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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