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Across the Cline

by Jessica Maccaro and Catherine Nguyen

Your hosts bring together two experts from seemingly different fields to discuss the similarities their studies share. This voyage into what unites us in science will leave you wondering what else can be found just...Across the Cline.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 19: Queer Fungi

    We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and...

  2. Episode 18: Politics and Plants

    This month, we are chatting with Lida Halilovic, a plant pathology graduate student at UC Riverside, and Henry Harrison, a political science student at UCR. How do organisms and nations "make" decisions when in conflict? How are these complex systems made, and what limits them? Get ready for an...

  3. Episode 17: Eating Insects With Your Eyes...and Mouth

    We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and...

  4. Episode 16: Machine Speak

    We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and...

  5. Episode 15: Utopia and Autism

    We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and...

  6. Episode 14: Do you smell...what's coming?

    We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and...

  7. Episode 13: It's all about the order you don't have

    We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and...

  8. Episode 12: Two Robs of Academia

    We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and...

  9. Episode 11: Mermaid Justice

    We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and...

  10. Episode 10: Water, STAT!

    When we talk about science, we often are specifically referring to Western science. Yet, what are we losing in writing off other ways of knowing? Today, we talk with Michael Blackstock, an Indigenous artist, poet, and scholar from the Gitxsan Nation, and Jeff Ellis, a PhD student in the…

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  11. Episode 9: Threading the Horn

    We’ve previously talked about conservation in terms of biology and art, but what about the role of art in species conservation? Join us as we talk to Elijah Hall from the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology at UCR and Michelle Wilson and Anne Beck, creators of the Rhinoceros...

  12. Episode 8: The Hero's Lyrics

    Communicating concepts and findings are important parts of being a scientist, but how do you do it well? Today, we talk with Dr. Bruce Kirchoff from the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and Dr. Faith Kearns from the California Institute for Water Resources…

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  13. Episode 7: Life Animates Art

    How do you bring something that no living human has ever seen to life? We join Marvel Studios animator, Kristina Mickahail-Giblin, and Director of Visitor Engagement and Education of the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology and co-founder of Cosplay for Science, Gabriel Santos, to learn more…

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  14. Episode 6: Biased Learning

    Our world is increasingly becoming one where we use computers and machines to help us make decisions. Surely, lines of code are better at handling bias than people, right? Or are they not so different from us at all? Today, we’re joined by two UCR students, Kayla Chaplin, a Social Psychology PhD...

  15. Episode 5: Social Maths

    What can math and social insects tell us about what happens when concepts or individuals come together? Are we more than the sum of our parts? In this episode, Andrea Stine, a grad student in UCR’s Department of Mathematics, and Dr. Brian Whyte, who completed his PhD in the Department of...

  16. Episode 4: Sexual Bias Playscript

    What happens when we exclude half of the population? In celebration of International Women’s Day (March 8th), we are joined by Paige Goodwin, a feminist playwright and lecturer at UCR, and Nora Wolcott, a PhD candidate in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at UC Santa Barbara, to...

  17. Episode 3: Science Fantasy

    How does storytelling as a fantasy writer and as an ecologist further our understanding of the world? We’re going to adventure across this cline with William Ota, a PhD candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at UCR who studies freshwater ecology and Rachael...

  18. Episode 2: Concerning Conservation

    What do you think of when you hear the word “conservation?” In this episode, we’re joined by Annika Rose-Person, a PhD candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at UCR and Anisha Gupta, a PhD student in the Department of Art Conservation at the University of...

  19. Episode 1: Dancing Birds

    What do the worlds of bird courtship and Cambodian classical dance have in common? Today, we are joined by Ayala Berger, a PhD candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at UCR who is researching hummingbird courtship, and Ryan Boun, a Cambodian dancer. As we…

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  20. Episode 0: Abstract

    The SciCom club at UCR is proud to present a new science communication podcast, Across the Cline. Your host Jessica Maccaro and Catherine Nguyen bring together two experts for seemingly different fields to discuss the similarities their studies share. This voyage into what unites us in science…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Your hosts bring together two experts from seemingly different fields to discuss the similarities their studies share. This voyage into what unites us in science will leave you wondering what else can be found just...Across the Cline.

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Jessica Maccaro and Catherine Nguyen

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