PhDrinking

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: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/

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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), [email protected]

Follow me: [email protected], @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: [email protected], @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: [email protected], @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: [email protected], @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: [email protected], @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, [email protected]

Follow me: [email protected], @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: [email protected], @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: [email protected], @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: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/

Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro

Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing