Young Scientist Spotlight 5: Jen Pearlstein

Carry the One Radio: The Science Podcast

“You just do things differently and that's fine!”
In the fifth Spotlight, UC Berkeley's Jen Pearlstein talks about her research on how stress affects decision making, how she's making mental health care more accessible, and being a disabled scientist. Find her on Twitter @JenPearlstein and check out her blog, Voicing Vulnerability at http://voicingvulnerability.blogspot.com/. For more of Jen's writing about being a disabled trainee, read her paper linked below:
Pearlstein & Soyster (2019). Supervisory Experiences of Trainees With Disabilities: The Good, the Bad, and the Realistic
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Soyster/publication/335074084_Supervisory_experiences_of_trainees_with_disabilities_The_good_the_bad_and_the_realistic/links/5e161d6f92851c8364bbba7a/Supervisory-experiences-of-trainees-with-disabilities-The-good-the-bad-and-the-realistic.pdf
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Episode art by Ben Mansky.