Sausage of Science

“The Sausage of Science Podcast with Cara & Chris” From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association SoS21- Stigma Shapes Us: A Chat with Alex Brewis Slade In episode 21, we talk with Dr. Alex Brewis (Slade) about her new position as President of the Human Biology Association, her personal development as a researcher, and recent research on weight stigma. Brewis shares stories of her past and her diverse background within the field of anthropology, the importance of studying stigma as an anthropologist, and her hopes for the future of the Human Biology Association. Brewis is a President’s Professor at Arizona State University and former director of ASU’s School of Evolution and Social Change. For more information about Brewis check out her Arizona State University webpage https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/855688 her blog, “Lazy, Crazy, Disgusting”, which she co-authors with colleague Amber Wutitch, or her twitter @brewis_alex. Slade can also be reached via email at Alex.Brewis@asu.edu. The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website: http://humbio.org Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Caroline Owens, Email:cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens

In episode 20, we talk with Dr. Lesley Jo Weaver about her new position as Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Oregon, her new book “Sugar and Tension”, fieldwork, and her podcast “Speaking of Race”, which she co-hosts along with Jim Bindon and Erik Peterson. Weaver shares stories of wire cutting and wisdom that range from the process of moving cross-country to identifying and working with sustainably developed NGOs. Her latest research project in India will be focusing on social stratification, mental health, and stigma. More information about her research can be found at her previous faculty page: http://ljweaver.people.ua.edu/, and she can also be reached via email at: ljweaver@ua.edu. Her new faculty information can soon be found on the Department of International Studies at the University of Oregon website: https://intldept.uoregon.edu/. To get in touch with the “Speaking of Race” podcast, check out their website: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast. The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Caroline Owens, Email:cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens

In episode 19, we air a podcast episode originally produced by Science for the People, in which Lynette Sievert discusses the evolution and variation of menopause as a human trait. Sievert is an editor of AJHB and professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research on age at menopause and associated symptom experience has taken place in a variety of contexts, from western Massachusetts to Mexico, Slovenia, Paraguay, Hawaii, Bangladesh, and the UK. To listen to the full episode of Science for the People Episode #460 Brake for Menopause, featuring cognitive neuroscientist Lauren Drogos, follow this link: http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/brake-for-menopause. More information about Sievert’s research can be found at her faculty page: https://www.umass.edu/anthro/people/lynnette-leidy-sievert, and she can also be reached via email at: leidy@anthro.umass.edu The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Caroline Owens,Email:cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens

In episode 18, we interview Isa Godinez, this year’s recipient of the HBA Edward E. Hunt, Jr. Award for Outstanding Graduate Presentation or Poster for her poster entitled Cardiometabolic health among Purepecha in North Carolina. Godinez is a graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill working with Dr. Amanda Thompson, and recently completed a successful doctoral defense on her research with the Purepecha population. In this interview, we talk to Godinez about field work, migration, cardiometabolic health, and reevaluating the common acculturation narrative among the Purepecha in North Carolina. More information about Godinez’s research can be found at UNCs Human Biology laboratory page: http://humanbiologylab.web.unc.edu/people/, and she can also be reached via email at isaurag@live.unc.edu The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens

In episode 17, we interview Kathy Oths and Hannah Smith from the University of Alabama about their recent AJHB article “A decade of rapid change: Biocultural influences on child growth in highland Peru” (Vol. 30, Issue 2, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23072). Oths is Professor of Anthropology, and Smith is a Master’s student in the program working with Dr. Oths. In this interview, we talk to Oths and Smith about Oths’ long-term work on traditional healers and the impact of travel on birth size, growth, and health in highland Peru, including her perilous flight from the Shining Path at the end of her dissertation work in the 1980s. Smith has been data analyst and accompanied Oths in recent fieldwork in Peru. For more about Oths, go to her website: http://koths.people.ua.edu/. Check out Smith on her Research Gate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hannah_Smith106 Photo of Oths and Smith conducting fieldwork in Peru courtesy Kathy Oths. The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly

In episode 16, we share an edited version of Bill Leonard's April 24, 2018 James R. Bindon Biocultural Anthropology and Health Series lecture at the University of Alabama entitled "Integrating Evolutionary and Biological Approaches to the Study of Human Diversity and Health." Leonard is the Abraham Harris Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and the Director of the Global Health Studies Program at Northwestern. He is a past president of the Human Biology Association. In this talk, he provides an overview of human adaptability studies with particular focus on how adaptation to modernization varies among the sites he has worked in Siberia, Peru, and Bolivia. This full lecture can be found online at https://vimeo.com/271324498. For more about Leonard, go to his website: https://www.northwestern.edu/globalhealthstudies/People/faculty/core-faculty/william-leonard.html . The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Publicity Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly

In episode 15, we interview Bill Leonard from Northwestern University. Leonard is the Abraham Harris Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and the Director of the Global Health Studies Program at Northwestern. He is a past president of the Human Biology Association. In this interview, he talks about his heritage from the Paul Baker lineage and the legacy of human biologists he has trained, as well as some of his experiences and findings in Peru, Bolivia, and Siberia. For more about Leonard, go to his website: https://www.northwestern.edu/globalhealthstudies/People/faculty/core-faculty/william-leonard.html . The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Publicity Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly

In episode 14, we interview Rieti Gengo, a doctoral candidate in biocultural anthropology at Notre Dame. Besides fingernail clippings, we talk to Rieti about his recent publication "Positive effects of refugee presence on host community nutritional status in Turkana County, Kenya" in American Journal of Human Biology (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23060). For more info about Rieti, check out his Notre Dame profile: https://kroc.nd.edu/ph-d/ph-d-students/rieti-gengo/ The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Publicity Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly

In episodes 12 and 13, we interview Andrea Wiley from Indiana University and share an edit of her October 13, 2016 James R. Bindon Biocultural Anthropology and Health Series lecture at the University of Alabama entitled “Biocultural Perspectives and Biological ‘Normalcy’: The example of human consumption of cow’s milk.” Wiley is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Human Biology at Indiana University. She is the author of Re-imaging Milk (2011) and Cultures of Milk: The Biology and Culture of Dairy Consumption in India and the United States (2014). Wiley is also past president and secretary-treasurer of the Human Biology Association. For more about Wiley, go to her website: http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/wileya.shtml. Photo of Andrea with Jim Bindon at her 2016 James R. Bindon Biocultural Anthropology & Health lecture. The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Publicity Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly

In episodes 12 and 13, we interview Andrea Wiley from Indiana University and share an edit of her October 13, 2016 James R. Bindon Biocultural Anthropology and Health Series lecture at the University of Alabama entitled “Biocultural Perspectives and Biological ‘Normalcy’: The example of human consumption of cow’s milk.” Wiley is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Human Biology at Indiana University. She is the author of Re-imaging Milk (2011) and Cultures of Milk: The Biology and Culture of Dairy Consumption in India and the United States (2014). Wiley is also past president and secretary-treasurer of the Human Biology Association. For more about Wiley, go to her website: http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/wileya.shtml. Photo is version of one taken from her lecture that gave us all a giggle. The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Publicity Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly