TWiV 1023: Covering science with Katherine Wu

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

Vincent, Microbe, Medicine, Microbiology, Racaniello, Infection, Virus, Virology, Pathogen, Infectious, Twiv, Science & Medicine

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Katherine joins TWiV to discuss her career in science writing, from not liking science at all, to a PhD in microbiology and immunology, and writing for Nova, the NY Times, and The Atlantic, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted her craft. Host: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Guest: Katherine Wu Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server All Katherine’s articles at The Atlantic Vaccines still blocking severe disease (The Atlantic) Calling Omicron mild is wishful thinking (The Atlantic) Tattoos do odd things to the immune system (The Atlantic) The Story Collider Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

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0:00.0	This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.6	From microbe TV, this is TWIV this week in virology episode 1023 recorded on July 7th, 2023.
0:24.1	Oh, how about that 2323? I'm Vincent Racken Yellow and you're listening to the podcast all
0:31.6	about viruses joining me today from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler. Hi everybody. Here it's
0:39.5	a very pleasant 79 Fahrenheit, which is 26 Celsius, mostly sunny. Wow. It's 30 C here in New York City.
0:48.9	It's where a little warmer. So at least I didn't say 2000 and 23. If this were episode 2023 in the year
0:57.6	2023, that would really something. But episode 2023 is not happening this year. That's for sure.
1:05.0	Also joining us from Madison, New Jersey, Brianne Barker. Hi, it's great to be here. It is 89
1:11.7	Fahrenheit outside and I'm excited to be here. We have a guest for you today. She is a writer for
1:21.6	Atlantic, the Atlantic. And she's just outside of Boston. So we'll get to see what the weather is
1:27.6	up there. Catherine, who welcome to TWIV. Hello, wonderful to be here. And the weather is not so
1:34.6	different than it is in Jersey. It's 90 degrees Fahrenheit, 32 degrees Celsius hot, humid and
1:40.2	thoroughly disgusting. Well, I love hot and humid weather being of Mediterranean extraction.
1:47.4	But not everybody likes it. That's for sure. Well, thanks for joining us. We have all mentioned
1:53.2	you here on TWIV, a number of times in the past few years. So we're interested to learn more about
2:01.1	you. And you know, Kathy, I'm looking through the notes. There's nothing to announce.
2:05.0	I know ASV is in the history books in the can and Amy has hired a technician.
2:13.6	All right. So I don't have to advertise that unless she wants to, which could very well be.
2:20.0	So we're ready to move right into science here. So I just want to tell you, Katie,
2:28.0	I subscribed to the Atlantic just so I could read all of your articles in the past week.
2:32.5	So you could tell you, you could tell your bosses that I gave them some business, right?
2:41.3	Yeah, I wish I worked on commission, but we appreciate it all the same.
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