Podcast appearances and mentions of jo handelsman

National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants partially fund hundreds of research projects at UW-Madison each year. NIH covers about 55% of the indirect costs of research funding on campus, but last month they announced a new standard indirect rate of 15% across all NIH grants. What does this mean for researchers at the university?  Host Bianca Martin sat down with the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Dr. Jo Handelsman and Teaching Assistant Association co-president Madeline Topf to understand the impact of this cut which is currently being challenged in court. Wanna talk to us about an episode? Leave us a voicemail at 608-318-3367 or email madison@citycast.fm. We're also on Instagram!  You can get more Madison news delivered right to your inbox by subscribing to the Madison Minutes morning newsletter.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Madison? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matters Microbial #72: Who is in Your Water? January 2, 2025 Today, Dr. Ameet Pinto, Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the microbiome of drinking water and how it can be used to optimize safety and health.  Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Ameet Pinto Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode A short review of a famous article by Dr. Norman Pace about the microbiome of showers and how microbial populations differed due to chlorination. An old discussion of microbial oligotrophy:  the ability to survive on very low levels of nutrients. The story of John Snow, a water fountain, and cholera in England. The concept of “Live/Dead” staining of microbes. An overview of the concept of metagenomics. An article on the microbiome of shower hoses. A public science outreach program to study the microbiome of showerheads. The Instagram link for Dr. Pinto's wonderful cat, Nessie. A great book describing exceptions to Mendelian genetics using cats:  “Cats Are Not Peas.”  Highly recommended. An article about water supplies and the pathogenic microbe Legionella. An overview of water disinfection techniques. An introduction to a model system of a microbial soil community, called THOR by Jo Handelsman and colleagues. Thinking of water treatment and related technologies as a series of ecological niches, via Tom Curtis and Bill Sloane. Dr. Pinto's faculty website. Dr. Pinto's deeply fascinating research group website. Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com

In this episode, Dr. Jo Handelsman talked with Angela Byars-Winston about how her work as a molecular biologist can offer insights into issues of human diversity and how we can do a better job mentoring minoritized students in STEM disciplines. Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Handelsman is a Vilas Research Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and an affiliate of the Institute for Diversity Science. 

Jo Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Vilas Research Professor, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. She previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama as the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Her lab focuses on understanding the genetic basis for stability of microbial communities, the role of a gut community as a source of opportunistic pathogens, and the soil microbial community as a source of new antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes.

Today, Dr. Jo Handelsman of the University of Wisconsin Madison and Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work she and her research collaborators do on interactive microbial communities, using THOR (the hitchhikers of the rhizosphere) as a model system.  She will also remind us how vital soil is to our lives. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Jo Handlesman Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode An article on the story of “uranium glass,” that fluoresces under ultraviolet light.  Here is another interesting article on the topic.   The website for Hartiful, who makes custom enamel pins (including some that glow in the dark, as all cool things should). Giant Microbes makes small and large plush toys of microbes and other biology related items. An overview of ice nucleation proteins.  Here is a more technical article on the topic. The story of SNOWMAX. Ice nucleation proteins and snowflakes. One of my favorite videos from my microbiology class in 2008, demonstrating ice nucleation by Pseudomonas syringae.   The website for the Tiny Earth antibiotic crowdsourcing CURE. The website for Dr. Handelsman's book, “A World Without Soil.” An explainer of THOR, for new micronauts. A technical publication from Dr. Handelsman's research group on THOR. An explainer of microbial “zorbs,” for new micronauts. A technical publication from Dr. Handelsman's research group on “zorbs.” Dr. Handelsman's page on Wikipedia. Dr. Handelsman's faculty page. Dr. Handelsman's research website. Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com

Today, Dr. Paula Welander, Associate Professor of Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University (and #DocMartian #4) joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work she and her colleagues are doing probing at early life by studying lipid biosignatures that can appear in the fossil record—and the role that cholesterol and related molecules have on microbial life. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Paula Welander Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode A blog post I wrote about the truly remarkable late Dr. Abigail Salyers, who taught me the importance of being authentic as a scientist, educator, and human being. An essay about the Great Oxidation Event early in our planet's history. Information about BIFs—banded iron formations. An overview of stromatolites, both popular and scholarly. The Gunflint stromatolites. The story of WIlliam Schopf and stromatolites. The fluid mosaic model of cell membranes. The role of cholesterol in membranes. A nice description of some of Dr. Welander's work with hopanoids. Hopanoids in cyanobacterial membranes. An overview of biosignatures relevant to geobiology. The cell membrane and other differences of archaea. Adaptations to hyperthermophily in archaea and bacteria. The “Echoes of Life” book mentioned in the podcast. A fascinating article by Jo Handelsman and coauthors about implicit and unconscious bias in science.  Here is an update on this work, and a video presentation.   A really interesting video interview with Dr. Welander. Dr. Welander's departmental/divisional website. Dr. Welander's laboratory website Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com

Today, Dr. Jennifer Biddle of the School of Marine Science and Policy at the University of Delaware joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss deep microbial life in marine environments (and why you should care about it), as well as her fascination with archaea! Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Jennifer Biddle Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode The Tiny Earth program website, originated by Dr. Jo Handelsman. A review of the marine archaea. An article about microbial diversity in marine sediments. An article on methane and deep microbial sediments. A nice blog post about sulfur oxidizing microbes in marine sediments. Work by Dr. Biddle and colleagues on hydrogen consuming bacteria in deep sediments.   Work by Dr. Biddle and colleagues on geochemical processes promoting microbial growth in deep marine sediments..   The wonderfully strange skeleton shrimp discussed by Dr. Biddle.   A video explaining about taking a dive on the marine submersible Alvin.   Dr. Biddle's faculty website at the University of Delaware. Dr. Biddle's laboratory website. The forgotten woman who made microbiology possible Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com

Dr. Jo Handelsman, Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery shares her expertise in microbiome research and the importance of community. 

Today Dr. David Baltrus, Associate Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona, talks with us about how his laboratory studies bacteria that battle one another; the first rule of this fight club is that EVERYONE talks about Microbial Fight Club. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: David Baltrus Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode Here is a wonderful and easy to read essay about bacterial predators, including Bdellovibrio, from Scientific American. “2001:  A Space Odyssey” remains an important motion picture. The animated movie “The Iron Giant” is entertaining and has important messages.  Kaitlin Kariko, Drew Weissman, and the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. Jo Handelsman's wonderful “Tiny Earth” program, helping students to search for new antibiotic producing bacteria.   Elio Schaechter's absolutely essential guide/view of the changing microbial landscape in terms of organizing our knowledge. A nice introductory review of tailocins. A more exhaustive review of talocins. A really interesting article on this topic—and how tailocins might be used in agriculture— from Dr. Baltrus' laboratory. Dr. Baltrus' laboratory website can be found here. Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com

Hear from Bob Buhr of the Imperial College Business School, as we explore ways of organizing the risks from climate change. A risk taxonomy is a key underpinning of enterprise risk management. Used by firms to create a common risk language, it underpins a range of activities, such as risk identification, risk appetite setting and risk horizon scanning. But when it comes to the risks arising from climate change, there has been a bit of a vacuum. Some firms have chosen to use ‘green' taxonomies. But these were set up for a different purpose – that is to classify the sectoral investment opportunities from the transition to a net zero or ‘green' economy. That's why in today's episode, we'll be looking at how firms can overcome this gap, by examining a taxonomy that has been set up specifically to classify potential firm-specific climate risks. We'll explore: The challenges facing firms from a lack of suitable risk taxonomies; What the key categories within a climate risk taxonomy ought to be; and Why and how biodiversity loss and natural capital risks should be incorporated. To find out more about the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR®) Certificate, follow this link: https://www.garp.org/scr For more information on climate risk, visit GARP's Global Sustainability and Climate Risk Resource Center: https://www.garp.org/sustainability-climate If you have any questions, thoughts, or feedback regarding this podcast series, we would love to hear from you at: climateriskpodcast@garp.com Links from today's discussion: Bob's latest book, “Climate Risks: An Investor's Field Guide to Identification and Assessment” - https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Climate+Risks%3A+An+Investor%27s+Field+Guide+to+Identification+and+Assessment-p-9781394187355 Eila Kreivi on the GARP Climate Risk Podcast – https://www.garp.org/podcast/eu-taxonomy-sustainable-finances-cr-220616 UNEP FI's annual climate adaptation gap reports – https://www.unep.org/resources/adaptation-gap-report-2022 Jo Handelsman on the GARP Climate Risk Podcast – https://www.garp.org/podcast/soil-crisis-opportunity-cr-041323 McKinsey's report on natural capital - https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/sustainability/our-insights/nature-in-the-balance-what-companies-can-do-to-restore-natural-capital Speaker's Bio Bob Buhr, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, Imperial College Business School Over a 30-year career, Bob has worked at major rating agencies, asset managers, hedge funds and banks, and was often cited as a top-ranked bond analyst in various investor polls. He has published ESG and climate-related reports and written on environmental risks for years and has engaged with a variety of NGOs on climate and natural capital-related issues. He is the author of Climate Risks: An Investor's Field Guide to Identification and Assessment. Bob holds a bachelor's degree from Ithaca College, and a Ph.D. from Brown University.

Hear from Professor Jo Handelsman on the threats and opportunities that arise from soil – a vitally important resource that many of us take for granted and yet is at significant risk. Humans depend on soil for 95% of global food production, yet it is eroding at unsustainable rates.  Climate change is making this worse, for example as rainstorms are projected to become more frequent and intense with a warming planet.  This poses severe risks to our ability to feed a growing population. Yet, soil is also the largest terrestrial repository for carbon, containing three times as much as the Earth's atmosphere and four times as much as all plants combined, meaning that it has the potential to be a significant mitigant in the fight to stop to climate change. Given its critical importance to humanity, we wanted to use this episode to dive into the threats and opportunities that arise from soil.  We'll discuss: ·       Why and how soil is so vitally important for humanity; ·       The scale of the risks from soil erosion and what can be done to stop this; ·       And how the financial sector can respond to help address this ‘silent crisis'. For more information on climate risk, visit GARP's Global Sustainability and Climate Risk Resource Center: https://www.garp.org/sustainability-climate If you have any questions, thoughts, or feedback regarding this podcast series, we would love to hear from you at: climateriskpodcast@garp.com Links from today's discussion: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - https://wid.wisc.edu/ White House Office of Science and Technology Policy - https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ A World Without Soil by Jo Handelsman - https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300271119/a-world-without-soil/ GARP Climate Risk Podcast with Maggie Monast (Environmental Defense Fund) - https://www.garp.org/podcast/reduce-emission-resilience-cr-210617 Speaker's Bio Dr Jo Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also a Vilas Research Professor and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.  Dr. Handelsman was appointed by President Barack Obama as the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she served for three years until January 2017. She has been editor-in-chief of various academic journals and is the author of many books, including the co-author of the recently published book ‘A World Without Soil: the past, present and precarious future of the earth beneath our feet.' She received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring from President Obama in 2011 and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Mike and Chad invite Dr. Jo Handelsman from the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery to discuss the dirty secrets of our soil. There is a lot more happening beneath our feet than we normally think about. And we discuss ways to help maintain the levels of soil that we currently have.Subscribe to this podcast so that you can get the latest episode as soon as it becomes available.

Biden Declares The COVID-19 Pandemic Over. Is It? During an interview with 60 minutes last weekend, President Joe Biden said “the pandemic is over.” “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with covid, we're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one is wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape, “ Biden said at the Detroit auto show. This comment has prompted some dismay from the public health community. The World Health Organization hasn't declared the pandemic over just yet. And the criteria to declare a pandemic over is nuanced and cannot be declared by the leader of a single country. Ira talks with Katherine Wu, staff writer at the Atlantic, about that and other top science stories of the week including a new ebola outbreak in Uganda, the latest ant census, and Perseverance's rock collection.  Diving Into The Biggest Ideas In The Universe Can mere mortals learn real physics, without all the analogies? Dr. Sean Carroll, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion, says yes—if you're willing to accept a bit of math. Carroll says that he dreams of a world in which ordinary people can have informed ideas on physics, and might argue about the latest black hole news as urgently as they might debate a sports team's performance in last night's game. His new book starts with some of the basics of motion that might be taught in an introductory physics class, then builds on them up through concepts like time and black holes. Carroll joins Ira to talk about the book, exploring where physics equations leave off and philosophical concepts begin, and the nebulous world in between. To read an excerpt of The Biggest Ideas In The Universe: Space, Time, and Motion, visit sciencefriday.com. Was Soylent Green Right About 2022? In the spring of 1973, the movie Soylent Green premiered. The film drops us into a New York City that's overcrowded, polluted, and dealing with the effects of a climate catastrophe. Only the city's elite can afford clean water and real foods, like strawberry jam. The rest of the population relies on a communal food supply called Soylent. There's Soylent Red, Soylent Yellow… and a new product: Soylent Green. The year the film takes place? 2022. And spoiler alert: Soylent Green is people. While the 2022 the film depicts is—thankfully—much darker than our current situation, the message still holds up. When the film premiered, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the Clean Air Act were very much in the country's consciousness. 50 years later, warmer temperatures, soil degradation, and social inequality are more relevant than ever. Joining Ira to talk about the importance of Soylent Green 50 years later is Sonia Epstein, associate curator of science and film at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Also joining is soil scientist Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery in Madison, Wisconsin.  Saturn's Rings Might Be Made From A Missing Moon Saturn's rings are one of the most stunning, iconic features of our solar system. But for a very long time, Saturn was a ring-less planet. Research suggests the rings are only about 100 million years old—younger than many dinosaurs. Because Saturn wasn't born with its rings, astronomers have been scratching their heads for decades wondering how the planet's accessories formed. A new study in the journal Science suggests a new idea about the rings' origins—and a missing moon may hold the answers. Co-author Dr. Burkhard Militzer, a planetary scientist and professor at UC Berkeley, joins Ira to talk about the surprising origins of Saturn's rings. Want to know more? Listen to this previous Science Friday episode about Saturn's formation.  Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com. 

Jason talks to Jo Handelsman, the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at University of Wisconsin, about the role soil has played in the historical invasions of Ukraine, how fast we're running out of soil and what will happen when we do.Presenter: Jason KingsleyProducer: Natt TapleyAssistant Producer: Abi RobinsonAudio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did ‘Soylent Green's' Predictions About 2022 Hold Up? In the spring of 1973, the movie Soylent Green premiered. The film drops us into a New York City that's overcrowded, polluted, and dealing with the effects of a climate catastrophe. Only the city's elite can afford clean water and real foods, like strawberry jam. The rest of the population relies on a communal food supply called Soylent. There's Soylent Red, Soylent Yellow… and a new product: Soylent Green. The year the film takes place? 2022. And spoiler alert: Soylent Green is people. While the 2022 the film depicts is—thankfully—much darker than our current situation, the message still holds up. When the film premiered, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the Clean Air Act were very much in the country's consciousness. 50 years later, warmer temperatures, soil degradation, and social inequality are more relevant than ever. Joining Ira to talk about the importance of Soylent Green 50 years later is Sonia Epstein, associate curator of science and film at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Also joining is soil scientist Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery in Madison, Wisconsin.   The National Science Foundation Has A New Goal: Entrepreneurship The South By Southwest festival in Austin this year was the site of at least one unusual event: a press announcement by the head of the National Science Foundation, the primary federal agency tasked with funding and supporting fundamental research and investing in the education of young scientists in those fields. NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan announced he was creating a new directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) to focus on “use-inspired” research that can be brought to commercial markets, in partnership with businesses and entrepreneurs. The goal, Panchanathan said in a press release in March, was to “accelerate the development of new technologies and products that improve Americans' way of life, grow the economy and create new jobs, and strengthen and sustain U.S. competitiveness for decades to come.” Panchanathan talks to Ira about what this new chapter means for the NSF, the future of basic research with no immediate commercial uses, and the challenges of persuading the public that failure, as much as success, is inherent to science.   The Colorado River Misses Its Snow High in the Rocky Mountains, under thin air and bluebird skies, the Colorado River basin is slowly filling its savings account. Craggy peaks become smooth walls of white and piles of snow climb conifer trunks, covering even the deepest, darkest corners of the woods with a glimmering blanket. The snow that accumulates in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming will eventually become water in the Colorado River. Some of it will flow as far south as Mexico, running through kitchen faucets in cities and suburbs along the way, or watering crops that keep America fed through the winter. Year by year, those piles are getting slightly smaller and melting earlier — slowly exhibiting the sting of a warming climate. The way we measure the snow is changing too, as a shifting baseline for what counts as “average” paints a somewhat deceptive picture of how much snow is stored up in the mountains. Read the rest at sciencefriday.com.   Exploring Neptune's Unusual Seasons Planetary scientists monitoring how the outer planets change over time have made a surprising observation of springtime on the planet Neptune. As the planet moves towards summer in its southern hemisphere, one might expect it to get warmer—but in data taken over 17 years, researchers observed that the average temperature actually seems to be declining. One theory involves the conversion of atmospheric methane, which traps heat, to ethane or other hydrocarbon compounds that release heat more readily, but more research is needed. The researchers also spotted the rapid formation of a hot-spot at the south pole of Neptune, with an increase of some 11 degrees C over just two Earth years. Models had predicted a temperature swing of perhaps 15 degrees over the entire seasonal cycle. These findings were reported this week in the Planetary Science Journal. Scientists don't know very much about Neptune—it's over 30 times Earth's distance from the sun, and gets only one nine-hundredth of the sunlight. It takes around 165 Earth years to complete an orbit, meaning that the researchers' 17 years of data account for only a small fraction of one season. Because of the planet's tilt and its long orbit, the last time the planet's north pole was visible from Earth was in the 1960s. And we've only visited once, via the Voyager spacecraft, over 30 years ago. Michael Roman, a planetary scientist at the University of Leicester in the UK, and one of the authors of the report, joins Ira to talk about the strange springtime on Neptune—and the planet's many remaining mysteries.   Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com.  

Dr. Jo Handelsman, author of the new book “A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet,” discusses the urgency of developing new antibiotics, why she's opposed to calling soil “dirt,” and what Indigenous agricultural systems can teach us about protecting and rebuilding farmlands.Episode sponsored by Château Troplong Mondot.

A World without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet (Yale University Press, 2021) by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century. The combination of intensifying erosion caused by climate change and the increasing food needs of a growing world population is creating a desperate need for solutions to this crisis. Writing for a nonspecialist audience, Jo Handelsman celebrates the capacities of soil and explores the soil-related challenges of the near future. She begins by telling soil's origin story, explains how it erodes and the subsequent repercussions worldwide, and offers solutions. She considers lessons learned from indigenous people who have sustainably farmed the same land for thousands of years, practices developed for large-scale agriculture, and proposals using technology and policy initiatives. Jo Handelsman is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Handelsman previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama. Kayla Cohen provided research and creative contributions to A World Without Soil. She completed a master's degree with distinction in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics. Eyad Houssami makes theatre and has participated in the revitalization of an ancient organic farm in southern Lebanon. He is editor of the Arabic-English book Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre (Pluto/Dar Al Adab) and was editor-at-large of Portal 9, a bilingual literary and academic journal about urbanism. His doctoral research project at the University of Leeds and this work are supported by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/R012733/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. A Syrian multinational, he studied at Yale and earned a certificate in beekeeping from SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

A World without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet (Yale University Press, 2021) by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century. The combination of intensifying erosion caused by climate change and the increasing food needs of a growing world population is creating a desperate need for solutions to this crisis. Writing for a nonspecialist audience, Jo Handelsman celebrates the capacities of soil and explores the soil-related challenges of the near future. She begins by telling soil's origin story, explains how it erodes and the subsequent repercussions worldwide, and offers solutions. She considers lessons learned from indigenous people who have sustainably farmed the same land for thousands of years, practices developed for large-scale agriculture, and proposals using technology and policy initiatives. Jo Handelsman is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Handelsman previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama. Kayla Cohen provided research and creative contributions to A World Without Soil. She completed a master's degree with distinction in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics. Eyad Houssami makes theatre and has participated in the revitalization of an ancient organic farm in southern Lebanon. He is editor of the Arabic-English book Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre (Pluto/Dar Al Adab) and was editor-at-large of Portal 9, a bilingual literary and academic journal about urbanism. His doctoral research project at the University of Leeds and this work are supported by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/R012733/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. A Syrian multinational, he studied at Yale and earned a certificate in beekeeping from SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

A World without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet (Yale University Press, 2021) by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century. The combination of intensifying erosion caused by climate change and the increasing food needs of a growing world population is creating a desperate need for solutions to this crisis. Writing for a nonspecialist audience, Jo Handelsman celebrates the capacities of soil and explores the soil-related challenges of the near future. She begins by telling soil's origin story, explains how it erodes and the subsequent repercussions worldwide, and offers solutions. She considers lessons learned from indigenous people who have sustainably farmed the same land for thousands of years, practices developed for large-scale agriculture, and proposals using technology and policy initiatives. Jo Handelsman is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Handelsman previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama. Kayla Cohen provided research and creative contributions to A World Without Soil. She completed a master's degree with distinction in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics. Eyad Houssami makes theatre and has participated in the revitalization of an ancient organic farm in southern Lebanon. He is editor of the Arabic-English book Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre (Pluto/Dar Al Adab) and was editor-at-large of Portal 9, a bilingual literary and academic journal about urbanism. His doctoral research project at the University of Leeds and this work are supported by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/R012733/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. A Syrian multinational, he studied at Yale and earned a certificate in beekeeping from SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

A World without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet (Yale University Press, 2021) by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century. The combination of intensifying erosion caused by climate change and the increasing food needs of a growing world population is creating a desperate need for solutions to this crisis. Writing for a nonspecialist audience, Jo Handelsman celebrates the capacities of soil and explores the soil-related challenges of the near future. She begins by telling soil's origin story, explains how it erodes and the subsequent repercussions worldwide, and offers solutions. She considers lessons learned from indigenous people who have sustainably farmed the same land for thousands of years, practices developed for large-scale agriculture, and proposals using technology and policy initiatives. Jo Handelsman is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Handelsman previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama. Kayla Cohen provided research and creative contributions to A World Without Soil. She completed a master's degree with distinction in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics. Eyad Houssami makes theatre and has participated in the revitalization of an ancient organic farm in southern Lebanon. He is editor of the Arabic-English book Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre (Pluto/Dar Al Adab) and was editor-at-large of Portal 9, a bilingual literary and academic journal about urbanism. His doctoral research project at the University of Leeds and this work are supported by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/R012733/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. A Syrian multinational, he studied at Yale and earned a certificate in beekeeping from SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/food

A World without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet (Yale University Press, 2021) by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century. The combination of intensifying erosion caused by climate change and the increasing food needs of a growing world population is creating a desperate need for solutions to this crisis. Writing for a nonspecialist audience, Jo Handelsman celebrates the capacities of soil and explores the soil-related challenges of the near future. She begins by telling soil's origin story, explains how it erodes and the subsequent repercussions worldwide, and offers solutions. She considers lessons learned from indigenous people who have sustainably farmed the same land for thousands of years, practices developed for large-scale agriculture, and proposals using technology and policy initiatives. Jo Handelsman is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Handelsman previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama. Kayla Cohen provided research and creative contributions to A World Without Soil. She completed a master's degree with distinction in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics. Eyad Houssami makes theatre and has participated in the revitalization of an ancient organic farm in southern Lebanon. He is editor of the Arabic-English book Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre (Pluto/Dar Al Adab) and was editor-at-large of Portal 9, a bilingual literary and academic journal about urbanism. His doctoral research project at the University of Leeds and this work are supported by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/R012733/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. A Syrian multinational, he studied at Yale and earned a certificate in beekeeping from SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

A World without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet (Yale University Press, 2021) by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century. The combination of intensifying erosion caused by climate change and the increasing food needs of a growing world population is creating a desperate need for solutions to this crisis. Writing for a nonspecialist audience, Jo Handelsman celebrates the capacities of soil and explores the soil-related challenges of the near future. She begins by telling soil's origin story, explains how it erodes and the subsequent repercussions worldwide, and offers solutions. She considers lessons learned from indigenous people who have sustainably farmed the same land for thousands of years, practices developed for large-scale agriculture, and proposals using technology and policy initiatives. Jo Handelsman is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Handelsman previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama. Kayla Cohen provided research and creative contributions to A World Without Soil. She completed a master's degree with distinction in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics. Eyad Houssami makes theatre and has participated in the revitalization of an ancient organic farm in southern Lebanon. He is editor of the Arabic-English book Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre (Pluto/Dar Al Adab) and was editor-at-large of Portal 9, a bilingual literary and academic journal about urbanism. His doctoral research project at the University of Leeds and this work are supported by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/R012733/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. A Syrian multinational, he studied at Yale and earned a certificate in beekeeping from SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

A World without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet (Yale University Press, 2021) by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century. The combination of intensifying erosion caused by climate change and the increasing food needs of a growing world population is creating a desperate need for solutions to this crisis. Writing for a nonspecialist audience, Jo Handelsman celebrates the capacities of soil and explores the soil-related challenges of the near future. She begins by telling soil's origin story, explains how it erodes and the subsequent repercussions worldwide, and offers solutions. She considers lessons learned from indigenous people who have sustainably farmed the same land for thousands of years, practices developed for large-scale agriculture, and proposals using technology and policy initiatives. Jo Handelsman is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Handelsman previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama. Kayla Cohen provided research and creative contributions to A World Without Soil. She completed a master's degree with distinction in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics. Eyad Houssami makes theatre and has participated in the revitalization of an ancient organic farm in southern Lebanon. He is editor of the Arabic-English book Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre (Pluto/Dar Al Adab) and was editor-at-large of Portal 9, a bilingual literary and academic journal about urbanism. His doctoral research project at the University of Leeds and this work are supported by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/R012733/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. A Syrian multinational, he studied at Yale and earned a certificate in beekeeping from SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Wildfire Intensity Rises, So Does The Human Toll Of Blazes It was Labor Day 2020, and Mammoth Pool Reservoir, in California's Sierra Nevada, was buzzing with campers. Karla Carcamo and her parents, siblings, cousins, and countless others, mostly from the Los Angeles area, have been coming here every Labor Day for 17 years. “Most of it is my family, and family that's invited family, and those family friends have invited friends of theirs,” she says. “I'm telling you, we have over 200 people.” Alex Tettamanti and her husband Raul Reyes are also Labor Day regulars. Every year, they drive in from Las Vegas to meet up with an off-roading club made up of a few dozen families from across the West. They fill their weekend with jet-skiing, ATVing and hiking. “It's beautiful,” says Tettamanti. “The smell of all the pine trees and stuff, and the trees are so big, it's really cool. The campground and reservoir are nestled at an elevation of about 3,000 feet in the Central California foothills a few hours northeast of Fresno. The attraction is unfiltered Sierra Nevada: Sparkling blue water surrounded by a thick forest of stately ponderosa pines and black oaks. Plus, it's isolated. There's only one road in and out, which dead ends at the lake. “Being there, let me tell you, it's like a little piece of paradise,” says Carcamo. That Friday passed like any other. Groups split up to go hiking, swimming and grilling, and Carcamo's family prepared for their annual pupusa night later in the weekend. By Saturday morning, however, the atmosphere had changed. “When I woke up, I did notice it was kind of cloudy,” says Reyes. “The sky was orange and there was ash, like big pieces of ash falling,” says Reyes' friend Vicky Castro. Read the rest at sciencefriday.com.   Squirrel-Nut Economics And Other Agility Tricks In many parts of the country, the lead-up to winter is a busy time for squirrels, furiously collecting and hiding acorns and nuts for the cold months ahead. But how can squirrels recall where it has stashed all its stores? And what can studying squirrels tell researchers about memory, learning, and economic decision-making in other species? Ira talks with Lucia Jacobs, a professor in the department of psychology and the Institute of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, about her studies of the campus squirrels—from learning about their cognition, learning, and memory to recording the acrobatic movements of a squirrel on the ground and in the treetops. Jacobs co-leads a "squirrel school," observing rescued and orphaned juvenile squirrels as they learn normal squirrel behavior, and is contributing to a project seeking to develop robots using agility tricks learned from the rodents.   What Will We Reap Without Topsoil? You may have missed the research when it came out this February: a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science reporting on satellite studies of farmland topsoil in the nation's corn belt, states like Iowa, Indiana, and Illinois. And the news was not good. The team estimated that more than one-third of the topsoil in this region is gone, eroded mostly from hilltops and ridgelines, thanks to the plowing and tilling processes used to perform industrial agriculture. That topsoil, some of the richest in the world, is carbon-rich and crucial to our food supply. And yet it's continuing to wash away, a hundred years after scientists like Aldo Leopold first called out the threat of erosion. This erosion, as well as other degradation of soil's complex structure and microbiome, continues at a fast clip around the globe, hurting food production and ecosystems health. In addition, soil could be helping us contain more than 100 billion additional tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—if we let it. But the good news, according to University of Wisconsin soil scientist Jo Handelsman, is that the solutions like cover crops and no-till farming are simple, well-understood, and easy to implement—as long as we give farmers incentives to make the leap. She talks to Ira about her forthcoming book, A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet.

Ben chats with Jo Handelsman, scientist extraordinaire, about her journey from viewing pond water underneath the microscope to full professorship, trying to save our soils, working for the Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Obama Administration, and now directing the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery. They dive into how science still needs to be improved to welcome and embrace more women and people in color, battling imposter syndrome, and what "luck" might actually be. Jo's "A World Without Soil"- https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256406/world-without-soil (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256406/world-without-soil) Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/deeperthandata (https://www.patreon.com/deeperthandata) Twitter- https://twitter.com/deeperthandata (https://twitter.com/deeperthandata) Website- http://www.deeperthandata.media/ (www.deeperthandata.media) Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/DeeperThanData (www.facebook.com/DeeperThanData)

We talk with the director of the Wisconsin Book Festival about what readings are on the calendar for this year's Fall event. Authors on the lineup this year include Miriam Toews, Bob Woodward, Jo Handelsman and many more.

Der Schädel von Männern ist im Verhältnis zu ihrem Körper kleiner als der von Frauen. Daher müssen Männer intelligenter sein als Frauen - diese und ähnliche Aussagen wurden in den vergangenen Jahrhunderten dazu genutzt, die Ungleichbehandlung von Männern und Frauen zu legitimieren. Mit dem relativ neuen Forschungsgebiet "Genderstudies" hat die Forschung rund um Gender und Geschlecht neuen Auftrieb erhalten. Wie groß sind die die Unterschiede zwischen den verschiedenen Geschlechtern wirklich? Und warum gibt es biologisch gesehen gar keine scharfe Trennung von Geschlechtern? Über diese Fragen sprechen Host Lucie Kluth und Wissenschaftsjournalistin Yasmin Appelhans in der aktuellen Folge von Synapsen. Und sie blicken auch auf den Wissenschaftsbetrieb selbst: Wie steht es dort um die Gleich- oder Ungleichbehandlung der Geschlechter? Dort, wo an Unterschieden zwischen Geschlechtern geforscht wird und wo die andauernde Diskriminierung von Personen aufgrund ihres Geschlechts kritisiert wird? Die Hintergrundinformationen • Anteil Frauen in der Wissenschaft | Statistisches Bundesamt: Personal an Hochschulen - Fachserie 11 Reihe 4.4 - 2019 https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bildung-Forschung-Kultur/Hochschulen/Publikationen/Downloads-Hochschulen/personal-hochschulen-2110440197004.html;jsessionid=C60568A35D53A45371DB2647A672F287.live712 • Studie zu Kompetenz von Forschenden bei identischem CV | Corinne A. Moss-Racusin, John F. Dovidio, Victoria L. Brescoll, Mark J. Graham, Jo Handelsman: "Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students", erschienen 2012 auf PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474 • Debatte über binäres biologisches Geschlecht | Claire Ainsworth: "Sex redefined", erschienen 2015 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943 • Dissertation Stephanie Michalczyk über Geschlecht und Gender im Wissenschaftsbetrieb | Stephanie Michalczyk: "The [M]OTHER. Geschlecht im Hochschulreformdiskurs", erschienen 2021 auf jpc https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/books/detail/-/art/stephanie-michalczyk-the-m-other-geschlecht-im-hochschulreformdiskurs/hnum/10479976 • Vornamen von Profesorinnen und Professoren | "Studie: Wie heißen Deutschlands Professorinnen und Professoren?", erschienen 2019 auf forschung-und-lehre.de https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/wie-heissen-deutschlands-professorinnen-und-professoren-1511/ • Kinder zeichnen Wissenschaftler | David I. Miller, Kyle M. Nolla, Alice H. Eagly, David H. Uttal: "The Development of Children's Gender-Science Stereotypes - A Meta-analysis of 5 Decades of U.S. Draw-A-Scientist Studies" https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13039 • Männer präsentieren ihre Forschung positiver | Marc J Lerchenmueller et al.: "Gender differences in how scientists present the importance of their research: observational study", erschienen 2019 auf The BMJ https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6573 • Gender-bias in Zitierungen von Veröffentlichungen | Jordan D. Dworkin, Kristin A. Linn, Erin G. Teich, Perry Zurn, Russell T. Shinohara, Danielle S. Bassett: "The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists", erschienen 2020 auf Nature Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0658-y • Frauen publizieren weniger während Corona-Pandemie | Carolin Lerchenmüller, Leo Schmallenbach, Anupam B Jena, Marc J Lerchenmueller: "Longitudinal analyses of gender differences in first authorship publications related to COVID-19", erschienen 2021 auf BMJ Journals https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/4/e045176 • Debatte um Caster Semenya | Quarks: "Urteil gegen Caster Semenya So fragwürdig ist die Testosteron-Regel", erschienen 2019 https://www.quarks.de/gesundheit/medizin/darum-ist-das-urteil-gegen-caster-semenya-so-umstritten/ • Buch Gender-Neurowissenschaften | Daphna Joel, Luba Vikhanski: "Das Gehirn hat kein Geschlecht - Wie die Neurowissenschaft die Genderdebatte revolutioniert", erschienen 2021 https://www.dtv.de/buch/daphna-joel-luba-vikhanski-das-gehirn-hat-kein-geschlecht-43780/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwk4yGBhDQARIsACGfAesgHBV5ESprqSX6p8Vd9JicqinWzmDo772ZnhjNegbpDIUA0iubVGQaArZTEALw_wcB • Publikation zu Theorie von Mosaikgehirn | Daphna Joel et al.: "Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic", erschienen 2015 https://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468?fbclid=IwAR3SluVjPC6mbqu0fU7km0E_QmSYe0r5-7axHEC4P4_4tbZnu2h-tiqmcok • Hochstaplersyndrom | Dena M. Bravata et al.: "Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review", erschienen 2019 im Journal of General Internal Medicine auf Springer Link https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-019-05364-1?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_source=ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AA_en_06082018&ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst_20191218 • Geschlechtswechsel Clownfische | Laura Casas, Fran Saborido-Rey, Taewoo Ryu, Craig Michell, Timothy Ravasi, Xabier Irigoien: "Sex Change in Clownfish: Molecular Insights from Transcriptome Analysis", erschienen 2016 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35461 • Testosteron-Spiegel in Abhängigkeit davon, wo Männer aufgewachsen sind | Kesson Magid, Robert T. Chatterton, Farid Uddin Ahamed, Gillian R. Bentley: "Childhood ecology influences salivary testosterone, pubertal age and stature of Bangladeshi UK migrant men", erschienen 2018 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0567-6.epdf?shared_access_token=42QCEb0ikI3LwIuBc6u-TtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PbKnmbIjl8rYFaKg5N_uaEq-vZMt4S1KZW0-E8fc2aHlKL1ck_GKRaWmEHOMIqVLl4z2oOVCyZcIePs9HjZLlarRQcixreViJFx6kkO817Ksdf7ReBnqTqNi0sl5QozkM%3D • Testosteron und Männer, die sich um Kinder kümmern | Lee T. Gettlera, Thomas W. McDadea, Alan B. Feranilc, Christopher W. Kuzawa: "Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males", erschienen 2011 bei PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108/39/16194.full.pdf • Film "Picture a scientist" bei NDR Kultur https://www.ndr.de/kultur/film/Doku-ueber-Frauen-in-der-Wissenschaft-Picture-a-Scientist,pictureascientist100.html • Beispiele für geschlechtssensible Forschung | Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering and Environment http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/ • Geruch von Männern stresst Ratten | Robert E Sorge, et al.: "Olfactory exposure to males, including men, causes stress and related analgesia in rodents", erschienen 2014 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.2935 • Forschung zu Seenadeln und Seepferdchen | Oliva Roth für Geomar Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel https://www.geomar.de/oroth

Der Schädel von Männern ist im Verhältnis zu ihrem Körper kleiner als der von Frauen. Daher müssen Männer intelligenter sein als Frauen - diese und ähnliche Aussagen wurden in den vergangenen Jahrhunderten dazu genutzt, die Ungleichbehandlung von Männern und Frauen zu legitimieren. Mit dem relativ neuen Forschungsgebiet "Genderstudies" hat die Forschung rund um Gender und Geschlecht neuen Auftrieb erhalten. Wie groß sind die die Unterschiede zwischen den verschiedenen Geschlechtern wirklich? Und warum gibt es biologisch gesehen gar keine scharfe Trennung von Geschlechtern? Über diese Fragen sprechen Host Lucie Kluth und Wissenschaftsjournalistin Yasmin Appelhans in der aktuellen Folge von Synapsen. Und sie blicken auch auf den Wissenschaftsbetrieb selbst: Wie steht es dort um die Gleich- oder Ungleichbehandlung der Geschlechter? Dort, wo an Unterschieden zwischen Geschlechtern geforscht wird und wo die andauernde Diskriminierung von Personen aufgrund ihres Geschlechts kritisiert wird? Die Hintergrundinformationen • Anteil Frauen in der Wissenschaft | Statistisches Bundesamt: Personal an Hochschulen - Fachserie 11 Reihe 4.4 - 2019 https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bildung-Forschung-Kultur/Hochschulen/Publikationen/Downloads-Hochschulen/personal-hochschulen-2110440197004.html;jsessionid=C60568A35D53A45371DB2647A672F287.live712 • Studie zu Kompetenz von Forschenden bei identischem CV | Corinne A. Moss-Racusin, John F. Dovidio, Victoria L. Brescoll, Mark J. Graham, Jo Handelsman: "Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students", erschienen 2012 auf PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474 • Debatte über binäres biologisches Geschlecht | Claire Ainsworth: "Sex redefined", erschienen 2015 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943 • Dissertation Stephanie Michalczyk über Geschlecht und Gender im Wissenschaftsbetrieb | Stephanie Michalczyk: "The [M]OTHER. Geschlecht im Hochschulreformdiskurs", erschienen 2021 auf jpc https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/books/detail/-/art/stephanie-michalczyk-the-m-other-geschlecht-im-hochschulreformdiskurs/hnum/10479976 • Vornamen von Profesorinnen und Professoren | "Studie: Wie heißen Deutschlands Professorinnen und Professoren?", erschienen 2019 auf forschung-und-lehre.de https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/wie-heissen-deutschlands-professorinnen-und-professoren-1511/ • Kinder zeichnen Wissenschaftler | David I. Miller, Kyle M. Nolla, Alice H. Eagly, David H. Uttal: "The Development of Children's Gender-Science Stereotypes - A Meta-analysis of 5 Decades of U.S. Draw-A-Scientist Studies" https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13039 • Männer präsentieren ihre Forschung positiver | Marc J Lerchenmueller et al.: "Gender differences in how scientists present the importance of their research: observational study", erschienen 2019 auf The BMJ https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6573 • Gender-bias in Zitierungen von Veröffentlichungen | Jordan D. Dworkin, Kristin A. Linn, Erin G. Teich, Perry Zurn, Russell T. Shinohara, Danielle S. Bassett: "The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists", erschienen 2020 auf Nature Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0658-y • Frauen publizieren weniger während Corona-Pandemie | Carolin Lerchenmüller, Leo Schmallenbach, Anupam B Jena, Marc J Lerchenmueller: "Longitudinal analyses of gender differences in first authorship publications related to COVID-19", erschienen 2021 auf BMJ Journals https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/4/e045176 • Debatte um Caster Semenya | Quarks: "Urteil gegen Caster Semenya So fragwürdig ist die Testosteron-Regel", erschienen 2019 https://www.quarks.de/gesundheit/medizin/darum-ist-das-urteil-gegen-caster-semenya-so-umstritten/ • Buch Gender-Neurowissenschaften | Daphna Joel, Luba Vikhanski: "Das Gehirn hat kein Geschlecht - Wie die Neurowissenschaft die Genderdebatte revolutioniert", erschienen 2021 https://www.dtv.de/buch/daphna-joel-luba-vikhanski-das-gehirn-hat-kein-geschlecht-43780/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwk4yGBhDQARIsACGfAesgHBV5ESprqSX6p8Vd9JicqinWzmDo772ZnhjNegbpDIUA0iubVGQaArZTEALw_wcB • Publikation zu Theorie von Mosaikgehirn | Daphna Joel et al.: "Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic", erschienen 2015 https://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468?fbclid=IwAR3SluVjPC6mbqu0fU7km0E_QmSYe0r5-7axHEC4P4_4tbZnu2h-tiqmcok • Hochstaplersyndrom | Dena M. Bravata et al.: "Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review", erschienen 2019 im Journal of General Internal Medicine auf Springer Link https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-019-05364-1?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_source=ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AA_en_06082018&ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst_20191218 • Geschlechtswechsel Clownfische | Laura Casas, Fran Saborido-Rey, Taewoo Ryu, Craig Michell, Timothy Ravasi, Xabier Irigoien: "Sex Change in Clownfish: Molecular Insights from Transcriptome Analysis", erschienen 2016 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35461 • Testosteron-Spiegel in Abhängigkeit davon, wo Männer aufgewachsen sind | Kesson Magid, Robert T. Chatterton, Farid Uddin Ahamed, Gillian R. 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This week we present two stories from our back catalog of people having to handle previous epidemics. Part 1: As a pediatrician in the 1980s, Ken Haller comes across a disturbing X-ray. Part 2: On her first day working in the White House under President Obama, microbiologist Jo Handelsman receives some bad news. Ken is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. He serves on the boards of the Arts & Education Council of Greater St. Louis, the Saint Louis University Library Associates, and the Gateway Media Literacy Project. He has also served on the board of the Missouri Foundation for Health and as President of the St. Louis Pediatric Society; the Missouri Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics; PROMO, Missouri’s statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization; the Gateway Men’s Chorus, St. Louis’s gay men’s chorus: and GLMA, the national organization of LGBT health care professionals. He is a frequent spokesperson in local and national media on the health care needs of children and adolescents. Ken is also an accomplished actor, produced playwright, and acclaimed cabaret performer. In 2015 he was named Best St. Louis Cabaret Performer by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and he has taken his one-person shows to New York, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. His special interests include cultural competency, health literacy, the relationship of medicine to the arts, the effects of media on children, and the special health needs of LGBT youth. His personal mission is Healing. Dr. Jo Handelsman is currently the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Previously, she served President Obama for three years as the Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Molecular Biology and has served on the faculties of UW-Madison and Yale University. Dr. Handelsman has authored over 200 papers, 30 editorials and 5 books. She is responsible for groundbreaking studies in microbiology and gender in science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a conversation with Marc Chevrette. Marc is a post-doc in Jo Handelsman’s group at the University of Wisconsin, where, among lots of other things, he works on the Tiny Earth project, which you’ll hear him describe. He’s also a really good friend of mine. I met him when we worked together at the late great Warp Drive Bio, a biotech startup where we did genome mining together. Marc was the Head of Experimental Genomics there, before he decided to leave for graduate school and pursue his PhD.

What do microbes, the soil, and climate change all have in common? Dr. Jo Handelsman studies microbes at the University of Wisconsin. She researches the vast array of microbes that live on us or in us, and also the even greater number that lurk in the soil beneath our feet. In this fascinating episode, Alan Alda talks with Dr. Handelsman, who served as the previous science advisor to President Barack Obama and as the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, about why both the microbes within and below us are so important to our survival. Alan and Dr. Handelsman begin this conversation talking about the weather, which these days often leads to talk that’s far from small.  Support the show.

Despite many positive changes, women in science report continuing problems. When a colleague ignores your contribution, belittles your work, or even harasses you, what do you do? Women have been leading a revolution in science for many years, and their voices are now being heard like never before. In this special episode of Clear+Vivid, Alan Alda and his producers speak with pioneers in the revolution, their mentees, and some of today’s most outspoken advocates for professional women in the STEM fields. They have a lot to teach us about how to bring about equity for women in science— and how to keep it. Joining us in the studio and on location in their labs, we hear from Melinda Gates, Jo Handelsman, Nancy Hopkins, Hope Jahren, Pardis Sabeti, Leslie Vosshall, and many more. This special episode dives deep into the most troubling issues facing career women in science and offers real insight about what works, what doesn’t, and what we can all do to secure a more equal and fair future.  Support the show.

Jo Handelsman is director of the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery, and that's just the latest step in research career that began with an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship in 1984. She's a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, co-founder of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, and founder of the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching. She was the associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and President Obama awarded her the Presidential Award for Science Mentoring. And she's nationally recognized for her work on understanding implicit biases. ACS talked with her about: 4:38 - On her book, Entering Mentoring: A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists – “We started interviewing faculty that we thought were great mentors, and all of them said, ‘I don’t know anything about mentoring; I just make a lot of mistakes.’ So we thought, ‘You know maybe we could do a little better than this,’ and that’s how we developed the course. It really evolved from what the mentors and mentees told us.” 8:58 – “I always tell junior faculty, if you can’t get other people to run the seminar, just run it yourself. I guarantee you’ll have people who want to take it, and you’ll learn so much from teaching it. And of course, you don’t really have to ‘teach’ it. I’ve taught it dozens of times now and I think I still learn almost as much the 20th time as I did the 1st time.” 10:35 – The story behind her landmark 2012 paper, "Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students" – “If you imagine the hundreds of interactions that a given faculty member will have or that a student will have with all their faculty…If you imagine the males are getting just a little more time, or they’re being encouraged to try for slightly more ambitious internships, research experiences or jobs…You can see why men and women end up in very different places.” 13:05 – On why the study’s results didn’t surprise her – “This is an old story in the field of psychology, but when I would talk about studies like this (and there are hundreds of them, if not thousands, out there), scientists would always say, ‘But we’re trained to be objective, so we don’t do that.’ And of course, that shows a certain lack of understanding of what implicit or unconscious bias is. Science trains us in our cognitive minds to be objective but that doesn’t influence our biases. Frankly if it did, then we wouldn’t have to run blind experiments.” 15:45 – On the video interventions she’s developed to address the issue – “We think there are ways to address these implicit biases even if they’re kind of stuck in our deep brains and can’t be rooted out. We can certainly deal with their impact.” 19:20 – Advice she’d give to a young scientist on how to address implicit gender bias – “It’s not an accusation against white men. It’s not a plot to keep women and minorities out of academic science. This is just something all people do. And I think when you present it that way and say that becoming aware of it is a way to be more fair, get better people hired, better grants funded, and better papers accepted, it becomes a lot less threatening to people.” 23:20 – On her 3-year term under President Obama as the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy – “He really did seem to have a special respect for, appreciation for, and just kind of nerdy enjoyment of science. So it was always exciting to talk science with him and to develop policy for him and with him. That was probably one of the greatest privileges of my life—working for him.” 29:13 – On the impact of ACS funding at the start of her career – “Well I think the ACS postdoctoral fellowship made me very aware of the unity of biology very early on…biology is biology and what we learn in one aspect is probably going to have some relevance to other aspects of biology.”

This week, we're presenting two stories about responsibility in science. Whether we're working in a classroom or the White House, we all have some level of responsibility for others. And sometimes we have to ask ourselves -- are we doing enough to live up to those responsibilities? Both of our stories today explore this idea. Part 1: On her first day working in the White House under President Obama, microbiologist Jo Handelsman receives some bad news. Dr. Jo Handelsman is currently the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Previously, she served President Obama for three years as the Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Molecular Biology and has served on the faculties of UW-Madison and Yale University. Dr. Handelsman has authored over 100 papers, 30 editorials and 5 books. She is responsible for groundbreaking studies in microbiology and gender in science. Part 2: After a confrontation with a student, math teacher Sage begins to question whether she's the ally she thought she was. Sage Forbes-Gray has been an educator for 15 years teaching middle school pre-algebra, high school algebra and English as a second language in Spain to a variety of ages. Sage is the Restorative Justice Coordinator at her school, supporting students and staff in resolving conflict and building community. She is currently in her third fellowship as a Math for America Master Teacher and has been an active community member for the past 9 years. In her free time, she and her spouse, Amber, can be found running, biking, or exploring the world near and far with their kids, Dante, 6, and Elio, 3. Note: This June, The Story Collider is celebrating Pride Month by highlighting stories about the intersection of science and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues. Each of our five weekly episodes this month will include one of these stories, and you can follow us on Twitter and Instagram this month as we also share highlights from our back catalog as well.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The TWiMmers discuss culture-independent discovery of malacidin antibiotics, and unfolding of relaxase during bacterial conjugation. Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Elio Schaechter. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iPhone, Android, RSS, or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this episode Malacidins from soils (Nat Micro) Excellent antibiotic resistance threat report (CDC, pdf) Jo Handelsman on Women’s History Month (CBS) Unfolding relaxase during bacterial conjugation (J Bact) Letters read on TWiM 172 Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to twim@microbe.tv

Our mission to Make America Smart Again continues with the conclusion of our show from the Count Basie Theatre. Ft. Neil Tyson, Eugene Mirman, Sen. Cory Booker, science policy advisors John Holdren and Jo Handelsman, Ophira Eisenberg, Baratunde Thurston. #LMASA NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

StarTalk was at the Count Basie Theatre 4/17/17 on a mission to Make America Smart Again. Ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Eugene Mirman, Senator Cory Booker, former science policy advisors John Holdren and Jo Handelsman, Ophira Eisenberg and Baratunde Thurston. #LMASA NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

A review of a Precision Medicine Initiative presentation at Jackson Laboratory Genomic Medicine in Farmington, CT. by Dr. Jo Handelsman. Also on July 10th the 21st Century Cures Act passed in the House of Representatives, the advantages and disadvantages are explored if this is passed in the Senate.

Jo Handelsman is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, where she’s a member of the Department of Plant Pathology and chair of the Department of Bacteriology. Dr. Handelsman’s research focuses on microbial communities – their composition, how they’re structured, and how they work. Thanks to her work to improve the quality of undergraduate education, Dr. Handelsman is this year’s recipient of the American Society for Microbiology’s Carski Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award. Dr. Handelsman has been at the cutting edge of microbial science for years. After a long time spent studying the teeming communities of microorganisms that dwell in soil, Handelsman has pared down her focus to some arguably simpler neighborhoods: the guts of insects. Handelsman applies molecular methods to identify the strains and genes present in bug guts and combines this knowledge with other information about these environments to learn what these communities might be doing. Handelsman also takes a particular interest in science education, and along with her colleagues Sarah Miller and Christine Pfund, she recently co-authored Scientific Teaching, a book that outlines a dynamic research- and results-driven approach to teaching college-level science. In Dr. Merry Buckley's interview with Dr. Handelsman, they discuss about why microbiologists have a responsibility to educate almost everyone, why bacterial communities in the guts of gypsy moths might need genes for antibiotic resistance, and why and how bacteria inside of insects communicate. They also talk about the underrepresentation of women in academic research appointments and about how universities need to change to make these jobs both more available and attractive for all those brainy women who won’t (or can’t) make the jump from graduate school to academic research.