My wife is a gnome rogue named Bubblegum McGee with two Gs on the front of each name,

but they're silent because she's a gnom.

Excellent.

From sciencesortov.com, you're listening to science sort of. You are listening to episode 324. I'm your host, Ryan,

and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science.

No one.

I am in my car recording this alone.

But I do have a fantastic interview lined up for this episode, and the theme for this episode, which will become abundantly clear in just a

moment, is suit up for science. What kind of suits am I talking about? Well, the suits would be of

the costumed variety, because I am talking to two of the folks who are involved with the

cosplay for science communication initiative, which is about nerds and scientists dressing up in

costumes to help promote more science, which is awesome.

You know, obviously everyone knows that I'm a big comic book nerd. I've gone to a lot of comic book conventions, but have I ever dressed up in costume?

I don't know. You're going to have to listen to the interview to find out. I can't actually remember if I say, then you'll find out. All right. We're going to dive right into the interview since we had a lot of fun chatting and covered

a lot of good ground and including some cosplay, which is definitely on the sort of science

side of things.

I will be back at the end for a brief paleo-pow.

Enjoy the interview.

So I'm being joined by Dr. Lisa Lundren, who is an incoming assistant professor at Utah State

University and Gabriel Santos, who is the collections manager and outreach coordinator for the

Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology. So one of the questions we usually like to ask our guests,

first when we start the interview about their science, is simply what kind of scientists do you

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