Sausage Of Science

Cara interviews Dr. Monica Keith, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and Data Scientist who studies longitudinal health and child growth in a biosocial framework. Monica uses Bayesian models to assess predictors of growth and health outcomes and integrates health, socio-ecological, and genetic data to study human variation and health disparities in diverse contexts. Monica currently works with three ongoing field studies in Dominica, Bangladesh, and Argentina, researching health, growth, and biodemography in rural and Indigenous populations. She also uses data from the NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to address disparities in reproductive and maternal health in the US. She joins Cara to discuss her most recent work (in review) titled: "Racialized/ethnic disparities in pathways linking social determinants of health, markers of allostatic load, and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among nulliparous US women." ------------------------------ Monica'

Cara returns to join Chris in interviewing Kathy Wander, a biological anthropologist and epidemiologist working at the intersection of human evolutionary biology and health. Much of Dr. Wander's research seeks to understand how humans (and in particular, children) cope with nutritional and infectious disease stress and the impact of malnutrition and infectious disease on the protective and pathological capacity of the immune system. She has recently published papers about a method developed in her lab (https://www.wanderlab.org) to describe immune activity in human milk; the impact of gender and kinship on risk for chronic disease; and, how genetic adaptations to high altitude may decrease the risk for chronic disease among Himalayan-descended populations. She has active grants to investigate nutrition and infectious disease risk in Tanzania and Nigeria. Check them out here: "Tradeoffs in milk immunity affect infant infectious disease risk" https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoac020 "Human milk lactoferrin variat

Ale Geisel-Zamora is an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College working under the direction of Prof. Zaneta Thayer. Ale won the Hilde Spielvogel Award for Outstanding Presentation by an Undergraduate Student at this year's HBA meeting for her poster "Social support promotes postpartum mental health among US-based participants during the COVID-19 pandemic." The poster, and supplements, can be found here: https://sagz.myportfolio.com/ Ale also chats with Cara and Chris about her undergraduate thesis work examining how Tiktok use affects stress. Ale can be contacted on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alegoesglobal/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relati

Dr. Alison Murray joins Chris and Cara to discuss how activity levels during puberty have lifelong effects on bone structure in human females. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Murray’s research examines the evolutionary and behavioral mechanisms shaping variations in human bone and body composition, as well as sex differences within it. To do so, she/they combine the study of archaeological skeletal remains with engineering-based musculoskeletal computer modeling and the experimental study of living humans, including athletes and control subjects. Her paper discussed on today's show, titled "Tibial cortical and trabecular variables together can pinpoint the timing of impact loading relative to menarche in premenopausal females," can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23711 Follow Dr. Murray @ali_murray & Dr. Murray’s research group @PhaseUVIC on Twitter --------------------------------------------------------------

Chris triumphs in a battle with technology while interviewing our gracious guest Rachael Anyim, a Clifford D. Clark Diversity Fellow and PhD candidate in anthropology at Binghamton University. Rachael and Chris discuss her recent abstract submission, "The effects of milk cortisol on immune responses to in vitro bacterial stimulation" and her work with immune biomarkers in infants and breastmilk. Rachael is the 2022 recipient of the HBA's Phyllis Eveleth Student Award for her outstanding presentation during last year's annual meeting. Rachael recently co-authored a related methods paper with Dr. Katherine Wander and others in the Journal of Human Lactation titled "In Vitro Stimulation of Whole Milk Specimens: A Field-Friendly Method to Assess Milk Immune Activity" which you can find here: https://doi.org/10.1177/0890334421999628 ------------------------------ Rachael's e-mail: ranyim1@binghamton.edu Twitter: https://twitter.com/BUBreastfeeding -------------------- Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Hu

Dr. Amanda Veile is a biological anthropologist, and her research broadly examines human birthing and breastfeeding behaviors and outcomes, and several epidemiologic factors that shape cross-cultural variation in child development. She currently maintains field research projects in Mexico and Peru. She is an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, the Director of LABOR (Laboratory for Behavior, Ontogeny and Reproduction), a faculty associate at the Center on Aging and the Life Course (CALC), an executive board member of the Ingestive Behavior Research Center (IBRC), and holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the Department of Public Health at Purdue University. She is also an Assistant Editor at Birth, a peer-reviewed obstetrics and gynecology journal. Her paper discussed on today's show, titled "Household conditions modulate associations between cesarean delivery and childhood growth," can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.24563 ------------------------- Prof.

Cara cannibalizes pickles before she and Chris interview Dr. Zachary Cofran, an assistant professor of Anthropology at Vassar College who is affiliated with the Center for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at the University of Witwatersrand. Dr. Cofran received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2012 (GO BLUE!). Zachary studies human evolution, growth, and development and has been heavily involved in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. Zachary has a new paper out in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology called "The immature Homo naledi ilium from the Lesedi Chamber, Rising Star Cave, South Africa" Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24522 ------------------------------ Zach's e-mail: zcofran@vassar.edu Website: https://lawnchairanthropology.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZCofran -------------------- Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBi

SoS 171: Behold! Natalia Reagan Behold! Natalia Reagan joins Chris and Cara to talk science engagement, precarity in academia, and ...phallic grapes?! Natalia Reagan is an anthropologist, primatologist, actor, producer, writer, host, and comedienne. She is a comedy writer and correspondent on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk on Nat Geo and is also a StarTalk All-Star podcast host. She was the co-host on Spike TV’s show 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty. Natalia wrote and produced a web series called Talking Shit with Dr. Todd and Natalia. She was also a regular animal expert on Nat Geo Wild’s Everything You Didn’t Know About Animals. She was a regular writer and host for Discovery Communication’s Seeker & TestTube. She has appeared on the TODAY Show, Fox News, Arise 360, HuffPost Weird News Podcast, and various podcasts & radio shows weighing in on different scientific subjects, from the evolution of boobs and butts to how pheromones play a role in human mating. As an actress, Natalia has appeared in My Na

Dr. Lara Durgavich is a visiting lecturer in the Anthropology Department at Boston University. In 2013, Lara received her Ph.D. from Boston University as well. Her research focuses on ovarian function, mating behaviors, and life history in captive orangutans. A strong proponent of science communication and outreach, Lara is also heavily involved with March Mammal Madness, a topic of discussion on this podcast many times in the past. Chris and Cara investigate her new paper, “A composite menstrual cycle of captive orangutans, with associated hormonal and behavioral variability,” which recently came out in The American Journal of Primatology and can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35856470/ Her 2020 TEDxTufts Talk "An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease" can be found here: https://www.ted.com/talks/lara_durgavich_an_evolutionary_perspective_on_human_health_and_disease ------------------------------ Lara's e-mail: ldurgavich@gmail.com on Twitter at: twitter.com/tinkeringprim8 We

Andrea Silva-Caballero joins Chris and Cara to discuss her studies of adolescent sleep patterns in urban and rural Mexico. Silva-Caballero completed her BA in Biological Anthropology in 2013 at the National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico City. Since then, she has specialized in medical anthropology with a focus on the pediatric population. She holds an MSc in Evolutionary Medicine awarded in 2017 by the University of Durham, United Kingdom, and is a member of the Durham Infancy & Sleep Center. She’s currently wrapping up revisions on her dissertation. Silva-Caballero's research reexamines current biomedical ideas concerning adolescent sleep by examining and comparing adolescents' sleep patterns in two rural sites and one urban site in Mexico. In particular, she addresses the phase shift in adolescents' sleep-wake cycle and the influence of artificial light and solitary sleep on their sleep timing and duration. Silva-Caballero was also the recipient of HBA’s 2022 E.E. Hunt Award, which recogniz

Our last guest of the season is Dr. Kristen Knuston, an Associate Professor of Neurology (Sleep Medicine)and Preventative Medicine (Epidemiology) at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Knutson studies the associations between sleep, circadian rhythms, and health. She chats with Chris and Cara about the different health outcomes between morning and night persons and tells us how a misalignment with your chronotype can lead to asthma or GI issues. Contact Dr. Knuston at kristen.knutson@northwestern.edu and follow her on Twitter @klknut Read Dr. Knuston's article featured in this episode here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29642757/ Found out more about her work at https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=37050 See Dr. Knutson's work being highlighted on Saturday Night Live: https://twitter.com/mvonschantz/status/986288195376680962?s=20&t=WvxRisJg5PL6lDY3ZMMUHQ Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanb

Blast from the past! In this episode we bring you an interview with Amy Anderson from Spring of 2021. Chris and Cara talk to her about her dissertation research on health as reflected through the human skeleton and biomarkers of bone turnover. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at The University of California Santa Barbara. You can contact her via her website: https://www.amyandersonskeletonreader.com/about or on Twitter: @skeletonreader Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Dr. Alyssa Crittenden joins us today for an excellent conversation (despite internet connectivity issues) about her work with Hadza community members, community-based work, and reconsidering biological sample collection. You can find her recent paper “Who Owns Poop? and Other Ethical Dilemmas Facing an Anthropologist Who Works at the Interface of Biological Research and Indigenous Rights” https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/anthro_fac_articles/590/. Dr. Alyssa Crittenden is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. You can contact her via her website: https://www.unlv.edu/people/alyssa-crittenden and on Twitter: @an_crittenden Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/,

Dr. Holly Horan is a clinical, biocultural, and medical anthropologist at the University of Alabama studying how lived experiences contribute to perinatal health and birth outcomes . She chats with Chris and Cara about how her experience as a trained doula parallels her research investigating maternal stress and how her fieldwork has shaped the direction of her studies. You can find Dr. Horan's AJHB paper on cortisol levels across the pregnancy and postpartum period here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23718 Learn more about Dr. Horan's work at https://hhoran.people.ua.edu and contact her at hhoran@ua.edu Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chri

Chris and Cara are joined today by Dr. Bonnie Kaiser, anthropologist, global health researcher, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. On today's episode, they discuss her recent work on the relationship between mental health and medical pluralism in Haiti, idioms of distress, oncofertility, the power of team-based projects, and taking the time to un-pack and innovate new methods and measurement tools to reflect context-based participant experiences. Contact Dr. Kaiser on her faculty website: https://anthropology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-profiles/Bonnie%20N.%20Kaiser.html, on Twitter: @BonnieNKaiser, and by email: bnkaiser@ucsd.edu Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdl

This week's guest is Dr. Heather Shattuck-Heidorn, an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine. Dr. Shattuck-Heidorn is also the Director of Engaged Communications at the Harvard GenderSci Lab. She tells Chris and Cara about the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations and critical thought in producing and communicating good science. She also delves into how to address sex and gender in science and why biological anthropology is particularly well-suited for a better understanding of these important variables. You can contact Dr. Shattuck-Heidorn at heather.shattuckheidorn@maine.edu and follow her on Twitter @HeatherSH22 Learn more about the GenderSci Lab at https://www.genderscilab.org Read Dr. Shattuck-Heidorn and colleagues critique on the study finding sex differences in COVID outcomes here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03644-7 And read her recent AJHB piece with Dr. Zachary DuBois on challenging the sex binary here: https://onlinelibrar

Dr. Glorieuse Uwizeye is an Assistant Professor at The Western University of Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. Today, Chris and Alex talk to her about her work on the health impacts of the Rwandan genocide on youth. In particular, they discuss her recent paper entitled “Double Jeopardy: Young adult mental and physical health outcomes following conception via genocidal rape during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.” If you would like to contact her, you can visit her website: https://www.uwo.ca/fhs/nursing/about/faculty/research_supervisors/uwizeye_g.html or email her at guwizeye@uwo.ca You can find KivuBelt Coffee mentioned at the end of the episode: https://www.kivubeltcoffee.com/ Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair

Chris and Cara talk with Dr. Graciela Cabana, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Dr. Cabana’s work focuses on the human genome from a biosocial and biopolitical context. In particular, she has been working on a project developed to understand how public perspectives of race and nationality are impacted by recent trends of genetic testing in Argentina. To find out more about her work or contact her, visit her website: https://www.mal-utk.com/graciela-s-cabana or follow her on Twitter @GracielaCabana Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDe

Dr. Adam Van Arsdale, a Professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College chats with Chris and Cara about why and how we need to rethink the way human anatomical evolution is taught. He discusses his recent presentations at the AABA in Denver and highlights his talk with Dr. Robin Nelson on the inconsistencies in how the term "population" is used by anthropologists. You can find Dr. Van Arsdale's talk on the concept of human modernity here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LakWU3PR0 And his other AABA talk on the term "population" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJb9SunMtOo You can also find Dr. Van Arsdale's MOOC prerecorded lectures on human evolution here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWYl-iTHMAj3n-1o0idR9k2c0NYFBKspU Contact Dr. Van Arsdale at avanarsd@wellesley.edu and on Twitter at @APV2600 Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: s

Dr. Briana Pobiner is a paleoanthropologist and Education Program specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She chats with Chris and Cara about her research on the evolution of human diets and the possibility that Homo erectus may have been scavengers instead of hunters. She talks about the issues associated with making broad conclusions about the paleo diet and how academics can contribute to public engagement using the skills acquired doing research. You can learn more about Dr. Pobiner's work at: https://humanorigins.si.edu/about/human-origins-program-team/briana-pobiner You can contact Dr. Pobiner at pobinerb@si.edu and on Twitter @BrianaPobiner Find her most recent research article at https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2115540119 Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu