W.E.E. are BACK!

The Women in Ecology and Evolution Podcast is back for season 2! Kicking off 2022 (belatedly) with a super fun episode, so strap in for more great guests and conversations about science and academia, and beyond. My guest today is Sneha Dharwadkar, a wildlife biologist and herpetologist from India, and currently a PhD candidate - we talk about her journey into research, parachute science, and starting a PhD in your thirties, and during a pandemic. We're joined by Lucy Harding and Dagmar der Weduwen to recap the highs and lows of 2021 with the Rant and Rave Wheel! The first Paper in Focus of the year is from Kelly Wuthrich, on facultative crypsis in a lizard.

Paper in Focus: Rapid body color change provides lizards with facultative crypsis in the eyes of their avian predators

Links and Resources:

• Sneha's article on Women in Herpetology (with S1E2 guest Dr Ashwini Mohan)
• Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises of India organisation
• Science and Sorcery on Twitch
• Twitter handles: @herpomania, @luce_harding, @DJWeduwen, @KellyLWuthrich

Get in touch with me! Kirsty MacLeod, hello[at]theweepodcast.org