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Dr. Thomas McDade, Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University discusses why inflammation should not simply be branded a secret killer. He also chats with Chris and Cara about his ongoing research on the differences in antibody responses to COVID-19 infection and vaccination. Find some of Dr. McDade's work on inflammation at: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/109/Supplement_2/17281.full.pdf and https://www.pnas.org/content/114/29/7611 Read his most recent publications on COVID-19 anti-body response at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537021002984 and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96879-3 Contact Dr. McDade at t-mcdade@northwestern.edu and follow him on Twitter at @tmcdade35 Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

So, what’s the deal with sleep, immune function, and mortality risk? On today’s episode, Dr. Eric Shattuck and Dr. Corey Sparks discuss their collaboration to investigate how morality risks may be affected by sleep quality, through white blood cell function. Listen for more intriguing insights and read their paper here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33527525/ Dr. Eric Shattuck is an Assistant Professor of Research at The University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) and interim director of the Institute for Health Disparities Research. You can contact him or find out more about his work here: https://sites.google.com/view/ericshattuck/home and on Twitter: @eric_shattuck. Dr. Corey S. Sparks is an Associate Professor of Demography at UTSA. You can find out more about his work and forthcoming book here: http://coreysparks.weebly.com/ and on Twitter: @CoreySparks1 Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

In today's episode Chris and Cara talk to Dr. Stephanie McClure, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. Dr. McClure talks about the importance and the benefits of bringing anthropology to public health as evidenced by her own work leading and organizing six Covid-19 vaccination clinics across the country. Her and Cara also discuss their discontent with current policies restricting female athletes on the basis of their testosterone levels. Find Dr. McClure's paper "On Integrity and the Risk of Generational Loss: Narratives of Preservation and Threat Underlie Policies Restricting Natural Testosterone in Women Athletes" at On Integrity and the Risk of Generational Loss: Narratives of Preservation and Threat Underlie Policies Restricting Natural Testosterone in Women Athletes And her AJHB on collaborating with public health "Practices of disciplinary symbiosis: (Re)blending theory and method, anthropology and public health" at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23683?casa_token=ZApztSmCGi0AAAAA%3As56_tsA7u1WdJt0x4rLAOPScI9T3wuHU4TByXhg9HQj6gwv5inG1QpbdniBKpBHL5dTmDK9J7xOk Learn more about CoomuniVax at https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/Center-projects/communivax/local-teams.html Contact Dr. McClure at smcclur1@ua.edu Participate in and celebrate #AnthroDay: www.americananthro.org/anthroday Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Dr. Jessica Dimka is the Co-leader of the Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. She chats with Chris and Cara about her work on the associations between behaviors and epidemics in Newfoundland and describes how modeling can be implemented in anthropological research. Find Dr. Dimka's most recent publication "“We didn't get much schooling because we were fishing all the time”: Potential impacts of irregular school attendance on the spread of epidemics" at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23578 Follow Dr. Dimka on Twitter at @jesdimka or reach out via email at jessicad@oslomet.no Participate and celebrate in #AnthroDay: https://www.americananthro.org/anthroday Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Evolutionary biologist Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr. (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University) and biological anthropologist Dr. Alan Goodman (Hampshire College)discuss their new book "Racism, Not Race" with Chris and Cara. They talk about how their new book addresses important common questions on race and racism and what their hopes are for a more just future. Buy "Racism, Not Race" at https://cup.columbia.edu/book/racism-not-race/9780231200660 Contact Dr. Graves at gravesjl@ncat.edu and on Twitter @gravesjl55 Contact Dr. Goodman at agoodman@hampshire.edu and on Twitter @AHGoodman18 Learn more about his work at https://sites.hampshire.edu/agoodman/ Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

To start the new year off right, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Helen Davis, a research associate at Harvard University. In this episode, Dr. Davis talks about her work on cognition and learning among the Tsimane, Twa, Zemba, and Himba. She also discusses her nonprofit and how she and her team contribute to their research communities through the One Pencil Project. Contact Dr. Davis at helendavis@fas.harvard.edu, on Twitter @Helen_E_Davis and on her website https://helen-elizabeth-davis.com Read her recent publication " Cultural Change Reduces GenderDifferences in Mobility and Spatial Ability among Seminomadic Pastoralist-Forager Children in Northern Namibia" with Jonathan Stack and Elizabeth Cashdan in Human Nature here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-021-09388-7 Get incolved with the One Pencil Project through Website: https://www.onepencilproject.org email: info@onepencilproject.org Twitter: @1PencilProject Facebook: @TheOnePencilProject Instagram: onepencilproject Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

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On our last episode for 2021, Chris and Cara talk to Dr. Elizabeth Sweet who is a biocultural anthropologist and social epidemiologist who works as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Massachusetts. She is currently studying the health consequences of neoliberalism, namely the effects of debt. You can find out more about the Price of Debt study here: https://www.umb.edu/debtstudy/research_team and contact her at Elizabeth.Sweet@umb.edu. Her papers mentioned in the show: Social Inequalities, Debt, and Health in the United States: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321000112 “Like you failed at life”: Debt, Health, and Neoliberal Subjectivity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953618303745 Suggested reads by the late Dr. David Graeber: Debt: The First Five Thousand Years: https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/debt/ Bullshit Jobs: https://bookshop.org/books/bullshit-jobs-a-theory-9781508264668/9781501143335 The Dawn of Everything: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Dr. Gavin Naylor is the Program Director at the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum. Before his ALLELE (Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution) talk he carved out some time to chat with Chris and Cara about his career path working with sharks and rays, the need for a greater genetic library of vertebrates, and how different walking shark species are impacted by climate change. Contact Dr. Naylor at gnaylor@flmnh.ufl.edu or at @gavinnaylor on Twitter Find more information on Dr. Naylor's team and their research at https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sharks/about/ Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

On today’s episode Chris and Cara talk to Dr. Charles Roseman about his recent paper “Lewontin did not commit Lewontins fallacy, his critics do: Why racial taxonomy is not useful for the scientific study of human variation” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bies.202100204. Dr. Roseman is an Associate Professor in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior and Anthropology in the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois. His work broadly focuses on genotype phenotype map structure, and the evolution of complex traits. You can view his website here: https://sib.illinois.edu/profile/croseman and follow him on Twitter @EvoRoseman. Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra