Podcasts Education Self-Improvement Conversations with Tyler Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM

Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM

Published: April 5, 2023, noon

Jessica Wade is a physicist at Imperial College London who, while spending her day working on special carbon-based materials that can be used as semiconductors, has spent her nights writing nearly 2,000 Wikipedia entries about underrepresented figures in science. That, along with numerous other forms of public engagement\u2014including writing a children\u2019s book about nanotechnology\u2014is all in an effort to actually do something productive to correct gender and racial biases in STEM.

She joined Tyler to discuss if there are any useful gender stereotypes in science, distinguishing between productive and unproductive ways to encourage women in science, whether science Twitter is biased toward men, how AI will affect gender participation gaps, how Wikipedia should be improved, how she judges the effectiveness of her Wikipedia articles, how she\u2019d improve science funding, her work on chiral materials and its near-term applications, whether writing a kid\u2019s science book should be rewarded in academia, what she learned spending a year studying art in Florence, what she\u2019ll do next, and more.

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Recorded February 21st, 2023

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