278 - LOST

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - This episode Ryan is joined by four (4!) guests to talk about their paper published in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics about whether or not humans are to blame for the extinction of Caribbean mammals. What did they discover? You can read a summary of the work written by co-author Alexis Mychajliw here and then listen to find out even more!

00:31:08 - Island life goes better with a drink. Doing the show all these years means there are occasionally bottles with a very small amount of left in them being "saved for the show." This week, Ryan downs the final two ounces out of a batch 1 bottle of Barrell Bourbon, a very good overproof whiskey, if you like that sort of thing.

00:33:12 - Part two of Ryan's chat covers how a multi-first author collaboration even works, as well as what we can expect to see from their team next. We also discuss the recent hurricanes in the region, and what that means for both the people and for the science. You can help out by donating to Puerto Rican scientists and contributing to crowd-sourced projects to better understand hurricanes like this one. Follow along with each of the interviewees using these handy links!

Aleix Mychajliw: Website and Twitter
Siobáhn Cooke: Website and Twitter
Liliana M. Dávalos: Lab website and Facebook
Nate Upham: Website and Twitter

01:05:18 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like localized extinctions: entirely avoidable but sometimes inevitable. This week we're keeping it short with a simple thanks to Lisa K. for her recurring donation. Thanks, Lisa! No thesis this week since Ryan is solo, but if you want your own thesis title, head on over to Patreon and sign up for the Avogadro's Army level or higher.

More cool rewards await you if you decide to support us on Patreon!

Music for this week's show:
Main Title from "LOST" - Michael Giacchino
Buttons - The Weeks
Barrel of a Gun - Guster
Change the World (Lost Ones) - Anberlin

Transcript

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0:00.0	Upum. Wow. I just botched every single name. Sorry about that.
0:04.8	I should have had you say your own names like a real. Actually, I'm going to do that.
0:08.8	Okay. I'm going to reset real quick here.
0:11.0	Okay.
0:11.7	This is when I pretend that I'm doing real radio.
0:16.0	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:19.8	You're listening to Science Sort of.com. You're listening to Science Sort of.
0:37.7	Hello and welcome to Science Sort of.
0:39.4	This is episode 278.
0:41.3	Our theme this week is Law.
1:04.7	I'm your host, Ryan Haupt, and I will be joined shortly by four other scientists who are going to be talking to me about mammalian extinctions in the Caribbean and some of the work they've been doing to figure out what exactly caused those.
1:06.9	And you know what, since I'm alone, there's no reason to delay it.
1:08.3	So without further ado, here's the interview.
1:09.0	Please enjoy.
1:11.0	All right, so I'm being joined by the most people I've ever been joined by, and I'm going to have them introduce
1:14.1	themselves. So if you could each just say hello and your name in the order in which
1:18.9	are listed on the paper, that would be great. Hello, I'm Chavon Cook. Hi, I'm Lillianna Dabalos. Hi, I'm Alexis McIlo. I, uh, Nate Upum. And I'm speaking with you all because you all
1:29.5	are equally contributing authors to a paper in the annual review of ecology, evolution, and
1:33.9	systematics called the anthropogenic extinction dominates holocene declines of West Indian mammals. But
1:40.4	Alexis wrote a behind the paper sort of blog post essay, uh, which nature, ecology, and evolution called On the Extinction and Survival of Caribbean Mammals, which might be a little bit more clear title for the layman.
1:53.6	And I've never had this many people on before, so I don't even really know where to start.
1:57.8	Do you guys just want to tell me how this paper came together and how you all
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