{"id":169515,"date":"2021-04-08T15:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=169515"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:00:39","slug":"bionoon-kate-furby-using-your-phd-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/videos\/bionoon-kate-furby-using-your-phd-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio@Noon &#8211; Kate Furby &#8211; Using your PhD in the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtube-com\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FRSWc9j46Lk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bio@Noon - Kate Furby - Using your PhD in the Wild\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FRSWc9j46Lk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Kate Furby<\/strong><br \/>\nApril 7, 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Using your PhD in the Wild: Science Communication in the Filmmaking and Policy Worlds<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: Becoming a scientist and then leaving academia can feel weird. It\u2019s easy to undersell the skills you\u2019ve picked up along the way. This talk will be a sampler of creative career options open to scientists. Kate Furby is a documentary filmmaker and science writer who has spent the last few years launching a business. Learn more about making it post-academia, navigating different spheres and using the skills gained in a PhD environment in the outside world. From burrowing owls with National Geographic to video game diplomacy at the State Department, she\u2019ll share her unconventional career path. A show and tell of awesome fellowship opportunities plus short films and bad jokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming a scientist and then leaving academia can feel weird. It\u2019s easy to undersell the skills you\u2019ve picked up along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1726,"featured_media":169518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3121,2696],"tags":[2702,981,2705],"class_list":["post-169515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bionoon","category-videos","tag-bio-at-noon","tag-events","tag-recorded-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169521,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169515\/revisions\/169521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}