I started listening to the podcast Radiolab while doing an early internship in science communication for a green tech accelerator, and was floored by how fun, fascinating, and alive they made science sound. I wasn’t even out of college yet, but I was starting to get an inkling that someday I wanted to write about science in the same way.
Now, more than a decade (plus…?!) later, I’m so excited to have been featured on Radiolab, one of the very shows that inspired me to enter the field of science journalism.
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws, Radiolab’s stellar producer Rachael Cusack and her colleagues at the podcast developed a whole series, called Swimming with Shadows, about sharks: their natural history, their biology, and why they have a unique home in the human psyche. As a shark nerd, it was an absolute delight to listen to, and I think you should for sure listen to them all!
You can hear me talking about my own reporting in the fourth and final episode, titled Baby Shark. Rachael reached out about a story I did for Hakai in 2021, called “Raising Baby Sharks from the Dead,” to talk about the difficult — and, according to some researchers, potentially futile — work of raising sharks from eggcases, in the lab, after collecting them from dead mothers in fish markets. I love every story I do, but this one is definitely a favorite, so it was fantastic to hear Radiolab cover the story and reach out to some of the same folks I spoke to to see how those projects are doing today.
Hope that you listen and enjoy!