I’m so excited to bring you this conversation with my very good friends, Taylor Christenson and Tim Remkes! Taylor and Tim met during their bachelor’s degree program in Botany at Weber State University and married shortly after school. They’ve successfully explored several career paths and keep finding themselves back doing what they love with being outside and teaching.

Tim has built his own amazing environmental services company for native landscapes - https://remkesenvironmental.com/. He works directly with clients in Utah, does virtual consults, and specializes in native plants in the Rocky Mountain region. Follow Tim’s Instagram for that yard inspo we all need! @Remkesenvironmental

Taylor is a spectacular artist, teacher, dog foster and dog mom, and flower arranger, amongst many other skills! You can follow her gorgeous arrangements on Instagram at @Perditafarms and buy her bouquets directly at local coffee shops in Salt Lake City during the flower seasons.

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Song of the week: Rolling in the Deep by Adele - throwback city!

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Music by @excess_sass - I’d love a follow!

Welcome to STEMdentity Journal Club! Every month, I find an amazing peer-reviewed journal article and interview one of its lead authors. We talk about their paper, their work, and their STEM identities.

My guest today is Dr. Eric Boyd, a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology at Montana State University. We talk about his group’s paper "Seismic shifts in the geochemical and microbial composition of a Yellowstone aquifer" (2025, PNAS Nexus). We also talk about how he landed the dream job of having a research group that regularly works in Yellowstone, writing awesome methods sections, and the importance of science communication.

Link to the article: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/11/pgaf344/8340224

Link to Dr. Boyd’s research group: http://geoboydology.com/

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Song of the week: Last Nite by the Strokes

Sometimes life is like learning to drive a car in flat, dry conditions and then all of a sudden you find yourself in the middle of the mountains, trying to navigate curves and learning that you might just burn your brakes out if you don’t use your car’s other tools when you’re careening downhill. Just like you needed to shift into a lower gear, we all need tools that help us become more resilient towards work’s (and life’s!) stressors.

Today I talk about two major categories of tools: tools that help you build up your resilience over time, and tools that help you immediately come to a more calm, regulated, resourced place when something big comes up.

Andrew Huberman on the physiological sigh and other useful breathing tools: https://www.hubermanlab.com/newsletter/breathwork-protocols-for-health-focus-stress

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Song of week: Midnight City by M83. If this isn’t a pump-up jam, I don’t know what is

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