As a marine biology student, Liz Neeley loves the order of science, but when a research expedition takes an unexpected turn, she must deal with the messy reality.

You can find the original version of Liz’s story here.

Liz Neeley is the executive director of Story Collider and new cohost of our podcast! She started her career studying the color patterns of tropical fish. (It was in fact even better than her childhood dream of working in a crayon factory.) She surprised herself more than anyone when she left the research path and went into ocean conservation and policy. For the past decade, she has been helping scientists around the world tell more compelling stories about their work. Most recently, she helped commission and edit the 2018 series "Stories from the Front Lines" at PLOS Biology. She is a lecturer at Yale in conjunction with the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative. Follow her on Twitter @LizNeeley.

This story originally aired on The Story Collider’s podcast on September 24, 2019, in an episode titled “Before and After: Stories that evolve over time”. Find the transcript and other information here:
https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2019/9/9/bonus-before-and-after-stories-that-evolve-over-time

Liz Neeley: The Wrong Test

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