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Best of Story Collider: Pride

Best of Story Collider: Pride

Update: 2025-06-27
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To close out Pride Month this week, we're sharing a special best of episode featuring stories about coming out in science! 


Part 1: Science educator Charlie Cook experiments with coming out to students.


Charlie Cook is a non-binary white settler on ancestral, unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory. They are a museum science interpreter with a BFA in Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts.


Part 2: Marine biologist Shayle Matsuda adapts to his new identity as a transgender man while on assignment in the Philippines.


Dr. Shayle Matsuda is a Research Biologist at the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, where he leads the Aquatic Microbial Ecology: Coral Reefs and Urban Freshwater Ecosystems research program.


Shayle Matsuda's story originally aired on our podcast in November 2014. See details here.

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Best of Story Collider: Pride

Best of Story Collider: Pride