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The Common Descent Podcast

Episode 19 - Women in Paleontology

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Education, Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2017

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

This is a listener-requested topic and a guest episode! We are joined by super-special guest Michelle Barboza-Ramirez of the Femmes of STEM podcast, who is here to help us explore the deep subject of Women in Paleontology. We talk about female scientists past and present, discuss the challenges they face, and reflect on the broad questions of diversity in the field of paleontology and other sciences. In the news: baby saber-tooths; Triceratops brains; surprises in dinosaur poop; and super-ancient trilobite guts! Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:06:30Main discussion: 00:31:30 HUGE thanks to Michelle for helping us out! Find her at www.femmesofstem.com! Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/common-descent/the-common-descent-podcast The Podcast music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.

0:18.6

Hello, Will. Hey, David. And hello listeners, and welcome to a very special episode 19 of the Common Descent podcast. Indeed.

0:31.8

How about how does 19 work for you? This so far works pretty well. It works pretty well.

0:38.3

Today we are, so, hey, you remember how sometimes we have episodes where we take special requests from our listeners?

0:46.8

Oh, I do remember that.

0:48.1

And then also, you remember how some, a couple times we've had episodes where we've had special guests on podcast.

0:53.4

That has happened as also, as well. This is the first episodes where we've had special guests on podcast. That has happened as well.

0:55.4

This is the first episode where we are doing both.

1:00.8

Collective gasp from the audience.

1:03.0

I heard it.

1:04.2

I heard it around the world in the future.

1:06.2

Today's episode topic comes requested to us by Matthew on Facebook, who asked if we could do an

1:13.1

episode about women in paleontology, which is an awesome suggestion.

1:19.5

It really is.

1:20.4

But that is not the typical sort of sciencey, you know, kind of topic that we normally do. And so,

1:30.1

fortunately, we knew someone who could help us out. Yeah. In fact, you know how we always do

1:37.5

topics and we're like, oh, you could be a whole podcast about this sort of topic. Yeah. Well, there is,

1:43.3

and we got that podcast host to join us today.

1:47.7

For this episode, we are going to be joined by Michelle Barbosa Ramirez of the FEMS of STEM

1:54.4

podcast, who is all about the role of women in various fields of science, and Michelle herself as a paleontologist.

2:02.9

Pretty perfect matchup.

2:04.6

Yes.

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