Shayle Matsuda: My First Expedition As A Man
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2014
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Marine biologist Shayle Matsuda adapts to his new identity as a transgender man while on assignment in the Philippines. Shayle Matsuda researches sea slugs as an MSc candidate at the California Academy of Sciences and San Francisco State University. When not in the lab, he hosts the interactive science happy hour series “Science, Neat” in San Francisco. He uses watercolors and digital media to make science more accessible to wider audiences, and creates and facilitates unique research experiences for high school students underrepresented in STEM. Shayle’s science communication footprint includes the California Academy of Sciences, Nerd Nite SF, Ignite at AGU, and regional winner of NASA/Nat Geographic’s FameLab competition
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:29.6 | Quick note, we have live shows coming up November, 26th in London, December 3rd in New York, and December 9th in Boston, |
| 0:35.6 | Storycollider., for more details. |
| 0:39.1 | This week's story is from Shale Matsuda. The story was recorded in October 2014 at the |
| 0:44.1 | Rikshaw Stop in San Francisco, California as part of the Bay Area Science Festival. |
| 1:01.0 | So, I'm a marine biology graduate student, and I'm in the Philippines on my very first scientific expedition. And we're all at our lab benches, and we're going over our specimens, everyone's working really hard, and then all of a sudden I hear it. |
| 1:09.0 | From across the room, oh, what's this species? I hear it from across the room. |
| 1:13.2 | Oh, what's this species? |
| 1:14.3 | I've never heard of this before. |
| 1:16.5 | And the room gets quiet. |
| 1:19.2 | And my heart sinks into my stomach. |
| 1:20.7 | Because, you see, I know what happened. |
| 1:25.5 | Earlier that day, I'd given him a list of all the different scientific names of the creatures that we had collected, |
| 1:27.2 | and I had spelled one of the scientific names wrong. |
| 1:30.8 | Now, why was this such a big deal, right? |
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