Assigned Scientist at Bachelor‘s

It's Nona time baby!!!!!! 
A transcript and show notes are available on our website here: https://asabpodcast.com/2022/09/19/episode-56/
The show is on Twitter @ASABpod, Charles @cockroacharles, and Tessa @spacermase. 
Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 
Thank you for listening!

In anticipation of the release of the third entry in the Locked Tomb quartet by Tamsyn Muir (Nona the Ninth, out 13 September), we're re-releasing our conversation with friend of the pod Erin on the first two books: Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth. Spoilers, like a lot of them. 
Our episode on Nona the Ninth will be released a week from now, so get reading! 
A transcript of this episode is available on our website here: https://asabpodcast.com/2020/10/31/episode-12/ 
The show is on Twitter @ASABpod, Charles @cockroacharles, and Tessa @spacermase. 
Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 
Thank you for listening!

In this episode we use the TNG episode "The Neutral Zone," in which three people from the 20th century are revived from cryopreservation to find themselves on the Enterprise 300 years later, to talk about cryonics. We touch on its history, whether it actually works (no), whether it could work (probably not), whether we'd do it (no way), and, just for fun, a little on the history and philosophy of death as a concept. 
A transcript and show notes for this episode are available on our website: https://asabpodcast.com/2022/09/07/episode-55
The show is on Twitter @ASABpod, Charles @cockroacharles, and Tessa @spacermase. 
Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 
Thank you for listening!
 

In this episode, we talk about the significance of the new James Webb Space Telescope (and why it should have a different name) - how it works, why it's important, and what people are going to do with it. Also stay to hear the story of how Tessa proposed to her wife, which is extremely dorky and pretty sweet. 
A transcript and show notes for this episode are available on our website: https://asabpodcast.com/2022/08/16/episode-54/
The show is on Twitter @ASABpod, Charles @cockroacharles, and Tessa @spacermase. 
Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 
Thank you for listening!
 

In this episode we're joined by MD-PhD student Laurel Hiatt, whose work focuses on somatic mosaicism, or the differences between individual cells, specifically in the human colon. We talk about genetic mosaicism, cancer risk, why the colon causes so many problems, and how Laurel's work will (hopefully) help develop tools to improve screening and colorectal disease prevention. 
You can find Laurel on Twitter @laurel_hiatt. 
A transcript and show notes for this episode are available on our website: https://asabpodcast.com/2022/07/13/episode-53/
The show is on Twitter @ASABpod, Charles @cockroacharles, and Tessa @spacermase. 
Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 
Thank you for listening!

In this special holiday episode, we talked about Syngnathidae (the family of ray-finned fishes including pipefish, seahorses, and sea dragons), particularly Hippocampus spp. (seahorses) and their unusual reproductive strategy of male pregnancy. We talk about the physiology of seahorses' pregnancy, with tangents about the complexity of biological sex and reproductive strategies, other fish, evolution, and philosophy of biology. 
A transcript and show notes are available on our website here: https://asabpodcast.com/2022/06/20/episode-52/
The show is on Twitter @ASABpod, Charles @cockroacharles, and Tessa @spacermase. 
Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 
Thank you for listening!

In this episode we're joined by geneticist and artist Robin Aguilar to talk about their research using fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) to visualize DNA, brush up on some basic genetics, and discuss a new episode-ending question, of which era of geologic time we'd travel to if we somehow got a trip in a time machine. We also touch on Robin's advocacy work in science, particularly with Genome Sciences Association for the Inclusion of Marginalized Students (GSAIMS). 
Robin can be found on Twitter @seesmallthings or their website here. 
A transcript and show notes are available on our website here: https://asabpodcast.com/2022/06/09/episode-51/
The show is on Twitter @ASABpod, Charles @cockroacharles, and Tessa @spacermase. 
Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 
Thank you for listening!

This week we're joined by quantum physics student Lyra Cronin. We talk about the meaning of quantum physics, Lyra's work with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamonds, the possibilities of quantum computing, and when to become (and die as) a robot. 
We don't mention it in the episode, but Lyra can be found on Twitter @Seranyx. 
A transcript and show notes are available on our website here: https://asabpodcast.com/2022/05/23/episode-50/
The show is on Twitter @ASABpod, Charles @cockroacharles, and Tessa @spacermase. 
Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 
Thank you for listening!

Like most gay people, we have now watched the HBO series Our Flag Means Death (full season 1 available now!). Unlike most gay people, Charles is a PhD candidate in history and philosophy of biology. In this episode, we touch on several topics in history of science touched on in the show: Linnaean taxonomy and binomial nomenclature, phrenology, and scurvy (caused by humans' inability to synthesize our own Vitamin C, setting us apart from most vertebrates). 
A transcript and show notes are available on our website here: https://asabpodcast.com/2022/05/09/episode-49/
The show is on Twitter @ASABpod, Charles @cockroacharles, and Tessa @spacermase. 
Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 
Thank you for listening!

In this episode we're joined by science superstar (pun intended) Lucianne Walkowicz to talk about their research, who space belongs to (including whether it can "belong" to anyone), and how gay space is. Charles also defends leeches (they probably won't give you diseases!), the animal, but not leeches, metaphor for the capitalist class. 
Lucianne is all over, but can be found on Twitter @RocketToLulu
Show notes (including sources) and a transcript are at our website here: https://asabpodcast.com/2022/04/23/episode-48/
The show is on Twitter @ASABpod, Charles @cockroacharles, and Tessa @spacermase. 
Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 
Thank you for listening!