Hey, Science Quickly listeners, Rachel here.

I just wanted to give you a heads up that I'll be taking a short break from hosting the pod to go on parental leave.

But don't worry, I'm leaving you in excellent hands.

Award-winning journalist Kendra Pierre-Lewis is stepping in to host Science quickly while I'm gone.

You might recognize her from the late Gimlet Media Podcast How to Save a Planet,

or from her work at Bloomberg, The New York Times, Popular Science, and lots of other outlets.

She's taking the helm starting in November, and I'll be coming back into your feed sometime in the spring of 2026.

So see you next year. And as always, thanks for listening.

Music fear. And as always, thanks for listening. Happy Monday, listeners. For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel

Feltman.

Today, instead of our usual news roundup, I'm here to introduce you to our new interim host. I'm actually going on parental leave for a little bit and I'll be gone until sometime in the spring of 2026.

But the amazing award-winning Kendra Pierre-Louis is here to fill in for me while I'm gone.

And today we figured we would chat about who she is and what she likes to write about so that you could get to know her.

Kendra, welcome.

Hey, Rachel.

It's going to be like, thanks for having me. Settle in. Make yourself comfortable. So, Kendra, tell our listeners a little bit about who you are.

I'm a climate reporter, like mostly by training. I've been know. I've been working in climate for a decade now

almost. I think my first job is actually with you. Yes. Popular science. The most important thing

I think to know about me is that I hate mayonnaise. It's true that there are many accolades I could

tack onto your name, but if someone had to say

one thing about a journalist that would make me say, oh, that's Kendra, it would be the one who

really hates mayonnaise. So, but this is, listeners might be confused about why we would bring

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