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Self-care with Drs. Sarah is a series of conversations between women scientists about navigating and surviving science culture. We (Sarah B. and Sarah R.) are astrophysicists and best friends who went through graduate school together. In some episodes, we chat between the two of us about topics relevant to self-care for women scientists, and in other episodes, we interview our friends and colleagues about how they care for themselves.
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Dr. Anouk Borst
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Sarah R. interviews Dr. Anouk Borst about stress paralysis in academic applications, and how friends can help one another when they stumble. For more on the podcast, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.comBy Sarah R. & Sarah B.
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Impostor Syndrome 3 Year Anniversary
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On our third podcast anniversary here at Sarah HQ, we're revisiting our nemesis. Sarah R. honestly shares the solution to overcoming impostor syndrome at 19:02. Sarah B. makes a joke about MacGyver. For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/180558019785/episode-27-impostor-syndrome-3-year…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Cognitive Distortions
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Your hosts dig into our Greatest Hits Albums of cognitive distortions: on heavy rotation are “All-or-Nothing Thinking,” “Emotional Reasoning,” and “Negative Filtering.” Sarah B. gives a couple examples of IRL painful thoughts she works through, with and then without distortions. Sarah R. hears the unfiltered truth about her talent (it’s true Sarah,…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Tanneasha Gordon & Boundaries, Part 2
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Sarah R. interviews consultant Tanneasha Gordon on how to maintain healthy personal and professional boundaries, work-life integration, and self-care.For more on this episode: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/175244421245/episodes-24-25-tanneasha-gordon-boundariesBy Sarah R. & Sarah B.
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Tanneasha Gordon & Boundaries, Part 1
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Sarah R. interviews consultant Tanneasha Gordon on how to maintain healthy personal and professional boundaries, work-life integration, and self-care. Tanneasha is a winner of the Rising Star Award from the National Association for Female Executives, among her other accolades. For more on this episode: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/1752444212…
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Sarah R. and Sarah B. will argue until the heat death of the universe about who is prettier (“no YOU are!”). Sarah R. has a radical proposal about how to best make peace with your body and she can’t recommend it highly enough. Sarah B. sticks to googling things and Instagram for everyday body image malaise. Sarah B. shares a modest proposal. If thi…
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Your hosts are back! Sarah R is cryingunderdesk.gif. Chi squared gives Sarah B a panic attack. Sarah B. cries “what’s to become of me?” at her guitar teacher and collapses tearfully on the bed. When all else fails, what are the instincts that remain? Your hosts talk about tools in times of intense crisis: professional and personal.For more on this …
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Your hosts crack into mental health. When it comes to a good therapy match, do you know it when you feel it?For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/165482070645/episode-21-therapy-depression-treatment-oftenBy Sarah R. & Sarah B.
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Self-care as an Act of Resistance with Dr. Cabrera Salazar
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"Lento, per avanzo." "Slowly, but I advance."Sarah B. interviews Dr. Nicole Cabrera Salazar on how self-care can be a political act as well as a personal one. Surviving in a space that's hostile to your existence is a radical act. The world's first university, Zapatismo, and more. Hire Dr. Cabrera Salazar to give her workshop in your institution!Fo…
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We're back for Season 2! Jealousy in the academic context is *rough.* The CV is a black hole from which nothing escapes, no matter how much gets accreted. Sarah B. should have a Gmail folder called "Friends Who Achieve Things That I'm Not Achieving", then maybe she'll actually read those emails. For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssar…
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Sarah R. school Sarah B. on how to live her best life. The best strategies for productivity within academia. The contents of Sarah B's wallet.By Sarah R. & Sarah B.
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Gender Presentation with Dr. Prescod-Weinstein
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Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Sarah B. have a conversation about gender presentation within scientific culture: how do we navigate the policing of how we look? For young scientists of color receiving comments about their appearance, "looking like a scientist" is an additionally fraught proposition. Sarah B. advises a young grad student to tape h…
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Sarah R. talks with Dr. Laura Blecha about grieving and loss.Laura is a friend of the podcast, black hole theorist, prize postdoctoral fellow at Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ~*soon to be faculty member*~ at University of Florida. For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/150040577195/episode-17-grief-w…
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Your humble hosts return to talk about relocating as an academic. Frustration about the assumption that *of course* you'll move yet again for a job, how women disproportionately bear that burden, and how Sarah R.'s life looks like a Lisa Frank binder. "Really good choices for oneself can be totally dismissed in the common cultural narrative about b…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Dr. Katja Poppenhaeger on Junior Faculty Life
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Sarah R. interviews newly minted Prof. Katja Poppenhaeger, junior faculty at Queen's University Belfast. For Katja's secrets on productivity in the midst of the whirlwind schedule of a new faculty member(!), and her own stories from the faculty search process, listen in! For more on this episode: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/143437420600/epi…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Faculty Interviews
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Sarah R. and Sarah B. are back after a hiatus for Job Stuff 2k16. Your hosts talk about the emotional roller coaster of faculty interviews, and how they cope with the challenges of projecting Professor Sarah. “I’m feeling 10 kinda adjectives about this” -- Sarah B.For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/141110690…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Nicole Cabrera Part 2
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Sarah B. chats with Nicole Cabrera (graduate student in astronomy at Georgia State University) again! Because we just *needed* to chat more with Nicole about all of her cool accomplishments (TED talk!!!) and ideas. Equity work and self-care are intertwined, among other topics. For more on this episode, please visit: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/p…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Balanda Atis, head of L'Oreal's Women of Color Lab
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Drs. Sarah are joined by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein for an epic interview with Balanda Atis, head of the Women of Color Lab at L'Oreal. Curious about which breakthrough discovery made Balanda famous in Fast Company? Want to know which lipsticks she recommends for imparting true color to darker skin? Want to know why sunscreens are used differentl…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Aomawa Shields
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Your hosts interview Dr. Aomawa Shields, person extraordinaire. Dr. Shields is an NSF postdoctoral fellow, a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA and Harvard, and a TED fellow. Phew!!We chat about Aomawa's self-care strategies, impostor syndrome in science versus art, and the power of writing. For more about this episode, please visit: http:/…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Suzanne Vernon
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Sarah R. interviews Dr. Suzanne Vernon, a senior expert in infectious disease, about her professional path. Trigger warning: This interview contains descriptions of sexual harassment.By Sarah R. & Sarah B.
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Conferences Part II
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Part II! Your hosts Sarah B. & Sarah R. talk about self-care at conferences: from our feelings at our first conferences to coping with them now as seasoned exoplaneteers! Power posing, visualization exercises, and drinking with other astronomers, among other topics.By Sarah R. & Sarah B.
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Conferences Part I
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Your hosts Sarah B. & Sarah R. talk about self-care at conferences: from our feelings at our first conferences to coping with them now as seasoned exoplaneteers! Power posing, visualization exercises, and drinking with other astronomers, among other topics. For more on this episode: http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/132907795455/episode-8-self-ca…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Makeup Roundtable with Drs. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein & Vaishali Bhardwaj
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Sarah B. talks in *~all of the detail*~ about makeup with friends Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at MIT, and Dr. Vaishali Bhardwaj, specialist in the Lyman alpha forest from the University of Washington. Our favorite products, how our looks have evolved over time, and more!Share your questions and topics with us! Call (716) S…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Alex Gonzales & Navigating the First Year of Grad School
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Sarah R. gives a timely preamble about serial sexual harassment in astronomy.Sarah R. & Sarah B. chat with MIT graduate student Alex Gonzales about navigating the treacherous first year of graduate school. Finding therapy, fostering supportive relationships, grappling with intense change, and more. What is "one Beyonce's worth of grad school"? Find…
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Nicole Cabrera
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Sarah B. interviews Nicole Cabrera on activist burnout, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and the healing power of Beyonce.For more on this episode:http://drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/130107418255/episode-5-interview-with-nicole-cabrera-nicolesBy Sarah R. & Sarah B.
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