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While PhDrinking is now officially retired, I haven't given up podcasting! Check out my two new podcasts and hit subscribe if either/both catch your interest! Carry the Two: A podcast from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carry-the-two/id1629115184 In Defense of Fandom: The show that examines the creativity, collaboration, & community of the Supernatural fandom https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-defense-of-fandom/id1674695211

After 6 years, 116 pages, and 29,379 words- I was officially made Sadie Witkowski, PhD! I thought the appropriate way to celebrate such a momentous occasion was to flip the show on its head so that I can share a bit about the work I've conducted throughout grad school. Suggested Reading: My lab's work with TMR: https://aeon.co/ideas/how-sound-and-smell-cues-can-enhance-learning-while-you-sleep Video covering basic TMR: https://youtu.be/OLeMUukpID0 The science behind lucid dreaming: https://www.illinoisscience.org/2018/03/the-science-of-lucid-dreaming/ Journal article looking forward towards new research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154620300073 Follow Katie Wu: @KatherineJWu, katherinejwu.com Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio engineering

Send me your questions about sleep, memory, and science communication! facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ twitter: @SadieWit, @PhDrinking email: phdrinking@gmail.com

Olea Morris studies ecovillages, places where people try to live off-the-grid in the most sustainable way they can. Olea focuses specifically on how humans in these villages interact with the animals that share their space. Suggested Reading: ecovillages: Karen Litfin's "Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community" https://books.google.de/books?id=uUCfAgAAQBAJ&dq=karen+litfin+ecovillages&lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s multispecies studies: van Dooren et al. "Multispecies Studies: Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness" https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/8/1/1/61679/Multispecies-StudiesCultivating-Arts-of Follow Olea Morris: instagram: @oleamorris, twitter: @olea_morris Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio engineering

We all have that friend who is convinced CBD is a true panacea, but has no scientific evidence to back it up. Well, let me introduce you to a memory researcher who has moved into clinical research focusing on CBD, psilocybin, and other trippy drugs. Manoj Doss walks us through some of his research and what we do (or don't) know about different substances. Suggested Reading: Hopkins research group website: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/ How THC can affect false memories: https://www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S2451-9022(19)30223-X/fulltext Hopkins center researcher video on psilocybin and meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27OSejF7MJU Follow Manoj Doss: instagram: @manojdoss Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio engineering

Turns out knowing a person for a few years doesn't necessarily mean you know what they do. I knew Sarah was in the department of statistics, but I had no idea how far-reaching her work is! If you're interested in education research, experimental design, and giving back to your community- Sarah Peko-Spicer is your girl! Suggested Reading: The paper that started it all: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article%3Fid%3D10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 Methods paper about conducting replication analyses: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/1076998619852953?casa_token=7BVJV46F26kAAAAA:lHV0K2YAVv6npiEhhLxxHmJLMZ6DuvCXYE32V9Z5wvH7OM7v-L7oFXPUOrCRZJGBeqsrTvjtS0c Vox piece on the “crisis”: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/27/17761466/psychology-replication-crisis-nature-social-science Follow Sarah Peko-Spicer: instagram: @garlandmathasi, research team website: https://stepp.center/team/ Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio engineering

I can't help but be jealous of Chris Wall's field research. For his PhD, he got to live in Hawaii and snorkel/scuba through the reefs as 'research.' Granted, studying coral means contending with climate change in a very direct way. Suggested Reading: Interactive documentary on corals: http://lostcities.org/ Ocean acidification explainer: https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F Press coverage of Chris's research: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190423133651.htm Follow Chris Wall: @coraloha, www.coraloha.com Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Academic research is all about digging deeply into a topic, often in an area that is actually the synthesis of several topics. Today's guest, Bianka, fits this interdisciplinary model to a T. She studies the intersection of movement, fashion, and film. Suggested Reading: This project is especially dedicated to exploring the intersections of fashion, film and dance: https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/7275/about-movement Instagram-account of archaeology of fashion film: https://www.instagram.com/archfashfilm/ Example of a fashion show turned fashion film with a dancer as model: https://vimeo.com/191502435 Follow Bianka-Isabell Scharmann: @ibavelen, https://uni-frankfurt.academia.edu/BiankaIsabellScharmann Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Thank you so much to everyone who has helped make this show such a joy! Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Happy holidays! I recorded this episode with colleague and friend, Andrew Hall, just after our department party. While we both had plenty of snacks and drinks to enjoy, we did an admirable job staying on task to talk about personality research and how personality could impact health outcomes. Suggested Reading: SAPA research: https://sapa-project.org/research/ Hogan Personality Assessment: https://www.hoganassessments.com/assessment/hogan-personality-inventory/?fbclid=IwAR1XKuBu4pq2n-2z3IERx_-M2RwRdR8vdhBkG_2JSsiuaYnVEGPxPDjSV6o Andrew's research profile: http://www.andrewnolanhall.com/ Why you should't trust the Meyers-Briggs: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless Follow Andrew Hall: @andrewhall_NU Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Our brains are great at soaking up all sorts of information, but less good at updating that information. This can become a problem when it comes to the insidious nature of fake news. Thankfully, Nikita Salovich is on the case, studying how we cope with fake news. PS- early in the episode, Nikita says Chicago is the capital of Illinois as an example of a false fact. In this case, we're using fact to mean a statement that can be proven true or false. Suggested Reading: NPR politics podcast on spotting misinformation: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/783293679/how-to-spot-misinformation NYT article on why people fall for fake news: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/opinion/sunday/fake-news.html Nikita's lab published an article about why we can't ignore fake news: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327479180_Can't_We_Just_Disregard_Fake_News_The_Consequences_of_Exposure_to_Inaccurate_Information Follow Nikita: @psylovich, salovich.com Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Guys, it finally happened. My longest time friend in grad school and thrice-weekly lifting partner finally joined me on the pod to talk research! So enjoy this episode where Ben Reuveni and I talk about memory, learning, and the joys/headaches of data exploration. Ben's lab profile: http://reberlab.psych.northwestern.edu/people/ben-reuveni/ Research papers in the Reber lab: http://reberlab.psych.northwestern.edu/research/selected-publications-and-reprints/ Thinking Fast and Slow: wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow Follow Ben Reuveni: kraken_the_scottie (instagram), ben.reuveni@gmail.com Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Have you ever returned home after a loud concert, only to notice everything sounds muffled and a bit more quiet? In those moments, I usually think of my mom chastising me by saying that I can't recover lost hearing. But thanks to Amrita's research, there's a chance we may be able to recover our hearing after all! Suggested Reading: Article Amrita wrote about her research: https://indscicomm.blog/2018/05/01/music-in-the-time-of-hearing-loss/ Funding organization's description of research: https://hearinghealthfoundation.org/blogs/tag/cell+regeneration Amrita's advisor's talk about regeneration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-7MMkqY7iE Follow Amrita Anand: @amritallsmiles Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Just in time for the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting here in Chicago! In this conversation with Alie Caldwell, we talk about her dissertation research, her scicomm efforts, and just geek out about the brain in general. Suggested Reading: The roles of glia in CNS development: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6411/181/tab-pdf Astrocytes in development and disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27381164 What even are astrocytes? (Video): https://youtu.be/Utaeaz-tD5s Follow Alie Caldwell: @alie_astrocyte(Twitter), https://www.youtube.com/user/neurotransmissions (YouTube), www.alieastrocyte.com Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

I know that everyone jokes that if you're a biology PhD, you must be studying cancer. But sometimes, that's actually true! I had the pleasure to chat with Keighley about her work with cancer stem cells, specifically in breast cance.r Suggested Reading: Breast cancer overview: https://www.healthline.com/health/triple-negative-breast-cancer-recurrence What you should know about triple-negative breast cancer: https://www.mdanderson.org/publications/cancerwise/triple-negative-breast-cancer-5-things-you-should-know.h00-158986656.html Lab website: sites.baylor.edu/taubelab Follow Keighley Reisenauer: @ScienceKeighley (Twitter), @scientifikeighley (Instagram), sites.baylor.edu/kreisenauer Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

It was a happy accident that I found Hannah Groch-Begley though an old college friend. Her historical research on the changing roles of women in the British Empire during WW1 covered much more than anything I've seen in a textbook. I'm sure you'll enjoy the conversation as much as I did. Suggested Reading: 12 Things you didn't know about WW1: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-women-in-the-first-world-war Changing gender roles in WW1: https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/changing-lives-gender-expectations Follow Hannah Groch-Begley: @grouchybagels Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

It's not often that I get to chat with a fellow psychology grad student about their research! For this episode, I spoke with Jennifer about how emotions affect decision-making, particularly when it comes to mood disorders Suggested Reading: Recent publication about arousal and impulsivity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30259983 Lab website: CALM Program Jennifer's blog: http://voicingvulnerability.blogspot.com/ Follow Jennifer Pearlstein: @jenpearlstein, jenpearlstein@gmail.com Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

We often hear about research that requires intensely specialized equipment- from the large hadron collider to PCR machines. But imagine of you could conduct your research by just using a household appliance. Well Matthew is one of the lucky few who can conduct his research on graphene with the help of a typical blender! Suggested Reading: General piece on graphene: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/material-question Scientific American's overview of the graphene made in a blender: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-make-graphene-in-your-kitchen-blender/ Potential applications of graphene: https://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/learn/applications/ Follow Matthew: @MatSciMatt Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

**Head's up, we had some technical difficulties when recording this episode. There was a break in our audio that we filled with some pleasant elevator music (courtesy The Mini Vandals) before continuing the conversation. Sorry about that!** Have you ever wondered if DNA is the only way to identify a unique person? What if we could use the microbiome on a person's skin? Allie Sherier's research focuses on just that question! Suggested Reading: Scientific article on the skin microbiome and forensics: https://www.fsigenetics.com/article/S1872-4973(18)30373-9/abstract Editorial on human identification using the skin microbiome: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1751-7915.12699 General piece on forensic genetics: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/forensics-dna-fingerprinting-and-codis-736 Follow Allie: @alliesherier @UNTCHI_RDU Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

The landscape of journalism is changing rapidly. With established newspapers going out of business and the rise of online publication, working as a journalist today is very different than even 20 years ago. Nick Hagar studies these trends and researches how the world of journalism is continuing to evolve. Suggested Reading: A great recent rundown of labor issues in freelance journalism: https://newrepublic.com/article/153744/gig-economy A general source of news industry and research coverage: https://www.niemanlab.org/ An in-depth piece of research on how new technologies affect journalists: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/the_traffic_factories_metrics_at_chartbeat_gawker_media_and_the_new_york_times.php Follow Nick: @nickhagar Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Hey guys, No episode this week as I recover from ComSciCon-Flagship. We will be back to our regular schedule on July 29th with a new episode. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to me! Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro

Thanks to the NPR SciCommers community, I had the chance to chat with Gosia all the way over in Porto, Portugal! She studies genetic variation within pigeons and other birds, all while applying this research to a broader context. Suggested Reading: CIBIO: https://cibio.up.pt/people/details/malgorzatag Molecular Ecology blog: https://www.molecularecologist.com/ Genetics Society of America blog: http://genestogenomes.org/ Genetics blog: http://newsongenetics.blogspot.com/ Follow Malgorzata (Gosia): @GazdaMalgorzata, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gosia-gazda-20117256/, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Malgorzata_Gazda2?ev=hdr_xprf Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

There are lots of unusual research animals, but Amanda's animal of choice is one you might see on your plate. She studies the behavior of cattle (the meat variety, not milk producing) and what that can tell us about best practices to keep them happy and healthy. Suggested Reading: Modern beef production: https://www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/raising-beef Cattle behavior research: http://www.animalbehaviour.net/cattle/ Amanda's lab website: https://animalscience.tamu.edu/people/daigle-courtney/ Follow Amanda Mathias: @mathiaj024, a.mathias@tamu.edu Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

In grade school, we learn about the solid, liquid, and gas form of water and assume we know everything. Turns out, that's totally wrong! There's a lot that we don't know about water molecules. but don't worry, we have PhD student Memo here to get us up to speed on his research. Suggested Reading: Intro to ultrafast spectroscopy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8BFQzSyDw Interview with Memo's undergrad advisor on water: http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/ingenious-richard-saykally Research from Memo's lab: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-reveals-proton-hydration-asymmetric.html Follow Memo Carpenter: @wmcarpenter760 Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

We tend to think of our genetic inheritance as stable over time, but the expression of those genes can be altered by your environment. Laetitia studies one example of this- gestational (pregnancy-induced) diabetes. Suggested Reading: A general primer on epigenetics- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1392256/ The human genome project- http://www.thepipettepen.com/blog/epigenetics-the-software-of-the-dna-hardware/ In-depth article on developmental plasticity- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02725 Follow Laetitia Meyrueix: @BQImpertinente, nutribites.blog (blog) Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Conferences aren't just for presenting your research, sometimes you meet other students doing amazing work! In this episode, I chat with Bryan about his research on marine ecology using computational tools. Suggested Reading: Smithsonian Ocean Portal (for cool ocean news & educational resources): https://ocean.si.edu/ Smithsonian Ocean Portal coverage of some of our eDNA work: https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/trail-dna-ocean Some other uses for environmental DNA: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-teeny-bits-leftover-dna-help-scientists-track-elusive-species-180963011/ Follow Bryan Nguyen: @amphipods Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

How do you design a more egalitarian society through the clothing choices of men and women? Turns out, the social cues of clothing (and how well you can actually move in those clothes) were a major concern for some French revolutionaries. Fellow Northwestern PhD student Marissa Croft studies this intersection of costuming and politics. Suggested Reading: The Marie Antoinette Dress that Ignited the Slave Trade: https://www.racked.com/2018/1/10/16854076/marie-antoinette-dress-slave-trade-chemise-a-la-reine (General Interest) Politics & Costuming article: Naomi Lubrich. “The Little White Dress: Politics and Polyvalence in Revolutionary France.” Fashion Theory, vol. 20, no. 3, May 2016, pp. 273–96. Taylor and Francis+NEJM, doi:10.1080/1362704X.2015.1082275. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1362704X.2015.1082275?journalCode=rfft20 Recycled Movie Costumes Blog: http://www.recycledmoviecostumes.com/ A language of the Flowers dictionary: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31591 The anti-revolution parrot article: http://www.archivespasdecalais.fr/Activites-culturelles/Un-document-a-l-honneur/Un-perroquet-devant-la-justice-revolutionnaire Follow Marissa Croft: @mgcroft Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Imagine having the last name Doctor, but still finishing your PhD. That's just life for Zoheyr, a student studying gravitational waves at UChicago. Suggested Reading: LIGO website: https://www.ligo.org/ Blog on the scientists of LIGO: https://humansofligo.blogspot.com/ Find Zoheyr Doctor: @almostdrdoctor Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

In this episode, I explore the world of professional smash bros players with Kyle Nolla. We talk about everything from the role of stress in performance in video games to gender representation in gaming to her work on the Harassment Task Force. Suggested Reading: Super Smash Con 2018 mindsets and stress management panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lKVaLXlSBc Kyle's published science article about children's gender stereotypes in STEM: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13039 Find Kyle Nolla: @drpiggyphd Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Newly-minted PhD Thom Booth took time from his busy schedule (moving to Australia!) to tell me all about his PhD research. Thom studies natural products discovery, which honestly I didn't know what that was either. But don't worry, he does a great job breaking down his research in this episode! Suggested Reading: Molecular explanation of Geosmin (the smell of soil): https://www.jic.ac.uk/blog/meet-the-molecules-geosmin/ Synthetic evolution of natural products: https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/landmark-discovery-turns-marathon-of-evolution-into-a-sprint/ Scientific paper published by Thom: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27091090 Find Thom Booth: @BoothThom, https://www.jic.ac.uk/people/professor-barrie-wilkinson/ Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Some graduate programs place you right into your lab where you'll stay for 5+ years, but others go on a tour of the research being done in their area. Today, grad student Jordan Harrod joins me to tell us about the different labs she's rotated in & the cool research they're doing. Oh, and did I mention she's on the leadership board for Students for/March for Science? Suggested Readings: Video on Jordan's area of study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6lENrRANxY Article on non-invasive brain stimulation: http://news.mit.edu/2017/noninvasive-method-deep-brain-stimulation-0601 General piece on medical tech: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/ai-versus-md Jordan's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/everydAI Find Jordan Harrod: @jordanbharrod, http://medium.com/@jordan.b.harrod, http://www.jordanharrod.com Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

How do you go from working on agricultural tech to modelling how robots move and manipulate tools? Well, Zack Woodruff made exactly that academic leap. He shares his expertise ranging from green technology to the world of robotics. Suggested Readings: General background: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/robots-getting-a-grip-on-general-manipulation Detailed review: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-control-060117-104848 Lab web page: https://nxr.northwestern.edu/research/robotic-manipulation Find Zack Woodruff: www.zackwoodruff.com Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Science communication can take many forms, including posting on instagram about the science behind your favorite disney characters! Sarah White is a graduate student studying learning sciences, but when she's not working on her research, she's known as the PhD Princess. Suggested Reading: Website specifically related to Sarah's research: https://www.teachersinsocialmedia.com/ KQED's MindShift: https://www.kqed.org/mindshift The Hechinger Report: https://hechingerreport.org/ Find Sarah White: phdprincess.com, Instagram- @thephdprincess Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

In this episode, I dive deep into quantum communication with Sam Whiteley. We talk about unhackable communication networks, the difficultly of setting up a totally quantum system, and where work on quantum communication still has a ways to go. Suggested Readings: Link to a free version of our manuscript, recently accepted by Nature Physics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10996 News & more information about Quantum Communication from Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quantum-internet-has-arrived-and-it-hasn-rsquo-t/ New York Times including interview with Sam's advisor: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/technology/quantum-encryption.html Find Sam Whiteley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-whiteley-43b16686/, https://ime.uchicago.edu/awschalomlab/ Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

In this episode, another fellow AAAS MMF alum joins me to talk about her research on fire! Allie Weill studies the connections between fire, plants and the ecosystem at large. She specifically studies fire-adapted plants in Mediterranean shrublands in California, but our conversation was much broader than that. Suggested Readings: Various posts on many fire-related topics at: https://talkaboutfire.com/talk-about-fire-blog/ A primer on fire ecology: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-ecology-of-fire-13259892 The California Fire Science Consortium: http://www.cafiresci.org/ Resprouting/Reseeding after fire(Germination): https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.12921 Find Allie Weill: @Al_R_Wallace Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

This week, my guest & I did more than talk about his environmental engineering research. We also took a deep dive into the DeGrowth movement, both abroad & here in the United States. DegrowUS Suggested Readings: A distilled list of degrowth overviews, opinions, and academic research: https://www.degrowus.org/readings/ A review article I published last year on the need to join circular economy and degrowth principles: https://discardstudies.com/2017/11/13/moving-the-circular-economy-beyond-alchemy/ Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era - A very readable/digestible recap of degrowth concepts: https://vocabulary.degrowth.org/ (For your listeners who are based in Chicago, DegrowUS will be hosting a Degrowth: A Vocabulary reading/discussion group in February. Contact me or sign up for the DegrowUS newsletter, Snail Mail, to sign up) Find John Mulrow: https://www.degrowus.org/, @degrowUS, jmulrow@uic.edu Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

A message from Lauren: During graduate school, I have been funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders. The content presented in this podcast is solely my responsibility and does not necessarily reflect the official views of the funders. I also thank my mentors-- including Cindy Bulik, Jessica Baker, Patrick Sullivan and Yoav Gilad-- and assure the listening audience that any error in this podcast is due to my inadequacies as a student rather than theirs as teachers. Hopefully this interview demonstrated the innovation in the eating disorder field, and highlighted some of the questions that remain. Currently, most eating disorders research (including most of my own) focuses on individuals with anorexia nervosa. More funding and research is clearly needed in this area. However, it is also extremely important to increase the number of studies in eating disorders outside of anorexia nervosa. Therefore, I strongly advocate for increased funding to study the biological bases of each eating disorder. National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) on eating disorders (helpline: (800) 931-2237): www.nationaleatingdisorders.org "9 Truths About Eating Disorders" from the Academy for Eating Disorders: https://www.aedweb.org/learn/publications/nine-truths Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative: https://uncexchanges.org/2017/08/30/anorexia-nervosa-genetics-initiative-an-update-2/ Follow Lauren Blake: @Lauren_E_Blake Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Although DNA is often treated as the end-all in individual differences, it's not just about the blue print of the body. Ittai studies genetic regulation, or how DNA is expressed (or isn't). In this episode, we dive into his research techniques and talk about what it means to be human. Smithsonian DNA explainer: http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics Genetic differences between humans & other primates: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-genetic-differences-between-humans-and-other-primates-pervade-the-genome/ Evolution of gene regulation in humans: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-genom-090314-045935?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed Follow Ittai Eres: @IttaiE, ittai.eres@gmail.com Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Math is way more than formulas learned in algebra class in high school. This episode's guest, Yen Duong, earned her PhD studying graph theory and topology! While she's now a science reporter in North Carolina, she was happy to tell me all about her PhD research! Suggested Reading: Yen's blog on geometric group theory: https://bakingandmath.com/2015/03/02/what-is-geometric-group-theory/ and several other math posts Example of a funky manifold: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-few-of-my-favorite-spaces-the-three-torus/ Background on the field: https://www.quantamagazine.org/from-hyperbolic-geometry-to-cube-complexes-and-back-20121002/ Video on Banach Tarski paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA&t=689s Follow Yen Duong: @yenergy, www.yenduong.com Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Nathan Bradshaw once worked on a nuclear submarine but wanted more adventure in life. So, he came to grad school and started studying colloidal COFs. Don't know what those are? Why not give this episode a listen and find out! Suggested Reading: Wikipedia for COFs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covalent_organic_framework Short article about colloidal COFs: https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i4/Covalent-organic-frameworks-form-processible.html Follow Nathan Bradshaw: @NPBeardshaw Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Imagine if you got to spend your summers heading down to the Antarctic continent on a boat to release small robots. That's exactly what Giuliana does as part of her PhD, studying climate change in the currents of the ocean. In today's episode, I chat with Giuliana about her research and what got her interested in it to begin with. Suggested Reading: Here’s a really nice video of ocean currents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-TSwthjPYE The ocean's carbon balance: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OceanCarbon NOAA's short explainer on ocean currents: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/currents.html Follow Giuliana Viglione: www.giulianaviglione.com, @GAViglione, https://caltechletters.org, @caltechletters Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Guys, I was just too excited to talk with Breanna about her chickadee research and wasn't paying enough attention to the audio quality when I started recording. Can you blame me? I was excited to learn about animal behavior and personality a la behavioral ecology! Suggested Reading: Research article on animal personality: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(10)01137-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982210011371%3Fshowall%3Dtrue Curry Lab: http://robertcurrylab.com/ Breanna's personal website: https://thetinybirdgirl.wordpress.com/ Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Breanna Bennett: @TheTinyBirdGirl Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Did you know that sunflowers aren't just pretty, they're also a model organism! Rishi uses sunflowers to study how different drought conditions affect agricultural out put. Scientific overview of how droughts affect different groups: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=http://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1019&context=droughtfacpub United Nations Water Report: http://www.unwater.org/publication_categories/world-water-development-report/ Follow me:PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Rishi Masalia: @RishiMasalia, www.rishimasalia.com, www.athenssciencecafe.com, & www.athensscienceobserver.com Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Did you know not all bees live in hives or create honey? In fact, most species of bees native to the US are of the solitary variety. This week, Meghan Barrett tells us about a few of those species and what makes them so unique. Suggested Reading: The Bees in your Backyard by Wilson and Carril: http://beesinyourbackyard.blogspot.com/p/poster.html (Poster and Book); highly recommend this book, inexpensive with BEAUTIFUL pictures and tons of fun information about the bees around us Bee lab: https://www.beelab.umn.edu/bees/bee-diversity Article on bee intelligence: https://phys.org/news/2013-10-bee-brains-view-larger-superior.html Lay-person-friendly summary of Meghan's first published paper: http://meghan-barrett.com/blog/2017/10/01/caste-differences-in-wasp-brains/ Follow me:PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Meghan Barrett: meghan-barrett.com, @Bee_Bytes (Twitter) Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Fellow ComSciCon- Chicago attendee Gourav Khullar joined me to chat about galaxy clusters. He explained how he models galaxies, infrared telescopes, and gravitational lensing. Suggested Reading: What is a galaxy cluster? http://chandra.harvard.edu/learn_galaxyCluster.html How galaxy clusters tell us a story about the universe: https://astrobites.org/2016/03/17/galaxy-clusters-cosmology-and-beethovens-no-6/ Spectroscopy of Galaxy Clusters: https://www.sdss.org/dr14/algorithms/ancillary/boss/massiveclusters/ Gravitational Lensing employed in Galaxy Clusters (super specific): https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3274 Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Gourav Khullar: @isskywalker, gkhullar@uchicago.edu, http://astro.uchicago.edu/people/gourav-khullar.php Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Have you ever visited a museum and wondered where all the artifacts come from? Well Heather studies collections of objects from WW2 (yes, like those you sometimes see at your favorite history museum) and where those objects originally came from. It can range from the usual battleground trophies to the truly bizarre... PS- sorry for the wonky sound recording, turns out recording in a new location threw everything off for me.... Suggested Reading: Organization that returns WW2 heirlooms to original families: obonsociety.org WW2 European theatre art & history preservation: monumentsmenfoundation.org Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Heather Scheurer: @hmcbee87 Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

How are emotional memories stored and retrieved? And what if we could use brain stimulation to learn more about emotional memory? Well today's guest tells us all about his work with stimulating live human brains! Suggested Reading: A quick primer on amygdala-mediated memory enhancement: http://www.dana.org/News/Understanding_the_Amygdalas_Role_in_Memory/ Video of the rare subjective responses to higher doses of amygdala stimulation: https://t.co/DR18WCf8Hz Cory's lab website: http://neurosurgery.emory.edu/research/behavioral-neuromodulation/lab-members.html Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Cory Inman: @IM_Inman Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

What can a common flower teach us about evolutionary biology? Well it turns out the incredibly diverse columbine flower is a great model organism and youtuber/grad student Molly takes us on a journey to learn more. Suggested Reading: Paper about developing Aquilegia (columbine flowers) as a model for evo-devo: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/8519267 Youtube episode of Science IRL that covers columbine flowers and plant evo-devo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e8pxOJ8RlI Youtube episode of Science IRL about GMOs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b_Un-lGSWo Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Molly Edwards: @science_irl Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Machine learning is quite a hot-topic of research right now, with many different offshoots linking it to other fields of research. Scott Cambo, today's guest, studies the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction. In particular, he's interested in how mobile self-tracking (think FitBit) user design can increase healthy behaviors and how those apps can use better machine learning algorithms to provide more useful feedback. Suggested Reading: Course Scott is putting together on Human-Centered Machine Learning: https://scottofthescience.github.io/hcml_course/ The website for Northwestern's AI Journal Club: https://aijcnu.github.io/ Scott's lab (CollabLab): http://collablab.northwestern.edu/ Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Scott Cambo: @scottOfTheSci , www.ScottAllenCambo.com Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Moving from our more typical science topics towards more applied research, I talked with Lindsey about her research in public history. She focuses on the representation of women in historic house museums and examining the disconnect between academic research about early American women and their portrayal in spaces that are stereotypically feminine. We also got a bit into the confederate monument controversy and how history is represented and remembered. Suggested Reading: Defining public history & general FAQ: ncph.org/what-is-public-history/about-the-field/ Statement by the American Historical Association regarding confederate monument removal: https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/statements-and-resolutions-of-support-and-protest/aha-statement-on-confederate-monuments Anarchist’s Guide to Historic House Museums: https://twistedpreservation.com/book/ Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Lindsey Fisher: @lindsey13_marie on twitter and @lizidizi on instagram Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Have you ever wondered how the variety of tea types could all come from a single plant? It turns out, single species is responsible for all your favorite teas (not including chai)! But like all plants, tea plants are under threat by our changing climate. Eric Scott studies how climate change in China is affecting a bug-bitten wulong tea called Oriental Beauty. Suggested Reading: Eric's Personal Website: www.ericrscott.com Eric's blogpost on his research: https://worldoftea.org/oriental-beauty-bug-bitten-teas/ Tea & climate change: https://www.eater.com/drinks/2016/7/8/12111038/climate-change-tea-leaves-flavor Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Eric Scott: @LeafyEricScott Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing