Podcast for STEAM students & early-career scientists
Want to use your degree to do meaningful work in sustainability and climate?
Welcome to Conversations with a Wannabe Scientist by me, Nicole Felts AKA The Wannabe Scientist.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
My name is Nicole Felts. I’m an ecologist and science communicator. I value scientific integrity, transparency, and equality. Science is at its best when everyone has the opportunity to understand and participate. Through all of my platforms, I aim to provide engagement and inclusion in science.
WHY DID I START CWS?
Great question! I originally started Conversations with a Wannabe Scientist when I was a first-year grad student with serious imposter syndrome. I still feel like an imposter sometimes, but I think we’ve all been there!
As a first-generation college attendee (my mom attended a few classes at community college; my dad didn't go to college), I felt even more lost in graduate school... this was totally new territory! I started the podcast to help answer questions I had: how to survive in graduate school? What does work look like for different researchers? How does a stipend work?
Now, as I relaunch the podcast, it has a broader mission - I aim to help all levels of higher education students (community college, undergraduate, graduate) and early-career scientists learn how they can use their prospective STEAM degrees to positively impact sustainability and climate change - the biggest crises our world faces today.
I want all of you to have the resources I wish I had during my time in school - and resources I still seek, as an early-career scientist.
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