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May 10, 2021 • 31min
SoS 126 - Facing food marginalization with Mecca Burris
Our guest this week is Mecca Burris, a PhD candidate at Indiana University. Mecca chats with Chris and Cara about what it means to be food insecure and why it is often overlooked. She dives into her research on teenage food marginalization and its effects on health, maturation, and stigma.
You can contact Mecca at burris@iu.edu or on Twitter at @MBurris16
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

May 3, 2021 • 34min
SoS 125- A Chat with Dr. Josh Snodgrass Part 2
Today’s episode is part 2 of a 2-part episode with Dr. Josh Snodgrass who is a professor at the University of Oregon. Today Chris and Cara continue the conversation with him about the need for open-access teaching materials in human biology, academic and community service, and future research and service directions. You can find out more about his lab here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrasslab.html and contact him here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrass.html
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

Apr 27, 2021 • 29min
SoS 124: A Chat with Dr. Josh Snodgrass- Part 1
Today’s episode is part 1 of a 2-part episode with Dr. Josh Snodgrass who is a professor at the University of Oregon. Today Chris and Cara talk with him about how he got into anthropology, the power of collaborative research, and setting up or becoming involved at field sites. Stay tuned for part 2 next week! You can find out more about his lab here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrasslab.html and contact him here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrass.html
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

Apr 19, 2021 • 29min
SoS 123 - Sammantha Holder picks a bone with Napoleon
Our guest this week is Sammantha Holder, a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. Sammantha chats with Chris and Cara about her most recent publication in the special AJHB issue "Biocultural approaches to the plasticity of the human skeleton" and her dissertation work on skeletal plasticity in Napoleonic soldiers.
You can find Sammantha's paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23457
You can contact her at sammholder@uga.edu and at @HolderSammantha on Twitter
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

Apr 14, 2021 • 52min
SoS 122- Human Skeletal Plasticity with Jacob S. Griffin, Dr. Sophia Dent, and Stephanie Berger
On this week’s Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara talk to Stephanie Berger and Jacob S. Griffin who are graduate students in Bioarchaeology at The University of North Carolina and Dr. Sophia Dent who is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Appalachia State University about skeletal plasticity. Specifically, they discuss their roles as co-editors of a special issue in the American Journal of Human Biology “Biocultural approaches to the plasticity of the human skeleton” which you can find here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15206300/2021/33/2
You can reach Stephanie mestan@live.unc.edu, Jacob on Twitter @J_SGriffin or jgriff55@live.unc.edu and Sophia dentsc@appstate.edu
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

Apr 7, 2021 • 52min
SoS 121- Pubertal Skeletal Indicators and The Black Death with Dr. Sharon DeWitte
On this weeks episode, Chris and Cara talk with Dr. Sharon DeWitte who is a Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Department of Anthropology. Much of her work focuses on variation in mortality risks before and after the medieval Black Death as well as demographic implications of the Black Death and its relation to skeletal indicators of puberty. You can find her website here: https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/anthropology/our_people/directory/dewitte_sharon.php and you can follow her on Twitter @SharonDeWitte
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

Mar 29, 2021 • 34min
SoS 120 - HBA Plenary Session, Fat Stigma, and BMI with Jennifer Cullin
Jennifer Cullin is back on the pod! (First interview was Episode 53 in November 2019). She chats with Chris and Cara about the HBA meetings (the annual meeting starts today Monday March 29!!) and the Plenary Session in which she will be presenting her work on fat stigmatization and perception in young adults. Listen to her virtual podium talk at the HBAs today at 2pm EST.
You can contact Jennifer Cullin at jcullin@indiana.edu and @jennifermcullin
You can view the HBA 2021 Meeting Program at https://www.humbio.org/2021-meeting-program/
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

Mar 22, 2021 • 47min
SoS 119 - Survival of the Friendliest with Dr. Brian Hare
Dr. Brian Hare is a professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and a core member of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience. He chats with Chris and Cara about his new book "Survival of the Friendliest" and what we can learn from puppies about our own evolution and bipartisanship.
Find "Survival of the Friendliest" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550437/survival-of-the-friendliest-by-brian-hare-and-vanessa-woods/
Learn more about Dr. Hare at: https://brianhare.net
Contact Dr. Hare at apeminds@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @bharedogguy
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

Mar 17, 2021 • 47min
SoS 118-On Disgust, Pathogen Avoidance, and Biomarkers
Tara Cepon-Robins is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and her research uses novel methods to test the Hygiene Hypothesis and Disappearing Microbiota Hypothesis. On today’s episode, Chris and Cara talk to her about her work with the Shuar in Amazonian Ecuador and her work in the Rural American South. You can find out more about her research here: https://anthropology.uccs.edu/tara-robins and on Twitter @HelminthLady.
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

Mar 8, 2021 • 41min
SoS 117 - Remembering Dr. Gary James with Drs. Michael Little and Dan Brown
Dr. Gary James, a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University, passed away on October 15 2020. Dr. James is remembered for his work on blood pressure variation and stress responses in humans. Over the years he was President of the American Human Biology and the American Dermatoglyphics Associations, received the Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor. He published over 300 peer-reviewed articles. Dr, Little and Dr. Brown chat with Cara and Alex about Gary's legacy to the field of anthropology and human biology and his mentorship to students in anthropology, nursing, and other fields.
Read Dr. James's last published review article on allostasis and adaptation here: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.13366
You can find Dr. James's In Memoriam by Dan Brown and Helene Van-Berge Landry here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23536
You can contact Dr. Brown at: dbrown@hawaii.edu
And Dr. Little at: mlittle@binghamton.edu
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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


