She's a Scientist: Jocelyn Bosley
Curt Bright
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03/15/2023
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A STEM educator creates an animated podcast about female scientists.
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- [00:00:00.095](upbeat music)
- [00:00:03.000]Stand back, I'm going to try science.
- [00:00:06.660]What do you picture in your mind when you hear that?
- [00:00:08.910]Jocelyn Bosley wants kids to be as excited
- [00:00:11.850]about science as she is.
- [00:00:13.890]The key is that whatever you pictured it was an action,
- [00:00:16.740]something happening.
- [00:00:18.120]Science is a verb.
- [00:00:20.580]That's why Bosley created "Verbing Science"
- [00:00:23.610]an animated podcast for kids.
- [00:00:26.310]She hosts the show as a cartoon unicorn.
- [00:00:29.220]I'm Jocelyn and let's get verbing.
- [00:00:31.927]"Verbing Science," the name is inspired
- [00:00:34.680]from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip,
- [00:00:37.290]where Calvin talks about verbing words
- [00:00:39.870]that are normally nouns or adjectives.
- [00:00:41.640]And I think science is a great candidate for verbing.
- [00:00:44.920]Yeah. Yeah, I want people
- [00:00:46.260]to know that scientists are nice.
- [00:00:47.910]Like, we're only doing this 'cause we wanna help.
- [00:00:50.670]Bosley hopes "Verbing Science"
- [00:00:52.470]helps interest diverse students in STEM fields.
- [00:00:56.430]So the more different people from different backgrounds
- [00:00:58.230]we get involved in the scientific process,
- [00:01:00.270]the more different kinds of questions we're gonna ask,
- [00:01:03.000]and the more better information we're gonna get
- [00:01:05.160]as a result of asking those questions.
- [00:01:07.650]Saying that science uses the scientific method
- [00:01:09.630]is a little like saying music uses notes.
- [00:01:12.720]Bosley admits she started her podcast
- [00:01:15.180]to meet scientists she admires.
- [00:01:17.910]It's a talent she learned early in life
- [00:01:20.280]As a small child, I had one of those little handheld
- [00:01:22.710]tape recorder things that I would tote around with me
- [00:01:25.920]and talk to all the time.
- [00:01:28.080]So in retrospect, I was a born podcaster.
- [00:01:31.710]And this born podcaster plans to keep sharing
- [00:01:34.980]her love of science as her alter ego, a cartoon unicorn.
- [00:01:39.780]The contributions of diverse people
- [00:01:42.720]with diverse experiences and perspectives
- [00:01:44.910]has been really critical to moving science forward,
- [00:01:47.850]and often promoting the asking of questions
- [00:01:50.640]that never even occurred to us before.
- [00:01:52.290]And so I think certainly women and girls
- [00:01:54.750]fall into that category.
- [00:01:55.920]And promoting diversity in STEM is just gonna make
- [00:01:58.500]for better science overall.
- [00:02:00.487](upbeat music)
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