Katherine joins TWiV to discuss her career in science writing, from not liking science at all, to a PhD in microbiology and immunology, and writing for Nova, the NY Times, and The Atlantic, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted her craft.

Host: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Katherine Wu

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Links for this episode

MicrobeTV Discord Server
All Katherine’s articles at The Atlantic
Vaccines still blocking severe disease (The Atlantic)
Calling Omicron mild is wishful thinking (The Atlantic)
Tattoos do odd things to the immune system (The Atlantic)
The Story Collider
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Picks

Brianne- Maropeng caves and Finding Homo naledi Kathy – Being Mary Tyler Moore Vincent – Google Isn’t Grad School

Listener Picks

John – A new study found people are terrible at sitting alone with their thoughts. Alan – What if all viruses vanished?

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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