Across the Cline

Jessica Maccaro and Catherine Nguyen
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Your hosts bring together two experts from seemingly different fields to discuss the similarities their studies share. This voyage into what unites us in science will leave you wondering what else can be found just...Across the Cline.

  1. 08/13/2025

    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://patriciakaishian.com/

    1h 12m

  2. 05/16/2025

    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!

    1h 20m

  3. 01/24/2025

    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/ Jennifer Angus: 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/ You can find a transcript of this episode here.

    1h 21m

  4. 11/12/2024

    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.tiktok.com/@shayybray?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-brady-365b8b55/ 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 Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/ You can find a transcript of this episode here.

    1h 26m

  5. 08/15/2024

    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 PhD student at UCR, and Will Mol, a neuroscience 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/ Utopian Hub Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/ You can find a transcript of this episode here.

    1h 4m

  6. 06/14/2024

    Episode 14: Do you smell...what's coming?

    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. Can you smell it? We’ve concocted a fascinating foray into scent! We talk with Mandy Aftel, a natural essence perfumer, and Laura Sirot, a professor studying animal behavior at College of Wooster in Ohio, about how scent unified all life. We explore a variety of topics from mosquito ejaculate, the different components of perfume making, how scent can influence animal behavior, how monkeys protect themselves from mosquito bites, the relationship between memory and scent, and so much more! To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at: Mandy Aftel:  https://www.aftelier.com/Default.asp A couple books to highlight (there are more on the website above!): Essence and Alchemy and Museum of Scent Laura Sirot:  https://sites.google.com/view/sirot-lab/ Her podcast: “I Came for Science” Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/ You can find a transcript of this episode here.

    1h 11m

  7. 04/22/2024

    Episode 13: It's all about the order you don't have

    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. Both the words “jazz” and “anarchy” bring up ideas of chaos and disorder. But is jazz just “playing the wrong notes” and anarchy just “a lawless landscape?” Hey all you cool cats, today we are joined by two jazz musicians, Andrew Stevens and Joel Wenhardt, and author, activist and Professor of Environmental Studies at Georgetown University, Dr. Randall Amster, to listen to some jazz, chat about how leaders emerge, and patterns in chaos. To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at: Andrew Stevens and Joel Wenhardt: https://slowdownsounds.disco.ac/playlist-new/16344330?date=20240316&user_id=957631&signature=qNTsnjkNytO6OOL-cUz9qZUZXjQ%3AhZrq31lK https://www.joelwenhardt.com/?fbclid=IwAR3UoRNIqZ_kqrIm9uh7cMFhcedHWMsite4pBDbDuN6dwZheB_BJwl8OUBE Randall Amster: www.peaceecology.com  www.chaosmology.com  The playlist for this episode can be found here. Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/ You can find a transcript of this episode here.

    1h 45m

  8. 03/01/2024

    Episode 12: Two Robs of Academia

    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. Scene 1 Lights up. We are in a Zoom meeting, black background. Jess and Catherine are in CENTER SCREEN. Rob Roznowski (Writer, Director, and Professor of Acting at Michigan State University) enter SCREEN LEFT. Rob Todd (Microbiologist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at Bard College) enter SCREEN RIGHT. The four begin a conversation about turning STEM into STEAM through theater. To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at: Rob Roznowski: https://www.robroznowski.com/ The STEAM Plays Article in The Conversation Rob Todd: https://rtoddbiology.wordpress.com/ Intro and outro music was "Traveling in your mind" by Loyalty Freak Music. You can find more of their work at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/ You can find a transcript of this episode here.

    1h 8m
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Your hosts bring together two experts from seemingly different fields to discuss the similarities their studies share. This voyage into what unites us in science will leave you wondering what else can be found just...Across the Cline.

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  • Creator
    Jessica Maccaro and Catherine Nguyen
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    20
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    © Jessica Maccaro and Catherine Nguyen
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