Susan Butts is living your childhood dream job. The Yale Peabody Museum paleontologist manages millions of fossils, some of which are a billion years old.
Susan Butts fell in love with fossils as an undergrad. She’d gone to school to study political science and only signed up for Geology 101 to fulfill a course requirement. “A lot of my colleagues have known since they were 5 that they wanted to study butterflies,” she says. For her, though, it was
On the way, I listen to the radio — I’m a big BBC and NPR fan — or, right now, I’m listening to a lot of audio books. I readby Leigh Bardugo and now I have the second book on tape. I’m not into fantasy, but it’s set in New Haven and Yale. I recognized all the places in it, and it talks about Yale culture, so that made it especially fascinating.Sometimes I spend the day in meetings. I might be talking about frozen tissues, or I may be talking about people doing field work.
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