What Do You Get to Do as a Science Communicator? with Dr. Nicole Sharp

Science communicator Nicole Sharp is an expert at making science interesting and understandable. Fourteen years ago as an aerospace engineering PhD student at Texas A&M University, she established the FYFD blog to celebrate fluid dynamics – the physics of everything that flows. Since then, she’s built an audience of more than 350,000 readers and had her work featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Science, Wired, and others. As a science communicator, her work is wide-ranging. On any given day, she might be spilling molasses to explore a 100-year-old industrial accident, filming barefoot on sand dunes while hang-glider pilots fly a replica of a 120-year-old aircraft, or teasing out the properties of fountain pen ink.