Sausage Of Science

This week we continue our series featuring book excerpts read by previous podcast guests. In this episode, Dr. Rob Ruck, a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, reads a section from his book entitled “The Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL”. We then rebroadcast his original interview (SoS 37, aired in April 2019), in which Dr. Ruck discusses the intersections between sports, history, culture, and health. You can learn more about Dr. Ruck’s work by visiting his website: http://robruck.com/index.php Email him at: rucco@pitt.edu Contact the Sausage of Science 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 Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @car

Next up in our summer book series, Dr. Agustin Fuentes, an anthropologist now at Princeton University, will read a section from his latest book entitled “Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being”. We then rebroadcast his original interview (SoS 48, aired in August 2019), in which Dr. Fuentes discusses returning from the field. You can learn more about Dr. Fuentes' work by visiting his departmental website at Princeton: https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/agustin-fuentes or his personal website: https://afuentes.com/. To see more of his content, follow him on Twitter @Anthrofuentes. Contact the Sausage of Science 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 Caroline Owens, Email:

We are still away on our summer break, but to tide you over this week we will continue our series featuring book excerpts read by previous podcast guests. This week Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty, an ichthyologist from LSU, will read a section from his upcoming book entitled “Explaining Evolution and Understanding Why it Matters More than Ever”. We then rebroadcast his original interview (SoS 28, aired in November 2018), in which Dr. Chakrabarty discusses science communication and outreach, as well as narratives used to discuss topics like evolution. You can learn more about Dr. Chakrabarty’s work by visiting his website: http://www.prosanta.net/ Email him at: prosanta@lsu.edu and follow him on Twitter @PREAUX_FISH Contact the Sausage of Science 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

This episode is the first in our special summer series which features author readings from recent books. Hear Dr. Lesley Jo Weaver read a chapter from her book “Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India.” After her reading, we re-air her original interview from one year ago. In that interview, Dr. Weaver shares stories of wire cutting and wisdom that range from the process of moving cross-country to identifying and working with sustainably developed NGOs. Her latest research project in India will be focusing on social stratification, mental health, and stigma. More information about her research can be found on the Department of International Studies at the University of Oregon website: https://intldept.uoregon.edu/profile/ljweaver/. To get in touch with the “Speaking of Race” podcast, check out their website: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter

This week Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Michael Gurven on a variety of topics, ranging from advice on finding a field site that matches your research interests, the long and challenging process of establishing a successful longitudinal study, the importance of true collaborative work with indigenous populations (especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic), and the need to move beyond “WEIRD” populations and consider health and human biology in more diverse groups. Learn more about Dr. Gurven’s work at his website: https://gurven.anth.ucsb.edu/ Email him at: gurven@anth.ucsb.edu and follow him on Twitter @MGurven You can learn more about the Tsimane Health and Life History Project here: http://tsimane.anth.ucsb.edu/ Read the Tsimane team’s paper on responding to COVID-19 within indigenous populations here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31104-1/fulltext The paper “WEIRD bodies: mismatch, medicine and missing diversity” can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.co

This week, Chris and Cara chat with Drs. Athena Aktipis, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University, and Lee Cronk, Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, to discuss their research with the Human Generosity Project. As always, we get to hear about their research journies, interests, and collaborative efforts. Additionally, we get a sneak preview on their latest research on human generosity, cooperation, and COVID-19. Be sure to check out the Human Generosity Project website at: http://www.humangenerosity.org/ or on Twitter @generousnature. To learn more about Dr. Aktipis, check out her lab website at: http://www.aktipislab.org/ and learn more about Dr. Cronk at: https://anthro.rutgers.edu/people/full-time-faculty/detail/89-lee-cronk. Contact the Sausage of Science 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:@Ca

In this episode, Drs. Lance Gravlee and Connie Mulligan join Chris and Cara to discuss the research that led to their article, "Shortened telomere length is associated with unfair treatment attributed to race in African Americans living in Tallahassee, Florida". The article was selected as the special feature in Volume 32 Issue 3 of the American Journal of Human Biology. Drs. Gravlee and Mulligan discuss their paths to anthropology, collaboration, and ongoing work with the Health Equity Alliance Tallahassee (HEAT) steering committee. Be sure to check out the latest issue of AJHB to learn more about this project! Learn more about Dr. Gravlee's work at his website: https://www.gravlee.org/ Follow him on Twitter @lancegravlee Learn more about Dr. Mulligan's work on her departmental website: https://anthro.ufl.edu/2013/09/29/mulligan/ To learn more about HEAT, check out: http://www.healthequityalliance.org/projects/heart/. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.

In this episode, Dr. Zaneta Thayer joins Chris and Cara to discuss her many projects examining the intergenerational effects of stressful experiences during pregnancy. Dr. Thayer works primarily in New Zealand, where her research has documented links between experienced discrimination and poor birth outcomes. She also discusses her recent clinical brief examining the health effects of psychosocial stress among individuals using assisted reproductive technologies. Finally, Dr. Thayer is joined by her postdoc Dr. Theresa Gildner to discuss their new project exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting maternity care and well-being. Learn more about Dr. Thayer’s work at her website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/humanbio/ Email her at: zaneta.marie.thayer@dartmouth.edu Check out Dr. Thayer’s clinical brief on stress in ART at: https://academic.oup.com/emph/advance-article/doi/10.1093/emph/eoaa008/5815981 To learn more about the COVID-19 And Reproductive Effects (CARE) Study, please visit: https://sites.dar

In this episode of the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Drs. Jesús Rodriguez & Ana Mateos, scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) in Burgos, Spain. Drs. Rodriguez and Mateos highlight the amazing work going on at the center at the forefront of human evolution research. They also discuss their AJHB editor’s choice article entitled “No sex differences in the economy of load‐carriage”. Be sure to check out the article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23352 Their experimental work challenges long-held assumptions regarding sex differences in human energetics and contributes to both optimal foraging and life history theory. Learn more about CENIEH here: https://www.cenieh.es/en/about-cenieh Follow CENIEH on Twitter @CENIEH and the labs @CENIEH_Labs You can learn more about Dr. Rodriguez at: https://www.cenieh.es/en/about-cenieh/staff/rodriguez-mendez-jesus And about Dr. Mateos at: https://www.cenieh.es/en/about-cenieh/sta

This week, dive into one of our most meta-episodes yet: the podcast about a podcast featuring the amazing researchers behind the Anthrolactology blog and podcast! This interview features not one, but three cutting-edge anthropologists working at the intersections of anthropology, human lactation, and society. Dr. EA Quinn is an associate professor of biological anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Cecília Tomori is Director of Global Public Health and Community Health at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and Dr. Aunchalee Palmquist is an assistant professor of maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and when they come together, great things happen. Be sure to check out the Anthrolactology blog/podcast at https://anthrolactology.com/.

In this episode we bring you a cross-over with the podcast “With a Side of Knowledge”, hosted by Ted Fox from the University of Notre Dame’s Provost Office. This interview features our own Dr. Cara Ocobock discussing her work over brunch. Enjoy this fascinating conversation about extreme cold adaptations, Neanderthals, the anthropology of sports, and (of course) powerlifting. Check out other episodes from With a Side of Knowledge, found here: https://provost.nd.edu/about/podcast/ This interview originally aired on APR 16, 2020.

This week, we're bringing you a cross-promotion with the awesome "The Arch & Anth Podcast", hosted by Dr. Michael Rivera. A bonus: this episode features our very own Dr. Chris Lynn! We hope that you enjoy hearing more about Chris' work on tattooing, immune response, and communication. Be sure to check out Dr. Rivera's other podcast episodes at: http://archandanth.com/. This interview originally aired on October 2, 2019.

This week on the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Dr. Barry Bogin, a "big wig" in the field and Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Loughborough University. Dr. Bogin discusses his work life-long work on human growth and development, along with the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on birth weight outcomes. Check out his latest blog piece on the topic on the Museoa Ecologia Humana website at http://museoecologiahumana.org/en/piezas/covid-19-crisis-emotional-stress-2/. Dr. Bogin is particularly interested in the effects of social, economic, political, and emotional (SEPE) influences on differences in physical growth and health between Maya children living in Guatemala compared to those in the USA. One note, Dr. Bogin would like all budding students to know that when he mentions ‘calcitonin’ he meant to say ‘osteocalcin’ interactions with growth. To pre-order or view the latest edition of "Patterns of Human Growth", go to https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/sub

This week on the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Dr. Aaron Blackwell, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. In this far-ranging conversation, Dr. Blackwell discusses his work quantifying life history tradeoffs and his multi-inheritance approach to human behavioral ecology. He also shares some tips for using existing datasets and working remotely to support study participants during the pandemic. Follow Dr. Blackwell on Twitter @AaronDBlackwell, https://twitter.com/AaronDBlackwell You can also check out his website at https://blackwell-lab.com/ Contact the Sausage of Science 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 Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, T

In this episode of the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Dr. Pablo Nepomnaschy, an Associate Professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Nepomnaschy discusses his transformation into a researcher who focuses on involving participant communities at all phases of project planning and execution. He also shares his experience advising international students, as someone who has experienced both sides of that interaction. Follow Dr. Nepomnaschy on Twitter @PabloNepomnasc1 or on ResearchGate at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pablo_Nepomnaschy You can also check out his website http://www.sfu.ca/~pan2/ or email him at pablo_nepomnaschy@sfu.ca Contact the Sausage of Science 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/, E

This week's episode features a myriad of topics including niche construction, semiotics, hats ravaged by monkeys, and meaning-making between humans and dogs- all courtesy of Dr. Jeffrey Peterson. Dr. Peterson is a postdoctoral fellow in the anthropology department at Notre Dame. His research addresses the interplay between intra- and inter-group social relationships, as well as the impact of interacting with humans. Follow Dr. Peterson on twitter @primatologeist, and check out his webpage with the University of Notre Dame https://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/jeffrey-peterson/. Contact the Sausage of Science 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 Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8

This week on the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Dr. Sam Urlacher, an assistant professor at Baylor University. Dr. Urlacher discusses his work examining life history tradeoffs and energetic constraints among Shuar children of Amazonian Ecuador. In addition, he answers questions about possible links between COVID-19 and child development patterns, and also gives some advice on starting a new tenure-track position. Follow Dr. Urlacher on twitter @SSUrlacher, and check out his website https://scholar.harvard.edu/samuel_s_urlacher/home You can find the papers referenced in the episode here: “Constraint and tradeoffs regulate energy expenditure during childhood” https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/12/eaax1065 “Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists” https://www.pnas.org/content/115/17/E3914 Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Tw

In this episode, Dr. Tanya Lurhmann joins Chris and Cara to discuss her life's work as an "anthropologist of the human relationship with invisible others". Dr. Lurhmann is the Watkins University Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. She is the author of When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. To learn more about Dr. Lurhmann, send her an email at luhrmann@stanford.edu, or check out her personal website at http://luhrmann.net/. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@C

This week Cara and Chris chat with Dr. Eileen Hebets, a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Hebets discusses her research on spider communication and how these same techniques can be applied to better understand communication in humans and other animals. Follow Dr. Hebets on twitter @hebets_lab, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/eileen.hebets, and check out her lab website at http://hebetslab.unl.edu/ You can find the papers referenced in the episode here: “A systems approach to animal communication”, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2015.2889 “Complex signal function: Developing a framework of testable hypotheses”, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=bioscihebets Also, enjoy this spider dance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIUFEQeh3g Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioA

In this installment of our #Hackademics series, Dr. Kate Clancy, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, shares her work on the SAFE13 project and provides advice for dealing with harassment in academia. Dr. Clancy's work has had significant policy ramifications, exemplified by her Congressional testimony and co-authorship on a National Academies report on sexual harassment of women in STEM. Broadly, Dr. Clancy's research centers on issues of reproductive justice. To learn more about her, check out her website:http://kateclancy.com/ or follow her on twitter @KateClancy. Check out the papers referenced in the episode here: "Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine" https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/sexual-harassment-in-academia "Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and Assault" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0102172 Additionally, lear