Kelly Weinersmith

Kelly Weinersmith (née Smith) is an American scientist, New York Times best selling writer, and podcaster.[1][2][3] She is a member of the faculty at Rice University, and an alumni collaborator with the Parasite Ecology Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[4][5] She is a regular co-host of the Science... sort of podcast,[6] and the co-author (with her husband Zach) of Soonish, a science book.[7][8][9][10] Weinersmith was a speaker at Smithsonian Magazine's "2015 Future Is Here Festival".[11]

Kelly Weinersmith (2011)

Research

A parasitologist, Weinersmith is the co-discoverer of Euderus set, commonly known as the Cryptkeeper Wasp.[12]

gollark: It would be especially great if, like phones now, your car just didn't get security patches after 5 months, and gained an ever-growing pile of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities.
gollark: They should probably just not have network access, except for a wired connection to upload maps and such. Unfortunately, someone will definitely do something stupid like... have a 4G connection in it for interweb browsing, make the entire thing run some accursed Android derivative and put the self-driving code on there too, and expose that to the user, and make it wildly insecure.
gollark: I'm sure someone will manage to entirely mess up the security, yes.
gollark: (Just kidding! There's no way car OSes will be (are, probably) non-locked-down enough to do that!)
gollark: It's only a patent so far. But they had *better* not make it necessary to install adblockers on your car or something.

References
  1. "Two Nerds Fall in Love". The Story Collider. The Story Collider. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  2. "Science Books - Best Sellers - November 12, 2017 - The New York Times". Science Books - Best Sellers - November 12, 2017 - The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  3. Doctorow, Cory. "Soonish: exciting technologies on the horizon, with excitement-preserving nuance". Boing Boing. Boing Boing. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  4. "Kelly Weinersmith Parasite Ecology Group". The Board of Regents of the University of California. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  5. "Adjunct Faculty: Department of BioSciences: School of Natural Sciences: Rice University". Adjunct Faculty: Department of BioScience: School of Natural Sciences: Rice University. Rice University. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  6. "Paleopals". Science... sort of Podcast. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  7. Griggs, Mary Beth. "21 science books that make excellent gifts". Popular Science. Popular Science. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  8. Lewin, Sarah. "The Future of Space Is Coming…'Soonish'". Space.com. Space.com. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  9. Robinson, Tasha. "Custom-Printed Cocktails On The Moon? 'Soonish' Shows Us How". npr.org. NPR. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  10. Simon, Matt. "Soonish: The Future is Weird and Scary and Also Hilarious"". Wired.com. Wired. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  11. "Will the Zombie-Makers of Today Yield the Neuroscience and Drug Discoveries of Tomorrow?". Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institution.
  12. Scott P. Egan; Kelly L. Weinersmith; Sean Liu; et al. (2017). "Description of a new species of Euderus Haliday from the southeastern United States (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae): the crypt-keeper wasp". ZooKeys (645): 37–49. doi:10.3897/zookeys.645.11117. PMC 5299223. PMID 28228666.
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