Dr. Yara Haridi

I want everyone to experience the feeling of finding their first fossil because it's so weird to just crack open a piece of rock and be the very first person to look at this bone since it was buried 480 million years ago.

That's such a bizarre feeling.

And if you literally sit with it and you let it permeate your being, you realize how special that is and how small we are.

And kind of making ourselves small, I think...

in many ways, like, I don't know, it makes you feel like you're part of a big system and time and the earth and all of that comes together to make this particular moment where you're seeing this fish.

It's just weird.

Discovery is always so, so interesting.

The amount of mental freedom that we have to ask strange questions and go down strange rabbit holes.

It is ADHDers like dream, which is why there's so many of us in academia.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

So, I mean, I love my job.

You can donate to science.

And then, you know, you'll probably end up like a cadaver in an anatomy lab.

And that's always really, really helpful.

Sometimes you'll end up as a teaching skeleton.

I don't know how to end up as a teaching skeleton, but I would love to end up as a teaching skeleton.

It would be so cool.

I don't find it like, obviously, I mean, I work with bones all the time.