A Day in the Life of…

Does Niki spend most of her time in the jungle with a cute hat and a whip? Or is she actually excavating herself out from a pile of grant applications? Does Huyen live in a hoodie and a dark room, illuminated by the green glow of her computer? Or is it really more meetings and getting people to write down what they're going to do as much as coding? On this episode we talk more about what our jobs really are, what we like, what we like less, and what we think the future may be for future research scientists and software engineers. In the future of this research scientist and software engineer? Perhaps a coffee date with a sparkly vampire named Elijah in Vienna? ---- ▶ A Day in the Life of a Scientist 00:17:09 Garden hermit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit 00:21:20 Figure 6: Tau-containing neurons in human Alzheimer's disease, human CTE, and muskox brain "Evidence of traumatic brain injury in headbutting bovids" by Ackermans, N.L., Varghese, M., Williams, T.M. et al., Acta Neuropathologica, 2022 | Springer https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00401-022-02427-2#Fig6 00:26:42 The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science by Carly Anne York https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/carly-anne-york/the-salmon-cannon-and-the-levitating-frog/9781541605213/ 00:27:11 New Law of Urination: Mammals Take 20 Seconds to Pee | National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/mammals-pee-20-seconds-biology-urination ▶ A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer 00:34:47 Software engineering | Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering 00:41:48 Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) | University of Maryland https://hcil.umd.edu/ 00:47:27 Separation of concerns | Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns 00:52:38 The Mythical Man-Month | Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month 00:55:28 What is GDPR, the EU's new data protection law? | GDPR.eu https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/ 01:01:17 5 mobile app features to help you work on the go | Trello Blog, Atlassian https://www.atlassian.com/blog/trello/5-mobile-app-features ▶ This Month's *Sparkle* 01:24:04 Self Care Vampire - Mobile romance game trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joiSkuTOoq0 ---- Hosted by Nicole Ackermans and Huyen Tue Dao ▶ Follow us: Website: https://technicaltea.show Patreon: https://patreon.com/technicalteashow Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/technicaltea.show Instagram: https://instagram.com/technicalteashow Twitch: https://twitch.tv/technicalteashow ▶ Follow Niki: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nicoleackermans.com Website: https://nicoleackermans.com "Headbutting goats self-inflict traumatic brain injury": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.734585v1 "Goats love to bash heads—but it might give them brain damage": https://www.science.org/content/article/goats-love-bash-heads-it-might-give-them-brain-damage ▶ Follow Huyen: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/queencodemonkey.dev Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queencodemonkey Website: https://randomlytyping.com ▶ Follow Daily Tech News Show: YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailytechnewsshow Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dailytechnewsshow Website: http://dailytechnewsshow.com ▶ Intro/Outro, Music from #uppbeat, "Strangers In The Night (Acapella)" by Vocalista: https://uppbeat.io/music/tracks/vocalista/strangers-in-the-night-acapella Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.