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Kelly Weinersmith

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Kelly Weinersmith is a biologist and writer. She is an adjunct faculty member in the BioSciences department at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She is co-author of Soonish and A City on Mars, which won the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. She also presents the podcast Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe.

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