TWiV 962: Chiara Mingarelli takes the pulse of the universe

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Astrophysicist Chiara Mingarelli joins TWiV to discuss her career and her work using pulse timing arrays to study the gravitational wave background, ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are caused by events such as the merging of black holes. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Angela Mingarelli Guest: Chirara Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support MicrobeTV with a Spike t-shirt (Vaccinated.us) with promo code MicrobeTV International Scientific Coordinator Position (agajewski at icsnicaragua.org for more info) Seeing the gravitational wave universe (Science) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Angela – OpenAI Playground and Nature Milestones: T cells Chiara – The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean Carroll Kathy – Recycling PVC and here and here Rich – Brome Bird Care Squirrel Buster Plus (Bonus pick: 1971 Volvo 142 Commercial – With John Cameron Swayze) Vincent – Journey to the Microcosmos Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

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0:00.0	This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.4	From microbe TV, this is TWIV, this week in virology episode 962 recorded on December 8th, 2022.
0:21.8	I'm Vincent Drakenyllo and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses,
0:26.7	joining me today from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
0:31.0	Hi everybody. I've started to pull up the weather. Oh yeah, it's 40 degrees Fahrenheit,
0:37.2	which in Celsius is I'm using the your rain weather app from Norway, four degrees.
0:46.4	And it's just kind of grayish solid or semi solid clouds.
0:51.6	Yeah, semi solid clouds. Your New York is 10 degrees and mostly cloudy, also joining us from
0:59.0	Austin, Texas, rich condit. Hi everybody. We got get this 81 degrees Fahrenheit. Is that one of
1:07.2	your numbers, Kathy? 82. Okay, so what is that approximate in?
1:13.3	82 is approximately 82 is 28. So you're probably 20. There you go. You know, because those
1:18.7	are some degrees are big. So this is crazy. And we're going to be mid to high 70s through Monday.
1:25.2	And then it starts to drop in the following week. We get down to mid 50s, which is more
1:29.7	typical for this time of year. So we have two individuals at the incubator to that today.
1:36.4	And one of them is our newest TWIV host, Angela Mingarali. Welcome.
1:43.6	Hello, thanks for having me here. I'm so excited to actually be here. And to be
1:48.2	forming part of the TWIV team officially. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
1:52.7	This is your first non-guess appearance. And normally you're at McGill University, but you decided
1:58.8	to come to the incubator today for this special occasion, right? Yep, exactly. My sister,
2:04.1	yeah, well, I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. Our other guest actually lives here in New
2:09.3	York. So I took the advantage of doing this in person and also visiting my sister, which is
2:14.9	really nice. So our guest, because, Angela, you're not a guest anymore. You're a co-host or a
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