This week’s guest is Stephany Lowe, the host of The Dope Science Show Podcast. I met up with Stephany at the recent ScienceWriters2018 conference in Washington, DC—she was one of the panelists in the ‘Live interviewing: Science up close and personal‘ session at the conference. 

Lowe describes herself as somewhat of an outsider in the science world as she doesn’t have an in depth science background—she got interested after studying nuclear science for a short time but says her favorite science is neuroscience. She says she wants to create an environment where people talk about science like they do sport, where you don’t have to be a certain way or have a certain caliber of degree, you just need to be interested engaged in science. That’s why she loves to interview just regular people and citizen scientists. Most of the scientists who have been on her show have pitched themselves but sometimes she reaches out to them. A lot of the scientists she talks to are also working on their communication skills.

If you are a scientist or just love talking about science, you can get in touch with Steph and geek out over science on her show.

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