Spotlight 2024 - Amy and Meaghan, Weird and Dead

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Spotlight 2024! In this series, we’re sitting down with our fellow paleo-podcasters to discuss Science Communication. This time, we’re hanging out with Amy and Meaghan from Weird & Dead! Find Weird & Dead here:www.weirdanddead.com www.patreon.com/WeirdandDeadPodcast More from Amy and Meaghan:www.meaghanwetherell.com www.geopetalfabric.com https://dinosaurtrips.com/all-women-jurassic-coast/ Connect with Common Descent: https://linktr.ee/common_descent Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ We’re an Audible Affiliate Partner! Use this link for a 30-day free trial to Audible: https://www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent The Intro and Outro 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.
0:19.0	Hello, Megan.
0:20.1	Hello! Hello, Amy. Hello.
0:22.3	Hello, Amy.
0:23.7	Hi.
0:25.9	Hello, Will.
0:26.9	Hello, David.
0:27.8	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Common Descent, where we geek out about paleontology,
0:32.2	evolution, earth history, and so on.
0:34.1	This is a special series called Spotlight 20 2024. All throughout the year, we have been
0:40.1	inviting other science communicators and podcasters in the realms of paleontology to chat with us
0:46.1	about science communication and podcasting and the like. This episode, we are very excited to be
0:52.9	joined by the hosts of Weird and Dead.
0:56.5	Megan and Amy, thank you both so much for being here.
0:59.2	Thank you.
0:59.7	Thank you for having us.
1:01.7	Before we get into our discussion, Amy and Megan, if you would please introduce yourselves for our listeners.
1:07.3	I'll go first because Amy's delay is so bad.
1:09.9	I'm Megan Wetherill. I'm a, yeah, I guess actually, what do I say about myself? I'm a co-host of the Weird and Dead podcast. I have a small clothing store about paleontology. I am a professor at University of Arizona, but weirdly I teach statistics and science communication
1:29.6	and game design, not paleontology.
1:32.7	Very cool combo.
1:33.7	But I try to, you know, shove as many dinosaurs and things in there as possible, mostly
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