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Emily Calandrelli

Aerospace engineer and science TV host

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The 2017 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 16 posts and 242 comments from u/emilycal, dated 2014 to 2022, most often in r/askscience, r/IAmA and r/space.

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A redditor wrote in r/askscience

On “AskScience AMA Series: I'm Emily Calandrelli, I have 4 degrees in science and engineering and I'm the host and co-Executive Producer of Emily's Wonder Lab on NETFLIX - AMA!”

Real talk, though? Are you shooting for being Bill Nye's successor, for today's generation of kids? Bill is getting up there in years, Emily. Someone's going to have to step up to the plate soon. Food for thought I guess. On a more serious note, just wanted to say well done. The…

u/emilycal replied

haha I definitely appreciate the sentiment :) Though I will also say I don't think we need the next Bill Nye...I think we need 1000 Bill Nyes. We need people who look like the audience we're trying to reach and…

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haha I definitely appreciate the sentiment :)

Though I will also say I don't think we need the next Bill Nye...I think we need 1000 Bill Nyes. We need people who look like the audience we're trying to reach and can speak to a different area of science. The world is advancing so quickly when it comes to STEM that no single person can be an expert on all the fields. We need a Bill Nye of climate change, of immunology and pandemics, of wildlife preservation, disaster science, space exploration, etc! There are so many wonderful SciCommer's out here SciComm'in that I think we're well prepared for this :)