To do our best work, we need to take care of ourselves physically and mentally
Dr. Kathy Anderson, a retired U.S. Air Force Captain with a PhD in computer science, draws upon her personal experiences as a woman in STEMM who has dealt with the challenges of physical and mental illness to stress the importance of taking care of oneself first and foremost. This is a copy of a post published in the Epistimi blog series at: https://www.epistimi.org/blog/to-do-our-best-work-we-need-to-take-care-of-ourselves-physically-and-mentally
Authors
- Janet Gordon Hering (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0865-1946)
- Patricia Maurice (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3920-8932)
- Kathy Anderson
Institutions
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-08-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21759207
- Primary Topic
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00