Coronavirus: Labs Go Dark

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Life is on pause for many of us right now. But scientists don’t want to stop! Researchers have had to figure out how to keep experiments going and keep lab animals alive — all while keeping themselves safe. To find out how they’re managing it, we talk to evolutionary biologist Dr. Ximena Bernal, plant biologist Professor Frank Telewski, marine conservation biologist Christine Figgener, and station manager Erin Heard. Here’s a link to our transcript: https://bit.ly/3dgBZ2i This episode was produced by Laura Morris with help from me Wendy Zukerman, Rose Rimler, Meryl Horn, Mathilde Urfalino, Michelle Dang and Sinduja Srinivasan. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell with help from Caitlin Kenney and Alex Blumberg. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard, Marcus Bagala, Emma Munger, and Bobby Lord. A big thanks to everyone who left us messages and spoke to us - including Dr. Stella Capoccia, Dr. Alessandra Fidelis, Professor Marco Festa-Bianchet, Dr. Joanna Joiner, Anjana Parandhaman, and Mike Pendleton. And a special thanks to the Zukerman Family, Joseph Lavelle Wilson and Jack Weinstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlet.
0:04.0	Today, we wanted to do something a little different.
0:07.2	So, a lot of us have been at home,
0:09.4	McGyvering through our lives.
0:12.0	For me, I'm recording from home,
0:14.1	and I'm using pillows to muffle the sounds of my neighbors.
0:17.6	It works, okay.
0:20.0	But for scientists,
0:21.6	McGyvering their work is a totally different ballgame.
0:25.7	They have lab animals, they have to keep alive,
0:28.2	and experiments that can't be saved with bedding.
0:31.4	So today, we're going to tell the stories of scientists from around the world
0:35.6	who have had to make some very weird choices in the middle of this pandemic.
0:41.6	These are researchers who have spent years investigating pockets of the natural world,
0:46.6	digging into the nuances of frog mating calls,
0:49.6	the breeding habits of endangered turtles,
0:52.0	and the superpowers of plants.
0:54.5	And we're going to find out how this year,
0:57.6	things had to change.
0:59.4	We just didn't know how it was going to go.
1:01.6	I was all gangbusters that,
1:03.0	no, come hell or high water,
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