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NOTE: 93.3 CFMU HAD TO CUT THIS ONE SHORT. THIS IS THE FULL INTERVIEW.

Welcome back to the AlmaMAC! This week Sawayra interviews Rodrigo Narro Pérez. They talk research, diversity in academia, and all of the initiatives that keep Rodrigo busy.

Rodrigo is a member of the Glacial Sedimentology Lab whose research looks at using glacial sedimentology and geomorphology to understand glacial hazards and the impacts of climate change on mountain environments. He was born in Perú and is lucky to call the Cordillera Blanca (located in the northern Peruvian Andes) his main field site for this work. He is also interested in all things Latin America (especially food and music), field-based experiential education and anti-racism work.

Fun fact - His artist of the decade on Spotify was Shakira

Follow Rodrigo on Twitter @RodrigoNarro

This week Adam is back, and he's talking to his officemate, Carmen Lee.  

Carmen talks about some of her new projects, existing in a pandemic, the student she supervised virtually, and a smattering of other topics.   

You can connect with Carmen over Twitter @carmlingling . You can also watch the pod on Youtube! Check out www.scientificanada.ca for more.

The Navier-Stokes equation is like the e=mc2 for fluid dynamics. It's like the F=ma for flow. It's used to model fluids, airstreams, flow of money, and a wide variety of other things, and it's been around for a very long time... but we don't actually know how to solve it...

This week, Sawayra talks to Pritpal Matharu, a graduate student in the Math department at McMaster University, who specializes in Navier-Stokes, and explains what it means to finally "solve" the equation.

Thanks again to Sawayra for well, for everything. Follow her on twitter @SeeingAWay .

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to the AlmaMAC! I’m your host Adam and today we have the second part of my interview with Sawayra, the inventor and original host of the AlmaMAC. Last week we talked about why she started this radio show, and what direction we are going to take it from here. You can listen to that over on our website, scientificanada.ca . Today I’m bringing you the second half of that interview where we finally dig in and learn about the research Sawayra does. Spoiler, she is working through a dual PhD/MD program, but she will explain all of that in the interview. So let’s not waste any more time and jump right in!

We got a little out of sync with CFMU a few weeks ago, so let's get back on track. If you already heard this one, then you have no homework this week! Head outside and take a walk :)

Hi hello, and welcome to the show. Today is a particularly special episode of the AlmaMAC. Actually, it’s probably the most Meta episode of the almaMAC that we’ve ever had. Today I’m joined by the inventor of the AlmaMAC, the once and future host of the AlmaMAC, Sawayra Owais! This is actually a 2-parter, since we have so much to talk about. Today we are going to talk about the show in general - how did Sawayra come up with it? What is the goal of the show? How has it evolved, etc.

Full show notes, as always, are at www.scientificanada.ca . 

This week’s episode is a very special one. For one thing, it’s the triumphant return of Sawayra Owais as host of the AlmaMAC. For another, she speaks to a guest who studies some very important, very timely issues. I’d probably label them as crises really.

Rida is a Masters student at McMaster university. This week Sawayra talks to her about her research which includes assessing science policy decisions from a human rights perspective.

For example: stay at home restrictions and the homeless/unemployed, and child welfare affected by institutional racism.

See www.scientificanada.ca for the full show notes.

Hi hello, and welcome to the show. Today is a particularly special episode of the AlmaMAC. Actually, it’s probably the most Meta episode of the AlmaMAC that we’ve ever had. Today I’m joined by the inventor of the AlmaMAC, the once and future host of the AlmaMAC, Sawayra Owais! This is actually a 2-parter, since we have so much to talk about. Today we are going to talk about the show in general - how did Sawayra come up with it? What is the goal of the show? How has it evolved, etc.

See the full show notes at www.scientificanada.ca !

Sabrina Schalz is a PhD student in Urban Evolutionary Ecology at Middlesex University, focusing on the speech perception of wild Carrion Crows in London. However, in this interview, you will find that she's broadened her scope to cats  https://sabrinaschalz.wordpress.com/ Find the full show notes at https://scientificanada.ca/

Thanks again to Francesco Zangari! Follow him on Twitter, https://twitter.com/franthewriter1

And now, you may notice we still have a couple minutes left. So here we go, another installment of Journal Club.

This week, I want to share something timely. The new year is upon us, which means we are almost done with this 12th month of ours, and this garbage fire of a year. But what if we could have one more month? Allow me to introduce you to the International Fixed Calendar.

(read the full notes on www.scientificanada.ca )

Hello and welcome to Random walk episode 27. This week you will be hearing from PhD Candidate and science writer Francesco Zangari. Francesco is finishing his PhD on Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, and recently attended ComSciCon-GTA, a conference on communicating science for researchers local to the Greater Toronto Area. This is another 2-parter, and this week we will be talking a bit about Francesco’s research, competitiveness in science, lab safety with COVID, and social media for communicating science. In part two, we are going to dig more into science writing.

For full show notes, head to https://scientificanada.ca/2020/12/16/rw27/