We relive the highs and lows of graduate school through a spot-on video game. PhD Simulator - A Text-Based Game by Mianzhi Wang (wmz.ninja) Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Jeff - Dekalb County’s fine tap water Rob - Shark Jumper IPA Night Shift Brewing Sounds & …

Episode 47 - What connects you to science? Rob’s a conference guy, he likes interacting with people. Jeff’s a reading-papers-in-a-quiet-house kind of guy. Rob likes the cutting edge while Jeff gravitates towards the arcane. Rob’s beer is bigger than Jeff’s. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.c…

Is it a Promethean kind of thing? An end of the world thing? It’s definitely a protecting people with Fecal Incontinence kind of thing. It’s definitely not able to cite it’s sources. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Rob - Be Hoppy Indian Pale Ale Wormtown Brewery…

Should we pay scientists to speak? What do people in prison think about paid experts? Is the United Federation of Planets communist? Does getting paid fat stax help your work/life balance? Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Jeff - Dragon’s Milk Rob - Fifty Million …

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In August of 2022 we had special guest Dr. Peter Haugen on to talk about work identity. By the end, we are just sappy Dads who miss our kids being little. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Dr. Haugen - Gin & Tonic Rob - Equilibrium Brewing - Strata Outta the Labor…

This one was recorded during the Spring Semester of 2021 and sat on my hard drive for a while. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Bearded Flannel Cat India Pale Ale - Sunken Silo Big F’in Stout - Scofflaw Sounds Effects (all from FreeSound) wanderful.flac by Timbre…

Both of us have done a bit of citizen science over the years, and here are some very high-tech freely available tools that you can use too! We are serious about our offer to show anyone how to use these, just email us at tracksidescience@gmail.com. Enjoy! Music & Sounds Freight Train Crossing.wav by Sailor55 (Freesound.org) Night Train, The Mad Cap…

An interview with the acclaimed geneticist Dr Robert Pyatt about a set of diseases that is coming up in acclaimed educator Dr Jeff Mahr's class.

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Because everyone is constantly dying. Also,we suck at virtual rochambeau. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Rex Golliath - Cabernet Sauvignon Redrum Double Milk Stout (couldn’t find the brewery) Richard Lewonton (Mar 29, 1929 – Jul 4, 2021) - Gen…

Can two words in the title change the number of downloads of an episode? We discuss downloads, podcast ratings and then decide to try a little experiment. Errol, I am eternally sorry that I forgot your name! Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alco…

Rob hates it, Jeff loves it, and no one should publish their research in Hustler. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol: Rob - Hop Valley Bubblestash IPAwith CryoHops Jeff - Rex Goliath Cabernet Savignon Sounds: Front bumper - 8 Bit Circus Mu…

Rob & Jeff return to talk scientifically about their old man health problems. Plus, what happened to 2021?

Episode 35 - Science Fairs (Rob hates them) This episode sat on my hard drive for a year, I apologize. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol: Neshaminy Creek Brewing Cheap Box Wine - unidentified, but I’m sure you can find some on your own So…

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Lou is a writer and journalist who works with the Society of Professional Journalists and gives some of the most insightful and interesting analysis of journalism today. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Links: Lou Harry’s website (here) Society …

Probably not, but that shouldn't change what you are doing now. Nextstrain Twitter (here) This Week in Virology (here)

What's in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine and why is a third of the population fatigued? Ethanol: Dragon’s Milk, New Holland (here) Eye of the Storm Sitra, Jersey Cyclone Brewing (here) 1798 Brewery Okracoke (here) Science: Pfizer FDA EUA briefing document (here) Moderna FDA EUA briefing document (here) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (here) …

The answer might surprise us. Pfizer FDA EUA briefing document: link Pfizer FDA EUA meeting: link Moderna FDA EUA briefing document: link Moderna FDA EUA meeting: link VAERS: link

Just a short little episode to let you know we are back. We think. An Exploration of the Structure of Effective Apologies (link) - Paywall.... sorry?

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Wherein Rob and Jeff do an experiment to see how quickly beer and red wine will degrade vaccine knowledge. Jeff uses disabled squirrels and broken-down cars as analogies for attenuated virus vaccines. Rob tries to pin Jeff down on SARSCoV2 vaccine predictions for 2020. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Trackside…

Email your virus questions to virusquestions@gmail.com Links: This Week in Virology episode #640 (here) Abbot ID Now (here) English robot generator (here)

Here’s to all the Dads out there. And their jokes Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Sounds (Freesound.org) Baddum Tish - Comedy Rimshot by rodincoil Cricket Chirp by Sojan musical saw ascending UFO bu JohnsonBrandEditing…

Email your virus questions to virusquestions@gmail.com Links: US FDA approved SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests (7/22/2020) (link) Types of tests - Chemiluminescent Microbead Immunoassay (Youtube) Lateral flow Immunoassay (Youtube) ELISA (Youtube) Sounds: https://lingojam.com/RobotVoiceGenerator

Email your virus questions to virusquestions@gmail.com Links: This Week in Virology > https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-641/ COVID-19 PCR testing > https://youtu.be/Vd38iS_W7ww Note - I didn’t mention the “RT” part because… concision! The RT step just turns the viruses RNA into DNA and then the PCR starts on THAT. Sounds: https://lingojam.com/RobotV…

Sydni is working on an amoeba that *farms* a bacteria! Sydni’s amazing art: SciDotArt Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience The Menu: Mango White Claw Peter Vella Vineyards Cab Sav Terrapin Hopsecutioner…

Rob & Jeff again pick two very different movies Southern Tier Brewing Double IPA (here) Liberty Creek Cabernet Sauvignon (here) Osmosis Jones (IMDb) The Satan Bug (IMDb) sound effects Freesound.org: Night Traffic by Oneirophile Archive.org: KTLA 5 - Movie Theater - 1986 - Theme Song

Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience References: Muniesa et al Microb Biotechnol. 2011 Nov; 4(6): 725–734. Carlton et al (Loessner) 2005 Reg. Tox. & Pharm Loessner 1991 App & Env Micro Zink & Loessner 1992 App & Env Micro Sounds (all from Freesound.…

Episode 28 - Epidemic Movie Reviews Skeleton on Horse 1937 (link) Quarantine 2008 (link) Partners in Health (link) Alcohol: Naked Grape Cabernet Sauvignon Cloudwalker Hazy Juice IPA Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Music: Night Train, The Mad Ca…

Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Music & Sounds: Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952), Archive.org STE-013 train and bell.wav by tim.kahn (Freesound.or) Darth Vader Breathing.wav by 18hiltc (Freesound.org)…

Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience References Original coronavirus study: 2020 van Doremalen et al (MedRxiv link) Goldberg drum: Golberg et al. 1958 American Journal of Epidemiology (link) Ebolavirus and Goldberg drum: 2016 Fischer et al Journal o…

I interview science teacher and author of "How We Teach Science, What's Changed, and why it matters". John's book --> link here (It's at Harvard University Press if the link isn't working) A Private Universe --> here

Jerry Merryman (killer of the slide rule) June 1932 – February 27, 2019 (obituary) Sidney Brenner (cell biology & genetics) January 1927 – April 5, 2019 (obituary) Owen Garriot (engineer, scientist, astronaut) November 1930 – April 15, 2019 (obituary) Gerald Berenson (cardiologist) September 1922 – November 22, 2018 (obituary) Lamia Al-Gailani Werr…

Coming out on the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, we talk about what we know about the mission, how it affected culture in the United States and how conflicted we would feel if Trump's desire for flashiness actually got us back to the moon. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon:…

Rob & Jeff interview Dan Mushalko, General Manager, host and alpha-Geek at WCBE in Columbus Ohio. Listen to how his science education show The Amazing Science Emporium was born from Hurricane Gloria and about his efforts while at NASA to convince America that Skylab wasn’t going to fall on their head. Drinks: Rex Goliath Cabernet Sauvignon Fernson …

Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Music: Freaky Dance Virus 02.wav by Sepal (Freesound.org) Elevator Music 1 Hour (Archive.org) The Happy Monster by Chubby Jackson and his Orchestra (Archive.org) References: Peach yellow spot disease, Tymovirus h…

Founders Breakfast Stout Remedy Nonsense IPA Margaret Bright (Public Health) Nov 19, 1918 - Dec 28, 2018 (obituary) Martin Gore (Cancer Research) Feb 1951 – 10 Jan 2019 (obituary) Arthur Art Rosenfeld (Physics) June 22, 1926 - Jan 27, 2017 (obituary) Seung-Yull Cho (Parasitology) Nov 16, 1943 - Jan 27, 2019 (obituary) Email: tracksidescience@gmail.…

Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Music: La Cucaracha, The Castilian Troubadours. 1934. Archive.org References: Suto et al. 1979. Microbiology & Immunology. A new virus isolated from the cockroach, Periplaneta fuliginosa Mukha et al. 2006. Journa…

Our favorite lab techniques. Jeff, molecular, Rob, cellular? Rob HATES bio banks and Jeff just can’t wrap his mind around them. Special guest Devon makes her second appearance. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Favorites: Jeff: Expression screeni…

Promedmail: http://www.promedmail.org/ Front music - Freaky Dance Virus 02.wav by Sepal freesound.org End music – The Happy Monster by Chubby Jackson and his Orchestra. 1948 Sounds (all from Freesound.org): tappingMic.wav by susychristiansen Mic feedback fx short Mid 2.wav by chimerical Cocktail Sounds.wav by KenRT Cocktail Shaker.wav by KenRT shak…

The tale continues as the drinks are drained. Rob turns down Guam and Jeff leaves Bristol Bay for good. Devon just rolls her eyes. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Music Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile! Bob Cros…

Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Sounds: Warble Alarm Mono.wav by tombenedict (freesound.org) Africa, bushes, close birds and wind by Martin.Sadoux (freesound.org) Gnou-Beuglement.aif by roubignolle (freesound.org) Elephant.mp3 by geronimo83 (fr…