Meredith Schmehl is a Ph.D. Candidate in Neurobiology at Duke University, where she studies how seeing and hearing are combined in the brain. Outside the lab, she is an active science communicator and science policy advocate, serving as the Communications Committee Chair of the National Science Policy Network, producing a podcast, and writing about science and policy. Find Meredith on Twitter (@MeredithSchmehl) or on her website (meredithschmehl.com).