For this week's episode Sarah is joined by Matthew Partridge, cartoonist and founder of ErrantScience.com.

Matthew talks about

1. His journey from biochemistry to research-adjacent cartooning
2. Why he is motivated to share the realities of life in the lab
3. Why being 'terrible at art' is no barrier to creating cartoons
4. What goes into live cartooning a 24h online chemistry poster session

Read the full show notes on the podcast webpage

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