A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomes

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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First up on the podcast, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi to celebrate the 2-year anniversary of ScienceAdviser with many stories about the amazing water bear. They also discuss links between climate change, melting glaciers, and earthquakes in the Alps, as well as what is probably the first edible laser. Next on the show, freelance producer Elah Feder talks with Tatiana Feuerborn, a postdoctoral fellow in the cancer genetics and comparative genomics branch of the National Institutes of Health, about the evolutionary history of the Greenland sled dog. Her team’s work sequencing 98 genomes from modern and ancient sled dogs reveals the canine’s current diversity and suggests approaches for conservation. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Elah Feder; Christie Wilcox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a science podcast for July 10th, 2025.
0:05.8	I'm Sarah Crespi.
0:07.0	First this week, newsletter editor, Christy Wilcox,
0:09.8	joins us to celebrate the two-year anniversary of Science Advisor,
0:13.8	with many stories about the amazing tardigrade.
0:16.5	It's a tardy party.
0:18.1	We also discuss links between climate change and earthquakes in the Alps, as well as what is probably the first edible laser.
0:25.0	Next on the show, freelance producer Ella Fedder talks with researcher Tatiana Feuerborn about the evolutionary history of the Greenland sled dog.
0:33.4	The team's work sequencing 98 genomes from modern and ancient sled dogs reveals the canines' current diversity and suggests approaches for conservation.
0:47.9	This week we have Christy Wilcox. She's the editor for our daily newsletter Science Advisor, and we're going to celebrate the two-year anniversary of this daily work of love, labor of love, with tardigrades.
1:03.5	Because why not? We have a lot of tartagrates, and there was some swag related to them.
1:08.8	Yeah, yeah. It was sort of a random and yet not random
1:12.1	decision because I just happened to love Tardagrades. Everyone should love Tartagrades. I don't
1:17.4	know why anyone wouldn't love Tartagrades. I mean, they are cute and they are nearly indestructible.
1:22.5	They are an icon for the ages. And we seem to write a lot of stories on Tardagraids, both in the newsletter and on the site, too.
1:30.6	Yeah, it's hard not to.
1:32.2	I mean, when you have something so small and so simple in so many ways, that is also so tough and so fierce and so resilient.
1:42.3	I mean, you can blast them with radiation.
1:46.3	You can hit them with the impact of a bullet. You can freeze them down. You can freeze them and defrost them. You can tattoo them.
1:51.5	Oh, we're going to get to that. That's right. So this was kind of the symbol of your two-year anniversary.
1:56.5	I saw there were some tardigrade socks being distributed to people who were registering for the newsletter for the first time.
2:02.5	So that is very awesome. And it also means that you had to select some stories to post in the newsletter or celebrating the anniversary.
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