BUNS Podcast

Turkeys strutting around the Boston University campus is a pretty common sight. These birds aren’t too friendly though. The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife issued a warning to not approach or feed wild turkeys that are roaming the city. WTBU reporter Lexi Peery spoke to Boston University biology professor Richard Primack about his recent run-in with some aggressive turkeys on a field trip with his class.

This week, Abby and Sophie discuss the importance of having a website and a personal brand as a journalist, as well as exploring different kinds of writing and self-care.

“Between the Bylines” is a weekly podcast from the Boston University News Service hosted by the K. Sophie Will and Abigail Freeman where they unpack must-read stories from the past week through the lens of student journalism. Hear how the story was made, from the writers and editors who made it.

Have you ever thought about what to do if you had a baby at 16? How would you handle living expenses, paying for meals and working while raising a child? How would it affect your social life and relationships with family and friends? In 2016, young women between the ages of 15-19 gave birth to 209,809 babies in the United States. BU News Service reporter Siqi Du has the story.

The 123rd Boston Marathon is less than a week away. WTBU reporter, Rachel Rock, was interested in the challenges facing runners who travel across time zones to run in Boston. Rock sat down with Dr. Steve Amira Ph.D., a consulting psychologist to the Brigham and Women's research lab on sleep and circadian medicine.

The city of Cambridge yesterday, passed a law requiring the construction of more bike lanes over the next five years. To discuss bike safety in Cambridge and the Boston area, Geoff Line spoke with cyclists pedaling through Inman Square, two mechanics in Jamaica Plain, and Cambridge’s Director of Environmental and Transportation Planning.

Photo Courtesy: City of Cambridge Community Development

Bathrooms have become a battleground for the LGBTQ community. Boston University has begun converting all 743 nonresidential single-occupancy bathrooms to gender-neutral across all three campuses. 55 bathrooms on the Charles River campus are now gender-neutral and another 70 will be added by summer. Michael Donovan, vice president for campus planning and operations, showed me a newly converted bathroom in the College of Communication building at BU.

Photo by: Annacaroline Caruso

Sports editor Rickie Houston joins assistant managing editor Abigail Freeman to discuss highlights, challenges and his favorite parts of covering the Boston Marathon live.

“Between the Bylines” is a weekly podcast from the Boston University News Service hosted by the K. Sophie Will and Abigail Freeman where they unpack must-read stories from the past week through the lens of student journalism. Hear how the story was made, from the writers and editors who made it.

In 2017, the U.S. lost its leadership position in the resettlement of refugees. And just at the moment in time when 60 million people have been displaced from their homes worldwide. Rachel Rock makes an argument for why refugees strengthen the American economy and our national psyche.

A patient diagnosed with measles on Sunday has been to numerous locations statewide where other people may have caught the disease. The person traveled to locations in Hyannis, Wellesley, Braintree, Framingham, Plymouth, and Waltham between Tuesday and Thursday of last week. Jenifer Elise Jaeger, the Director of the Infectious Disease Bureau at the Boston Public Health Commission, says that Boston’s

high vaccination rate makes it unlikely for most people to be infected with the disease. If you were in the infected areas, she recommends that you know your vaccination history and get your child vaccinated for measles if they haven’t already. Report by Michael Choate

Electric scooters are popping up in cities across the United States. And Brookline is the first Massachusetts town to allow them. As of Monday morning, about 200 Lime and Bird scooters — two e-scooter companies — can be found parked along Brookline streets. But E-scooters aren’t just for a joy ride. Town officials and e-scooter companies are creatively trying to solve environmental and transit problems that come from too many cars on the road. Report by Lexi Peery