Across the Cline : Recent Episodes
SciComm@UCR
The SciCom club at UCR is proud to present a new science communication podcast, Across the Cline. Your host Jessica Maccaro and Catherine Nguyen bring together two experts for seemingly different fields to discuss the similarities their studies share. This voyage into what unites us in science will leave you wondering what else can be found just...Across the Cline.
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.
Imagine the most perfect of worlds But is that world perfect for everyone? Today, we’re exploring utopias and the neuroscience of autism with Donald Zarate, a political science PhD student at UCR, and Will Mol, a neuroscience PhD student also at UCR. Join us as we delve into what it means to create an intentional community, the differences between sensing and perceiving, and Donald’s and Will’s journeys to their current research.
To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:
Donald Zarate:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donaldzarateucr/
Utopian Hub
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
You can find a transcript of this episode here.
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.
Can you smell it? We’ve concocted a fascinating foray into scent! We talk with Mandy Aftel, a natural essence perfumer, and Laura Sirot, a professor studying animal behavior at College of Wooster in Ohio, about how scent unified all life. We explore a variety of topics from mosquito ejaculate, the different components of perfume making, how scent can influence animal behavior, how monkeys protect themselves from mosquito bites, the relationship between memory and scent, and so much more!
To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:
Mandy Aftel:
https://www.aftelier.com/Default.asp
A couple books to highlight (there are more on the website above!): Essence and Alchemy and Museum of Scent
Laura Sirot:
https://sites.google.com/view/sirot-lab/
Her podcast: “I Came for Science”
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
You can find a transcript of this episode here.
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.
Both the words “jazz” and “anarchy” bring up ideas of chaos and disorder. But is jazz just “playing the wrong notes” and anarchy just “a lawless landscape?” Hey all you cool cats, today we are joined by two jazz musicians, Andrew Stevens and Joel Wenhardt, and author, activist and Professor of Environmental Studies at Georgetown University, Dr. Randall Amster, to listen to some jazz, chat about how leaders emerge, and patterns in chaos.
To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:
Andrew Stevens and Joel Wenhardt:
https://slowdownsounds.disco.ac/playlist-new/16344330?date=20240316&user_id=957631&signature=qNTsnjkNytO6OOL-cUz9qZUZXjQ%3AhZrq31lK
https://www.joelwenhardt.com/?fbclid=IwAR3UoRNIqZ_kqrIm9uh7cMFhcedHWMsite4pBDbDuN6dwZheB_BJwl8OUBE
Randall Amster:
www.peaceecology.com
www.chaosmology.com
The playlist for this episode can be found here.
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
You can find a transcript of this episode here.
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.
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Lights up. We are in a Zoom meeting, black background. Jess and Catherine are in CENTER SCREEN. Rob Roznowski (Writer, Director, and Professor of Acting at Michigan State University) enter SCREEN LEFT. Rob Todd (Microbiologist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at Bard College) enter SCREEN RIGHT. The four begin a conversation about turning STEM into STEAM through theater.
To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:
Rob Roznowski:
https://www.robroznowski.com/
The STEAM Plays
Article in The Conversation
Rob Todd:
https://rtoddbiology.wordpress.com/
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
You can find a transcript of this episode here.
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.
We’re closing out 2023 with a splash as we dive into the world of Black mermaids and environmental justice! Today, we are joined by Dr. Jalondra Davis, mermaid and assistant professor of English at UC Riverside, and Dani Nembhard, a PhD candidate in Environmental Sociology at James Cook University, to discuss the role of lore and culture in our connections to the environment, how racial injustices and dislocation shape these connections and how we approach conservation and climate change, and finding hope in creating new lore.
To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:
Dr. Jalondra Davis:
Website
The Merwomanist Podcast
Dani Nembhard:
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
You can find a transcript of this episode here.
When we talk about science, we often are specifically referring to Western science. Yet, what are we losing in writing off other ways of knowing? Today, we talk with Michael Blackstock, an Indigenous artist, poet, and scholar from the Gitxsan Nation, and Jeff Ellis, a PhD student in the Statistics Department at UC Riverside, about how we can interweave Western science and Indigenous knowledge to better understand our world and address current crises. Are models just metaphors?
To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:
Michael Blackstock: www.blueecology.org
Watershed Moments Blue Ecology
The Salmon Prince
The Knob
Jeff Ellis:
Resisting the Cage
To learn more about the IPCC report referred to in this episode, please visit https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
You can find a transcript of this episode here.
We’ve previously talked about conservation in terms of biology and art, but what about the role of art in species conservation? Join us as we talk to Elijah Hall from the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology at UCR and Michelle Wilson and Anne Beck, creators of the Rhinoceros Project, about how art can help preserve natural spaces and species.
To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:
The Rhinoceros Project
Michelle Wilson: Website
Anne Beck: Website
Elijah’s embroidery: 1 2 3
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
You can find a transcript of this episode here.
Communicating concepts and findings are important parts of being a scientist, but how do you do it well? Today, we talk with Dr. Bruce Kirchoff from the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and Dr. Faith Kearns from the California Institute for Water Resources about their experiences in communicating science, tips for early scientists, and what the future holds for science communication.
To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:
Dr. Bruce Kirchoff: Youtube, Presenting Science Concisely
Dr. Faith Kearns: Website, Getting to the Heart of Science Communication
To learn more about the Better Poster Design by Dr. Mike Morrison, see here.
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
You can find a transcript of this episode here.
How do you bring something that no living human has ever seen to life? We join Marvel Studios animator, Kristina Mickahail-Giblin, and Director of Visitor Engagement and Education of the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology and co-founder of Cosplay for Science, Gabriel Santos, to learn more about how incorporating science and art in visual storytelling make fantasy worlds and the prehistoric past feel real and why we need to keep the A in STEAM. Time to get your nerddom on!
To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:
Kristina Mickahail-Giblin: @picturetincture on Instagram
Gabriel Santos: @paleoparadox on Twitter and Instagram
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
You can find a transcript of this episode here.
Our world is increasingly becoming one where we use computers and machines to help us make decisions. Surely, lines of code are better at handling bias than people, right? Or are they not so different from us at all? Today, we’re joined by two UCR students, Kayla Chaplin, a Social Psychology PhD Student, and Dimitris Chatziparaschis, an Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Student, to learn about the back and forth between psychology and computer sciences in reducing the biases in ourselves and our creations.
To learn more about implicit bias and test yourself, click on this link.
To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at:
Kayla Chaplin:@KaylaChaplin3 on Twitter
Dimitris Chatziparaschis: https://gr.linkedin.com/in/dimitris-chatziparaschis-1280757b
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
You can find a transcript of this episode here.
What can math and social insects tell us about what happens when concepts or individuals come together? Are we more than the sum of our parts? In this episode, Andrea Stine, a grad student in UCR’s Department of Mathematics, and Dr. Brian Whyte, who completed his PhD in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, join us to explore emergent properties, the ideas of scaling and relationship in their fields, and different systems to determine truth.
If you enjoyed this episode and would like to learn more about our guests, please check them out at:
Andrea Stine: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/andreagstine/
Brian Whyte: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-a-whyte-phd?trk=people-guest_people_search-card&original_referer=
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
A transcript for this episode can be found here.
What happens when we exclude half of the population? In celebration of International Women’s Day (March 8th), we are joined by Paige Goodwin, a feminist playwright and lecturer at UCR, and Nora Wolcott, a PhD candidate in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at UC Santa Barbara, to discuss the history of sexism in both theater and neuroscience and its influences our perceptions of success and validity in these fields today. We’ll also learn how Nora and Paige each work to confront these biases.
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more about our guests, please check them out on:
Nora: @norawolcott on Tiwtter
- Nora’s article in The Scientist: https://www.the-scientist.com/critic-at-large/opinion-neuroscientists-need-to-think-about-sex-bias-69228#.YVxo6abz25V.twitter
- EstrousNet
How does storytelling as a fantasy writer and as an ecologist further our understanding of the world? We’re going to adventure across this cline with William Ota, a PhD candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at UCR who studies freshwater ecology and Rachael McLaughlin, a fantasy novelist and UCR Creative Writing alum. Join us as we discuss crafting compelling narratives, defining “truth,” and… bearskin umbrellas?
If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more about our guests, please check them out at:
- William Ota: @Willie_mota on Twitter
- Rachael McLaughlin: @504rumi on Instagram
Learn more about the students producing this podcast and their science communication efforts by following us on Twitter and Instagram (@SciCommUCR) and visiting our website.
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
What do you think of when you hear the word “conservation?” In this episode, we’re joined by Annika Rose-Person, a PhD candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at UCR and Anisha Gupta, a PhD student in the Department of Art Conservation at the University of Delaware. Together, we’ll explore what conservation means in the worlds of biology and art as well as how society has shaped practices and what’s in store for the future of conservation in these fields.
If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more about our guests, please check them out on:
- Annika Rose-Person: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/annika-rose-person-eco/home?authuser=0
- Anisha Gupta: @anishagupta_ on Twitter
Learn more about the students producing this podcast and their science communication efforts by following us on Twitter and Instagram (@SciCommUCR) and visiting our website.
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/.
What do the worlds of bird courtship and Cambodian classical dance have in common? Today, we are joined by Ayala Berger, a PhD candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at UCR who is researching hummingbird courtship, and Ryan Boun, a Cambodian dancer. As we explore this cline, we’ll uncover what beauty and complexity mean to both our guests and chat about how song and dance as means for communication have changed and continue to do so over time.
Some examples of Cambodian classical dance suggested by Ryan:
- Shan-type Peacock Dance
- Stylized Social Dance
- A very formalized dance that is sanctioned and has very little personal expression in how the couples move
Courtship displays of Costa’s and Anna’s hummingbirds, the species that Ayala studies:
- Costa’s Hummingbird
- Anna’s Hummingbird
Learn more about the students producing this podcast and their science communication efforts by following us on Twitter and Instagram (@SciCommUCR) and visiting our website
Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. More of their work can be found at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/
The SciCom club at UCR is proud to present a new science communication podcast, Across the Cline. Your host Jessica Maccaro and Catherine Nguyen bring together two experts for seemingly different fields to discuss the similarities their studies share. This voyage into what unites us in science will leave you wondering what else can be found just...Across the Cline.
Podcast to be released on the 1st of every month with new guest and newer discoveries.
Production and sound editing by Joshua Reger.