Sarah McAnulty


Sarah McAnulty is an American squid biologist and science communicator. She is the founder and executive director of Skype a Scientist, a non-profit organization that connects scientists and teachers around the world for live video calls. She is an expert in cephalopods and social media.

Education

McAnulty earned a bachelor's degree in marine science at Boston University in 2011. McAnulty got her PhD from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut, graduating in 2019. She studied immunology in cephalopods, focusing on Hawaiian bobtail squid.

Career

McAnulty founded Skype a Scientist in 2017 as a way to increase both trust in scientists and science literacy.
In 2019, McAnulty went on a road trip in the southeastern US, called the "Squids Across America Tour," where she spoke about cephalopods and science communication. She has also led trips for Atlas Obscura in Hawaii.
In April 2019, Sarah McAnulty led a video effort by a team of women who criticised Discovery's response to science through song. Their response was a lip-synched music video set to Let Me Blow Ya Mind, and portrayed a diverse bunch of women doing science, demonstrating that science is for everyone. The team produced another video a couple of months later in response to a Wired Science video, with new lyrics and vocals to the tune of Oops!... I Did It Again, demonstrating that misrepresentation of women and diversity in science is a persistent issue in the media.
After graduating from UConn, McAnulty became a Research Assistant Professor in the same department. She is simultaneously continuing to run Skype a Scientist.
McAnulty published a squid coloring book in 2018.