Parsing Science: The unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling science, as told by the researchers themselves. Parsing Science: The unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling science, as told by the researchers themselves.
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Researchers from across the scientific disciplines share the unpublished stories behind their recently published research, along with the background of their scientific discoveries.
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Science Writing as Storytelling (rebroadcast) – Ryan Kelly
What matters more in getting cited — what you say or how you say it? In this remastered and remixed version of our first episode of the show, we're revisited by Ryan Kelly from the University of Washington's School of Marine and Environmental Affairs. He talks with us about his article "Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency fin Climate Change Science," published in the December 2016 edition of the open-access journal PLoS One, along with co-authors Annie Hillier and Terrie Klinger.
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Websites and other resources
Article Highlights, Summary, Quick findings & Flashcards via Scholarcy
"Do I make myself clear? Media training for scientists" (Science Magazine)
"Studies written in a more narrative style get more citations" (PsyPost)
Annie Hillier's Master's thesis
Book that inspired the study: Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
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Cold War Ice Core Reveals Historic Glacial Melt – Andrew Christ
How did a Cold War era debacle help us better understand the dangers of climate change? In episode 99 of Parsing Science, we talk with Drew Christ from the University of Vermont about his research into how fossils plucked from forgotten experiment in the Arctic led to his discovery the last time Greenland’s glaciers completely melted, it happened under climate conditions very similar to the present day. His open access article “A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century,“ was published with multiple co-authors on March 30, 2021 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Websites and other resources
Drew's website, photography & Twitter
Drew's webinar on this study:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5CVEVPC5e8
xkcd's Earth Temperature Timeline
Propaganda documentary on Camp Century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DPQ15EgyTY
News and Media
Wired | SciTechDaily | World Economic Forum | Weather Channel | Popular Science | CNET | Washington Post | Science Alert
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DNA Evidence of Denisovan Interbreeding – João Teixeira
What can DNA tell us about the migration of the earliest modern humans and other hominins? In episode 98 of Parsing Science, we talk with João Teixeira from the University of Adelaide about his research which examined the genomes of modern humans to investigate the interbreeding between ancient humans and modern human populations who arrived in Southeast Asia around 60,000 years ago. His article, “Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture,” was multiple coauthors and published on March 22, 2021 in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
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Websites and other resources
João's researcher profile
Article preprint on BioRxiv
ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage
Article on the biomechanical sequencing of Homo erectus
News and Media
Inverse | Science Alert | The Conversation | SciNews | Science Daily | Natural History Museum | COSMOS | EurekAlert
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The Dyatlov Pass Incident – Alexander Puzrin
Can science help solve a real-life mystery? In episode 97 of Parsing Science, we talk with Alexander Puzrin from ETH Zurich about his research into The Dyatlov Pass incident, a 62-year-old mystery involving the deaths of nine hikers in the freezing Russian wilderness, a tragedy that’s been attributed to everything from a yeti to military weapons testing and an avalanche. His open access article “Mechanisms of slab avalanche release and impact in the Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959“ was co-authored with Johan Gaume and published on January 28, 2021 in the Nature journal, Communications Earth & Environment.
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Websites and other resources
Article Highlights, Summary, Quick findings & Flashcards via Scholarcy
Alexander's group website
Supplemental materials and videos from the article
Horror/conspiracy video game and movie about the Dyatlov Pass incident
Nature and EPFL videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22OmPK7Ml34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_79NZKeag
News and Media
Wired | Big Think | New York Times | ARS Technica | Futurity | National Geographic | EurekAlert
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Monkey Business – Jean-Baptiste “JB” Leca
Do monkeys know how much fruit your sunglasses are worth? In episode 96 of Parsing Science, we talk with Jean-Baptiste "JB" Leca from the University of Lethbridge's Department of Psychology about his field research observing interactions among macaques at a Hindu temple in Bali. There, the monkeys have learned to rob tourists of everything from smartphones to flip flops, and then barter their return to temple staff in exchange for food. His open-access article, “Acquisition of object-robbing and object/food-bartering behaviours: a culturally maintained token economy in free-ranging long-tailed macaques,” was coauthored with Noëlle Gunst, Matthew Gardiner and I. Nengah Wandia, and published on January 11, 2021 in Philosophical Transactions of the the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
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Websites and other resources
Article Highlights, Summary, Quick findings & Flashcards via Scholarcy
JB's website, including photos of the robbing monkeys
JB's Google Scholar profile
University of Lethbridge's summary of the study
Sample videos of monkeys robbing and bartering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymYDfHXq4S0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhqKux-liGk
News and Media
CBC | BBC | Medium | Earth Touch | Boing Boing | CTV News| Reddit | The Guardian
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Positively Negative – Shiri Melumad
How much can you trust people's retelling of information the've read? In episode 95, Shiri Melumad from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business discusses her research showing that when – much like the children’s game “telephone” – news is repeatedly retold, it undergoes a stylistic transformation through which the original facts are increasingly replaced by opinions and interpretations, with a slant toward negativity. Her article “The dynamics of distortion: How successive summarization alters the retelling of news”, was published with Robert Meyer and Yoon Duk Kim, on January 7, 2021 in the Journal of Marketing Research.
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Websites and other resources
Shiri's website and Twitter
Shiri on Knowledge @ Wharton
Vox article on Shiri's research into the effect space constraints have on what people share
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Hosts / Producers
Doug Leigh & Ryan Watkins
How to Cite
Leigh, D., Watkins, R., & Melumad, S.. (2021). Parsing Science - Positively Negative. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.
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Great dives into different scientific research. Enjoyed the extra information and context behind the studies.