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Jessica Wade: uncertainty

5 Apr 2023 Conversations with Tyler Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM

“There are a lot of very awesome people there. I don’t know, it comes back to that earlier point about it being negative.”

— Jessica Wade

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Jessica Wade
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uncertainty
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5 Apr 2023
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Conversations with Tyler

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…You are the most famous person in your field there, I will predict. There are a lot of very awesome people there. I don’t know, it comes back to that earlier point about it being negative. People think of you and judge you just for that, and so you have to constantly be doing this awesome science as well, and they’re like, “Oh, actually, they are a serious scientist.” You’ve always got to prove them wrong, so you definitely have that. Whether they dislike me because of it, I’ll find out soon enough. I’m currently on one of those awful — you know how UK funding works. I’m on a fellowship which is like a year and a half more funding, and so let’s see. If everyone’s going to push me out for writing this, then more power to another institution that gets me. [laughs] What did you learn in your year of studying art in Florence?…

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