Oh, hey, it's your basket of yarn that's sad you gave up on knitting alleyward back with another farm fresh episode

We just picked for you and I hope that you're hungry for worms. So many worms. Why worms?

Because before I came down with pneumonia last month

I was at USC Riggley Institute on the island of Catalina

teaching a psychom symposium to this group of really enthusiastic and

Enduring climate scientists and biologists who were just rarer and to get up on these mics

And I took advantage of their zeal and I asked them all about what they do

Because it's not every day that you get to sit on two twin beds in a seaside cabin with a worm expert

So I did this guest has been a research associate in the Department of Zoology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

An assistant professor in the Department of Memeatology at USC Riverside and is now an assistant professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia and runs her own lab

Looking at deep sea ecosystems and his literally traveled to the ends of the earth to ask

What is in that mud? I love her

But I also love you and thank you again patrons at patreon.com slash allergies for being so supportive

During the break I took to get healthier

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I read every single one to hear about folks who have compacted school or rediscovered a love of nature or roadtrip

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