47 min
Episode 6: Billie Goolsby Roots to STEM Podcast
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- Science
“This gives you a unique perspective as a scientist that’s actually really important…it’s not you overcoming these challenges, but more like you make science better.”
Billie Goolsby is a second year graduate student in the Laboratory of Organismal Biology at Stanford University, studying how poison frogs co-parent their offspring. Before going to college, Billie knew she enjoyed the open-ended question asking that science allowed, but wasn’t sure exactly what being a scientist looked like. In college, Billie participated in the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program at Boston University and through that, found a lab studying neuroethology in ants. Billie’s love of understanding animal sociality and the neuroscience behind it has led her to where she is now, studying neuroethology in poison frogs. Billie is hard of hearing, and in this episode we talk about how this has impacted her experiences as a scientist, as well as how we can make science more inclusive and welcoming for people of all abilities. We also talk more broadly about how to talk about disability, and how to be a good advocate and ally for others.
Mentioned in the episode:
American Sign Language for STEM
Visual Language and Visual Learning Center at Gallaudet
Research labs at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at RIT
Deaf x Lab
Get in touch with Billie:
Twitter
Get in touch with Steph:
Instagram
Twitter
Get in touch with the podcast:
Email: rootstostempodcast@gmail.com
Website: rootstostempodcast.com
Listen and Subscribe:
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
“This gives you a unique perspective as a scientist that’s actually really important…it’s not you overcoming these challenges, but more like you make science better.”
Billie Goolsby is a second year graduate student in the Laboratory of Organismal Biology at Stanford University, studying how poison frogs co-parent their offspring. Before going to college, Billie knew she enjoyed the open-ended question asking that science allowed, but wasn’t sure exactly what being a scientist looked like. In college, Billie participated in the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program at Boston University and through that, found a lab studying neuroethology in ants. Billie’s love of understanding animal sociality and the neuroscience behind it has led her to where she is now, studying neuroethology in poison frogs. Billie is hard of hearing, and in this episode we talk about how this has impacted her experiences as a scientist, as well as how we can make science more inclusive and welcoming for people of all abilities. We also talk more broadly about how to talk about disability, and how to be a good advocate and ally for others.
Mentioned in the episode:
American Sign Language for STEM
Visual Language and Visual Learning Center at Gallaudet
Research labs at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at RIT
Deaf x Lab
Get in touch with Billie:
Twitter
Get in touch with Steph:
Instagram
Twitter
Get in touch with the podcast:
Email: rootstostempodcast@gmail.com
Website: rootstostempodcast.com
Listen and Subscribe:
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
47 min