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GradCast — 613 episodes

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560 | Confidence, Speaking, and Digital Tools: Supporting Older Adult English Language Learners in Canada

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559 | #Feminismo: Feminism and the Digital Hispanosphere

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558 | How do we think about cells? There isn't one right way

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557 | Minding the Body: How Does Mental Health Correlate With Exercise?

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556 | K-Queer Regionality and Digital Affinities: Queer Identity in K-pop’s Transcultural Fandom

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Special Episode: 40th Annual Western Research Forum

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555 | Marc Lalonde and The Grad Club, the Heart of Grad Life at Western

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554 | Culturally Safe Long-term Care: Supporting Seniors with Diverse Cultural Backgrounds

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553 | Internationally Educated Nurse (IEN) Beyond Borders: Reality, Resilience, and Research in Canadian Health Care

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#BookCast 10 | Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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552 | Understanding the Abstract & Each Other: How Mentalizing Shapes the Way we Think

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Art or Science #1| Music

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551 | Navigating Falls After Stroke: Research Shaped by Community Voices

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550 | Where are you From? How Placed-Based Identity Affects Political Behaviour

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Thinking with the Earth 4: Where and Why People Move

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549 | Caring About Caring

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547 | Thinking with the Earth 3: Rooted in Community

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546 | Thinking with the Earth 2: The Water We Don’t See

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548 | It's All About Carbon and Football

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545 | Ungetable: Exploring How English as a Second Language Speakers Navigate Derivatives

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544 | Chick-a-Dee-Coding the Accents of Birds

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543 | Thinking With the Earth 1: Flight Paths Toward Sustainability

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542 | #Inspiring Minds 16: Optical Payload in Western Skylark CubeSat to Demonstrate the Future of Space Communication

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541 | The Math Behind Viruses

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540 | Demystifying Job Hunting Through Peer Advising

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539 | #Inspiring Minds 15: Inside Speech Development, Altered Auditory Feedback, and Growing Voices

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538 | Studying Shape: From Human Histories to Earth Processes

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537 | Zola, but Make it Funny: The Comedies You Missed

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536 | How Kids Process Stories and Sharing our (Scientific) Stories with the World

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535 | #Inspiring Minds 14: “One-Size-Fits-All” Myth: Concussions are Different in Male and Female Brains

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534 | Midwives on the Frontline of Maternal Mental Health Care

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533 | #Inspiring Minds 13: Accessibility by Design: Musical Instruments in Student Hands

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532 | Taking a Close Look at Protein Oxidation Using Mass Spectrometry

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531 | #Inspiring Minds 12: Walking to the Beat: Music, Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, and Parkinson’s

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530 | Changing Minds: Improving Hiring Practices with Growth Mindset Messaging

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529 | #Inspiring Minds 11: We Were Saying This All Along: Person-Centered Long Term Care and Small Homes

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#BookCast 9 | People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

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528 | #InspiringMinds 10: Caravaggio with a Cellphone: Merging Tradition With Digital Identity

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527 | STEM Teacher Retention and our Sense of Belonging in Education

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526 | #InspiringMinds 9: Relations, Not Relationships: Values, Algorithms, and Dating Platforms

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525 | #InspiringMinds 8: Challenges to LGBTQIA+ Rights in Education:

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523 | A Pocket Guide to Trans Inclusivity through Art and Activism

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Halloween Special | Publish or Perish

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524 | Can We Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy with Nonsense Suppressor tRNA?

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Thrive, Don’t Just Survive #4: Writing and Learning Support for Grad Students

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#TheScoopOnSOGS | Vice-President student services (Saghar Soltanabadi)

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Thrive, Don’t Just Survive #3: The Hidden Curriculum, Navigating the Ins and Outs of Grad School

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#TheScoopOnSOGS | Board Chair (Kirsty Ng)

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Thrive, Don’t Just Survive #2: Time Management for Graduate Students

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#TheScoopOnSOGS | Vice-President Academic (Anthony Cruz)

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Thrive, Don’t Just Survive #1: Sustaining Motivation in Graduate School

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522 | #InspiringMinds 7: Residential Decarbonization using Solar Photovoltaics

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521 | Matrices All The Way Down: The Limits of Large Language Models

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520 | Archaeological Insights into Infant Feeding in Colonial Quebec

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519 | Mind the Gait: Walking the Internal Talk

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518 | Press to start: Mind over muscle

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517 | Theater Kid to Brain Nerd: The Connection Between Music & Memory

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516 | How are your Knees? Understanding Injury-induced Osteoarthritis

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515 | The Price of Precision: Are Surgical Robots Worth It?

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514 | I'm an Adult Now: Supporting Young Adults With a Rare Disease

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513 | It's Just Me and Millions of Tax Records

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512 | Reaching, Grasping, and Research Abroad

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511 | Mapping It Out: The Cerebellum in Action

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510 | Music and Math? You don't know the half of it!

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509 | The Pursuit of Science: Implanted Materials and the Human Body

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508 | AI; or, Another Modern Prometheus.

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507 | Teen Spirit: Growing Up in 1950s Windsor

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506 | Environmentally-Conscious Music

69

505 | Aging Actively

70

504 | The Chicken Trials

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Chairs Chat 2

72

503 | Owning your future: Transferring skills from academia to the job market

73

Special Episode: 39th Annual Western Research Forum

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502 | You'd Better Be Done!

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#GlobalGrads Redux: Policy and Practice

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501 | #InspiringMinds: Fit or Fixated? Unpacking Emerging Fitness Ideals and the Role of Disordered Eating

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500 | Big Brain Energy

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499 | Third Time's a Charm: Exploring Representations of, and Attitudes Towards, Snakes

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#BookCast 8 | The Secret History by Donna Tart

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#GlobalGrads Redux New Horizons: From Nepal to Western: Deepmala Rana Bhat's Journey as an International Student and Advocate for SOGS

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498 | #InspiringMinds 4: Development of Parasports in Ghana

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497 | Am I Pronouncing This Correctly? Reading, Context, and Word Recognition

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496 | A Bone by Any Other Name: Refining the Science of Anthropological Investigations Using CT Scans

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495 | Algorithms, Hate Engagement, and the Digital Divide

85

494 | Advancing Ultrasound Imaging: Speed, Accuracy, and Biomedical Innovation

86

493 | #InspiringMinds 3: Easing the Load: Shoulder Injuries and Firefighters

87

#GradLife | For the Love of Grad School

88

#BookCast 7 | The Book of Two Ways

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492 | Mining and Modeling: Here and Abroad

90

491 | Politics and Media Representation of Cow Violence

91

490 | Theoretical to Practical, and Skills Learned Along the Way

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489 | Journalism during Nigerian Political Crisis

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488 | #InspiringMinds 2: Joeana Cambranis, Improving Biomedical Procedures with Virtual Tools

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487 | Snakes 2: Electric Boogaloo

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#BookCast 6 | Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

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486 | Is That You? Hearing, Audio Perception, and Voice Familiarity

97

#TheScoopOnSOGS | Academic Committee Chair (Andrew Grgas-Svirac)

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485 | What Satisfies your Desire? How Tags Structure Erotic Content on Pornographic Websites

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484 | #InspiringMinds: At the Beginning of Phonation

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483 | Quantifying Rurality: How urban/rural divide impacts voting behaviour

101

482 | Rethinking Urban Mobility with the 15-Minute City

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481 | Live from the Production Control Room

103

#BookCast 5 | Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

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480 | A Symphony of Music Making, Education and Disability

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479 | Black Paint on a Black Canvas

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478| China's Rap Evolution: From Underground to Mainstream

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477 | Music, Memory & Media (Libby’s version)

108

#TheScoopOnSOGS | Vice-President Advocacy (Jasmine Proctor)

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476 | Ashar’s Cosmic Storytelling Corner

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#TheScoopOnSOGS | President (Cherin Chung)

111

475 | Fat in Flight: The Role of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Migratory Shorebird Energetics and Thermoregulation

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#TheScoopOnSOGS | Vice-President Finance (Evan Sauve)

113

474 | Ultracool Dwarf Planets

114

#BookCast 4 | The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

115

#GradLifeXXI | Right Place, Right Thai-m

116

473 | Sorry, Can You Repeat That?

117

#BookCast 3 | Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

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472 | The Light at the End of the Tunnel

119

471 | Talking Teddy Bears: Obama is that you?

120

470 | Snakes on a plane: Uncoiling public perceptions

121

469 | Futuristic Verdicts: Lessons Learned from Science Fiction

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#BookCast 2 | The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

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468 | Can AI Be Poetic? A Dialogue on AI Ethics and Instapoetry in the 21st Century

124

#GradLifeXX | Summer Adventures

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467 | Spoken with Pride: Gender in the Romance Languages

126

466 | It's A Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Medical Delivery Drone!

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465 | Categorizing the Vibes

128

464 | Hold My Medal: Ethical Dilemmas in Sports

129

463 | "I'm in my Graduate Era": Transitioning from Undergraduate To Graduate School

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462 | A Study of Nostalgia as an Act of Nostalgia

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461 | Pulling an Architect out of History

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460 | Desk Purple Yellow Blue: The Best (Worst) Way to End a Story

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459 | Look at all that Information: Examining Ontologies and Knowledge Translation across Domains

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458 | Musical Clarity: Music, Emotions, and Memory

135

#BookCast 1 | The Idiot by Elif Batuman

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457 | Power House of the Squirrel

137

#PostDocsTalk 4 | High Ideals, Low Expectations with Dr. Ariel Frame

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456 | Shelf Care: A Tale of Book Preservation, Library Accessibility, and More!

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455 | Aging (Dis)Gracefully: Eliminating Discrimination & Extending Capacity

140

454 | Happy and Healthy in Mind, Body, and Soul

141

453 | Synchronize and Groove: a Three Part Story

142

452 | Infinity Error 404: Density Not Found

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451 | Hear ye, hear ye!

144

450 | Not Boron at All: Fundamental Chemistry and Sustainability

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449 | A Hunter's Guide to Occupational Therapy

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448 | Bouncing Back with Mindfulness in Mind

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#GraduatedLife 5 | Can I print this? with MA in Library and Information Sciences Matt Skidmore

148

#JarringGradLife: Cats vs Dogs, Time Travel, and Extracurricular Extraordinaire

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#JarringQuestions4: Make Today Great, Drunken Cucumbers, and Morning Moods

150

447 | Heritage of Hesed: The Hebrew Book of Ruth in Art, Plays, and Poetry

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446 | Disjuncture & Disruption: Queer Experience, Identity, and the Holocaust

152

445 | Pianos & Pedagogy: a journey into the Doctor of Musical Arts program

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444 | Cruz & Classify: A Study of Cognitive Categories

154

The Scoop on SOGS 4 | Council

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443 | Website Wonders: User Experience at Western Libraries

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442 | The Fast and the Curious

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441 | From Books to Bits: Decoding AI’s Future

158

Chair Chats: Connectivity and Community at the CCUBC Conference

159

440 | Sing me a Poem: Seventh Century Sparta

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The Scoop on SOGS 3 | VP Student Services

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439 | Dewey or Don’t We? The Harms Library Catalogues Cause

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438 | The Holistic Heart of Social Work

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437 | Full House, Family, and Feeling Nostalgia

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436 | Past in the Present: Nazi Trials in Novels, Films, and Plays

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#JarringQuestions3: Amalie, Anthony, and Anum

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435 | Who’s That Mummy? Examining Animal Mummification in Ancient Egypt

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434 | Keep Calm and Carry On? More Like ”Oh My Gosh, Freak Out!”

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The Scoop on SOGS | 2

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433 | Four Heads are Better than One: Exploring the Complexities of Maternal Nutrition in Uganda

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The Scoop on SOGS | 1

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432 | Panic! from the Sand-Suckers

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430 | Weird Flex but OK!

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431 | GradCast’s very own Dr. Laura swims off into the sunset

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429 | Libraries and Racial Inequity

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428 | Carrots and Dangerous Sticks: Ancient History of the Qin State

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427 | Sports, Storytelling, and the Deaf Community

177

426 | Library Lovers

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425 | A Course, of Course

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424 | Leaking Live, Way Back When

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#GradLifeXIX - Shelves, Catalogues, and Stacks: the role of libraries in our lives

181

#JarringQuestions2: Carly, Charan, and Jordan

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#JarringQuestions1: Scott, Amalie, and Elizabeth

183

423 | To Vee or Not to Vee: Phonology and Phonetics

184

422 | Milkshakes and Touchscreens and Mice (oh my!)

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421 | A Soft-Rock Hard-Core Encore

186

420 | Super Suberin and Franken-Potatoes

187

419 | We’ve Got Your Back (Pain)

188

418 | VP Advocacy: Consultation, Collaboration, and Empowerment

189

Special Episode: 5 Second Interviews at Science Rendezvous

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417 | Noncoding DNA: Unraveling Hidden Biological Functions

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416 | Multilingual Marvels: Unraveling London’s Information Practices

192

415 | Next Stop: Station Science Fiction

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414 | Ultrasound Unveiled: Tracing Blood Velocity in Imaging Techniques

194

#GradLife XVIII | Campus Escapes: Discovering Hidden Gems for De-Stressing

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#GradLife XVII: End of Term, Endemic Stress, Spending Summer as a Grad

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413 | Tattoos, Trauma, Touché!: Examining Grief in French Autobiography

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412 | Light, Strong, and Impactful: Simulating Polymer Composites

198

Special | What Tickles Your Peach?

199

#PostDocsTalk 3 | Interested & Interesting with Dr. Yimin Chen

200

#GradLife XVI: Saying Yes and No, Getting Involved During Your Grad Degree

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#PostDocsTalk 2 | Tips, Tricks, and Postdoc Expectations with Dr. Catie Ivy

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411 | The Kidney Stone Conundrum

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410 | Welcome to Canada: Reviewing Experiences for Better Newcomer Integration

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#PostDocsTalk 1 | Navigating an Ideal Postdoc Situation with Dr. Roberto Budzinski

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#GradLife XV: Go to the Movies with a Headlamp, Grads on Reading Week

206

409 | Photo-Bombing Galaxies

207

408 | Diplomacy, Duolingo, and Deals: Canada’s Relationship with Chile and Argentina

208

407 | I Work, Therefore I Am

209

405 | Which Witch is Which? The Power of Representation in the Salem Witch Trials

210

406 | Going Retro(Viral): The Study of Nef, the Protein That Boosted HIV

211

404 | Addressing Safeguarding Gaps: Investigating Maltreatment in Para Sport

212

403 | Turning Up the Heat in the Boreal Forest

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402 | Bioinformatics for Sars-COV2: Studying a Pandemic in a Middle of a Pandemic

214

401 | Stars With Disks: Innate or a Fashion Choice?

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400 | Good Vibrations: Investigating Postures of Black-Widow Spiders

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399 | Turn It Down: Learning About Misophonia and Sensory Filtering

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398 | Till the Venture do us Part

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397 | Slurping Shorebirds and Diving Dippers

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396 | Slowly Finishing a PHD, Not for a Lac(Tate) Of Trying

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395 | Behind the Scenes of Swiping Right

221

394 | Bubbles: The Only Thing Between Me and a Dissertation

222

393 | Talking to Teachers

223

392 | Changing Ecosystems: Nitrogen in the Soils

224

391 | Revitalizing Mapudungun: A Cooperative Effort

225

390 | Something’s Fishy in Lake Ontario

226

389 | Not Always Safe Before and After Canada’s Borders

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388 | Don’t Make Life Decisions at 2am

228

#GraduatedLife 4 | Career Equilibrium with Chemistry PhD Christina Booker

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387 | We’ve Got Legs: A Joint Effort

230

#GraduatedLife 3 | The Student Becomes the Teacher with Biology MSc Patrick Langille

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#GraduatedLife 2 | From the Ground(water) Up, with Geography MA Tara Saab

232

386 | Female Fly Fornication Fastidiousness

233

#GraduatedLife 1 | ..And the Rest was History! with Geoffrey Hayes

234

385 | Ready to Reproduce? Song Sparrows vs. Methylmercury

235

384 | A Balancing Act

236

383 | I’m not a pessimist.. I’m philosophical!

237

382 | First-generation Feminist Killjoy

238

381 | Make No Glowy Bones About the Skull

239

380 | Pigs, Proteins, and Plants

240

379 | These Plants Seem a Little Parched: The Genetics of Drought Stress

241

378 | Music for Reconciliation: An Indigenous Approach

242

377 | A Spoonful of Trehalose Helps the Crickets Chill Out

243

376 | T-test: Sex Hormones and Sparrow Migration

244

#GradLife XIV: Live Chat about Semi-post-COVID

245

375 | A Single-sensory Podcast on Multi-sensory Integration

246

374 | Explosive Environmental History

247

373 | History Shocks: Shell Shock and Eugenics

248

372 | Bodies and Climate in 18th Century in Nova Scotia

249

371 | Sporting Supporting Life

250

370 | Stimulating Simulations: Where Math and Biology Meet

251

369 | Anthropological Angle on Artisanal Artifacts Near Arkona

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368 | Scrutinizing the Story of Silence

253

367 | Embracing the Race

254

366 | Gay Rights? Gay Writes

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365 | Reddit and Weep: Gender and Dating in Online Communities

256

364 | Space Law, Science Fiction, and Endless Imagination

257

363 | A Journalist’s Journey Learning Linguistics

258

362 | Who’s Laughing Now?

259

361 | Strike a Chord: Composing a PhD

260

360 | Tracking Down the Sounds of History

261

359 | For the (Musical) Record

262

358 | Naming a Disease and Its Unexpected Collateral Damage

263

357 | A Bird Watcher’s Paradise

264

356 | Game on the Brain

265

355 | Musical Signification: From Bieber to Biber

266

354 | Intel on the Incel

267

353 | Graduating from Schizophrenia-like Rats to Culturally Competent Clinics

268

352 | Space Rocks! From Craters to Careers

269

351 | New Views of the Aging Brain

270

350 | Hibernation: Time to Seek Shelter

271

349 | Intervertebral Disc Jockey

272

Acing the Basics: Special Episode for Asexual Awareness Week

273

348 | There and Back Again

274

347 | Lost in Translation

275

346 | Mars Rocks! A look into AI and Machine Learning

276

345 | Clickbait for Mice and How to Change the Structure of your Brain

277

344 | The Power of Visual Arts: Photography, Heritage and Migration

278

343 | Depression from a Neurophilosophical Point of View

279

Special Episode | World Suicide Prevention Day

280

342 | Navigating the Literal and Figurative Nature of American Racism

281

Special Episode | There Is No Planet B - Ep.2

282

341 | Bean There, Done That

283

340 | Good Ol' Hockey Game

284

339 | Read Between the Lines

285

338 | The Heart Will Go On to Spawn

286

337 | Imposition of Independence: Social-Medical Hybridization in Disability Studies

287

336 | A Functional Discussion on Dysfunctional Exercise

288

Special Episode: There Is No Planet B

289

335 | On the Vast Variability of Viruses

290

334 | Indigenous Art: Understanding the History and Practice of Tattoos within Indigenous Culture

291

333 | Happy Lives of Yeast and Flies

292

332 | Remembering a Forgotten War: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Falklands War

293

331 | The Baby Researcher

294

Special Episode: Executive Decisions Veep’s Part 2

295

330 |The Flight of the Drone

296

Special Episode: Executive Decisions Veep's Part 1

297

Special Episode: Executive Decisions President

298

329 | Filming Female Fighting Flies For Science

299

328 | The Resilience of Life

300

327 | Pac-Man Brain Scan

301

326 | Don't Let It Flood

302

325 | The Magic of Mushrooms in Medicine

303

324 | Sleepy Squirrels and the Metabolics of Hibernation

304

323 | Digital Learning for Students with Disabilities

305

#Gradlife XIII: COVID 19, One Year Later...

306

322 | Simulating HIV's Latent Reservoir

307

321 | Looking for Lactate

308

319 | A Recipe For Plant-Based Chicken (vaccine)

309

320 | From the Past to the Present: Lessons from History

310

#Gradlife XII: Finding and Preparing for Careers in a Pandemic World

311

#GlobalGrads Episode V: Earth-Shattering Revelations from Chile

312

Special Episode: SOGS Commissioners Part 1

313

Special Episode: SOGS Commissioners Part 2

314

318 | Engineering for Space

315

317 | How Flies Socialize

316

316 | Not So Independent After All

317

#GlobalGrads Episode IV: Going, Going, Ghana

318

Special Episode: Chairs Chat

319

315 | Opportunities Unlimited at the Western Counties Lodge

320

314 | A Stressful Bird Life

321

Special Episode: Discussing Marsha P. Johnson to Commemorate Black History Month

322

313 | Jumping from Mars to Icy Moons

323

312 | Awareness of Storing Nuclear Waste

324

311 | Talking Dirt-y About Antibiotic Resistance

325

Special Episode: Indigenous Awareness Week 2021

326

310 | Brain Electrical Changes in an Autism Model

327

309 | Another Look at Alzheimer's disease

328

Special Episode: #GlobalGrads Episode III: Endearing India

329

#Gradlife XI: How To Own Your Future

330

307 | Why Do We Make The Choices We Do?

331

308 | Exploring Our Red Planet

332

REBROADCAST 93 | Taking the Blue Pill with Dan Perdic

333

REBROADCAST 231 | Unlock the Secrets to Becoming a Poker Pro

334

REBROADCAST 122 | A Constellation of Voices

335

REBROADCAST 247 | Rock Hard for Hard Rocks

336

306 | A Hearty Dose of Cannabis

337

305 | Scandalous American Presidencies

338

#GradLifeX Holiday Special: Winter Facts and Food Wars

339

304 | Post Fascism

340

Special Episode: #GlobalGrads Episode II: Missing Mexico

341

303 | Nikky Stardust and the Microbes From Mars

342

Special Episode: Power & Global Heath Day 2020 Part 2 - Dr. Samuel Wong

343

302 | Domestic Abuse Against Men, an Unknown Issue

344

301 | The Golden Interview

345

Special Episode: Power & Global Health Day 2020 Part 1 - Julia Albert

346

Special Episode: #GlobalGrads The Inaugural Episode

347

300 | Health Information Exchange among Caregivers

348

299 | Best Friend Elements

349

298 | Talking the Talk about Walking the Walk

350

Special Episode: How COVID-19 Has Impacted Western Research Part 3

351

Special Episode: How COVID-19 Has Impacted Western Research Part 2

352

Special Episode: How COVID-19 Has Impacted Western Research Part 1

353

297 | How to Teach a Digital Brain to Pay Attention

354

296 | Untying the Myths Surrounding Tubal Ligation

355

295 | A Philosopher Walks into a Science Lab

356

294 | Managing Misinformation on COVID-19

357

293 | Human Rights Tribunal Ontario (Special Episode)

358

292 | Destructive or Life Harbouring? Hydrothermal Systems in Impact Craters

359

#GradLife IX: Rejection Diaries

360

291 | Planting the Seed to Success

361

290 | Use It or Lose It: Exercise for Osteoarthritis Relief

362

289 | Facing Fascism

363

288 | Fighting the Monsters Inside Us: The Search for New Antibiotics

364

287 | Being a Qualitative Researcher: A Narrative

365

286 | Chemotherapy and Anticipatory Nausea

366

285 | Heads, Shoulders, Knees and…Actually, Just Shoulders

367

284 | Light Bright Mice

368

283 | Lava-ing What I Do

369

282 | The Rwandan Genocide

370

281 | Automation and Capitalism

371

280 | Caring With a Little Help From Our Friends

372

279 | Eating, Exercising and Extending Brain Plasticity

373

277 | Seeing Green: Economics and the Environment

374

278 | Problems After Knee Surgery? There's an App for That

375

Special | Racial Equity and Inclusivity at Western

376

276 | Disability Advocacy amid Covid-19

377

275 | Microaggressions, Slurs, and Hate Speech

378

Special | Western Research Forum 2020 part 3

379

Special | Western Research Forum 2020 part 1

380

Special | Western Research Forum 2020 part 2

381

274 | Environmental Conservation, Kant, and Legal Philosophy

382

273 | Birdie and the Brain

383

272 | Simulating Moon Material

384

271 | Do rovers make good Geologists?

385

270 | The Electrical Trees

386

269 | Mars Exploration, with Ice!

387

268 | Internal colonialism: The world turned outside-in

388

267 | What can't we map?

389

#GradLife VIII: I've Got Another Meeting To Go To

390

266 | Under Pressure: Sneaking a Peak Inside Rocks

391

265 | 50 Shades of Tourism

392

264 | Industry, Morals, and Paganism

393

263 | A Journey Through Spacetime: Interstellar and Star Formation

394

262 | Web 2.0 for Tykes: Health Apps for Digital Youth

395

#GradLife at Home VII: Social Distancing and Productivity During COVID-19

396

261 | Creating Geo-Maps: Reducing Damages from Earthquakes

397

260 | Quest for Truth: God, Time, and the Problem of Evil

398

259 | Yeah Mr. White! Yeah Science!

399

258 | Spaghetti-Noodles and Nanopores: Motion of Long-Chained Molecules

400

Special Episode: Neuroscience Research Day 2020

401

257 | Peering Through the Clouds of Titan

402

256 | Environmental sustainability: The Elephant in the Room

403

255 | Mapping Rocks Underground, But Not Magma

404

#GradLife VI: Finding a Job After Grad School

405

254 | Transition from Undergrad to Grad Student, Earth Science Edition

406

253 | Fishie Mercury and a Crazy Little Thing Called Peat

407

252 | Transition from Undergrad to an Arts and Humanities Masters

408

251 | Chemical Engineering Grad to Be

409

#GradLife V: GradLife on Grad Life

410

250 | Not just for the bones, Calcium in the heart

411

REBROADCAST 212 | - . .-.. . –. .-. .- .–. …. Telegraphs

412

REBROADCAST #GradLife Episode I: Impostor Syndrome and Feeling Like Garbage

413

#GradLife On Holiday Episode IV: “When are you done?" And Other Annoying Questions

414

249 | Many Stories of the Trans Identity

415

248 | Caring for Caregivers

416

247 | Rock Hard for Hard Rocks

417

246 | The Graveyard of Scientific Theories

418

245 | Trouble making our cellular toolkit

419

Special Episode: BGRF 2019 - Mutant Flies & Model Bees

420

244 | The musical animal: Why are we such a musical species?

421

243 | Transitioning From graduate work to Research in STEM

422

242 | On the Origin of Viral Genes

423

Special Episode: BGRF 2019 Keynote - Bones, Joints and Super Healing Mice

424

241 | Sonic the Hedgehog

425

240 | How to relax in one of the world's biggest magnets

426

239 | Its a Bird, it's a Plane, No it's Flying Microbe Particles!

427

238 | From the Arctic to Mars

428

237 | Making Neurons to Study Autism

429

Special Episode: Master of Public Health Poster Day 2019

430

#GradLife Episode III: What Can PSAC610 Do For You?

431

236 | Get With the Program Stem Cells!

432

235 | The Power of Working Together (Part 2)

433

234 | Cataloging Without Plato

434

Special Episode: CanMoon - Lunar Sample Return Analogue Mission

435

233 | How Bacteria Can Create Alternative Fuel

436

232 | Romanian Immigrants, or Enemy Aliens? WWI Edition

437

Special Episode: GradCast on Tour Gordon Research Conference - Cannabinoids in the Brain with Andrew Roebuck

438

231 | Unlock the Secrets to Becoming a Poker Pro

439

230 | There's No Plankton Like Zooplankton

440

229 | The Art of Sound

441

#GradLife Episode II: Finances and $1 Scones

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228 | Advocating for Advocacy

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227 | A Different Kind of Pessimism

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Special Episode: GradCast on Tour - Canadian Association for Neuroscience 2019

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226 | Inuvialuit Living History

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225 | The Svelte Fool Who Works on Melt Pools

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224 | Monkey See Monkey Do

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223 | Cannabis and Blowing Smoke - It's Not All THC and CBD

449

Special Episode: Western Research Forum 2019 Part 2

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Special Episode: Western Research Forum 2019 Part 1

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222 | Sick of Suffering with Staph? Perk up with PurR

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221 | DynoMite

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Special Episode: GradCast on Tour: Society for Neuroscience 2018 Part 2

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220 | the Super-Powered Stomach of a Spider Mite

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Special Episode: GradCast on Tour: Society for Neuroscience 2018 Part 1

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219 | The Mighty Mite

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218 | Hear Here

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#GradLife Episode I: Impostor Syndrome and Feeling Like Garbage

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217 | The Vine that Ate the South

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216 | Meditating on Musical Minimalism

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215 | An Astrobiology Tale on the Great Moon Titan

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214 | Transitioning from Undergrad to a STEM's Master's

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213 | Behind the Scenes Experience of Health Care Providers in Pediatric Oncology

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212 | - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. …. Telegraphs

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211 | Craters, Carbonates, and Bears in the Field!

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210 | Locating The Homes of Extinct Martian Microbes

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209 | The Research and Realities of Pregnancy

468

208 | Who Eats Healthy in High School?

469

207 | Chillin' with Arachnids

470

206 | To Bee or Not to Bee

471

205 | The Eusocialist Revolution

472

204 | Modeling Eusocial Genes Mathematically

473

203 | The Ethics of Pragmatic Clinical Trials

474

202 | The Rock Superstar

475

201 | Why is Jason in the Hospital?

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200 | The Catcher in the Mind

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199 | The Land Before the Land Before Time

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198 | The Space Magnets Don't Lie

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197 | The Master of Modelling

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196 | Time to Track AIDS

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195 | Greg Goes to Grad School!

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194 | Caffeine or no caffeine…

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193 | Heads Up!

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192 | Knockin' on Truth's Door

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191 | Ontario Works with Elena Hillman

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190 | Kant get no satisfaction

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189 | The Mental Health Maverick

488

188 | Enter the Matrix

489

187 | Follow the Data to Sustainability

490

186 | Who Let The Moths Out?

491

185 | Walking the Plank

492

184 | Being Chinese in Madagascar

493

183 | Cat Got Your Tongue?

494

182 | Everybody Wants to Be a Macho, Macho Man

495

Special Episode: Western University Symposium on Music 2018

496

181 | Billie Jean is Not My Lava

497

180 | The Power of Working Together (Part 1)

498

179 | Beetlemania

499

178 | Calculated Disorder

500

177 | Don't Fly So Close to Me

501

176 | Small but Mighty Microglia

502

175 | A Private View of Public Administration

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174 | A Serious Stink

504

173 | Hockey Night in Canada

505

Special Episode: Medicine, Then vs Now with Dr. Bocking

506

172 | Getting pregnant mothers to train in Spain

507

171 | Keeping fit and having fun into old age

508

170 | The Blackhole of the Brain

509

Special Episode: Exercise and Pregnancy - Canadian Obesity Student Meeting 2018

510

Special Episode: WUGSOM Part 3 - Live! at the Western University Graduate Symposium on Music

511

169 | The Small-Scale SIMS

512

168 | #UREnough

513

167 | Who Cares When We Get Old?

514

166 | Time Flies with Matt Bernardinis

515

165 | Canada Needs You Today! Romanian-Canadian Enlistment in WWI

516

164 | The Super Secret Sex Life of Fruit Flies

517

163 | Brain Scanning With Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

518

162 | Solidarity Forever: What's the deal?

519

161 | Solidarity forever

520

160 | Taking a Closer Look at the Womb

521

159 | FIMULAW on Friday

522

Special Episode: Mission Weather Balloon

523

158 | Let's Get Physio!

524

Special Episode: Keynote Western Research Forum Part 1 - Hearts

525

157 | Moderation in Marijuana

526

156 | Fiendishly Free Markets: Critiquing Colossal Capitalism

527

155 | From the World to Western

528

154 | Bad Ass Beetles

529

153 | When Dendrites Go Dend-Wrong

530

Special Episode: WUGSOM Part 2 - Meaningful Music and Women in Song

531

152 | The hot and cold of lava

532

151 | Raving Autobiographically

533

150 | Advocating for Accessibility

534

Special Episode: WUGSOM Part 1 - Live! at the Western University Graduate Symposium on Music

535

Special Episode: "Why Am I Here?" A Questionable Conversation With The Lego Grad Student

536

149 | Baby: "It's Cold Outside. My Mother Will Start To Worry"

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148 | Be gone Bacteria, you Baerly have a chance

538

147 | Pretty Fly for a Social Guy

539

146 | Learning from Adversity

540

145 | To Hibernate, Perchance to Dream

541

144 | Hey Doctor, What's Smoking?

542

143 | What Does Stress Smell Like For a Bird?

543

142 | A Love Affair With Streaming Media

544

141 | Square Off With Memory

545

140 | The Birds and the Beats

546

Special Episode: LUNAR SPECIAL - Observing the moon

547

139 | Time's are changin', the climate is too

548

138 | The Latest Scoop on Parkinson's Disease

549

137 | The Overwhelmed Brain

550

136 | Making Precise Errors

551

135 | Hit Replay

552

134 | Farming E.Coli

553

133 | Western's Very Own Batman

554

132 | Treating Each Other Well

555

131 | TUT1 - Protector of the Cell

556

130 | Impactful Research on the Origin of the Moon

557

129 | Your brain on delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol

558

128 | Of Mice and Math

559

127 | Please Mr. Postdoc Man

560

126 | Staph-ing Problems

561

125 | Extreme Bacteria - How to Survive Extreme Radiation

562

124 | Mood and Anxiety Disorders in the Immigrant Population

563

123 | Anatomy of Sound

564

122 | A Constellation of Voices

565

121 | The R-Ladies Piece

566

120 | Embryos are like Cars

567

119 | Soundwave Diagnosis

568

118 | Vaccinating cows through lettuce with Coby Martin

569

117 | Getting schooled in indigenous studies by Andrew Judge

570

116 | Your friendly ge-gnome with Matheus Sanita Lima

571

115 | Alzheimer's Disease and Metabolism: An Overview

572

114 | Class and Teeth with Mark Gera

573

113 | Marching with Kristine Musgrove

574

112 | Saying Goodbye to Julia Palozzi

575

111 | Digging in Peru with Arwen Johns

576

110 | WRF Keynote: Memes and Pepes with Yimin Chen

577

109 | Eating Grapefruit with Amy Burke

578

108 | WRF Keynote: Learning to Lead with Dr. Pam Bishop

579

107 | Emily Pitts and the Friendship Centre

580

106 | The Genetic Engineers of Tomorrow

581

105 | A Night at the Opera with Colin McMahon

582

104 | All About the Lungs at Western Research Forum 2017

583

103 | Joel Slade is for the Birds

584

102 | Impact Craters and the Search for Life with Sarah Simpson

585

101 | Motherhood and Graduate School with Sabrina Hope

586

100 | Discovering Life on Utah with Christy Caudill

587

99 | The Strange Travel Companions of Cancer with Ashley Makela

588

98 | Saving Languages with Hannah McGregor

589

97 | Science Fiction and the Environment with Zack Bronson

590

96 | Meeting the Cell's Magician with Emily Clayton

591

95 | Getting Promoted with Emily Cornelius

592

94 | Reporting in with Leila Lemghalef

593

93 | Taking the Blue Pill with Dan Perdic

594

92 | Protecting our Data with Alan Del Pino

595

91 | Listening to Emma Bridgwater

596

90 | Stopping Gestational Diabetes with Karishma Hosein

597

89 | Bogged Down with Mikhail Mack

598

88 | A Healthy Community with Kirstyn Seanor and Melanie Stone

599

87 | Epic Wins with Luke Arnott

600

86 | Human Sacrifice with Diana Moreiras

601

85 | The One Where Yimin Sings

602

84 | Working on Parkinsons with Tara Condos

603

83 | Reading the News with Charlotte Britten

604

82 | Working out with Andrew Hanna

605

81 | Taking Control with Annalise Trudell

606

80 | Making Music with Matthew Becker

607

79 | Improving Libraries with Kirstyn Seanor

608

78 | Juggling with Benedict Chang

609

77 | Live at WUGSOM 2016

610

76 | Prepping for a Conference with Kristen Wallentinson

611

75 | Western Research Forum Keynote Speaker Anabel Quan-Haase

612

74 | Live at the Western Research Forum

613

73 | Internet and Music with Kristopher Ohlendorf