Technical Tea

To commemorate Technical Tea's first Spooky Season and to do a little good for the STEM community, we are going to do a Let's Play and Fundraising stream on Halloween! youtube.com/shorts/QWkef...

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We are going live right now! Come hang out for preshow www.technicaltea.show

Technical Tea is going to be doing a Halloween gaming stream to enjoy Halloween together while fundraising for some of our favorite non-profits that bridge the digit divide and nurture communities in and with tech. October 31, 2026. 11:00AM-2:00PM ET www.technicaltea.show/halloween-le...

We have a new Patreon tier! If you become a Kettle Keeper, you get all the great perks of a Junior Barista PLUS a shoutout on the show WITH EXTRA EMOTION and voting rights on new merch designs. Y'all are the best group of non-leech holes we could ever ask for <3 www.patreon.com/TechnicalTeaShow

Prescription: 30 Leeches. Diagnosis: Anything. #podcast #science #sciencehistory #womeninstem #stem What did trendsetter and medical doctor François-Joseph-Victor Broussais recommend for any ailment? 30 leeches. Why? We explain. youtube.com/shorts/3aKB9...

Have you ever wanted to know what a research scientist or a software engineer actually do at work? Well now's your chance. We'll be taking your questions into account for our next episode which is "a day in the life" of Huyen and Niki so ask away!

Leech gathering was such a common trade for a period of time that William Wordsworth wrote a poem called "Resolution and Independence", a.k.a. "The Leech Gatherer." Editor Huyen reads a stanza. youtube.com/shorts/oalzE...

After Effects done by this bitch right here. Examined examples I downloaded from Motion Array and learned how they worked: tore them apart, looked up what different effects do, remixed and added my own little bits like spectrum/waveform. Graphics are modular/reusable for any voice over we need.

We're going live for office hours! Come hang out with us as we catch up, on our Twitch, Youtube, or Patreon channel! www.technicaltea.show

I went down a leech hole… not like that. #podcast #science #womeninstem Huyen describes what 3AM leech research (leech-search? lee-search?) is like. Luckily it wasn't a hole full of leeches… or a leech's hole… eugh. youtube.com/shorts/XDnZA...

Website refresh! Check out www.technicaltea.show for a new design, easy subscribe buttons for all sorts of podcasts, AND a schedule of our upcoming livestreams (episode recordings, Office Hours, and oh, maybe a Halloween Let's Play?)

On the much more serious side of things, Niki discusses a warning put out by the CDC about a significant (17%) increase in rabies cases in the US, why this is happening, and what happened at a petting zoo. youtube.com/shorts/Z0Z2f...

In the midst of discussing Hirudo Medicinalis, the medical leech, after @nicoleackermans.com points out a cute leech, @queencodemonkey.dev wonders how one might create cute leech swag, and thus, they start to craft the Kawaii Leech. #pocast #womeninstem youtube.com/shorts/qNgEx...

If you haven't seen Episode 3 yet, this might be REALLY confusing but our hosts have learned to stop worrying and love the leeches. youtu.be/M7GE2WEyqeo And one of the hosts stayed up late Saturday to draw this.

On Episode 3 of @technicaltea.show, after discussing hydrophobia from rabies (which makes you fearful of ingesting water), @nicoleackermans.com presents the saddest, funniest, don't-get-in-the-water of hypotheticals… youtube.com/shorts/n3xO2...

@nicoleackermans.com poses a hypothetical to @queencodemonkey.dev as one might at a table of biologists after talking about rabies and hydrophobia (which BTW presents as fear of DRINKING water) on our NEW Episode 3. youtube.com/shorts/n3xO2...

Episode 3 of @technicaltea.show is up and live! Creepy science and bloody tech (leeches actually) for our first ever Halloween episode! It's scary, gross, and fun from your resident French Zombie Scientist and Vampire Witch Engineer! Rabid whales and leech jars! youtu.be/M7GE2WEyqeo

For October, we went all out on @technicaltea.show. A truly stupendous amount of leech facts, alongside a terrible trifecta of the scariest zombie diseases. Incredible visuals and editing by the one and only @queencodemonkey.dev You simply must see it for yourselves! youtu.be/M7GE2WEyqeo?...

Episode 3 is live! It's all about tech zombies and science vampires, and it's our best show yet! Find it on YouTube with Huyen's amazing visuals, or on audio wherever podcasts are found!

Yall, Monday's episode is going to be so fun. I can't wait for you to listen

While planning costumes and make-up for Episode 3, Huyen asks Niki for feedback and inadvertently reveals her dazzling powers. www.youtube.com/shorts/Tsfh_...

Excited for our October episode of @technicaltea.show. It has EVERYTHING: great theming, make-up + costumes, spooky AND hilarious AND interesting info, very EXTRA graphics that apparently trip the "this was generated by AI" on IG but really made manually by ME. Subscribe on your podcatcher or YT.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

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No-context spoilers for our October spooky episode. Ft. sticker by @scottjohnson.zip

Editing @technicaltea.show… Disappointed Vampire Witch is disappointed, y'all. cc @nicoleackermans.com

Not the AI generated clips in riverside reading us to filth 😅

Trigger warning: we talk about pustules, but in our humble opinion, it's still pretty funny. And this gross silliness is the vibe around here. youtube.com/shorts/qEoaQ... This is our Patreon-only Office Hours. For the full VOD, consider joining patreon.com/TechnicalTeaShow.

Plague Doctor Pimple Popper An excerpt from this month's office hours www.youtube.com/shorts/vQtlg...

We are going to have so many clips from this last episode guys, it’s not even funny. Get ready for leech-mania and whale hydrophobia

WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...

I am so excited for every episode we record of @technicaltea.show and not just because @nicoleackermans.com and I were a Vampire Witch and French Zombie, respectively, for Episode 3. But because our costumes were thematically relevant!

We're live recording episode 3! www.twitch.tv/technicaltea...

Hey Philly! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum Sept 25-27. It’s the museum’s last weekend (for now!) Sign up here to help docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We're live recording our October episode Monday morning at 9AM ET and the theme is tech vampires and science zombies! To stay on the theme of doing weird makeup, let's see if I (Niki) can zombify myself with this palette 🧟‍♀️

We're about to go live for office hours on Youtube, Twitch, and Patreon. Come hang out and chat!

AI is poop

Next month’s episode will be about the scariest science and tech for spooky season! We are going to nerd out hardcore. Any guesses 👀?

Who is the eponym behind the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope currently on a mission studying dark energy, exoplanets, and astrophysics? What word did Huyen learn that she just cannot say? youtube.com/shorts/aNaWm... #podcast #stem #womeninstem

this is us

We have only recorded 2 episodes and we already have the best community! 💜

As women, we're warned against being too confrontational but also being too apologetic. Sometimes it feels like unless we add exclamation points to everything, we'll be seen as one or the other regardless! www.youtube.com/shorts/xflnk...

Episode 2 is live! Why do we name birds, telescopes, and principles after people? The good, the bad, the weird. Is there Death of the Author for Eponyms? Why infinitely optimizing (and going over the speed limit) may not work. Here's a clip youtube.com/shorts/ZuBYr...

On our first official episode, Huyen asks Niki, as a biologist, what would she change about how biology works? Conclusion: we need to keep Niki away from pink goblins. youtube.com/shorts/TWYzn...

Our episodes come out every first Monday of the month. We recorded episode 2 a little while ago, which just means we are struggling to keep all the excitement in for when you get to hear it next week!

This is dedicated to the ones who love the work. youtube.com/shorts/N4RnA... [0:00] What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathem... [0:26] "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper" by Joseph Fasano poets.org/poem/student...

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