Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is of course Monday, August 16th, 2021 and I'm the host of the show

Cara Santa Maria and I want to give a shout out right here at the top as I always do to those of you who help take take make talk nerdy possible.

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support in all the ways that you can. All right, let's just dive right into this

week's episode because I had the incredible opportunity to have a chat

with the ever charming and so knowledgeable Jenny Smith. Now Jenny's

background is in psychology and neuroscience.

She currently works as a science writer and presenter.

She also founded Braintastic Science,

which is this really cool program that presents at schools,

at festivals, they've been doing a lot of

sort of like virtual stuff during the pandemic and then she also teaches at the University of Cambridge's

Institute of Continuing Education

and works as a science communication trainer and consultant.

And if that's not all, she hosts the British Psychological Society Psych Crunch

podcast and is a regular presenter on the Cosmic

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