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You know I read them all and I 19 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:56.520 pick out a fresh one. So thank you, LWHG N 20 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.000 J s H s h u U. I promise you 21 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:02.679 that I'm going to get more sleep next week. Okay, 22 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.920 if you listened to last week's episode Pelicanology with Chuwea Martinez, 23 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.040 you likely have pelicans on the brain, saggy sacks and all, 24 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:14.640 and hopefully celebrated last week's Black Birders Week, the inaugural one. 25 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:16.959 It ran from May thirty first to June fifth, and 26 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:21.280 it was launched as reaction to some recent really distressing events. 27 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:25.480 And zoologist and wildlife enthusiast Karina Newsom is one of 28 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:29.280 the co founders of Blackbirders Week, and she announced it 29 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:33.359 to her ever growing Twitter audience over sixty thousand people 30 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:34.079 last week. 31 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:37.359 For far too long, black people in the United States 32 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.799 have been shown that outdoor exploration activities such as birding 33 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:43.480 are not for us, whether it be because of the 34 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:47.000 way the media chooses to present who is the outdoorsy 35 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:50.359 type or the racism experienced by black people when we 36 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.920 do explore the outdoors, as we saw recently in Central Park. Well, 37 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:57.239 we've decided to change that narrative. A group of black 38 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.719 birds explorers and scientists got to get to start the 39 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:04.439 first ever Blackbirders Week. Help us to show the world, 40 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:09.120 especially the next generation of young blackbirders and nature enthusiasts 41 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.439 that we exist, that they are welcome, and that this 42 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:14.039 space belongs to them too. 43 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:19.919 This exploded. It resulted in news articles on like CNN 44 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:25.199 and trending hashtags for Blackbirders Week live streams with thousands 45 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:29.280 of people watching, and we celebrated with pelicanology for it. 46 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:34.000 And you should definitely follow at blackaf in Stem on Twitter. 47 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:37.240 They gained twenty five thousand followers from all the press 48 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.800 just last week. So you can click on link tree 49 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:42.400 in their bio you'll find all the live streams and recaps. 50 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:44.319 It's a really wonderful way to catch up after the 51 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:45.120 fact if you missed it. 52 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:46.280 But wait, there's more. 53 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.120 But Blackbirder's Week was so transformative, so huge, I did 54 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:53.360 not want it to end. It shouldn't. Elevating black scientists 55 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:56.360 and listening to and advocating for people is not a 56 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:00.639 TikTok trend. This is a life long battle to dismantle 57 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:04.520 a system that is oppressing people. So before Blackbird's Week started, 58 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.400 I reached out to some Internet buddies who formed black 59 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:09.360 af and STEM, and I asked them if I could 60 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:11.840 make a compilation episode so we could all kind of 61 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.280 walk away having like thirty new science heroes. Listen to 62 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:18.719 their weird facts and passions and work and get them 63 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:21.400 in your timelines. You can follow on social media. You 64 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:25.400 can cheer on their successes, listen to their frustrations and experiences. 65 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:28.039 If you're a person of color in STEM who needs 66 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:31.599 icons and community, follow along and see them just owning 67 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:35.000 what they do. So please enjoy the following very special 68 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:39.159 episode with the most Ologists Ologies has ever had the 69 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:44.719 most ologies in one ologies. As you learn about everything 70 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:49.360 from electric fish noses to turtle butts, to how to bird, 71 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.639 how to be an ally, how to be black af 72 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:56.039 and stem advice from black scientists and more so, get 73 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:59.800 ready to root for, follow and fawn over the assorted 74 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:04.560 logists who are black aff. 75 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:25.680 Hey, what's up, Alli? This is Alex or Alexi g. 76 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:31.319 Most people know me as David Attenborough. That is my 77 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:35.240 Twitter handle online, but in real life out there, I'm 78 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:37.759 actually I've been working in the zoo field for the 79 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:42.319 better part of six years now, so most of the 80 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.639 organisms I'm close with are actually nocturnal mammals. So I 81 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:48.519 spend a lot of time inside of a building that 82 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:52.560 has this really cool reverse light cycle. But I'm gonna 83 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:56.279 pause right there. I'm actually gonna go tell a little 84 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:59.160 bit about my history in the field, because before I 85 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:03.279 was zookeeper, I was a zoo educator, and in that job, 86 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:06.680 I would talk to thousands of people every single day. 87 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:11.839 My personal goal, or my goal, I guess in the job, 88 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:16.920 was to share conservation with anyone and everyone. I wanted 89 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.519 people to walk away with some sort of positive interaction 90 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:24.319 related to either an animal or a concept, and then 91 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:26.680 I wanted them to be able to take that energy 92 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:30.199 out into the world. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, 93 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:33.240 but it's all a numbers game. So my personal goal, 94 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:38.600 though despite the professional one, was to simply be present. 95 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:42.720 I wanted a black face to be on conservation. Maybe 96 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:46.000 I wasn't out there like Bill Ny, but my goal 97 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:49.720 was simply for people to see me and associate my 98 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:55.959 face my skin tone with conservation, and maybe young black 99 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.199 kids would see me and know that they could do 100 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:01.040 it too, because there really wasn't that much special about me, 101 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:03.959 especially not at a time. So in the capacity as 102 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.680 a zoo keeper now, I still maintain that goal. I 103 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:08.720 still want to be out there for those kids, but 104 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:11.759 I'm not as much in the public eye as I 105 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.040 was in the past, so I tend to hang out 106 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:17.399 in this very dark building with a number of nocturnal mammals, 107 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:21.480 and one of my favorite animals in this building is 108 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:25.279 the prehensile tailed porcupine. This is a salt and pepper 109 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.040 colored porcupine that lives in the trees and is found 110 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:30.879 primarily in Central and South America. 111 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:32.879 They're salt and pepper. 112 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:36.319 Colored and they have this really cool taiale that is 113 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:39.439 that acts essentially like a finger. But their most notable 114 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:44.639 feature or trait that people catch when they see them 115 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:48.680 is they're really big, cute, squishy button nose. Now I 116 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:51.879 could go on and tell you about these animals for hours, 117 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:54.480 but I won't do that today. But if you guys 118 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:56.519 do want to learn more about them, follow me at 119 00:06:56.759 --> 00:07:00.720 David Attenborough on Twitter and hope you have a great night. 120 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.199 Thanks for having me on Ali. 121 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:03.040 Take care. 122 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.519 Okay, real quick, I looked up this button nose and 123 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.160 it looks like a big soft velvet pencil eraser on 124 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.199 its face. I had a literal heart palpitation. It's so 125 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:14.920 cute I want to kiss it. So that is Alexig 126 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:17.959 and I'm making a Twitter list of all these wonderful folks. 127 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:19.879 So you can just zip through and hit follow on 128 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:21.199 all of them. It's going to be writ in the 129 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:25.639 show notes your timeline will improve by one million percent. Okay, 130 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:29.279 onward to your new favorite math nerd and econ whiz 131 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.600 Anna who also co founded a nonprofit, the SADI Collective, 132 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:35.879 which is the first American nonprofit organization which aims to 133 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:39.839 increase the representation of black women in economics and related 134 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:41.439 data fields. Shoe rolls. 135 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:42.040 Hi. 136 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:44.439 My name is Anna Gifthiopoguajman. 137 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:50.160 I am a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 138 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.560 and I majored in mathematics and minored in economics. 139 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:56.040 I study economics. 140 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:59.519 It's not an ology per se, but it's a really 141 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.720 important discipline that makes important decisions about our world in 142 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:09.120 a lot of different spaces. So economists sit and government 143 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:15.800 and industry and academia and even in like different places 144 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:19.800 in the natural sciences, a lot of people inform sort 145 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:24.319 of budgets around scientific funding and that sort of thing. 146 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:29.160 In terms of where to follow me, I'm on Twitter 147 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:34.600 at its Acronomics and Instagram at Anna. 148 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:40.360 Gifty a n n A gift y Oh thanks. 149 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:44.120 Side note, Anna just finished a research fellowship at Harvard 150 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:46.679 No big deal and an appointment at the National Bureau 151 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:49.879 of Economic Research, and came up with the idea of 152 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:54.240 Blackbirders Week. I am wearing clean pants today. That's about it. 153 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:57.759 Anna moderated a Black Birder's Week Facebook panel and she 154 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.320 brings an energy to her public speaking and moderating that 155 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.120 is like a true talent. So if you need someone 156 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.360 to host something about math or econ or stem, track 157 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:10.399 down Anna. Now, this next new friend you may already 158 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:14.240 know of is an amazing host instant follow. You heard 159 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:16.159 her in the intro and I have been wanting to 160 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:18.679 make it to Atlanta to interview her for ages, but 161 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:20.720 I may have to settle on a remote interview once 162 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:22.600 her field season is over. I cannot wait. 163 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:23.399 Hi. 164 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:26.440 My name is Karina Newsom and I am a graduate 165 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:30.320 biology student at Georgia Southern University and I study avian 166 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:33.639 ecology and I focus specifically on a species called the 167 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.519 seaside sparrow. Now, one weird fact about the seaside sparrow 168 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.039 is that they are really well adapted to life in 169 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:42.720 a salt marsh. And they are so well adapted, in fact, 170 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.840 that they can drink salt water without ever getting sick. Now, 171 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:49.200 one reason why I love what I do is because 172 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:52.200 I get to look very very closely at the natural world, 173 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:54.879 more than I ever have in my life, and I 174 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:57.519 get to share it with whoever will listen. It brings 175 00:09:57.559 --> 00:09:59.960 me such joy to share my fascination with the natural 176 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.120 world with as many people as possible. If you're interested 177 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.440 in following me, you can find me on Twitter at 178 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:11.600 Hood Underscore Naturalist or Instagram at Hood Underscore Underscore Naturalist. Now, 179 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:13.639 for those of you listening, one way that you can 180 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.960 be an ally to black people in STEM is by 181 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:20.600 not silencing or asking us to censor our lived experiences 182 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.960 brushing it off as getting too political, because it's our 183 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:27.080 reality and it's one that intersects very deeply with our 184 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:31.080 lived experiences as students and professionals in STEM. 185 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.480 So listen to experiences. Use what privilege you have to 186 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:37.840 stand up to racism when you see it. Karina aka 187 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:42.200 Hood Naturalist is amazing. Okay, let's hear more about birdiees 188 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:44.039 Hi alien Ologists. 189 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:46.279 My name is Manni Pepkin and I am a first 190 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:50.480 year PhD student at Cornell University and I study stress. 191 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:54.440 I'm listening, so stressology. There's not a real word for 192 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:58.720 that yet, and I'm not quite sure why. Anyway, I 193 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:02.039 like to spend my time thinking about why some animals 194 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:05.639 are better able to do well in stressful environments and 195 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.000 others not able to do so, and also within the 196 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.120 same species. So if we're looking at two twice swallows 197 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.799 and they're in a noisy environment, why is one able 198 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.120 to do better in that environment than others? Is there 199 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:24.279 some type of behavioral difference. Can one change how they're 200 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:27.200 singing and be heard in noise better than the other 201 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:32.320 and avoid that negative side effect? Or maybe one bird 202 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:34.639 is that are able to calm itself down and doesn't 203 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:39.039 have any of those like other physiological or body physical 204 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.559 responses to being stressed. Or maybe there's a personality difference 205 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:47.279 and one type can just cope better than the other. 206 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:50.960 I feel seen and embarrassed. 207 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:54.600 It's really exciting because I can look at a single 208 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:57.320 animal at a time point and ask all these questions 209 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:01.320 about why is this thing happening to this individual right now, 210 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.200 and are others able to do it? And how rare 211 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.399 or common is that in a population? And it's super 212 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:12.919 exciting because basically I kind of get to see the 213 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:16.720 resiliency of nature. All these animals are able to do 214 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:24.080 this thing and persist despite being really stressful and really hard, 215 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:27.120 and I don't know, I see it as really helpful 216 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:30.679 and inspiring instead of a fun fact on this year. 217 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:34.279 A quick fun story. Back when I was still studying 218 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:38.039 how noisy environments would stress birds and how birchwood changed 219 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:41.440 with behavior in them, I was auditioning for a choir 220 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.480 and I would just tell people I studied bird songs 221 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:47.559 to make it simple. But after I told all the 222 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:53.000 judges that, they then all singing different bird songs at 223 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:56.159 me and ask me to help them try to identify 224 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.679 the birds they always hear in their life and just 225 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:02.159 do not have any idea what they are. And I 226 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:05.840 did it. It was really fun. I also made the choir, 227 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:11.559 which also an added bonus, so very exciting. Anyway, if 228 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:14.679 you're interested in following me, you can follow me at 229 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:19.000 Monique Pipkin on Twitter. That's spelled m O n I 230 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:23.080 q U E p I p A I N great. Thanks, 231 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:23.720 bye guys. 232 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.559 If you ever run into Monique, ask her a favorite 233 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:28.879 bird song and thank her for unraveling why some of 234 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.960 us crumble under stress while others just keep whistling along 235 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:35.720 in life. Okay, let's hear more about birds. Hello. 236 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:40.039 My name is Amelia Demri and I am a PhD 237 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:47.039 candidate at Cornell University. I study ornithology. Specifically, I look 238 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:52.639 at the genetics of beak color plasticity in birds. One 239 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:56.120 weird fun fact about my work is that, whereas most 240 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:00.919 ornithologists are perceived as having these like romantic you know, 241 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:06.120 treks through nature and looking at birds, I am that weird, 242 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:11.240 mad scientist student that actually doesn't get a lot of 243 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:16.200 exposure to sunlight and does experiments on the birds. But 244 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.799 I love what I do because I'm discovering new things 245 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:24.759 every day, I'm finding unique challenges, and most importantly, I 246 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:28.440 get to share it with people who may not always 247 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:32.679 understand why what I do so interesting and why can 248 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:37.080 connect different aspects of our community. People can follow me 249 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:42.320 on Twitter at ac Demery. A way that listeners can 250 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:46.600 be allies to black people in STEM is pretty straightforward. 251 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:51.000 It's all about educating yourself and being self aware about 252 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:54.919 how we all have been part of the problem, but 253 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:58.279 we also can be part of this solution and using 254 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:05.080 the resources that are available that extend beyond just your 255 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:10.039 black friend to look at all the different ways that 256 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:14.639 the black community has strived to educate our society on 257 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:21.559 how to be effective allies, how to give back, how 258 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:25.080 to show support in a very healthy way. I love 259 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:29.440 this initiative. I am proud to be black in stem AF. 260 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:33.960 Thank you. So this means, don't just pepper your black 261 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:38.320 friends or acquaintances or co workers with texts and dms, 262 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:41.600 tossing white guilt on them. That doesn't help. There are 263 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:45.200 a lot of really heavy emotions and a lot of 264 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.240 trauma to process, and our black friends do not need 265 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:51.759 the extra labor of dabbing away our white tears. Rather 266 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:55.960 fellow white people. Here's some recommended reading. Ibram x Kendy 267 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.639 in twenty nineteen published the book How to Be an 268 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.720 Anti Racist. That is next on my reading list. Very excited. Also, 269 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.600 another great resource is an article from the Smithsonian National 270 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:09.000 Museum of African American History and Culture. Links to those 271 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:11.519 we'll be up at alleyword dot com, slash ologies, slash 272 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:14.279 Black af and stem Now onward to another Ward. 273 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.200 Hello everyone, my name is Jeffrey Ward, and I'm a 274 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:22.799 birder studying ornithology. Birding is so therapeutic. All you really 275 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:28.320 need are pale binoculars and preferably a green space. Birds 276 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:32.320 are everywhere. It's really an easy way to get out 277 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:35.679 into the fresh air and be in touch with nature 278 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:41.360 and learn. I've learned so much about the other aspects 279 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:46.039 of nature through birding, like what trees certain birds prefer, 280 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:50.840 or what insects certain birds like to eat. All in all, 281 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:57.519 birds are truly amazing. Everything from the colors to the 282 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:02.679 songs is just so easy to get lost in nature 283 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:06.319 while outstudying birds. Okay, let me not keep you guys 284 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:09.799 here for too long. For more bird content, follow me 285 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:15.559 on Twitter at Jeffrey m Ward or on Instagram at 286 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:17.160 underscore Jeffrey m Ward. 287 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:21.160 Hi everyone, my name is Cassandra Ford and I'm a 288 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:25.519 PhD candidate at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I 289 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:30.200 study fish, which is a study called ichthyology, but more specifically, 290 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:34.400 I look at electric fish. Something crazy interesting about these 291 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:38.279 fish is their incredible diversity of headshape. There are fish 292 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:42.279 with snouts that even look like elephant trunks. I love 293 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:45.720 studying fish because there are so many questions that haven't 294 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:50.119 been asked, much less answered. There's always something new to 295 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:54.200 look at. I'm on Twitter and Instagram at casts the 296 00:17:54.279 --> 00:18:01.039 fish kass t e fi sh and I'd also like 297 00:18:01.079 --> 00:18:04.640 to add to our listeners that fantastic allies to people 298 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:08.799 of color work hard to amplify those voices instead of 299 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:13.119 only listening to their own. Thanks for having me, Cassie. 300 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:15.960 You get extra points for being the first person to 301 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:19.519 email me your sound file just boom. Your promptness is 302 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:23.119 an inspiration to me personally, So let's keep this fish 303 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:24.559 school a swimming along. 304 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:28.920 Hey everyone, my name is Alexis Roberts. I'm a four 305 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:33.960 theraphd candidate at the University of California Davis. I study 306 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:38.759 macroevolution and functional morphology in fishes, and those are a 307 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:41.519 lot of big words, but basically what that means is 308 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:45.960 that I relate shape and form of a fish's body 309 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:50.000 or parts of a fish's body, to its functions such 310 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:54.880 as locomotion or its movement, and also its feeding patterns. 311 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:59.640 I'm specifically interested in the anatomy of fish feeding structures 312 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:03.880 or fish mouths, and other morphological traits that they use 313 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:08.599 to feed on different prey items, and specifically I am 314 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.680 interested in how those structures and those traits have evolved 315 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:17.160 in some major ways over really large time periods. So 316 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:21.319 one trait that I'm particularly interested in is the pharyngeal 317 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:25.319 jaw structure. And this is a second set of jaws 318 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:29.000 that most fishes have and that they use to process 319 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:32.279 prey similar to how we process food with our teeth. 320 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.279 So fish have an oral jaw structure or the system 321 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:39.400 that they use to capture prey items, and then they 322 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:43.039 use their pharyngeal jaws to process those prey items for 323 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:44.000 further digestion. 324 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.400 It is super super. 325 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:50.759 Cool and I just love studying it. And one of 326 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:54.200 the reasons that I love what I do is because 327 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:59.240 there's always always something new to discover or observe when 328 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:03.319 you're studying the natural world. There are nearly thirty five 329 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:08.440 thousand fish species lipping in really different habitats all over 330 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:11.640 the Earth, so you can only imagine how much diversity 331 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:14.960 there is in form and function in the fishes of 332 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.839 the world. Anyway, to keep hearing more about my research 333 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.200 and some nerdy fish facts, you can follow me on 334 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:27.960 Twitter at at Alexis s Underscore Simone hope to see you. 335 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:28.240 There. 336 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:31.880 Two sets of jaws, two sets, one to bite and 337 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:35.680 one to chew. Who knew that Alexis that's who. Okay, 338 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:39.680 this next ologist one, mister Troutman. He's got to study fish, right, 339 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:40.440 go ahead. 340 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:45.720 Hey y'all, I'm Alice Troutman. Yes, my name is trout 341 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:49.680 like the fish and man, and I'm a wildlife worker. 342 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:55.400 Currently I am a grad student studying wetland ecology. When 343 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:58.559 I'm not in school, i'm a seasonal wildlife worker for 344 00:20:58.839 --> 00:21:04.039 several federal agencies. During my off season from my federal job, 345 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:09.160 i am an endangered species of observer or ESO on 346 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:13.319 dredging ships. A dredging ship is a ship that goes 347 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:18.240 out after hurricanes and digs up sand and throws back 348 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:22.799 on the beach attorney. That's called beach renourishment. Or they 349 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:27.359 also can go out and deepen and widen shipping channels. 350 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:30.559 So my role as an ESO on those ships are 351 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:35.200 to make sure when we're not coming to close proximity 352 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:39.920 or contact with marine mammals like wells and man and 353 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:44.480 t's and also I make sure that we are not 354 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:50.759 digging up any sea turtles and surgeon and I do 355 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:55.680 that by checking the teds or the turtle exclusion device 356 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.160 to make sure that the chains are all in order 357 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:04.480 to exclude any turtles or surgeons from being dug up 358 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:05.680 with the sand. 359 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:08.200 So we heard a little bit about this in Pelchnology 360 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:12.079 with Juweta essentially putting land back and renewing habitat loss 361 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:15.000 by climate change and in this case hurricanes. So when 362 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.599 they're dredging up all that sand, there is Al Troutman 363 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:23.079 making sure that sturgeon and sea turtles and other endangered 364 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:25.640 species are safe. What a dude. I want to hang 365 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:26.279 out Troutman. 366 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:29.920 When I'm not working. I love being in outdoors. I 367 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:36.119 love fishing, hiking, camping, wildlife photography and birding. Also during 368 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:44.039 my downtime, I enjoy eating food, especially baking and making pizza. 369 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:50.480 You guys can follow me at nature ol so that's 370 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:57.799 nature Unin squorel on Instagram and Twitter and once again 371 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:03.119 that's nature ol so it's in the number A t 372 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.680 u R underscore al So Nature underscorel get. 373 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:11.319 It, Nature al get it. Okay, So follow him on 374 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:14.519 Instagram and Twitter if you want your feed to have 375 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:21.359 more gorgeous wildlife photos and videos of baby turtles akac turtles. 376 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:24.480 And he also just has an absolutely infectious smile. I 377 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:27.240 love his posts so much. And his name is Troutman. 378 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:30.400 I mean come on the best. Okay, let's stay in 379 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:32.039 Turtleville a minute, shall we. 380 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:36.519 I'm my name is Armand Can. I'm a wildlife biologist, 381 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:41.319 more specifically a herpetologist, and that just means that I 382 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:47.160 study mostly amphibians and reptiles. You recently graduate from Leola University, 383 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:52.200 Chicago and recently defended my massive thesis this past April. 384 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.640 And that thesis, it was on Blanding's turtles, which is 385 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.599 an endangered species internationally as well as at state level 386 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:03.160 for many different states in the Ules. And what I 387 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:07.359 was looking at was a conservation program for the species 388 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.480 called head starting, where they would take these individuals, the 389 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.240 release the eggs, raise them indoors and captivity for one 390 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:16.960 to two years of ASI, and then release them into 391 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:21.680 the wild. And my graduate work focused on the after effects. 392 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:24.400 I was looking at blood physiology as well as spatial 393 00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:28.799 ecology because I wanted to see being raised in captivity 394 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:32.960 have an effect such as a habituation effect on how 395 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:37.079 much space they're using or their responses to their physiology 396 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:42.000 according to environmental differences. But a weird fact about my work. 397 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:48.559 I can't really think of a weird fact about my work, 398 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:50.480 but there is a weird fact about one of the 399 00:24:50.519 --> 00:24:54.680 species that I've encountered, which is a painted turtle. This 400 00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:57.680 is another semi aquatic turtle species. It lives in the 401 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:02.319