Kelly Weinersmith

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Kelly Weinersmith (née Smith) is an American biologist, writer, and podcaster.^[1] She is a member of the faculty at Rice University in the Department of BioSciences, and an alumni collaborator with the Parasite Ecology Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara.^[2]^[3] She is co-author, with her husband Zach Weinersmith, of popular science books Soonish (2017) and A City on Mars (2023).

Research

A parasitologist, Weinersmith is the co-discoverer of Euderus set, commonly known as the Cryptkeeper Wasp.^[4]

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything (2017) is a work co-authored with her husband Zach Weinersmith looking at upcoming technologies that could change the future.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9] The book made #7 in Science on The New York Times bestsellers in the science book category.^[10]
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (2023) is a popular science book on space settlement and challenges facing a potential colonization of Mars, colonization of the Moon, and related activities. In particular, it draws on Weinersmith's experience as an ecologist to study maintaining ecologies off-Earth where the humans in them do not all rapidly perish, a difficult task.^[11] The work made 11th place on The New York Times Best Seller list for all hardback non-fiction books.^[12]

Weinersmith is a regular co-host of the Science... sort of podcast.^[13]

She was a speaker at Smithsonian Magazine's "2015 Future Is Here Festival".^[14]

^ "Two Nerds Fall in Love". The Story Collider. 10 February 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

^ "Kelly Weinersmith Parasite Ecology Group". The Board of Regents of the University of California. Retrieved 17 April 2019.

^ "Adjunct Faculty: Department of BioSciences: School of Natural Sciences: Rice University". Adjunct Faculty: Department of BioScience: School of Natural Sciences: Rice University. Rice University. Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

^ Robinson, Tasha (19 October 2017). "Custom-Printed Cocktails On The Moon? 'Soonish' Shows Us How". NPR. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

^ Griggs, Mary Beth (7 January 2019). "21 science books that make excellent gifts". Popular Science. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

^ Lewin, Sarah (17 October 2017). "The Future of Space Is Coming…'Soonish'". Space.com. Retrieved 17 April 2019.

^ Akers, W. M. (October 28, 2023). "Is It Time to Pull Up Stakes and Head for Mars?". The New York Times. Retrieved November 21, 2023.

^ "Paleopals". Science... sort of Podcast. Retrieved 2020-03-30.

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