If you're involved in science or use computational tools in your work, you should be using code

to solve your problems.

On this episode, we have Dr. Becky Smethurst, who is an astrophysicist at Oxford University

and uses Python to explore galaxies and black holes.

Learn how she's using Python to make new discoveries at the cutting edge of research and

dive into a couple of her YouTube videos aimed at spreading scientific truth

and an entertaining rapper. This is Talk Python to Me, episode 303 recorded February 4th, 2021.

Welcome to Talk Python, Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

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Dr. Becky Smethurst, welcome to the podcast.

It's so great to have you here.

Yeah, it's great to be here.

I'm just happy to have the chat about code on a Thursday afternoon for me.

One of the things that I like to do is I like to tell stories of people doing amazing stuff with

Python, not making Python necessarily their entire world, right? Like, it's awesome to talk to the people

maybe at Instagram and how they're building Instagram with Python. But I think it's awesome to talk to the people maybe at Instagram and how they're

building Instagram with Python. But I think it's also really neat to shine a light on people

doing other things like astronomy or economics or whatever, but also, you know, using Python as a

superpower. And it definitely gets the sense that that's kind of your world. Yeah, it's fun, like,

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