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It's International Women's Day!
🕑 Added 2022-03-09 00:45:01 +0000 UTCHappy International Women's Day! To celebrate we are resharing Q&As from our archives with some of the women that make Deep Look possible. First, let's meet Deep Look's coordinating producer Gabriela Quirós. Gabriela’s health reporting led her to become interested in animals that suck our blood.
For Gabriela’s 2016 episode, "How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood,” she attempted to get bitten by a mosquito, so that the bite could be filmed. No mosquitoes bit her, though. The video features mosquitoes digging into several scientists instead. This is Deep Look’s most watched video, with over 21 million views, and it won a People’s Voice Webby Award.
Read on to find out about a few of the amazing women scientists Gabriela has worked with over the years to make her award-winning videos.
Shannon Bennett, Chief of Science at the California Academy of Sciences, pictured above, let herself be bitten by an uninfected common house mosquito during the production of Gabriela’s mosquito video. Read a full Q&A with Bennett from our archives here.
Kerry Padgett is the laboratory chief of the High Risk Pathogens Section at the California Department of Public Health in Richmond, California. Padgett, an expert on ticks who has a doctorate in ecology from the University of California, Davis, advised Gabriela on her video, “How Ticks Dig in with a Mouth Full of Hooks,” a Deep Look fan favorite with over 5 million views. Read a full Q&A with Padgett from our archives here.
In Deep Look’s video This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies, Gabriela featured the work of Carolyn Elya, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. The video has more than 9 million views and won a Jackson Wild Media Award in 2020, the equivalent of the Oscars® of wildlife filmmaking.
Big thanks to Gabriela and all the women scientists that we’ve worked with to make our Deep Look videos!
Comments
Dogman
I've always specifically appreciated that you had women narrators and seemingly a lot of women behind the scenes as well as a femme person who really likes bugs it just feels like a very welcoming YouTube channel
Zoe Cohen
Yayyy thank you all so much for your hard work and dedication to learning and teaching!
