Betül Kaçar

Not just for scientific papers, even from discipline to discipline, I challenge any chemist to...

read an evolutionary biology paper and vice versa.

It may sound extremely different, a different language altogether.

But there's also the language of communicating and because words matter, how we talk matter, how we represent our science matters.

So yes, just learning English as a second language alone is not going to make you fluent in science either.

Biochemistry, biophysics.

We do a lot of statistics.

So there's a lot of mathematics to what we do as well.

Yes, we like to think of it as this...

NASA Astrobiology Program says, I repeat it because it's fun, that it is not a fruit salad, but it's a smoothie.

That that's what we are generating.

I wouldn't say it's success necessarily.

If you put the wrong ingredient and you press the blender and you made it a smoothie, it can ruin the entire mix.

Because I feel like... Yes, I can definitely assess that for ginger for instance.

It ruins every smoothie.

I don't like it.

Ginger?

I think so.

But it's just a personal thing.

And also I don't like cinnamon.