Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, September 16th, 2019.

I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria, and I wanted to start by thanking those of you who have made

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I have one other piece of news that I want to talk about

before we dive into the show this week and I'm actually

really mad at myself that I haven't brought this up yet at the top of the show.

But do you guys remember Psychom Camp? Now that Psychom as in Science Communication, SCI-C-O-M, camp. If you go to psychom-camp.com, you can learn all about it. Now this year, Psych-C is going to be from November 8th through 10th in

Los Angeles is actually in the beautiful Seamy Hills at a wonderful camp style kind of

sleepaway resort and I know this sounds like it's for kids, but no,

Saikalm campus for adults. It's for early, mid, and late career science

communicators. So if you are a listener to the show and you've always

wanted to learn more about your science communication

efforts, or learn how to improve them, whether you're podcasting, whether you have a blog,

whether you are involved in your local museum or you do kind of science

communication events out in your local communities, you want to get into television, I don't know, I'm sure I'm forgetting things, you give talks,

these, the different workshops and breakaway sessions at Saikom Camp are really, really, really informative.

And on top of that, a lot of Saikom campers,

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