support doesn’t need to be a mystery. I’d love to be a part of your team that helps you bring all of you to the table at work and in life. Let’s chat: Schedule a 30-minute (free!) chat with me by clicking here or DM me on Instagram, @STEMdentity

Loving this but listening while on your dog walk/commute/cleaning/etc? Want to have key notes for each episode? Grab them for free here!! Want to get science hits and pod recaps in your inbox every few weeks? Sign up here for our newsletter, Science Hits and Podcast Blips! I promise to keep these short and fun!

If you loved this episode:

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2. Follow me on Instagram at @ STEMdentity & feel free to DM me anytime with questions or ideas for future episodes!
3. Music by @ ExcessSass - I’d love a follow!