Parsing Science: The unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling science, as told by the researchers themselves.

What matters more in getting cited — what you say or how you say it? In this remastered and remixed version of our first episode of the show, we're revisited by Ryan Kelly from the University of Washington's School of Marine and Environmental Affairs. He talks with us about his article "Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency fin Climate Change Science," published in the December 2016 edition of the open-access journal PLoS One, along with co-authors Annie Hillier and Terrie Klinger.

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Owen, now seven years old, with a different starfish.

Websites and other resources

Article Highlights, Summary, Quick findings & Flashcards via Scholarcy

"Do I make myself clear? Media training for scientists" (Science Magazine)

"Studies written in a more narrative style get more citations" (PsyPost)

Annie Hillier's Master's thesis

Book that inspired the study: Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

News and Media

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Leigh, D., Watkins, R., & Kelly, R.. (2021). Parsing Science - Science Writing as Storytelling (rebroadcast). doi: 10.6084/m9.

What matters more in getting cited — what you say or how you say it? In a remaster and remix of our first episode of the show, we're revisited by Ryan Kelly from the University of Washington's School of Marine and Environmental Affairs.

How did a Cold War era debacle help us better understand the dangers of climate change? In episode 99 of Parsing Science, we talk with Drew Christ from the University of Vermont about his research into how fossils plucked from forgotten experiment in the Arctic led to his discovery the last time Greenland’s glaciers completely melted, it happened under climate conditions very similar to the present day. His open access article “A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century,“ was published with multiple co-authors on March 30, 2021 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Websites and other resources

Drew's website, photography & Twitter

Drew's webinar on this study:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5CVEVPC5e8

xkcd's Earth Temperature Timeline

Propaganda documentary on Camp Century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DPQ15EgyTY

 

News and Media

Wired | SciTechDaily | World Economic Forum | Weather Channel | Popular Science | CNET | Washington Post | Science Alert

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How did a Cold War era debacle help us better understand the dangers of climate change? In episode 99 of Parsing Science, we talk with Drew Christ from the University of Vermont about his research into how a fossils plucked from forgotten experiment in the Arctic led to his discovery the last time Greenland’s glaciers completely melted, it happened under climate conditions very similar to the present day.

What can DNA tell us about the migration of the earliest modern humans and other hominins? In episode 98 of Parsing Science, we talk with João Teixeira from the University of Adelaide about his research which examined the genomes of modern humans to investigate the interbreeding between ancient humans and modern human populations who arrived in Southeast Asia around 60,000 years ago.  His article, “Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture,” was multiple coauthors and published on March 22, 2021 in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

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Websites and other resources

João's researcher profile

Article preprint on BioRxiv

ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage

Article on the biomechanical sequencing of Homo erectus

News and Media

Inverse | Science Alert |  The Conversation | SciNews | Science Daily | Natural History Museum | COSMOS | EurekAlert

 

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Leigh, D., Watkins, R., & Teixeira, J.. (2021). Parsing Science - DNA Evidence of Denisovan Inte...

In episode 97 of Parsing Science, we talk with João Teixeira from the University of Adelaide about his research which examined the genomes of modern humans to investigate the interbreeding between ancient humans and modern human populations who arrived in Southeast Asia around 60,000 years ago.

Can science help solve a real-life mystery? In episode 97 of Parsing Science, we talk with Alexander Puzrin from ETH Zurich about his research into The Dyatlov Pass incident, a 62-year-old mystery involving the deaths of nine hikers in the freezing Russian wilderness, a tragedy that’s been attributed to everything from a yeti to military weapons testing and an avalanche. His open access article “Mechanisms of slab avalanche release and impact in the Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959“ was co-authored with Johan Gaume and published on January 28, 2021 in the Nature journal, Communications Earth & Environment.

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Websites and other resources

Article Highlights, Summary, Quick findings & Flashcards via Scholarcy

Alexander's group website

Supplemental materials and videos from the article

Horror/conspiracy video game and movie about the Dyatlov Pass incident

Nature and EPFL videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22OmPK7Ml34

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_79NZKeag

 

News and Media

Wired | Big Think | New York Times | ARS Technica | Futurity | National Geographic | EurekAlert

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Watkins, R., Leigh, D., Puzrin,

In episode 97 of Parsing Science, we’ll talk with Alexander Puzrin from ETH Zurich about his research into a 62-year-old mystery over the deaths of 9 hikers in the freezing Russian wilderness, a tragedy that’s been attributed to everything from a yeti to military weapons testing, and an avalanche.

Do monkeys know how much fruit your sunglasses are worth? In episode 96 of Parsing Science, we talk with Jean-Baptiste "JB" Leca from the University of Lethbridge's Department of Psychology about his field research observing interactions among macaques at a Hindu temple in Bali. There, the monkeys have learned to rob tourists of everything from smartphones to flip flops, and then barter their return to temple staff in exchange for food. His open-access article, “Acquisition of object-robbing and object/food-bartering behaviours: a culturally maintained token economy in free-ranging long-tailed macaques,” was coauthored with Noëlle Gunst, Matthew Gardiner and I. Nengah Wandia, and published on January 11, 2021 in Philosophical Transactions of the the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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Websites and other resources

Article Highlights, Summary, Quick findings & Flashcards via Scholarcy

JB's website, including photos of the robbing monkeys

JB's Google Scholar profile

University of Lethbridge's summary of the study

Sample videos of monkeys robbing and bartering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymYDfHXq4S0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhqKux-liGk

 

News and Media

CBC | BBC | Medium | Earth Touch  | Boing Boing | CTV News| Reddit | The Guardian

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Do monkeys know how much fruit your sunglasses are worth? In episode 96 of Parsing Science, we talk with Jean-Baptiste "JB" Leca about his field research observing interactions among macaques at a Hindu temple in Bali. There, the monkeys have learned to rob tourists of everything from smartphones to flip flops, and then barter their return to temple staff in exchange for food.