Carry The One Radio: The Science Podcast

How do our brains control reproduction (and eating, and sleeping, and drinking, and everything)? How do you submit your dissertation, get a PhD, move across the country, and join a new lab in the midst of a global pandemic without totally losing it? In this Young Scientist Spotlight, we talked with Dr. Katherine Hatcher to find out! This episode was produced by Celia Ford. Music used in this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions on Free Music Archive. Dr. Hatcher also produces her own podcast! Check out Endocrine Disruptors to hear interviews with the scientists behind all your favorite hormones: https://endocrinepod.com

Science doesn't happen in a vacuum, and racism both in science and society contributes to disparities in the health outcomes of Black Americans. In this episode of The Spotlight, we talked to Dr. Debora Kamin Mukaz about her work studying how social factors and biology converge to affect risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Hear about her journey into epidemiology, and what doing this research means to her.For more info about the two examples of mistreatment of Black people by the scientific establishment referenced in this episode, visit carrytheoneradio.com/episodes/yss-7

Are you tossing and turning all night? Well, what’s the secret to a good night’s sleep, anyway? And what really is the answer to Billie Eilish’s album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?In this episode, we talk to Dr. Ying-Hui Fu, a professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Fu has been researching sleep for decades, and her book Sleep to Thrive is available now. Our conversation with her revealed why it’s important to prioritize sleep in our busy schedules and that there’s so much we can discover from people who can sleep fewer hours and still lead high-functioning, productive lives. She also let us in on the answer to whether dolphins really sleep with one hemisphere of their brain “awake.” Tune in to learn more!This episode was written and produced by Katie Cabral, Kanchi Mehta, Cindy Liu, and Li Wang. Music in this episode is from the Blue Dot Sessions and Baby Relax Channel on YouTube. Cover art courtesy of Cindy Liu and Kanchi Mehta.  More Resource

How do our brains know who’s boss? In this Young Scientist Spotlight, neuroscientist Dr. Nancy Padilla tells us how she studies social dominance in mice. In the process, she walks us through her journey from college in Puerto Rico to postdoctoral research in California, sharing lessons learned along the way. We can’t wait for you to meet this rising neuroscience star!This episode was produced by Celia Ford. Music used in this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions on Free Music Archive. Episode art by Ben Mansky. A full transcript is available at tinyurl.com/nancy-padilla-ep.Dr. Padilla also produces her own podcast! Check out Stories of Women in Neuroscience (www.storiesofwin.org) to hear more interviews with brilliant women doing outstanding science.Image Description: An Erlenmeyer flask filled with red liquid sits in a pool of light in front of an orange background.

These days, homeopathy and some forms of alternative medicine fall soundly in the realm of pseudoscience. Not only that, but the wellness industry has capitalized on the popularity of these practices in predatory ways, selling promises of improved health with no evidence to back them up. In the United States, the marketing of these alternative ‘wellness’ products primarily targets women – evidenced by yoni eggs, vaginal steamers, and more. If we turn back the clock about 150 years, however, homeopathic medicine didn’t look so different from the techniques being practiced in the medical mainstream. There was one important distinction, though – homeopathic medical colleges were more welcoming to women. Join us as we trace the complicated relationship between feminism, healing, and alternative medicine from its origins to the present day.This episode was written and produced by Deanna Necula and Ben Mansky. The poem was read by Stella Belonwu. Music and sound effects used in this episode include Old Ralley by Lo

If you live in an earthquake-prone area, there's probably one question on your mind a lot of the time: when is the next big one going to hit?In this episode, we talk earthquake prediction with Dr. Barbara Romanowicz, a geophysicist at UC Berkeley and the former director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab. And while earthquake prediction is definitely important, our conversation revealed to us that there's so much more we can learn from earthquakes. Earthquakes (and their sister natural phenomena volcanoes) can teach us about the history of the geography that surrounds us and the make-up of the Earth beneath our feet. And just like any good science, earthquakes can reveal even deeper questions than we knew to ask before. Strap in and join us for a wild ride through the center of the Earth, with stopovers in California, Japan, and on the newest Hawaiian volcano.This episode was written and produced by Anna Lipkin, Cindy Liu, and Kanchi Mehta. Music in this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions, Kai Engel, Ketsa, and Six

“You just do things differently and that's fine!” In the fifth Spotlight, UC Berkeley's Jen Pearlstein talks about her research on how stress affects decision making, how she's making mental health care more accessible, and being a disabled scientist. Find her on Twitter @JenPearlstein and check out her blog, Voicing Vulnerability at http://voicingvulnerability.blogspot.com/. For more of Jen's writing about being a disabled trainee, read her paper linked below:Pearlstein & Soyster (2019). Supervisory Experiences of Trainees With Disabilities: The Good, the Bad, and the Realistic https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Soyster/publication/335074084_Supervisory_experiences_of_trainees_with_disabilities_The_good_the_bad_and_the_realistic/links/5e161d6f92851c8364bbba7a/Supervisory-experiences-of-trainees-with-disabilities-The-good-the-bad-and-the-realistic.pdfMusic by Broke for Free, Blue Dot Sessions, and Ketsa - from FreeMusicArchive. Episode art by Ben Mansky.

Artificial intelligence guides nearly every aspect of our lives: what TV shows we’re recommended, whose opinions we see on social media, what we buy, how we invest our money...the list is endless. But what does “artificial intelligence” mean? What do these algorithms know? If we could look inside a robot’s mind, would we see a reflection of ourselves? Dr. Dan Yamins, Dr. Kim Stachenfeld, and Dr. Grace Lindsay helped us explore what it means to be intelligent, and what separates humans from machines. This episode was written and produced by Celia Ford, Devika Nair, and Li Wang with editing help from the rest of the CTOR team. Music used in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions and sound effects from FreeMusicArchive. Cover image courtesy of Ben Mansky.

Global Health in the Time of COVID is a miniseries from the Institute for Global Health Sciences at UCSF produced by Carry the One Radio. Each week, we speak to health experts at UCSF to learn more about them, their work, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed their practice and research.In this week's episode, we talk to Dr. Madhavi Dandu, a clinician and professor of medicine at UCSF who directs the Master’s Program in Global Health, and Dr. Elizabeth Fair, an infectious disease epidemiologist who directs UCSF’s PhD Program in Global Health. We discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the course of Global Health education, why the US’s pandemic response has fallen short, and what we can learn from looking abroad.This interview took place on May 28th, 2020 and reflects the state of the news and scientific literature at that time.This episode was produced by Ben Mansky and Nancy Cai. Music used in this episode: Slow Lane Lover, Dance of Felt, San Diego Sunday, and Hundred Mile by Blue Dot Sessions. Ne

Global Health in the Time of COVID is a miniseries from the Institute for Global Health Sciences at UCSF produced by Carry the One Radio. Each week, we speak to health experts at UCSF to learn more about them, their work, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed their practice and research.In this week's episode, we talk to Alexandra Keir, Jane Fieldhouse, Dr. Lucia Abascal, and Maeve Forster, who are students and staff in the UCSF Global Health Sciences program. Since March, they have been working as part of the team behind Research Watch, a project to rapidly summarize new COVID-19 research and communicate it to healthcare workers, scientists, and policy makers. In our interview, we discuss the project, the challenges associated with staying up to date in an ever-changing field, the differences between responses to COVID-19 across the globe, and the major takeaways of the research that's been done so far.To learn more about Research Watch and sign up for their newsletter, head to https://globalhealthscienc

Global Health in the Time of COVID is a miniseries from the Institute for Global Health Sciences at UCSF produced by Carry the One Radio. Each week, we speak to health experts at UCSF to learn more about them, their work, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed their practice and research.Our first episode features Dr. Kim Baltzell, a professor of nursing at UCSF and director of Global Action in Nursing (GAIN), a project that promotes clinical training in sub-saharan Africa.This episode was written and produced by Kanchi Mehta and Devika Nair with editing help from the rest of the CTOR team. Music used in this episode includes: Slow Lane Lover, San Diego Sunday, Dance of Felt, Dusting, and Hundred Mile by Blue Dot Sessions. News clips used in the introduction are courtesy of Cleveland Clinic via the CDC.

For this fourth installment of “The Spotlight” we interviewed Jhia Jackson, who is a sociology PhD candidate at UCSF. We discussed her educational journey, current research on pediatric palliative and hospice care, her career as a professional dancer, being black at UCSF, cats, and ways to stay sane in grad school.This episode was written and produced by Stella Belonwu. Music from this episode was acquired from www.freesound.org. Music included in this episode: Dinglebells by evanjones4, Game background Music loop short by yummie, Invisible world - electronic music loop by frankum, more Jazz guitar.wav by Sub-d, and "Chorus music - Techno loop" by frankum.

We pretty much all accept the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the earth, but this wasn’t always the case. A few centuries ago, nobody believed animals could even go extinct. It would take huge societal upheaval and a few very determined oddballs to change people’s minds. In this episode, we follow the eccentric geologists and fossil-hunters who uncovered the first dinosaur, with author Ian Lendler as our guide.This episode was written and produced by Arja Ray, Ben Mansky, and Nancy Cai. Ian’s book, The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth, is available wherever books are sold.

In this episode, we’re getting into the weeds of cannabis research. Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in the world, but there is still so much we do not know about it.. To learn more, we spoke to two cannabis researchers: Dr. Steven Laviolette, a neurobiologist at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and Dr. Salomeh Keyhani, a general internist and a health services researcher at UCSF’s Veteran Affairs Medical Center. From our conversation with Steven, we got insight into his lab’s findings on THC and CBD as they relate to a number of neuropsychiatric disorders, his approaches to use these cannabis constituents to combat these disorders, the funding landscape of cannabis research, the Canadian cannabis industry, and his thoughts on the future of cannabis research. In our interview with Salomeh, we learned about her motivation to study cannabis, as well as her approaches to understand things ranging from its public perception to cardiovascular health effects.This episode was writte

It’s a tale (or tail?) as old as time. Sharks have been around for at least 400 million years - proof of their resilience, but there’s still so much to learn about these majestic creatures. From their social dynamics to the different kinds of shark-tracking devices currently in use, we spoke to Michelle Jewell, the Chief Science Communicator in the Department of Applied Ecology at NC State University. In this episode, she shared personal stories from her graduate school days as a white shark researcher in South Africa to what she does today as a science communicator for a university.This episode was written and produced by Devika Nair and Li Wang with editing help from the rest of the CTOR team. Music used in this episode: Tiny Putty, Game Hens, Hundred Mile, Bundt, Borough, Slow Lane Lover, Front Runner, Calm and Collected, Beignet, and Tar and Spackle by Blue Dot Sessions. Sound effects from FreeMusicArchive.Cover Image courtesy of Michelle Jewell.For more information on Michelle’s work, please visit https:

Welcome to Women in Science, a special series in honor of Women’s History Month. Join us each Monday in March as we hear from women making great strides in their fields, from reproductive health justice to animal evolution. We’ll learn about the challenges they’ve faced in their journeys, explore the importance of representation, and see how women on the forefront of science and medicine lift up others and build toward a better tomorrow.In the fifth and final episode of this series, we’re featuring Dr. Marina Sirota, an assistant professor at the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at UCSF. We talk about how one can use troves of data to make important medical discoveries– but also about the challenges of leveraging so much information. Among other things, we also discuss the rewards of introducing young girls to the beauty of data science, and what it’s like to transition between industry and academia.

Welcome to Women in Science, a special series in honor of Women’s History Month. Join us each Monday in March (and April - thanks, COVID-19!) as we hear from women making great strides in their fields, from reproductive health justice to animal evolution. We’ll learn about the challenges they’ve faced in their journeys, explore the importance of representation, and see how women on the forefront of science and medicine lift up others and build toward a better tomorrow. In the fourth episode of this series, we’re featuring Dr. Flora Rutaganira, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Nicole King’s lab at UC Berkeley. In our conversation, we talk about the beauty (and cuteness!) of choanoflagellates, finding community and direction as an early-career researcher, and how universities can support marginalized scientists.

Welcome to Women in Science, a special series in honor of Women’s History Month. Join us each Monday in March as we hear from women making great strides in their fields, from reproductive health justice to animal evolution. We’ll learn about the challenges they’ve faced in their journeys, explore the importance of representation, and see how women on the forefront of science and medicine lift up others and build toward a better tomorrow. In the third episode of this series, we’re featuring Dr. Meryl Horn, a former president of Carry the One Radio and a current producer of the podcast Science Vs. We discuss her journey as a scientist, her passion for researching the scientific issues that really matter to the public, and her search for answers when the scientific topic is under-researched and unclear.

Welcome to Women in Science, a special series in honor of Women's History Month. Join us each Monday in March as we hear from women making great strides in their fields, from reproductive health justice to animal evolution. We’ll learn about the challenges they’ve faced in their journeys, explore the importance of representation, and see how women on the forefront of science and medicine lift up others and build toward a better tomorrow. In the second episode of this series, we're featuring Dr. Ramona Tascoe, a physician and activist whose work has left impacts in the Bay Area and internationally. In our conversation, we talked about the strengths of Dr. Tascoe’s unconventional academic background, her experiences with racism and sexual harassment in medical school and residency, and how cultural competency can heal communities and improve health outcomes.

Welcome to Women in Science, a special series in honor of Women's History Month. Join us each Monday in March as we hear from women making great strides in their fields, from reproductive health justice to animal evolution. We’ll learn about the challenges they’ve faced in their journeys, explore the importance of representation, and see how women on the forefront of science and medicine lift up others and build toward a better tomorrow. In the first episode of this series, we're featuring Dr. Monica McLemore, a professor at UCSF who researches reproductive health and rights. We discuss her journey through nursing and public health, the power of social media, and the ethical need to get the community involved in the research process.