> Why would someone who wants to be taken seriously as a scientist pose in front of something like that? She was probably asked to, knew that the photographer

> Why would someone who wants to be taken seriously as a scientist pose in front of something like that? She was probably asked to, knew that the photographer probably has a much better idea of what the publication wanted than she did, and so did what was asked. She would not have worried about it making it hard to take her seriously because she almost certainly knows that everyone who she needs to have take her seriously has seen hundreds of similar articles with their accompanying similar photos and know how that works. Many have probably themselves been in "whiteboard of equations" shots or the also popular "in front of overstuffed bookshelf" shots.