[No need to post this, if I may be so lucky as to get an answer.]
Hi Dr. Dove, (Despite how this starts, it is really about you and your career.) I’ve been listening to TWIV constantly since January.
Now that TWIV is visible, through the Zoom recordings, it is hard to believe that I had trouble distinguishing people at first, but you were the one. Seeing your self-description just brought that moment back, because you were so clearly comfortable talking about such a broad range of subjects. (I think I especially made the effort to identify that the Renaissance participant was also the MA-based one who breezily said that MA’s numbers were much better than NY’s. I bristled, and meant to write, I had been keenly aware that when I had started establishing for myself the % positive Covid test rate by state, MA (where a loved one is) had a much higher positive rate than NY (my adoptive home state))*. Probably the high positive rate was all about the superspreader event.
So about you, science journalist: I’m very curious how hard and rare a role you have. I bet it is intellectually fulfilling, but I’m worried that journalism is as fraught as academia. I was very recently startled by my microbiologist firstborn’s recent suggestion that journalism is a better skill set match than research, and didn’t I know that having a doctorate in molecular biology and working in industry (Plan A) conflicts with humanitarian values? I’m in the underbelly of academia, an adjunct union leader, and loved thinking that at least one member of the family was choosing a path I perceived was economically secure. My kid has a B.S. and is in a very good, fascinating, laboratory post, and has been contemplating doctoral programs, but wondering if a science masters and developing journalism skills is a better match. Of course my kid should ask, not me, but I’m hoping you’ll consider giving advice in conversation.
By the way, NY became my state because I came to Columbia for a masters in history and got hooked on the field and the city, so I know about ‘considerable effort.’ I’m sure VR got you through much faster than the 13 years that I dawdled on the Morningside Heights campus.
Please keep sharing your vast understanding. When the Covid crisis for CUNY subsides, I’ll be following your blog.
*(I was proud to have been on the case, using the daily state figures (weekly or so) for a while by the time aTWIV host had said how useful it would be to know the positive test rate.)
[No need to post this, if I may be so lucky as to get an answer.]
Hi Dr. Dove, (Despite how this starts, it is really about you and your career.) I’ve been listening to TWIV constantly since January.
Now that TWIV is visible, through the Zoom recordings, it is hard to believe that I had trouble distinguishing people at first, but you were the one. Seeing your self-description just brought that moment back, because you were so clearly comfortable talking about such a broad range of subjects. (I think I especially made the effort to identify that the Renaissance participant was also the MA-based one who breezily said that MA’s numbers were much better than NY’s. I bristled, and meant to write, I had been keenly aware that when I had started establishing for myself the % positive Covid test rate by state, MA (where a loved one is) had a much higher positive rate than NY (my adoptive home state))*. Probably the high positive rate was all about the superspreader event.
So about you, science journalist: I’m very curious how hard and rare a role you have. I bet it is intellectually fulfilling, but I’m worried that journalism is as fraught as academia. I was very recently startled by my microbiologist firstborn’s recent suggestion that journalism is a better skill set match than research, and didn’t I know that having a doctorate in molecular biology and working in industry (Plan A) conflicts with humanitarian values? I’m in the underbelly of academia, an adjunct union leader, and loved thinking that at least one member of the family was choosing a path I perceived was economically secure. My kid has a B.S. and is in a very good, fascinating, laboratory post, and has been contemplating doctoral programs, but wondering if a science masters and developing journalism skills is a better match. Of course my kid should ask, not me, but I’m hoping you’ll consider giving advice in conversation.
By the way, NY became my state because I came to Columbia for a masters in history and got hooked on the field and the city, so I know about ‘considerable effort.’ I’m sure VR got you through much faster than the 13 years that I dawdled on the Morningside Heights campus.
Please keep sharing your vast understanding. When the Covid crisis for CUNY subsides, I’ll be following your blog.
*(I was proud to have been on the case, using the daily state figures (weekly or so) for a while by the time aTWIV host had said how useful it would be to know the positive test rate.)