While PhDrinking is now officially retired, I haven't given up podcasting!

Check out my two new podcasts and hit subscribe if either/both catch your interest!

Carry the Two: A podcast from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carry-the-two/id1629115184

In Defense of Fandom: The show that examines the creativity, collaboration, & community of the Supernatural fandom
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-defense-of-fandom/id1674695211

Check out Sadie's newest podcasts!

Suggested outside reading:

How Reward Processing Can Inform Our Understanding of Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Schizophrenia: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277233/
Kate's Published Research: https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/3002823/Elevated-Nucleus-Accumbens-Structural-Connectivity
Video Series on Emotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prwsJp0w57s

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Follow Kate Damme: http://acnlnorthwestern.com/, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katherine_Damme2

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The Risky Business of Psychopathology

Suggested outside reading:

Info on Clumped Isotopes: http://www.carbonateresearch.com/clumped_isotope
Article about Paleoclimate Research: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737911100268X
Interactive Game about Paleoclimate: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/paleoclimate-history-change

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Follow Ryan Venturelli: @Raventurelli

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Research on the Rocks

My experience at ComSciCon-Chicago '16 was a major motivator for starting this podcast & diving into the science communication life. To celebrate one year of the podcast, I helped organize ComSciCon-Chicago '17 and got to interview attendees about their research. I hope you enjoy these 'pop talks' and please follow the amazing students on twitter or any other social platform!

Andrew McAllister (Applied physics): @McAllisterSci
Rachel Snyder (Organic & materials chemistry): @rachelsnyderrr
Brittany Maule (Aquatic ecologist): @BrittanyMaule
Chissa Rivaldi (Bioinformatics): @Powerofcheez
Cristiano Alessandro (Neuroscience): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cristiano_Alessandro
Eric Earley (Prosthetic limbs): @EricJEarley
Erika K Carlson (Binary & triple star systems): @erikakcarlson
Gabriella Hirsch (Memory & psychology): @GVHirsch
Gourav Khullar (Astrophysicist): @isskywalker
Graham Smith (Computational neuroscience): grahams@uchicago.edu
Heather LePage (Bird ecology): @kingbirdqueen
Jon Henn (Snow's impact on prairies): @hennhouse11
Liza Knipscher (Biomedical Visualization): @knipsch
Kristen V Veggeberg (STEM educator & researcher): @KrisVeeVee
Peter Tran (Cancer biology): https://www.linkedin.com/in/pk7tran/
Puikei Cheng (3D printing & manufactoring): @PuikeiCheng
Rachel Snyder (Chemistry): @rachelsnyderrr

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First Anniversary: ComSciCon-Chicago '17

Though we were many time zones apart, I had the honor of chatting with Laura about her research with carnivorous plants in Western Australia! That's right, Laura studies plants that eat BUGS! If you've ever wondered, "how weird can plants get?" than this is the episode for you.

Suggested Reading:

ABC News about Laura's research: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-25/researcher-scouring-remote-wa-to-document-insect-eating-plants/8471012
IUCN support page for carnivorous plant research & conservation: http://support.iucnredlist.org/carnivorousplants
A message from David Attenborough, patron of the IUCN Carnivorous Plant Specialist Group: http://www.iucn-cpsg.org/

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Interested in more technical reading? Check out these links:
Theory about carnivorous plants being restricted to sunny, wet, nutrient-poor conditions: Givnish, T., Burkhardt, E., Happel, R., & Weintraub, J. (1984). Carnivory in the Bromeliad Brocchinia reducta, with a Cost/Benefit Model for the General Restriction of Carnivorous Plants to Sunny, Moist, Nutrient-Poor Habitats. The American Naturalist, 124(4), 479-497. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2461590
The fly living in the Albany Pitcher Plant: Lymbery, S. J., Didham, R. K., Hopper, S. D., & Simmons, L. W. (2016). Mutualists or parasites? Context-dependent influence of symbiotic fly larvae on carnivorous investment in the Albany pitcher plant. Royal Society Open Science, 3(11), 160690. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160690
Conservation and threats to carnivorous plant populations: Jennings, D. E., & Rohr, J. R. (2011). A review of the conservation threats to carnivorous plants. Biological Conservation, 144(5), 1356-1363.

Liquor Shop of Horrors

Did you know our bodies are basically just a bunch of tubes? That's how today's guest sees it anyways.  It may seem like a strange idea, but our brains, hearts, and airways are basically all just fancy tubes made up of lots of our cells. Saoirse researches the fly trachea as a model organism for how these tubes develop.

Suggested Reading:

Short video by Saoirse on her research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-bMomr9jE&feature=youtu.be
Cancer Research UK describing the etiology of cancer: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/how-cancer-starts
Academic article about the fly trachea as a model organism: http://dev.biologists.org/content/127/15/3271.long
Academic article about size control: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0000086

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Follow Saoirse McSharry: @Taako_Belle 

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(Cell) Size Matters

Most people know that everything from cancer types to nose shapes 'run in the family,' but what if it's not just our own genetic code? Ryan Mork studies how staph could run in families - i.e. we might be able to inherit traits of the skin microbiome. It's not just the gut that has it's own ecosystem, in this episode we talk about how our skin is the playground of many microorganisms that can either keep us healthy or make it easier for us to get sick.

Suggested Reading:

Broad overview of the human microbiome: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg3182

As referenced in the podcast:(publicly-available data may give us more information than previously expected) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/321

Description of major study by NIH to examine the human microbiome across 5 body sites in hundreds of people: https://hmpdacc.org/hmp/

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Follow Ryan Mork: https://biophysics.uchicago.edu/the-students/ryan_mork/

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Distilling how genetics shape the skin microbiome

Classic game theory asks the question of whether rational decision-makers choose between conflict or cooperation and how that impacts their outcomes. Alex takes this idea to a new level by applying game theory to economics where the players are really world powers. In particular, he's interested in how international policy can be reflected through game theory.

Suggested Reading:

John Oliver's piece on hard & soft power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCjk_NPsIqU&feature=youtu.be

A fun blog of digressions on game theory, politics, and economics:
https://cheaptalk.org/

A paper Alex mentioned about Bayesian statistics: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/emir.kamenica/documents/bayesianPersuasion.pdf

In depth blog on Econ research from a Northwestern grad:  https://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/

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Trashed Equilibrium

Have you ever wondered why identical twins can share exactly the same DNA, but still seem to have differences? Well part of that may be due to epigenetics, or how DNA is coiled up within a cell such that some parts are easier to access and use than others. Today's guest Tess Korthout studies the epigenetics of yeast cells to answer questions about gene regulation and cancer.

Suggested Reading:

Tess' chromatin proteome research paper:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/12/09/229955

Tess' lab website:
https://www.nki.nl/divisions/gene-regulation/van-leeuwen-fr-group/

Pioneering article in Discover Magazine:
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/nov/cover

Finally a great TED talk about epigenetics:
https://www.ted.com/talks/moshe_szyf_how_early_life_experience_is_written_into_dna

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Superyeast: brewing beer and understanding epigenetics

Does our knowledge of a person change the way that we see them? Chris' research says yes! Chris studies the intersection of sexual orientation and perceived racial appearance, focusing on how learning a person is gay affects how they are viewed.

Suggested Reading:

Stanford sociologist Aliya Saperstein briefly describing about how we study race as a social construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiwieME2tis

Article showing that perceiving a person's status can bias they way you perceive that person's race: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025107&type=printable

Chris' research on how people discriminate against men at the intersections of race and sexual orientation: https://www.academia.edu/34859780/Race_Crime_Congruency_Effects_Revisited_Do_We_Take_Defendants_Sexual_Orientation_Into_Account

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Follow Chris Petsko: @chris_petsko

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Having a gay ol' time

Alanna's research is at the intersection of biology, chemistry, and medical research. In particular, she studies the chemical signals sent between bacteria that help them communicate. In particular, she's interested in how bacteria form biofilms (think that gross stuff that grows in your shower if you haven't cleaned it in a while)and how we can apply this research to medical interventions.

Suggested Reading:

Alanna's Lab Website: https://www.sanchezlab.science/

University of Illinois Chicago Department Website: https://pharmacy.uic.edu/departments/medicinal-chemistry-pharmcognosy

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Cocktail signalling

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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AI Winter (Ale)

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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To sprout in drought

Nathan Bradshaw once worked on a nuclear submarine but wanted more adventure in life. So, he came to grad school and started studying colloidal COFs. Don't know what those are? Why not give this episode a listen and find out!

Suggested Reading:
Wikipedia for COFs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covalent_organic_framework

Short article about colloidal COFs: https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i4/Covalent-organic-frameworks-form-processible.html

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Colloidal Cocktails

Although DNA is often treated as the end-all in individual differences, it's not just about the blue print of the body. Ittai studies genetic regulation, or how DNA is expressed (or isn't). In this episode, we dive into his research techniques and talk about what it means to be human.

Smithsonian DNA explainer: http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics
Genetic differences between humans & other primates: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-genetic-differences-between-humans-and-other-primates-pervade-the-genome/
Evolution of gene regulation in humans: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-genom-090314-045935?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed

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Inebriation and Evolution

A message from Lauren:
During graduate school, I have been funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders. The content presented in this podcast is solely my responsibility and does not necessarily reflect the official views of the funders. I also thank my mentors-- including Cindy Bulik, Jessica Baker, Patrick Sullivan and Yoav Gilad-- and assure the listening audience that any error in this podcast is due to my inadequacies as a student rather than theirs as teachers. 

Hopefully this interview demonstrated the innovation in the eating disorder field, and highlighted some of the questions that remain. Currently, most eating disorders research (including most of my own) focuses on individuals with anorexia nervosa. More funding and research is clearly needed in this area. However, it is also extremely important to increase the number of studies in eating disorders outside of anorexia nervosa. Therefore, I strongly advocate for increased funding to study the biological bases of each eating disorder.  

National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) on eating disorders (helpline: (800) 931-2237): www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

"9 Truths About Eating Disorders"  from the Academy for Eating Disorders: https://www.aedweb.org/learn/publications/nine-truths

Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative: 
 https://uncexchanges.org/2017/08/30/anorexia-nervosa-genetics-initiative-an-update-2/

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Growler of Genetic Research

Newly-minted PhD Thom Booth took time from his busy schedule (moving to Australia!) to tell me all about his PhD research. Thom studies natural products discovery, which honestly I didn't know what that was either. But don't worry, he does a great job breaking down his research in this episode!

Suggested Reading:
Molecular explanation of Geosmin (the smell of soil): https://www.jic.ac.uk/blog/meet-the-molecules-geosmin/
Synthetic evolution of natural products:  https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/landmark-discovery-turns-marathon-of-evolution-into-a-sprint/
Scientific paper published by Thom: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27091090

Find Thom Booth: @BoothThom, https://www.jic.ac.uk/people/professor-barrie-wilkinson/
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Molecular Microbreweries

We tend to think of our genetic inheritance as stable over time, but the expression of those genes can be altered by your environment. Laetitia studies one example of this- gestational (pregnancy-induced) diabetes. 

Suggested Reading:
A general primer on epigenetics- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1392256/
The human genome project-  http://www.thepipettepen.com/blog/epigenetics-the-software-of-the-dna-hardware/
In-depth article on developmental plasticity- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02725

Follow Laetitia Meyrueix: @BQImpertinente, nutribites.blog (blog)
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Beer and a balanced diet

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
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Juiced Journalism

**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  
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Forensic Gin-etics

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
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Getting Tanked

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
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The Cancer Cocktail

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
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Ales and Astrocytes

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

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How we hear, with beer

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

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Fake Brews

Happy holidays! I recorded this episode with colleague and friend, Andrew Hall, just after our department party. While we both had plenty of snacks and drinks to enjoy, we did an admirable job staying on task to talk about personality research and how personality could impact health outcomes. 

Suggested Reading:
SAPA research: https://sapa-project.org/research/
Hogan Personality Assessment: https://www.hoganassessments.com/assessment/hogan-personality-inventory/?fbclid=IwAR1XKuBu4pq2n-2z3IERx_-M2RwRdR8vdhBkG_2JSsiuaYnVEGPxPDjSV6o
Andrew's research profile: http://www.andrewnolanhall.com/
Why you should't trust the Meyers-Briggs: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless

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Pints of Personality

Thank you so much to everyone who has helped make this show such a joy!

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Thank You

Academic research is all about digging deeply into a topic, often in an area that is actually the synthesis of several topics. Today's guest, Bianka, fits this interdisciplinary model to a T. She studies the intersection of movement, fashion, and film. 

Suggested Reading:
This project is especially dedicated to exploring the intersections of fashion, film and dance:  https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/7275/about-movement
Instagram-account of archaeology of fashion film: https://www.instagram.com/archfashfilm/
 Example of a fashion show turned fashion film with a dancer as model: https://vimeo.com/191502435

Follow Bianka-Isabell Scharmann: @ibavelen, https://uni-frankfurt.academia.edu/BiankaIsabellScharmann
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Fashion Film Framboise

I can't help but be jealous of Chris Wall's field research. For his PhD, he got to live in Hawaii and snorkel/scuba through the reefs as 'research.' Granted, studying coral means contending with climate change in a very direct way.

Suggested Reading:
Interactive documentary on corals: http://lostcities.org/
Ocean acidification explainer: https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F
Press coverage of Chris's research: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190423133651.htm

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Cold Beers and Cool Water Make For Happy Corals (and Coral Scientists)

Turns out knowing a person for a few years doesn't necessarily mean you know what they do. I knew Sarah was in the department of statistics, but I had no idea how far-reaching her work is! If you're interested in education research, experimental design, and giving back to your community- Sarah Peko-Spicer is your girl!

Suggested Reading:
The paper that started it all: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article%3Fid%3D10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
Methods paper about conducting replication analyses:  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/1076998619852953?casa_token=7BVJV46F26kAAAAA:lHV0K2YAVv6npiEhhLxxHmJLMZ6DuvCXYE32V9Z5wvH7OM7v-L7oFXPUOrCRZJGBeqsrTvjtS0c
Vox piece on the “crisis”: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/27/17761466/psychology-replication-crisis-nature-social-science

Follow Sarah Peko-Spicer: instagram: @garlandmathasi, research team website: https://stepp.center/team/
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Statistically sloshed

We all have that friend who is convinced CBD is a true panacea, but has no scientific evidence to back it up. Well, let me introduce you to a memory researcher who has moved into clinical research focusing on CBD, psilocybin, and other trippy drugs. Manoj Doss walks us through some of his research and what we do (or don't) know about different substances.

Suggested Reading:
Hopkins research group website: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/
How THC can affect false memories: https://www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S2451-9022(19)30223-X/fulltext
Hopkins center researcher video on psilocybin and meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27OSejF7MJU

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Tipsy or Tripping?

Olea Morris studies ecovillages, places where people try to live off-the-grid in the most sustainable way they can. Olea focuses specifically on how humans in these villages interact with the animals that share their space.

Suggested Reading:
ecovillages: Karen Litfin's "Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community"  https://books.google.de/books?id=uUCfAgAAQBAJ&dq=karen+litfin+ecovillages&lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s
multispecies studies: van Dooren et al. "Multispecies Studies: Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness" https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/8/1/1/61679/Multispecies-StudiesCultivating-Arts-of

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Sustainable Sipping

Send me your questions about sleep, memory, and science communication!

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Defending my PhD!

After 6 years, 116 pages, and 29,379 words- I was officially made Sadie Witkowski, PhD! I thought the appropriate way to celebrate such a momentous occasion was to flip the show on its head so that I can share a bit about the work I've conducted throughout grad school. 

Suggested Reading:
My lab's work with TMR: https://aeon.co/ideas/how-sound-and-smell-cues-can-enhance-learning-while-you-sleep
Video covering basic TMR: https://youtu.be/OLeMUukpID0
The science behind lucid dreaming: https://www.illinoisscience.org/2018/03/the-science-of-lucid-dreaming/
Journal article looking forward towards new research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154620300073


Follow Katie Wu: @KatherineJWu, katherinejwu.com 
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