Are we yes? Where are we here? Why are we here not entirely clear? We are misfits

thrust into existence by random chance with no hints at all as to how we're supposed

to make sense of it all. It's immensely bizarre. Here we are.

Okay, hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast. I am just getting done

with an odd interesting science conference meeting a zombie apocalypse medicine meeting and

or I got a fun way of doing science communication through the lens of various like apocalypse scenarios

and types of of skills that we'll need in the end times and got to meet all sorts of wonderful

new friends including my brand new friend Tamash David Barrett joining me today Tamash tell

people about yourself and your research. Thank you very much for inviting me I'm a behavioral

scientist but before that I would just like to add something about this this conference because

it's it's conferences about zombies. Yeah. And which has I'm not sure whether you pick that

with up it has this wonderful effect that all the idiots in academia who need to have a

fancy name to the conference can't come. So the quality of the conversation was amazing because

most people not many people who otherwise you wouldn't really want to meet at the conference.

Right. I just not here. Right, right, right. All the people that are into the jargony little

yeah. Okay. It's called zombies actually it's amazing science that was going on but yeah.

I'm going to we're sounding great. So I'm going to take these off for the look because look at

this beautiful background and everything that we have here. So tell people about yourself tell

people about your work your background. Yeah, so I am an interdisciplinary scholar which means

it's actually not really interdisciplinary. I'm I'm difficult to take pin down. I rather than the

methods I am pin down by the question. So I think about the evolutionary origins of the way

our species and sometimes other species form social networks and then how we regulate those

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