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Some graduate programs place you right into your lab where you'll stay for 5+ years, but others go on a tour of the research being done in their area. Today, grad student Jordan Harrod joins me to tell us about the different labs she's rotated in & the cool research they're doing. Oh, and did I mention she's on the leadership board for Students for/March for Science? Suggested Readings: Video on Jordan's area of study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6lENrRANxY Article on non-invasive brain stimulation: http://news.mit.edu/2017/noninvasive-method-deep-brain-stimulation-0601 General piece on medical tech: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/ai-versus-md Jordan's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/everydAI Find Jordan Harrod: @jordanbharrod, http://medium.com/@jordan.b.harrod, http://www.jordanharrod.com Follow me: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

How do you go from working on agricultural tech to modelling how robots move and manipulate tools? Well, Zack Woodruff made exactly that academic leap. He shares his expertise ranging from green technology to the world of robotics. Suggested Readings: General background: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/robots-getting-a-grip-on-general-manipulation Detailed review: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-control-060117-104848 Lab web page: https://nxr.northwestern.edu/research/robotic-manipulation Find Zack Woodruff: www.zackwoodruff.com Follow me: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Science communication can take many forms, including posting on instagram about the science behind your favorite disney characters! Sarah White is a graduate student studying learning sciences, but when she's not working on her research, she's known as the PhD Princess. Suggested Reading: Website specifically related to Sarah's research: https://www.teachersinsocialmedia.com/ KQED's MindShift: https://www.kqed.org/mindshift The Hechinger Report: https://hechingerreport.org/ Find Sarah White: phdprincess.com, Instagram- @thephdprincess Follow me: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

In this episode, I dive deep into quantum communication with Sam Whiteley. We talk about unhackable communication networks, the difficultly of setting up a totally quantum system, and where work on quantum communication still has a ways to go. Suggested Readings: Link to a free version of our manuscript, recently accepted by Nature Physics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10996 News & more information about Quantum Communication from Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quantum-internet-has-arrived-and-it-hasn-rsquo-t/ New York Times including interview with Sam's advisor: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/technology/quantum-encryption.html Find Sam Whiteley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-whiteley-43b16686/, https://ime.uchicago.edu/awschalomlab/ Follow me: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

In this episode, another fellow AAAS MMF alum joins me to talk about her research on fire! Allie Weill studies the connections between fire, plants and the ecosystem at large. She specifically studies fire-adapted plants in Mediterranean shrublands in California, but our conversation was much broader than that. Suggested Readings: Various posts on many fire-related topics at: https://talkaboutfire.com/talk-about-fire-blog/ A primer on fire ecology: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-ecology-of-fire-13259892 The California Fire Science Consortium: http://www.cafiresci.org/ Resprouting/Reseeding after fire(Germination): https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.12921 Find Allie Weill: @Al_R_Wallace Follow me: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

This week, my guest & I did more than talk about his environmental engineering research. We also took a deep dive into the DeGrowth movement, both abroad & here in the United States. DegrowUS Suggested Readings: A distilled list of degrowth overviews, opinions, and academic research: https://www.degrowus.org/readings/ A review article I published last year on the need to join circular economy and degrowth principles: https://discardstudies.com/2017/11/13/moving-the-circular-economy-beyond-alchemy/ Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era - A very readable/digestible recap of degrowth concepts: https://vocabulary.degrowth.org/ (For your listeners who are based in Chicago, DegrowUS will be hosting a Degrowth: A Vocabulary reading/discussion group in February. Contact me or sign up for the DegrowUS newsletter, Snail Mail, to sign up) Find John Mulrow: https://www.degrowus.org/, @degrowUS, [email protected] Follow me: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

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/ Follow Lauren Blake: @Lauren_E_Blake Follow me: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

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 Follow Ittai Eres: @IttaiE, [email protected] Follow me: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

Math is way more than formulas learned in algebra class in high school. This episode's guest, Yen Duong, earned her PhD studying graph theory and topology! While she's now a science reporter in North Carolina, she was happy to tell me all about her PhD research! Suggested Reading: Yen's blog on geometric group theory: https://bakingandmath.com/2015/03/02/what-is-geometric-group-theory/ and several other math posts Example of a funky manifold: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-few-of-my-favorite-spaces-the-three-torus/ Background on the field: https://www.quantamagazine.org/from-hyperbolic-geometry-to-cube-complexes-and-back-20121002/ Video on Banach Tarski paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA&t=689s Follow Yen Duong: @yenergy, www.yenduong.com Follow me: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

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 Follow Nathan Bradshaw: @NPBeardshaw Follow me: [email protected], @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing