07/05/2026
Interviewing senior career scientists can be quite a challenge. Here’s a hack to bring out the storytellers in them so we avoid that usual fragmented Q&A plot that we normally read, hear, or watch.
Science communicators, take time to read. Very useful to our work.
Profiles of scientists in the golden years of their careers take the measure of a life in science and reveal the motivations that have guided the scientists’ work. Conducting interviews for such career-spanning profiles can be tricky—but also deeply rewarding, because the interviewing is often s...