On the perception of trustworthiness

I had the opportunity to sit down with Zoe Alley along with fellow Inspiration Dissemination host Maggie Exeter on Sunday night to talk about Zoe’s work as a doctoral candidate in psychology. Zoe studies how the brain’s capacity to unconsciously analyze other people’s faces affects our lives. Her focus especially is on seeing how people are affected by others unconscious judgments.

You can read my full write-up over at Inspiration Dissemination, and the recording of the radio show will be uploaded to the Inspiration Dissemination podcast real soon.

Feather collections and stressed-out owls

Back in February I had the chance to sit down and chat with Ashlee Mikkelsen, a graduate student at Oregon State who studies the northern spotted owl. With my co-host, Lilian Padgett-Cobb, we talked live on KBVR about the path to graduate school, the benefits of telling people your life goals, and just how much you can learn about an owl from a single feather. You can find my full write-up here, and you can hear the interview via our podcast on iTunes.

Magnet Blocks, Connect the Dots, and the World of Modern Mathematics

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On Sunday, March 17, Maggie Exton and I sat down with Charles Camacho to talk mathematics, graduate school, and life lessons on the weekly radio show Inspiration Dissemination. The link below will take you to the blog post I wrote about Charles’ work. The interview will appear on the ID podcast in the very near future.

http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/2019/03/17/magnet-blocks-connect-the-dots-and-the-world-of-modern-mathematics/

Applied medical anthropology – an interview with Holly Horan

On December 9th, Adrian Gallo and I interviewed Holly Horan on the show Inspiration Dissemination. Holly is doing amazing work at the intersection of human health and anthropology in her studies of maternal health and stress in Puerto Rico. She has spent about a year and a half on the island (divided among a few trips), interviewing 80+ people in what is now the largest-ever study to measure perceived and biological maternal stress during and after pregnancy in Puerto Rico. Her time in Puerto Rico coincided with the Zika outbreak and, on a later trip, with the arrival of Hurricane Maria. I wrote a post giving more details about her work over at Inspiration Dissemination, and you can listen to our interview with her on iTunes here.