After MUCH delay due to some pretty big life things (ahem, welcome to the world baby August) we are back to wrap up Season 2 with a fun lil’ chat about what life is like as an Assistant Professor. Assistant to the Professor (Michael Scott?) …I mean sometimes, tbh. Follow along as we talk about many added job functions as you go from postdoc to professor, and listen for the stress in our voices. It’s not all rosy, but we also have the freedom to record a podcast at work LOL!

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This week on the podcast Steph and Rachel talk about how similar the events in their lives have been over the past two weeks, and catch up with a friend of the pod(cast hosts), Jeff Kerby. Jeff is an award-winning natural history photographer with a passion for science. He currently works as a postdoc in ecology and geography, which is the coolest, but we are here to talk to him about his photography life. He photographed his first feature story for National Geographic in 2017 on gelada monkeys living in the Ethiopian Highlands. And just this past month, National Geographic named one of his photos (of a monkey giving birth, see below) one of the 100 Best Photos from this Century.

You can follow Jeff on Instagram (highly recommend), Twitter, and learn more about him, his research, and his photography at jtkerby.com!

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