Self-care with Drs. Sarah

Sarah R. school Sarah B. on how to live her best life. The best strategies for productivity within academia. The contents of Sarah B's wallet.

Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Sarah B. have a conversation about gender presentation within scientific culture: how do we navigate the policing of how we look? For young scientists of color receiving comments about their appearance, "looking like a scientist" is an additionally fraught proposition. Sarah B. advises a young grad student to tape her press release on the mirror, so she can see it when she puts on her bright red lipstick. Chanda says: have people take pictures of you giving talks!!

For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/150942416760/episode-18-gender-presentation-with-dr

Sarah R. talks with Dr. Laura Blecha about grieving and loss.

Laura is a friend of the podcast, black hole theorist, prize postdoctoral fellow at Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ~*soon to be faculty member*~ at University of Florida.

For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/150040577195/episode-17-grief-website-of-dr-laura-blecha

Your humble hosts return to talk about relocating as an academic. Frustration about the assumption that *of course* you'll move yet again for a job, how women disproportionately bear that burden, and how Sarah R.'s life looks like a Lisa Frank binder.

"Really good choices for oneself can be totally dismissed in the common cultural narrative about being a scientist."

For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/149013338585/episode-16-moving-70-of-professional-earth

Sarah R. interviews newly minted Prof. Katja Poppenhaeger, junior faculty at Queen's University Belfast. For Katja's secrets on productivity in the midst of the whirlwind schedule of a new faculty member(!), and her own stories from the faculty search process, listen in!

For more on this episode: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/143437420600/episode-15-new-faculty-life-with-dr-katja

Sarah R. and Sarah B. are back after a hiatus for Job Stuff 2k16. Your hosts talk about the emotional roller coaster of faculty interviews, and how they cope with the challenges of projecting Professor Sarah.

“I’m feeling 10 kinda adjectives about this” -- Sarah B.

For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/141110690240/episode-14-faculty-interviews-reference-women

Sarah B. chats with Nicole Cabrera (graduate student in astronomy at Georgia State University) again! Because we just *needed* to chat more with Nicole about all of her cool accomplishments (TED talk!!!) and ideas. Equity work and self-care are intertwined, among other topics.

For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/139010021310/episode-13-interview-with-nicole-cabrera-part-2

Drs. Sarah are joined by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein for an epic interview with Balanda Atis, head of the Women of Color Lab at L'Oreal. Curious about which breakthrough discovery made Balanda famous in Fast Company? Want to know which lipsticks she recommends for imparting true color to darker skin? Want to know why sunscreens are used differently by white women than by women of color? Would you like to know how the head of a lab at a famous cosmetics company treats herself at the end of a tough day? Then, dear listener, this is the podcast for you!

For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/137110567590/episode-12-interview-with-balanda-atis-head-of

Your hosts interview Dr. Aomawa Shields, person extraordinaire. Dr. Shields is an NSF postdoctoral fellow, a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA and Harvard, and a TED fellow. Phew!!

We chat about Aomawa's self-care strategies, impostor syndrome in science versus art, and the power of writing.

For more about this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/135265894405/episode-11-interview-with-dr-aomawa-shields

Sarah R. interviews Dr. Suzanne Vernon, a senior expert in infectious disease, about her professional path.

Trigger warning: This interview contains descriptions of sexual harassment.