Excluded: Stories about being left out

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4.4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Few things sting more than being on the outside looking in. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers share deeply personal accounts of feeling rejected. Part 1: At school, Natalie Ayala can’t understand why she and the other dual-language kids are treated differently. Part 2: As a photographer on a research expedition in Antarctica, Marley Parker can’t seem to break into the scientist inner circle. Natalie Ayala is a third-year mechanical engineering student at Boise State University. Her goal is to pursue a career in the space industry, have hands-on involvement in human space flight missions, and advocate for minorities in STEM! Marley Parker has been working as a professional science communicator for over a decade. At the beginning of 2018, Marley left a full-time position at a tier one research university to start her own business as a freelance photographer, videographer, and science writer. Over the past seven years, Marley has found a special niche: documenting deep sea research. She has joined 25 expedition teams on eight different vessels, highlighting projects sponsored by NOAA, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Ocean Exploration Trust, and many others. When she is not documenting ocean science in remote parts of the world, Marley loves sharing the lessons she has learned from pursuing an unconventional career path. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:05.1	stories, you're going to love Curiosity Weekly from Discovery. Science and tech are moving fast.
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1:04.2	Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
1:09.5	A science story, huh?
1:11.6	Is NYU scientist the...
1:13.6	It felt...
1:14.6	I was so...
1:16.6	And I just thought, well...
1:17.6	It was that golden moment...
1:20.6	Because science was on my side.
1:22.6	...theid... Hey everyone. Welcome to The Story Clatter, where true personal stories about science help us to discover how weird and wonderful it is to exist in this world and be a human. I'm your host, Mishayayevsky, and today's episode is about that horrible
1:44.3	experience of feeling left out. We've all been there at some time or another, whether at school,
1:49.7	at work, by so-called friends, and sometimes we don't even know why we're being excluded.
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