PhDrinking

Imagine if you got to spend your summers heading down to the Antarctic continent on a boat to release small robots. That's exactly what Giuliana does as part of her PhD, studying climate change in the currents of the ocean. In today's episode, I chat with Giuliana about her research and what got her interested in it to begin with.

Suggested Reading:

Here’s a really nice video of ocean currents:

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

The ocean's carbon balance: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OceanCarbon

NOAA's short explainer on ocean currents: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/currents.html

Follow Giuliana Viglione: www.giulianaviglione.com, @GAViglione, https://caltechletters.org, @caltechletters

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Guys, I was just too excited to talk with Breanna about her chickadee research and wasn't paying enough attention to the audio quality when I started recording. Can you blame me? I was excited to learn about animal behavior and personality a la behavioral ecology!

Suggested Reading:

Research article on animal personality: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(10)01137-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982210011371%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Curry Lab: http://robertcurrylab.com/

Breanna's personal website: https://thetinybirdgirl.wordpress.com/

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Follow Breanna Bennett: @TheTinyBirdGirl

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Did you know that sunflowers aren't just pretty, they're also a model organism! Rishi uses sunflowers to study how different drought conditions affect agricultural out put.

Scientific overview of how droughts affect different groups: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=http://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1019&context=droughtfacpub

United Nations Water Report: http://www.unwater.org/publication_categories/world-water-development-report/

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Follow Rishi Masalia: @RishiMasalia, www.rishimasalia.com, www.athenssciencecafe.com, & www.athensscienceobserver.com

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Did you know not all bees live in hives or create honey? In fact, most species of bees native to the US are of the solitary variety. This week, Meghan Barrett tells us about a few of those species and what makes them so unique.

Suggested Reading:

The Bees in your Backyard by Wilson and Carril: http://beesinyourbackyard.blogspot.com/p/poster.html (Poster and Book); highly recommend this book, inexpensive with BEAUTIFUL pictures and tons of fun information about the bees around us

Bee lab: https://www.beelab.umn.edu/bees/bee-diversity

Article on bee intelligence: https://phys.org/news/2013-10-bee-brains-view-larger-superior.html

Lay-person-friendly summary of Meghan's first published paper: http://meghan-barrett.com/blog/2017/10/01/caste-differences-in-wasp-brains/

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Follow Meghan Barrett: meghan-barrett.com, @Bee_Bytes (Twitter)

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Fellow ComSciCon- Chicago attendee Gourav Khullar joined me to chat about galaxy clusters. He explained how he models galaxies, infrared telescopes, and gravitational lensing.

Suggested Reading:

What is a galaxy cluster? http://chandra.harvard.edu/learn_galaxyCluster.html

How galaxy clusters tell us a story about the universe: https://astrobites.org/2016/03/17/galaxy-clusters-cosmology-and-beethovens-no-6/

Spectroscopy of Galaxy Clusters: https://www.sdss.org/dr14/algorithms/ancillary/boss/massiveclusters/

Gravitational Lensing employed in Galaxy Clusters (super specific): https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3274

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Follow Gourav Khullar: @isskywalker, [email protected], http://astro.uchicago.edu/people/gourav-khullar.php

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Have you ever visited a museum and wondered where all the artifacts come from? Well Heather studies collections of objects from WW2 (yes, like those you sometimes see at your favorite history museum) and where those objects originally came from. It can range from the usual battleground trophies to the truly bizarre...

PS- sorry for the wonky sound recording, turns out recording in a new location threw everything off for me....

Suggested Reading:

Organization that returns WW2 heirlooms to original families: obonsociety.org

WW2 European theatre art & history preservation: monumentsmenfoundation.org

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Follow Heather Scheurer: @hmcbee87

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How are emotional memories stored and retrieved? And what if we could use brain stimulation to learn more about emotional memory? Well today's guest tells us all about his work with stimulating live human brains!

Suggested Reading:

A quick primer on amygdala-mediated memory enhancement: http://www.dana.org/News/Understanding_the_Amygdalas_Role_in_Memory/

Video of the rare subjective responses to higher doses of amygdala stimulation: https://t.co/DR18WCf8Hz

Cory's lab website: http://neurosurgery.emory.edu/research/behavioral-neuromodulation/lab-members.html

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Follow Cory Inman: @IM_Inman

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What can a common flower teach us about evolutionary biology? Well it turns out the incredibly diverse columbine flower is a great model organism and youtuber/grad student Molly takes us on a journey to learn more.

Suggested Reading:

Paper about developing Aquilegia (columbine flowers) as a model for evo-devo: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/8519267

Youtube episode of Science IRL that covers columbine flowers and plant evo-devo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e8pxOJ8RlI

Youtube episode of Science IRL about GMOs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b_Un-lGSWo

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Follow Molly Edwards: @science_irl

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Machine learning is quite a hot-topic of research right now, with many different offshoots linking it to other fields of research. Scott Cambo, today's guest, studies the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction. In particular, he's interested in how mobile self-tracking (think FitBit) user design can increase healthy behaviors and how those apps can use better machine learning algorithms to provide more useful feedback.

Suggested Reading:

Course Scott is putting together on Human-Centered Machine Learning: https://scottofthescience.github.io/hcml_course/

The website for Northwestern's AI Journal Club: https://aijcnu.github.io/

Scott's lab (CollabLab): http://collablab.northwestern.edu/

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Follow Scott Cambo: @scottOfTheSci , www.ScottAllenCambo.com

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Moving from our more typical science topics towards more applied research, I talked with Lindsey about her research in public history. She focuses on the representation of women in historic house museums and examining the disconnect between academic research about early American women and their portrayal in spaces that are stereotypically feminine. We also got a bit into the confederate monument controversy and how history is represented and remembered.

Suggested Reading:

Defining public history & general FAQ: ncph.org/what-is-public-history/about-the-field/

Statement by the American Historical Association regarding confederate monument removal: https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/statements-and-resolutions-of-support-and-protest/aha-statement-on-confederate-monuments

Anarchist’s Guide to Historic House Museums: https://twistedpreservation.com/book/

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Follow Lindsey Fisher: @lindsey13_marie on twitter and @lizidizi on instagram

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

Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing