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Here We Are

Underwater Volcanoes + Scallop Porn

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Volcanic activity, submarine adventures, and scallop porn are on today’s menu. If that is somehow not enticing enough, you’re also going to find out what percentage of a scallop’s body weight is gametes. Guess high as it may be nature’s most impressive money shot. Skylar Bayer is a marine ecologist who studies population dynamics and marine conservation. She’s also does a ton of science communication including producing the science storytelling show The Story Collider. She even shares a fun story of one of her mishaps being featured on The Colbert Report. Check out her website https://skylarbayer.wordpress.com https://twitter.com/drsrbayer Her Uncharted newsletter signup is here: https://uncharted.substack.com/p/coming-soon Thank you for watching and being an inquisitive being. 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞: Stand-up comedian, adventurer and science enthusiast Shane Mauss has been interviewing scientists each week since 2014. Originally from La Crosse, Wisconsin this former factory worker skipped college to become a comedian. His stand up has been on Comedy Central, Conan, Kimmel, Showtime, and Epix https://bit.ly/shaneTV . In the age of podcasting, more people might be familiar with him as a guest on Trussell, Holmes, Kreischer, Vaughn, Maron, or Rogan https://bit.ly/shaneguest. Compelled to talk about bigger ideas, he now travels to universities around the world (when there isn't a pandemic) to interview researchers on a journey to learn what makes us who we are...as well as a bunch of other random stuff you never imagined you would care about. Favorite topics include: psychology, biology, evolution, cognitive biases, behavioral economics, mating, animal behavior, neuroscience, entheogens and consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Are we, yes, where are we here?

0:03.0

Why are we here, not entirely clear?

0:06.0

We are misfits, thrust into existence by random chance,

0:11.0

with no hints at all as to how we're supposed to make sense of it all.

0:16.0

It's immensely bizarre.

0:18.0

Here we are.

0:20.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the Here we are podcast I am comedian in science

0:25.4

enthusiast Shane Moss my guest today is marine biologist in science

0:30.3

communicator Skyler bear is joining me. Skyler, why don't you give yourself a proper, more

0:37.4

thorough introduction? Tell us all about yourself. What's your life story,

0:43.0

um, actually, just, um,

0:45.0

set up a little bit of what you do because,

0:51.0

I know that you're into, I know that you're marine. you do

0:55.0

lots and lots of science communications so if you can tell us a little bit about that.

1:00.0

Yeah, sure thing.

1:01.0

Thanks, Shane for having me on the show and I don't know that your show is long enough for my whole life story.

1:07.0

But, but I, right, right, I'll give you the highlights so far.

1:15.0

Let's see, on the science side of things,

1:20.0

I am an assistant professor at Roger Williams University in the biology department and I do aquaculture and extension work as part of my job.

1:31.0

Extension means engaging with the community, specifically around like aquaculture and

1:36.3

fisheries work. So that's some of what I do. And this is my first semester starting. So it is a wild time to start a job as a professor.

1:46.1

That's a horror story that you just shared with me. That is, absolute worst possible situation to be in.

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