Across the Cline

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.

Fungi are queer guys! This month, we are joined by Frances Cannon, an interdisciplinary writer, artist, educator and Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College, and Patty Kaishian, the curator of mycology at the New York State Museum, to talk about what it means to be queer and how does it show up in science. When do the boxes or categories break down? How do we queer research? 

To learn more about our guests, please see the links below:

https://frankyfrancescannon.com/

https://patriciakaishian.com/

This month, we are chatting with Lida Halilovic, a plant pathology graduate student at UC Riverside, and Henry Harrison, a political science student at UCR. How do organisms and nations "make" decisions when in conflict? How are these complex systems made, and what limits them? Get ready for an episode about plants, fungi, and political science! 

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.

Bugs on your walls? Bugs on your plate? Why not?! This month, we are joined by Chef Joseph Yoon, an Edible Insect Ambassador, and Jennifer Angus, artist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to discuss how their art can change our perception of insects and their friendship from this shared goal.

To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:

Joseph Yooon: 

Jennifer Angus:

Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/

You can find a transcript of this episode here.

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.

Do you ever talk to yourself? What about to a machine? In this episode, we explore how humans and machines respond to their environments and how that ability can change over time with graduate student in the Department of Psychology at UC Riverside, Shannon Brady, and graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Joseph Sullivan. Get ready for a chat about control theory, emotions, and mental health!

To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:

Shannon Brady: 

Joseph Sullivan: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-sullivan-a98776a7?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/

You can find a transcript of this episode here.

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.

Imagine the most perfect of worlds But is that world perfect for everyone? Today, we’re exploring utopias and the neuroscience of autism with Donald Zarate, a political science PhD student at UCR, and Will Mol, a neuroscience PhD student also at UCR. Join us as we delve into what it means to create an intentional community, the differences between sensing and perceiving, and Donald’s and Will’s journeys to their current research.

To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:

Donald Zarate:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donaldzarateucr/

Utopian Hub

Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/

You can find a transcript of this episode here.

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.

Can you smell it? We’ve concocted a fascinating foray into scent! We talk with Mandy Aftel, a natural essence perfumer, and Laura Sirot, a professor studying animal behavior at College of Wooster in Ohio, about how scent unified all life. We explore a variety of topics from mosquito ejaculate, the different components of perfume making, how scent can influence animal behavior, how monkeys protect themselves from mosquito bites, the relationship between memory and scent, and so much more!

To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:

Mandy Aftel: 

https://www.aftelier.com/Default.asp

A couple books to highlight (there are more on the website above!): Essence and Alchemy and Museum of Scent

Laura Sirot: 

https://sites.google.com/view/sirot-lab/

Her podcast: “I Came for Science”

Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/

You can find a transcript of this episode here.

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.

Both the words “jazz” and “anarchy” bring up ideas of chaos and disorder. But is jazz just “playing the wrong notes” and anarchy just “a lawless landscape?” Hey all you cool cats, today we are joined by two jazz musicians, Andrew Stevens and Joel Wenhardt, and author, activist and Professor of Environmental Studies at Georgetown University, Dr. Randall Amster, to listen to some jazz, chat about how leaders emerge, and patterns in chaos.

To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:

Andrew Stevens and Joel Wenhardt:

https://slowdownsounds.disco.ac/playlist-new/16344330?date=20240316&user_id=957631&signature=qNTsnjkNytO6OOL-cUz9qZUZXjQ%3AhZrq31lK

https://www.joelwenhardt.com/?fbclid=IwAR3UoRNIqZ_kqrIm9uh7cMFhcedHWMsite4pBDbDuN6dwZheB_BJwl8OUBE

Randall Amster:

www.peaceecology.com 

www.chaosmology.com 

The playlist for this episode can be found here.

Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/

You can find a transcript of this episode here.

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.

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Lights up. We are in a Zoom meeting, black background. Jess and Catherine are in CENTER SCREEN. Rob Roznowski (Writer, Director, and Professor of Acting at Michigan State University) enter SCREEN LEFT. Rob Todd (Microbiologist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at Bard College) enter SCREEN RIGHT. The four begin a conversation about turning STEM into STEAM through theater.

To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:

Rob Roznowski:

https://www.robroznowski.com/

The STEAM Plays

Article in The Conversation

Rob Todd:

https://rtoddbiology.wordpress.com/

Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/

You can find a transcript of this episode here.

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.

We’re closing out 2023 with a splash as we dive into the world of Black mermaids and environmental justice! Today, we are joined by Dr. Jalondra Davis, mermaid and assistant professor of English at UC Riverside, and Dani Nembhard, a PhD candidate in Environmental Sociology at James Cook University, to discuss the role of lore and culture in our connections to the environment, how racial injustices and dislocation shape these connections and how we approach conservation and climate change, and finding hope in creating new lore.

To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:

Dr. Jalondra Davis:

Website

Instagram

The Merwomanist Podcast

Dani Nembhard: 

LinkedIn

Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/

You can find a transcript of this episode here.

When we talk about science, we often are specifically referring to Western science. Yet, what are we losing in writing off other ways of knowing? Today, we talk with Michael Blackstock, an Indigenous artist, poet, and scholar from the Gitxsan Nation, and Jeff Ellis, a PhD student in the Statistics Department at UC Riverside, about how we can interweave Western science and Indigenous knowledge to better understand our world and address current crises. Are models just metaphors?

To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:

Michael Blackstock: www.blueecology.org 

Watershed Moments Blue Ecology

The Salmon Prince

The Knob

Jeff Ellis: 

Resisting the Cage

To learn more about the IPCC report referred to in this episode, please visit https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/

You can find a transcript of this episode here.