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Curious about the cosmos? Intrigued by evolution? Two scientists put their heads together to help answer your questions. You can show your love for science by supporting us on patreon.com/2scientists
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Have you ever just though how easy it would be to control everything with
your brain? Poof, the lights go on, and Netflix just chooses your favorite
show. Beyond these niceties though, Dr. Marvin Andujar has bigger and
better plans.
It may feel like 2Scientists has dropped off the face of the planet since
our last release, so we wanted to check in and let you all know where we’re
at.
He’s here, he’s there; Dr. Hillman brings drug safety everywhere! So given
the rules and regulations he needs to follow, the title “vigilante” could
be nothing but ironic.
We chart David’s progress through choosing pharmacology as a subject to
study, and settling on pharmacovigilance as a career to pursue.
He conserves wild spaces, he climbs tall trees, he records flying
amphibians. He is: Christian Brown – the Salamander Scientist! We talked
about his graduate research involving dropping salamanders in a wind
tunnel, watching hours of recordings to get his data, and his work outside
the lab to save a local forest preserve.
Microfluidics is, as the name might imply, the study of small amounts of
liquid. Now this may not sound super exciting until you hear Dr. Éadaoin
Carthy talking about her field.
Chemistry and chemicals get a bad rap, but unfairly so. Certainly that’s
the view of AP De Silva, someone who fell in love with the subject in his
native Sri Lanka and who has continued a fruitful career in Northern
Ireland.
That a doctor listens to their patients should not be a surprise, but that
they use information from their patients to help improve care may well be.
Enter Dr. Jason Wilson an emergency physician, a graduate trained
anthropologist and a man with his finger on the pulse of many projects.
So with much fanfare, we launch our accompanying podcast 2Cientificos in
Spanish! You’ll be able to find all future episodes on our new dedicated
page, but for the bilingual among you, this is one to enjoy here and now.
Vote for us in the Webbys!
Dr. Carina Rodriguez is physician-researcher who has transported her skills
from her home nation of Argentina to the US. While she has experience in
the prevention and treatment of a wide range of diseases, as a pediatric
infectious disease specialist her focus has been on the little ones.
Dr. Brandon Blue is an oncologist and physician-scientist at Moffitt Cancer
Center. As a medical doctor he spends his time treating blood cancers, so
this is an apt episode for Blood Cancer Awareness Week.
As a researcher though he's trying to understand more about disparities in
diagnosis and treatment of such cancers so that all patients receive better
care.
What happens when your psychology research just doesn’t quite scratch that
itch any more? Well, in the case of Prof. Edelyn Verona, it means you join
with your colleagues to create a Center for Justice Research and Policy,
something she is well placed to do as an expert in mental health, and
violent and criminal behavior.
Meet Annie Sorrell the lover of manatees, from Montana (Annie is from
Montana - not the manatees). And Loga Fixico, scientist, philosopher and
studier of complex systems. What do they have in common? Well, they both
studied at the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY ESF,
they’re cousins, and they’re cohosts of the NDN Science Show.
Prof. Nancy Huntly is the scientist who almost never was. All through high
school and university she didn’t feel like science was for her, but her
curiosity has led her to study ecosystems as an academic, work for
government agencies and more recently she's been researching how best to
keep grad students in STEM programs. All that was not enough for Nancy
though as she has also run for State Senate in Utah!
Join us as we chat about her unique and inspiring journey from pikas to
politics
While at Northwestern University, Dr. Alexandria Volkening and her
colleagues developed compartmental mathematical models to predict the 2020
US elections. What's a compartmental model? How do you teach kids about
math modeling using Finding Nemo? Which is better: the Parmvir poll or the
Alexandria poll? We ask her about this and more.
Gerrymandering has been described as the process by which the people being
elected get to chose the people that elect them. It turns out that, while
many people would argue that gerrymandering is not healthy for democracy,
doing it right requires some maths.
Dr. Thomas Weighill is a mathematician “weighing in” to do just that.
A journey through ecology, evolution, infectious disease, mathematics and
computational biology in medicine is what has made Dr. Brandon Ogbunu the
scientist he is today. And he is completely unapologetic about it because
Brandon’s believes that all these facets of his work, personality and
ethnicity put him in a unique position to understand complex interactions.
That includes those that we’re seeing in the midst of a pandemic.
Dr James Gurney is a microbiologist interested in infectious diseases. He
is also a big fan of science communication whether that means talking to
students in classrooms, hosting his own podcast, or consulting for
Kurzgesagt. In fact it’s the latter that inspired us to ask James on our
show. You can find the Kurzgesagt on the novel coronavirus here.
We talked about James’ current research, armchair scientists and naturally,
COVID-19.
Bats are a hot topic right now in light of COVID-19, but anyone working on
them will tell you these are some of the most misunderstood mammals.
Thankfully Dr. Susan Tsang is an expert and she sat down with us to talk
about her favorite pollinators. Yes, just like the birds and the bees, we
should be including bats among the organisms that help transfer seeds.
Eat the crust? No, we’re not talking bread, we are talking about that layer
of our planet earth, because our guest is geoscientist, Beth Bartel. For
someone who’s worked a lot with GPS, much of Beth’s career has been pretty
meandering. For now though she’s settled on a job she loves, helping
communicate the science of geology and natural hazards, while training
other scientists to share their work.
We talked to Beth about the challenge of tackling pseudoscience, and the
need for including social sciences to inform other fields of research.
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