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Audiommunity

Audiommunity.org

A podcast about our bodies" never-ending fight with the outside world

science & medicine

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70:31

Scatch that itchy worm in your head

Audiommunity ·

2025/11/19

In this episode, Matt and Kevin are joined by [Nicole Ackermans](https://nicoleackermans.com)to discuss her recent review paper tracing human thoughts about headbutting from 10,000 BCE to the present day. How are animals like bighorn sheep and woodpeckers protected from brain injury? Actually, wait... **are** they protected from brain injury?

77:27

The Tyranny of the FACS machine

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2025/11/06

In this episode Matt and Kevin welcome special guest Zach Hiltfrom the University of Toledo - we're talking neonatal Tregs!

78:12

Big if true

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2025/08/27

Someone made an AI-based "virtual lab" to engineer nanobodies -is this a paradigm shift in how we do science, or a transpararent and cynical effort to slurp up all of the citations for being first? Por que no los dos?

64:34

Evolution - it's a hell of a drug

Audiommunity ·

2025/08/11

Bacteria have immune systems? Even adaptive immune systems? And autoimmunity?Well... sort of

76:24

Why don't you go stain a brain?

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2025/07/21

Matt and Kevin discuss a new paper about the "subfornical organ"which (once again) undermines the idea of immune privilage, and also points to an interesting evolutionary question: why would T-cells migrating from fat to the brain affect hunger response?

68:35

Hypercube in the common parlance

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2025/06/03

Think vaccines aren't important?Kate, Kevin, and Matt discuss a paper modeling just how wrong you are - that is, unless you don't mind children dying.

66:44

Sense of adventure

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2025/05/26

Matt and Kevin speak with Abbie Smith,an assistant professor at Emory's Hope Clinic, about the current state of American biomedical science.

62:43

Mohawk Mice, Precious

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2025/05/21

Ban the Lomb-Scargle

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2025/05/06

I'm certain that what you've really been missing in these dark timesis two guys mansplaining menstruation...but also cool immunology!

76:48

It is a problem to encounter LPS in your eye

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2025/04/15

In this episode, we're talking about a strange phenomenon where the immune systemseems to intentionally shuttle certain microbes from the gut to lymph nodes and the spleen.

81:50

Oh no, it rhymes!

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2025/03/27

In this episode, we're talking about the OAS-RNaseL virus-sensing pathway,and the passage of its product, 2,5-oligoadenylate, through gap junctions.

127:06

Mice touching grass

Audiommunity ·

2025/03/18

How does "rewilding" mice change their immune system? Also, an interview with an organizer of the Atlanta Stand Up for Science march!

77:46

One hundred times mosquito, by mass

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2025/02/28

In this episode, we're talking itch, and the sweet sweet relief you get when degranulating your mast cells.

82:59

A blacksmith that decides to make wheels

Audiommunity ·

2025/02/10

Are you bleak, disenchanted, stressed out, and unhappy? No, we're not talking (only) about US politics, we're talking about Postdocs! And about a new paper showing how academic success is linked to publications.

61:08

Emmunity is dead. Long live Audiommunity!

Audiommunity ·

2025/01/30

Audiommunity is back! Again!

66:26

Camilla's Science is Cursed

Audiommunity ·

2018/08/20

I swear, we know how to count; this episode was originally recorded back in January, but Camilla's audio file was weirdly corrupted. And in this attempt, Chadene's computer exploded, but we soldiered on without her.

82:19

Not an accurate representation of grad school

Audiommunity ·

2018/05/28

In this episode, Chadene, Kate and Kevin discuss Kate's recently published paper about how STING, once thought to be involved only in defense against DNA viruses, actually slows RNA virus replication as well. Also, Chadene throws herself under the bus, and Kevin manages to only talk for about 20% of the time.

68:01

Two Bucket Disease

Audiommunity ·

2018/04/07

In this episode, we're talking about *Salmonella*, and the peculiar way in which it tries to keep you eating to keep you alive. Who knew pathogens could be so kind?

72:32

No Drop Shadows on Error Bars

Audiommunity ·

2018/02/26

In this episode, Kevin and Camilla discuss *Salmonella* virulence,* and how different strains alter the immunogenicity of pathogens. Oh, and Kate's here too... KATE'S BACK!! WOO!! Dr. Franz has a new job, but is just as snarky and ill-prepared as ever. Plus she refuses to drink on the job.

56:45

Giant Bag of Autoimmunity

Audiommunity ·

2018/01/22

Today (well, three weeks ago), Matt and Kevin talked about epitope spreading in Lupus, and a ton of crazy mouse models that allowed researchers to dissect the way a single auto-reactive B-cell clone can spread the disease party to its neighbors.

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