Miss Behavior Journal Club

It’s time for spooky Halloween content and Nicole and Amielle have picked some fascinating and frightening science to share. Finally, we talk about the pulvinar and how snakes have programmed your brain through ancient evolutionary software. After hating on Frontiers Journals, Nicole tells us what female bats are yelling about and punches a tech-bro. Also, good news to all the land-owning males.

Leah and Amielle face nightmare variables with a smile for their 50th episode! We learn all about the powers of B.O. while perusing a paper from the journal of “…But Someone’s Gotta!” In this case, someone’s gotta investigate the effects of our smelly meat cases on the mice we study. This episode has it all! Apple cider vinegar! Segments-a-plenty! Topias, u- and dys-! Sucrose-related obscenity! Also, labiatories.

Bad analogies, awkward singing, and strange voices? It must be a Tom episode! Tom joins Amielle for a lot of silliness, doorbell ringing, and cetaceans. When they aren’t insulting their own mothers, Tom and Amielle manage to talk about two new research papers. Tom gets into a methods paper where researchers make some microglia. Then Amielle dives into a paper all about how seals and whales survive without oxygen during long underwater dives. Also, “You Ask a Mouse a Cookie.”

To the best of our abilities, all research for planned discussion is cited orally in the show. Please send any concerns about un-cited material to A New Low Podcast Network Headquarters. 

Friends new and old join us in celebrating all the silliness that life in meatspace has to offer. Tom tells us what he knows about science book (not much)! Amielle marvels at the creative limits of AI! Then, new friend of the show Lee tests out a new game of comedy and errors: Bot or Tot? Also, Darth Vader.

Misunderstanding or misconduct? Why not both! Leah and Amielle dive into two of the latest Earth-shattering and/or blindingly obvious controversies in neuroscience. First up: the long-misrepresented serotonin hypothesis of depression. Then: What does the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s have to do with the stock market? From antique vertebrae to mint chocolate chip botanists, science is fun (depending on your definition of fun). Also, angels don’t exist.

Closing music, Red Hand by Owl John Produced By Andy Monaghan, Written By Scott Hutchison, Copyright © Atlantic Records

This journal club, we talk about our favorite mollusk, the octopus! It turns out judging intelligence is very complicated. Not only do the findings of this study create a confusing chaos for researchers, it also throws Leah off. We have tea bags, self-cleaning science, and David Attenborough. Also, petards.

To the best of our abilities, all research for planned discussion is cited orally in the show. Please send any concerns about un-cited material to A New Low Podcast Network Headquarters.

For an episode about sleep terrors, funny females Amielle and Leah don’t let it get too scary. But they do, dive seven inches under the sea and fathom the darkest corners of cruise comics, people hiding in drawers, and elongated eyeballs. They discuss how having sleep terrors is related to sleep walking, right after and before two very sexual stories. Also, the world wide release of the new folk music hit “Wide Open To My Window!”

Great Parasomnia Reviews: 

Prevalence of Parasomnias Over Ages: 

Sleep Walkers Have Better Recall?: 

Tom Hage joins Amielle for an episode about self-regulation and adolescent attention. The erudite Tom discusses some serious Instagram research. Then the feature paper explores how children abandon their moms at the neuronal level. This is what happens when children stop being polite, and start being little &#$@s! Also, non-consensual cruises.

To the best of our abilities, all research for planned discussion is cited orally in the show. Please send any concerns about un-cited material to A New Low Podcast Network Headquarters.

Bust out your therapeutic emotion wheel, Leah and Amielle are affecting! This episode the ladies discuss two papers on the recognition of other’s emotions; from how serotonin transporters effect recognizing frowning faces to a featured paper on how the shape of the amygdala over time could predict developing psychosis. Leah faces her classic nemesis: words while Amielle keeps the train of refugees moving. We wrap it all up with a neuroethics discussion and dish about the famous inventor of The Nothing. Also, mongols.