Sarah McAnulty is an American

squid True squid are molluscs with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the superorder Decapodiformes, though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also called squid despite not strictly fitting t ...

biologist and science communicator. She is the founder of

Skype a Scientist Skype a Scientist is a nonprofit educational organization based in Willimantic, Connecticut that enables scientists to video conference with students in classrooms. It began as an informal program in 2017, founded by Sarah McAnulty while she wa ...

, a non-profit organization that connects scientists and teachers around the world for live video calls.

Education

McAnulty earned a bachelor's degree in marine science at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

in 2011. McAnulty got her PhD from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Hart ...

, graduating in 2019. She studied immunology in cephalopods, focusing on

Hawaiian bobtail squid __NOTOC__ ''Euprymna scolopes'', also known as the Hawaiian bobtail squid, is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae native to the central Pacific Ocean, where it occurs in shallow coastal waters off the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Is ...

Career

McAnulty founded Skype a Scientist in 2017 as a way to increase both trust in scientists and science literacy. In 2019, McAnulty went on a road trip in the southeastern US, called the "Squids Across America Tour," where she spoke about cephalopods and science communication. She has also led trips for Atlas Obscura in Hawaii. In April 2019, Sarah McAnulty led a video effort by a team of women who criticised Discovery's response to science through song. Their response was a lip-synched music video set to

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, and portrayed a diverse bunch of women doing science, demonstrating that science is for everyone. After graduating from UConn, McAnulty became a Research Assistant Professor in the same department. She is simultaneously continuing to run

. McAnulty published a squid coloring book in 2018. She is an expert in

cephalopod A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural , ; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus. These exclusively marine animals are characterized by bilateral body symmetry, a prominent head ...

s and social media.

References

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