Episode 139: Marrellomorphs

May 16, 2022 Liz Martin-Silverstone Multimedia

Marrellomorphs are the group of early Paleozoic arthropods that get their name from the well-known Burgess Shale fossil Marrella splendens. They have for a long time been considered to be closely related to the trilobites, based on similarities in their gills, whilst other studies have suggested they could be closer related to mandibulate arthropods (crustaceans,...

Worry

May 8, 2022 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

Pruning your active projects is underrated.

Significance

May 5, 2022 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

There’s a reason all of the early academic work in field X deals with simple models.

Project Timeline

May 3, 2022 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

Not shown: Extra pauses while people are confused, the many rewrites of the paper, bug hunting and data cleaning, and probably ten unique things that only showed up in this one project ever.

Positives

April 28, 2022 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

I can’t help but notice that many papers try to minimize the drawbacks of their research. Oh, I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

#601 This is not about dinosaurs

April 25, 2022 Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia

Most people know how the age of dinosaurs ended. An asteroid hit and all the dinosaurs died out. But it's never quite that simple. In her newest book, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World, Riley Black describes what the immediate post-impact world looked like, and what...

Episode 138: Hispaniolan Sloths

April 20, 2022 Liz Martin-Silverstone Multimedia

Sloths (or do you pronounce it “sloths”?), are a group of tree-dwelling xenarthrans from South and Central America. They are well known for their sedentary lifestyles where they just hang around and seemingly do fairly little. But has this always been the case? When we look back at the fossil record of sloths, what kinds...

#600 The one about vaginas

April 11, 2022 Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia

Vagina. Clitoris. Uterus. Ovary. These are body parts that about half the population is born with. And yet, there are so many questions about them that scientists have never answered. But there's also more new science about the vagina than you've ever, ever dreamed. We're talking with Rachel Gross about her new book Vagina Obscura:...

Article: Community voices – the importance of diverse networks in academic mentoring

April 4, 2022 Bethann Garramon Merkle Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia

Nearly two years ago, I started collaborating with an international group of researchers interested in enhancing mentoring for scientists within academic settings. Last week, we published a paper that details one of the essential approaches that we’ve identified through a scan of 27 career development, leadership, and mentoring programs worldwide. That is: multi-mentor networks rather … Continue reading "Article: Community voices – the importance of diverse networks in academic mentoring"

#599 Losing Our Minds

March 29, 2022 Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia

Mental illness is being discussed openly and publicly more than it ever has been, but our understanding of what it is and its impacts are still a work-in-progress. What is mental illness and how do we distinguish it from the expected suffering that comes from being human? How has the public discussion around mental illness impacted our language, sometimes mixing together clinical language and colloquial language in complicated, confusing ways? We speak with academic psychologist…

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