
Women in STEM history, with science and laughter.
The gist
STEM Fatale Podcast tells the stories of women across STEM history. The show balances biographical narrative with casual side talk, from Marie Maynard Daly's biochemistry to Annie Dodge Wauneka's tuberculosis work and Deborah S. Jin's ultracold physics.
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About STEM Fatale Podcast
STEM Fatale Podcast is a women-in-science history show with a conversational feel. Dr. Emlyn Gremlin and Dr. Emma Dilemma introduce each subject through biography, then keep the explanation loose enough for questions, jokes, and midstream clarifications. The show is grounded in people first. Marie Maynard Daly's work appears through biochemistry, DNA, heart disease research, and the institutions around her career. Annie Dodge Wauneka's story stretches across public health activism, tuberculosis work, the Navajo reservation, interpreting, travel, and one unusually memorable confrontation. Deborah S. Jin brings the show into difficult physics, where the hosts slow down around Fermi gases, ultracold temperatures, magnetic trapping, and the limits of easy translation. Other names point to a wide STEM map: Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling in aeronautical engineering, Katia Krafft in volcanology, and Ynes Mexia in botany. The science is not treated as decorative background. It is part of the story. Still, the tone stays friendly and slightly chaotic, with seasonal jokes, recording mishaps, pets, broken microphones, and the occasional aside about where someone is recording. That informality matters because the hosts often let the hard parts stay hard. A paper can be quoted, puzzled over, and restated in plainer terms without pretending the material is simple. The show also keeps a memory of its own archive through the 24 Women of STEM-mas trivia format. Those episodes turn past subjects into a playful review of cryptanalysts, engineers, botanists, and other figures the hosts have covered before. STEM Fatale Podcast works best as a bridge between admiration and explanation. It does not flatten its subjects into inspirational blurbs. It follows careers through institutions, discoveries, public health problems, political settings, and the personal details that the available sources allow. The show suits a listener who wants women in STEM history told with enough technical texture to feel substantive and enough banter to keep the room warm. Its distinguishing pleasure is the way expertise and uncertainty sit together. The hosts know enough to teach, but they also make room for the honest sentence: this is complicated, so here is the best translation.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants women in science history presented through biography, research context, and informal co-host exchange. It also fits someone who likes technical ideas translated aloud without losing the messiness of the original science.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing STEM biography with visible problem-solving: the hosts explain, question, revise, and laugh their way through the material. Its archive also feeds back on itself through trivia episodes that revisit earlier women and details.
In their own words
Emma and Emlyn teach each other about historic (and current) women in STEM and remind each other about things they DEF should know.
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Episodes
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Bonus: Lost Women of Science Season 2 Trailer
Mar 31, 2022·3m - 2
Episode 083 - Marie Maynard Daly | Biochemist
Hidden gemStem Fatale profiles Marie Maynard Daly, born in Corona, Queens on April 16, 1921, and follows her through Hunter College High School, Queens College, NYU, and Columbia.
Feb 28, 2022·47m·3 clips - 3
Episode 082 - Annie Dodge Wauneka Part 2 | Public Health Activist
Hidden gemSTEM Fatale revisits Annie Wanecka's work on the Navajo reservation, including involuntary tuberculosis confinement, a medical English-to-Navajo dictionary, and a baby contest that doubled as health screening.
Jan 31, 2022·1h 17m·5 clips - 4
Episode 081 - The 24 Women of STEM-mas - Trivia #4
Hidden gemSTEM Fatale Podcast's "Episode 081 - The 24 Women of STEM-mas - Trivia #4" turns 24 women-in-science profiles into a holiday quiz.
Dec 23, 2021·46m·3 clips - 5
Episode 080 - Annie Dodge Wauneka Part 1 | Public Health Activist
Hidden gemSTEM Fatale profiles Annie Dodge Wauneka, the Navajo activist and health educator whose early life moved from a hogan to school epidemics and tribal politics.
Dec 1, 2021·1h 2m·5 clips - 6
Episode 079 - Deborah S. Jin | Physicist
Hidden gemStem Fatale Episode 079 follows physicist Deborah S.
Oct 25, 2021·52m·3 clips - 7
Episode 078 - Bessie Blount Griffin | Inventor, Physical Therapist, and Forensic Scientist
Sep 20, 2021·49m - 8
Episode 077 - Edna Paisano | Statistician & Sociologist
May 26, 2021·58m - 9
Episode 076 - Inez Whipple Wilder | Herpetologist & Anatomist
May 3, 2021·49m - 10
Episode 075 - Marietta Blau | Physicist
Apr 12, 2021·1h 10m - 11
Episode 074 - Janaki Ammal | Cytologist & Botanist
Mar 29, 2021·43m - 12
Short Stories 5 - Jimena Quirós | Oceanographer
Mar 8, 2021·13m - 13
Short Stories 4 - Geraldine Pittman Woods | Neuroembryologist
Feb 22, 2021·17m - 14
Episode 073 - Jessie Isabelle Price | Bacteriologist
Feb 8, 2021·43m - 15
Episode 072 - Helia Bravo Hollis | Botanist
Jan 25, 2021·49m - 16
Episode 071 - Hertha Aryton | Engineer & Inventor
Jan 4, 2021·1h 2m - 17
Episode 070 - The 24 Women of STEM-mas - Trivia #3
Dec 15, 2020·57m - 18
Episode 069 - Nettie Maria Stevens | Geneticist
Nov 30, 2020·1h 7m - 19
Episode 068 - Susan La Flesche Picotte | Physician
Nov 10, 2020·1h 8m - 20
Episode 067 - Frances Glessner Lee | Forensic Scientist
Oct 26, 2020·57m - 21
Episode 066 - Joan Clarke | Cryptanalyst & Numismatist
Oct 5, 2020·50m - 22
Episode 065 - Xia Peisu | Computer Scientist
Sep 21, 2020·48m - 23
Episode 064 - Maryam Mirzakhani | Mathematician
Sep 8, 2020·1h 21m - 24
Episode 063 - Wangari Muta Maathai | Environmentalist
Aug 24, 2020·55m - 25
Episode 062 - Bertha Parker | Archeologist & Anthropologist
Aug 12, 2020·47m - 26
Episode 061 - Kono Yasui | Cytologist
Jul 27, 2020·56m - 27
Episode 060 - Marie Clark Taylor | Botanist
Jul 13, 2020·44m - 28
Episode 059 - Martha Bernal | Psychologist
Jun 29, 2020·55m - 29
Episode 058 - Katherine Johnson | Mathematician
Jun 15, 2020·1h - 30
Episode 057 - Eva Crane | Entomologist & Nuclear Physicist
May 26, 2020·50m - 31
Episode 056 - Tilly Edinger | Paleoneurologist
May 12, 2020·1h 10m - 32
Episode 055 - Pearl Kendrick/Grace Eldering/Loney Clinton Gordon | Vaccine Creators & Public Health Scientists
Apr 27, 2020·52m - 33
Episode 054 - Alice Hamilton | Industrial Toxicologist & Doctor
Apr 13, 2020·49m - 34
Episode 053 - Rebecca Lee Crumpler | Doctor
Mar 30, 2020·34m - 35
Episode 052 - Clara Barton | Nurse
Mar 16, 2020·54m - 36
Short Stories 3 - June Almeida | Virologist
Mar 2, 2020·12m - 37
Short Stories 2 -Anita Hoffmann | Acarologist
Feb 17, 2020·12m - 38
Episode 051 - Marie Curie | Chemist and Physicist (Part 2)
Feb 3, 2020·49m - 39
Episode 050 - Marie Curie | Chemist and Physicist (Part 1)
Jan 21, 2020·58m - 40
Episode 049 - 24 Women of STEM-mas Trivia #2
Dec 16, 2019·44m - 41
Episode 048 - Beatrix Potter | Mycologist and Writer
Dec 4, 2019·27m - 42
Episode 047 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas | Conservationist
Nov 18, 2019·54m - 43
Episode 046 - Yamei Kin | Doctor
Nov 4, 2019·48m - 44
Episode 045 - Mary the Jewess | Alchemist
Oct 21, 2019·42m - 45
Episode 044 - Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling | Aeronautical Engineer
Two hosts teach each other about historic and current women in STEM fields.
Oct 7, 2019·39m - 46
Episode 043 - Katia Krafft | Volcanologist
Two hosts discuss historic and current women in STEM, starting with a personal anecdote about volcanoes in Hawaii.
Sep 23, 2019·49m - 47
Episode 042 -Ynes Mexia | Botanist
Two hosts teach each other about historic and current women in STEM fields.
Sep 9, 2019·31m - 48
Episode 041 - Margaret Dayhoff | Bioinformatician
Two co-hosts teach each other about historic and current women in STEM, starting with a discussion about GenBank.
Aug 26, 2019·40m