Season 3 Episode 4: Interview with Dennis Eckmeier

Recovering Academic

In this week of the Recovering Academic podcast we talk with Dr. Dennis Eckmeier, his journey outside academia and his actual advocacy projects, including the Science for Progress podcast and its twitter rotating twitter account @SfPRocur.

This was a joint podcast between the Recovering Academic and the Science for Progress podcasts, so we all discuss our reasons for leaving academia and realized Amanda was the only one of us that never did any experiments in the dark!

There’s always the transition period, but after you decide that you’re going to do it, it feels good. @Doctor_PMS

One of the challenges Dennis is facing is that, although advocacy is supposed to be for free, he is still trying to find alternatives of how he can proceed with this and make money with it.

Some people make it sound like networking is like another skill, is like learning to act, but I’ve learned that it’s not like that @DennisEckmeier

The goal of the Science for Progress podcast is to explain how academia works to people that are not academics. What is sort of the opposite of our recovering academic podcast that tries to show what PhDs can do outside academia.

You can contact Dennis through his webpage or his Twitter account: @DennisEckmeier

Mentioned in this podcast:

• Marcha pela ciencia // March for science Lisbon
• EAT CHEESE LIVE FOREVER
• This Is Why The 2018 Nobel Prize In Physics, For Lasers, Is So Important
• Science Magazine article: Sunshine outside the ivory tower
• Science for Progress podcast: The Journal Impact Factor: how (not) to evaluate researchers – with Björn Brembs