Across the Cline

Episode 19: Queer Fungi

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands. Fungi are queer guys! This month, we are joined by Frances Cannon, an interdisciplinary writer, artist, educator and Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College, and Patty Kaishian, the curator of mycology at the New York State Museum, to talk about what it means to be queer and how does it show up in science. When do the boxes or categories break down? How do we queer research?  To learn more about our guests, please see the links below: https://frankyfrancescannon.com/ [https://frankyfrancescannon.com/] https://patriciakaishian.com/ [https://patriciakaishian.com/]

Episode 18: Politics and Plants

This month, we are chatting with Lida Halilovic, a plant pathology graduate student at UC Riverside, and Henry Harrison, a political science student at UCR. How do organisms and nations "make" decisions when in conflict? How are these complex systems made, and what limits them? Get ready for an episode about plants, fungi, and political science!

Episode 17: Eating Insects With Your Eyes...and Mouth

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands. Bugs on your walls? Bugs on your plate? Why not?! This month, we are joined by Chef Joseph Yoon, an Edible Insect Ambassador, and Jennifer Angus, artist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to discuss how their art can change our perception of insects and their friendship from this shared goal. To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at: Joseph Yooon:  * https://www.brooklynbugs.com/ [https://www.brooklynbugs.com/] Jennifer Angus: * https://www.jenniferangus.com/work [https://www.jenniferangus.com/work] Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/ [https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/] You can find a transcript of this episode here [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kujO6Qge4ViA_hDGQhZmVRUzkkkeHeNXzN_wwq_kjEE/edit?usp=sharing].

Episode 16: Machine Speak

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands. Do you ever talk to yourself? What about to a machine? In this episode, we explore how humans and machines respond to their environments and how that ability can change over time with graduate student in the Department of Psychology at UC Riverside, Shannon Brady, and graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Joseph Sullivan. Get ready for a chat about control theory, emotions, and mental health! To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at: Shannon Brady:  * https://www.instagram.com/erlabucr/ [https://www.instagram.com/erlabucr/] * https://www.tiktok.com/@shayybray?lang=en [https://www.tiktok.com/@shayybray?lang=en] * https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-brady-365b8b55/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-brady-365b8b55/] * https://sites.google.com/view/shannonbrady [https://sites.google.com/view/shannonbrady] Joseph Sullivan:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-sullivan-a98776a7?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-sullivan-a98776a7?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app] Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/ [https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/] You can find a transcript of this episode here [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1339Ww-GigsKFb82G06xQtr0_m7RbfFLc/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105699632918144207235&rtpof=true&sd=true].

Episode 15: Utopia and Autism

We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands. Imagine the most perfect of worlds But is that world perfect for everyone? Today, we’re exploring utopias and the neuroscience of autism with Donald Zarate, a political science [https://politicalscience.ucr.edu/] PhD student at UCR, and Will Mol, a neuroscience [https://neuroscience.ucr.edu/] PhD student also at UCR. Join us as we delve into what it means to create an intentional community, the differences between sensing and perceiving, and Donald’s and Will’s journeys to their current research. To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at: Donald Zarate: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donaldzarateucr/ [https://www.instagram.com/donaldzarateucr/] Utopian Hub [https://www.youtube.com/@donaldzarateucr] Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/ [https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/] You can find a transcript of this episode here [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fK4jqgIRp9IQSPJXKnPFObDvyOr8vfVS1zANAB0tcr4/edit?usp=sharing].