Spotlight 2024 - Meredith Johnson, Origin Stories

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 73 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 episode, another returning guest: Meredith Johnson, host of Origin Stories, the Leakey Foundation podcast! Find Origin Stories here:https://leakeyfoundation.org/learn/originstories/ 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, Meredith.
0:20.2	Hi, David. Hi, Will. Hello, Will. Hello, David. Hello, Meredith. Hi.
0:21.4	Hi, David.
0:21.9	Hi, Will.
0:22.7	Hello, Will.
0:23.5	Hello, to David.
0:24.8	Hello, everybody.
0:25.5	And welcome.
0:26.4	I talked right over you.
0:28.9	Welcome to the Common Descent podcast.
0:38.4	This is Spotlight, 24, a special series we're running all throughout the year, where we are sitting down to talk about science communication with some of our fellow podcasters, SciComers in the realm of paleontology and related stuff.
0:46.5	This episode, we are very delighted to welcome back to the podcast. Meredith, thanks so much
0:52.4	for being here. Thank you so much for having me back. It's
0:55.6	really fun to see you both again, and I'm excited to talk about podcasting and science communication.
1:01.3	Yes. Us too. If you would please introduce yourself for any of our listeners who aren't familiar
1:08.5	with you. Sure. My name is Meredith Johnson, and I am the communications director for the Leakey Foundation,
1:15.0	which is a nonprofit that has a dual mission of funding research and talking about it.
1:22.0	And I make and host a podcast called Origin Stories, which is a show about human evolution.
1:26.9	Yes. And longtime listeners of our podcast will be familiar with Origin Stories, which is a show about human evolution. Yes, long-time listeners
1:28.9	of our podcast will be familiar with origin stories because we like to plug origin stories
1:33.6	from time to time on our podcast because it's fantastic. It's a really great podcast. Thank you. Thank you
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