The Ballad of the Nine Inch Snails with Bea Ramiro

05/27/22 • 56 min

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This week, we have the triumphant return of those marvelous mollusks, the cone snails! We're talking to Bea Ramiro from the Safavi Lab at the University of Copenhagen, who is looking at a potential medical use for cone snail venom. In the news, we hop aboard the de-hype train, talk about fusion fuel, sing a black hole song, and explore a secret garden. Plus a new line of cone snail merch at our website, scinight.com/merch!

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James Reed
Steffi Diem
Jason Organ

Our Guest
Bea is a graduate student at the University of Copenhagen and member of the Safavi Lab. Her work on the biomolecular properties of cone snail venom has taken her around the world to learn and work on potential hidden uses in its chemical makeup. She's also a great science communicator and teacher, especially when she gets to teach children about her work with these marvelous mollusks.

Credits
Editing-James Reed
Mastering- James Reed

Music:

Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License
5,000 Exoplanets: Listen to the Sounds of Discovery (NASA Data Sonification) by NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Russo, A. Santaguida (SYSTEM Sounds)
Data Sonification: Black Hole at the Center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster (X-ray) by NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

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Your Hosts]
James Reed
Steffi Diem
Jason Organ

Credits
Editing-James Reed
Mastering- James Reed

Music:

Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License
5,000 Exoplanets: Listen to the Sounds of Discovery (NASA Data Sonification) by NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Russo, A. Santaguida (SYSTEM Sounds)
Data Sonification: Black Hole at the Center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster (X-ray) by NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

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This week we’re talking to chemist and tik tok star Dr. Andre Isaacs. We talked about mentorship, creating the proper learning environment, the importance of creating a more diverse and inclusive STEM landscape, and much much more. Plus we have a news segment covering oceans of open data, malleable metal, and creepy crawlers. Check out links to these stories and everything Dr. Isaacs talks about at scinight.com.

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James Reed
Steffi Diem
Jason Organ

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Dr. Andre Isaacs is an associate professor of organic chemistry at the College of the Holy Cross. He is also a pretty incredible creator on Tik Tok, where he shows that scientists can have fun, and that educators can do some serious educating without being so serious. By creating a strong sense of community in his classroom and lab, Andre is training the next generation of students to be confident in their work, and comfortable with being their authentic selves.

Credits
Editing-James Reed
Mastering- James Reed

Music:
Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License

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Open Science with Prof. Lee Berger

This week we're extremely excited to bring you our conversation with the incredible Prof. Lee Berger. He shares stories from his work, and we talk about his efforts to include new people in his discipline and make his science more accessible to everyone. In the news, we talk about a sharcano, and dynamic dinos.

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James Reed
Steffi Diem
Jason Organ

Our Guest
Lee Berger is an award-winning researcher and paleoanthropologist. His explorations into human origins in Africa over the past 25 years have resulted in the discovery of more individual fossil hominin remains than any other exploration program in the history of the search for human origins in Africa. Among Berger’s many notable finds, the discoveries of two new species of ancient human relatives are especially noteworthy. In 2008 he found Australopithecus sediba, fossil remains of remarkable completeness that showed an intriguing mix of apelike and humanlike characteristics. In 2013 his team found another new species of ancient human relative, Homo naledi, amid the richest early hominin site yet found in Africa. Berger has served in a number of advisory roles, including the Global Young Academy, the Jane Goodall Institute South Africa, and has chaired the Fulbright Commission. Berger is the Phillip Tobias Chair in Palaeoanthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. A current National Geographic Explorer at Large, Berger won the first National Geographic Society Research and Exploration Prize in 1997. In 2016, he was named the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year and included in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 Most Influential People. [From National Geographic]

Credits
Editing-James Reed
Mastering- James Reed

Music:

Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License
Welcome To Jurassic Park by John Williams | ℗ 1993 Geffen Records | Property of Universal Music Group

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