299 - Phone a Friend

Science... sort of

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - This episode we’re joined by Sarah McAnulty (@SarahMackAttack), a Ph.D. candidate studying the immune system of the bobtail squid, which is delightfully cute and glows in the dark to avoid detection. You can see some of her research in action in this video: Bobtails + Bacteria = BFF. Finally, according to Sarah and Alton Brown, EAT ALL THE SQUIDS THAT YOU CAN, THE OCEAN DEPENDS ON IT.

00:24:15 - Squids live in the drink and Abe stops by for one. He’s enjoying, as best he can, a Native Species from Blue Mountain Brewery. Ryan thinks the call is coming from inside the house with his Inside Job IPA from Henhouse Brewing, which is mercifully west coast in styling.

00:29:20 - We’re back with Sarah chatting about her ongoing outreach effort, Skype a Scientist, which works to connect researchers with classrooms and other venues that want to have a conversation with a real live scientist. Ryan is a participant and a big fan. If you or someone you know could be a participant on either side of the equation, consider signing up! You can also support the project on Patreon.

00:53:23 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like squids, or are they? First up, Tyler D. is deserving of a Patreon thesis, and based on some assumptions of his location and interests, he gets: Potential pharmacological effects of Cephalopod spaghettification in the preparation of Cincinnati-style chili: do oodles of noodles decrease oodles of squids in the world’s oceans? Thanks, Tyler! Next, Gary K. went to GSA 2018 and sent us some notes, which prompts a brief discussion of conference attendance strategies.

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Music for this episode:

Afterglow - Chvrches
Bubbles In My Beer - Willie Nelson
Call Me - Blondie

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right. That sounds like a good plan.
0:02.1	Well, it's a plan.
0:04.0	It sounds like a plan.
0:05.8	There we go.
0:06.4	That's all I needed.
0:07.9	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:11.9	Hello and welcome to Science Sort of. This is episode 299.
0:26.9	Our theme this week is Phone a Friend.
0:28.8	And I'm your host, Ryan Haupt, and joining me to discuss things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they weren't science.
0:34.5	And joining me to talk about that is Sarah McAnulty.
0:38.0	Hey, how's it going? It's going well. So Sarah is a PhD candidate at the University of
0:44.0	Connecticut studying how immune cells in squid interact with and recognize their beneficial
0:50.6	bacteria amongst other things and is the founder and developer of Skype
0:55.5	a Scientist. So Sarah, we've been trying to get you on for a while and I'm really excited to
1:01.0	get a chance to talk to you. Yeah, I'm super happy you had me on. Thanks. So we're on Skype,
1:05.8	but do we want to talk about Skype first or do we want to talk about your research first?
1:09.2	It's up to you. We can do either. Okay. Well, since the show is named science, sort of, we tend to start with the science and then
1:14.7	transition to the sort of. So let's talk about some science. I am a vertebrate paleontologist,
1:21.8	so I issue your research organism in the very name of the science that I do, but I will tell you that
1:28.6	I love squids, and I'm very excited to talk to you about squid.
1:31.1	Love talking about squid. Can do it all day. Okay. You say on your website, which will link to
1:35.9	all this stuff in the show notes for the episode at ScienceWrob.com, but you say in your website
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