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Trackside Science

Trackside Science

A science podcast marinated in just the right amount of alcohol, or caffeine (depending on the time zones involved). Your MCs are a former virologist-turned community college teacher and an active human geneticist and informal science educator. If you want to support the show, visit our Patreon page. Send us an email at tracksidescience@gmail.com, we"d love to hear from you! Thanks for listening!

science & medicine

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55:27

(54) Where do ideas come from?

Trackside Science ·

2025/08/19

Where do ideas come from? Rob describes his Big A Eureka Moment. 2025 Jeff wants to tell 2000’s Jeff to suck it up and stop complaining. We both love people who are generous with their ideas. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram & Bluesky: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Jeff: Primary: When Lava Flows by Pontoon Brewing - Sandy Springs GA Solid Rocket Booster: The Right Slice by Revision Brewing - Sparks NV Rob: Laser Kitten IPA by Medusa

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01:01:56

Philatelic Science (53)

Trackside Science ·

2025/08/07

Philatelic Science! Rob’s box of stamps generates some science ideas! Wisconsin has indicted a DNA sequence. Jeff is suddenly bro-ing all the time. Email - tracksidescience@gmail.com Bluesky - ‪@tracksidescience.bsky.social‬ Instagram - tracksidescience Alcohol Jeff - 1800 Tequila & Cointreau - Bing’s AI tells me this is a Conintreau Margartia. Thank god for AI Rob - GnomeGang Belgian IPA Links Macht SH. Postage stamps as a mode of transmitting bacteria. Va Med Mon (1918). 1946 Feb;73:60. PMID:

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01:00:09

Science Firings part 2 (EXPLICIT)

Trackside Science ·

2025/04/20

The moronic, mean-spirited and illegal assault on US government scientists continues.

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49:45

(52) Salute to Government Scientists

Trackside Science ·

2025/03/08

To those recently, and illegally, fired. Contains some strong language, because that is 100% appropriate.

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44:13

(51) Science from Australia!

Trackside Science ·

2024/12/29

Episode 51 - Our Down Under connection! In 2021 we got an email from a listener from New Zealand working in Australia as a Physics Science Communicator. It took years to get over the shock that someone we didn't already know was actually listening to us, but we did and now he is here! Drinks Jeff - Folgers Rob - Austin Eastciders Errol - Hop Nation Brewing The Dish (2000) - IMDb Rear bumper: Freight Train Crossing.wav by Sailor55 (Freesound.org) & Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952,

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51:44

(50) International Podcast Day

Trackside Science ·

2024/09/29

Remember how you waited anxiously as a kid for it to come? Not having to go to school on that day? Family from all over pulling into the driveway with gifts and food for the International Podcast Day celebration? Yah, we don’t either. #internationalpodcastday Alcohol Jeff - Southern Tier Brewing Imperial Pumking Ale Rob - Canada Dry Black Cherry Sparkling Seltzer Water Podcasts we mentioned Deviant Criminology - https://deviantcriminology.squarespace.com Hot Shot Wake Up -

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59:21

Impromptu Science (49)

Trackside Science ·

2024/09/09

No plan or pre-recording preparation whatsoever…the difference between dentists & endodontists… old microscopes… Rob’s home office inspection… regulation of medical data.. college graduation in state prisons.. pubpeer.com… problematic paper screener … (https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac/problematic-paper-screener)... Jeff’s anxiety about teaching in the federal prison (update, students were nice but it was way more difficult teaching there than the state prison) RIP Vanessa, Rob’s former

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56:31

(48) Science Video Game - PhD Simulator

Trackside Science ·

2024/03/30

We relive the highs and lows of graduate school through a spot-on video game. PhD Simulator - A Text-Based Game by Mianzhi Wang (wmz.ninja) Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Jeff - Dekalb County’s fine tap water Rob - Shark Jumper IPA Night Shift Brewing Sounds & Music Front Bumper - combination of: A rapper in trouble - after he made a bad joke! by fmceretta (freesound.org) Team Masaka - Sad Moan - by TeamMasaka

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55:51

(47) What connects you to science?

Trackside Science ·

2023/11/25

Episode 47 - What connects you to science? Rob’s a conference guy, he likes interacting with people. Jeff’s a reading-papers-in-a-quiet-house kind of guy. Rob likes the cutting edge while Jeff gravitates towards the arcane. Rob’s beer is bigger than Jeff’s. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Rob - Flemington Fog Juicy Hazy India Pale IPA, Flemington NJ Jeff - Fluffiest Otter Stout, Sandy Springs GA Sounds & Music

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54:01

(46) ChatGPT: good for a fart joke?

Trackside Science ·

2023/11/20

Is it a Promethean kind of thing? An end of the world thing? It’s definitely a protecting people with Fecal Incontinence kind of thing. It’s definitely not able to cite it’s sources. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Rob - Be Hoppy Indian Pale Ale Wormtown Brewery Worcester, Mass Jeff - Gates of Smordor Stout Westbrook Brewing Mount Pleasant South Carolina Sounds & Music Spike Jones - The Tennessee Waltz

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16:17

Not a secret Chinese bioweapons facility

Trackside Science ·

2023/08/05

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52:59

(45) Has Money Destroyed Science?

Trackside Science ·

2023/08/04

Should we pay scientists to speak? What do people in prison think about paid experts? Is the United Federation of Planets communist? Does getting paid fat stax help your work/life balance? Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Jeff - Dragon’s Milk Rob - Fifty Million Dollar Man Double IPA Sounds & Music InspectorJ - door-front-opening, Letsmakemuffins - footsteps echo hall, SpaceJoe Coins Drop - 8,

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14:10

Virus: Reading Promedmail - Polish Cats & Bird Flu

Trackside Science ·

2023/07/06

If you are at all interested in stuff like this, take a look at https://promedmail.org/

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57:52

(44) Is it a calling, or just a job?

Trackside Science ·

2023/01/28

In August of 2022 we had special guest Dr. Peter Haugen on to talk about work identity. By the end, we are just sappy Dads who miss our kids being little. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Dr. Haugen - Gin & Tonic Rob - Equilibrium Brewing - Strata Outta the Laboratory Triple India Pale Ale JEff - Orpheus Brewing - Do or Die Chocolate Imperial Stout Dr. Amy Wrezniewski Sounds & Music The game show theme and

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48:25

(43) We were burned out Spring 2021

Trackside Science ·

2023/01/14

This one was recorded during the Spring Semester of 2021 and sat on my hard drive for a while. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol Bearded Flannel Cat India Pale Ale - Sunken Silo Big F’in Stout - Scofflaw Sounds Effects (all from FreeSound) wanderful.flac by Timbre Light Bulb Pops.mp3 by CGEffex Wood burning in the stove by smand Digital glitch_018.wav by Alien XXX 20100320.slide.projector.wav by dobroide Projector

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01:11:00

(42) Citizen Science Tools for Bioinformatics (that...

Trackside Science ·

2023/01/01

Both of us have done a bit of citizen science over the years, and here are some very high-tech freely available tools that you can use too! We are serious about our offer to show anyone how to use these, just email us at tracksidescience@gmail.com. Enjoy! Music & Sounds Freight Train Crossing.wav by Sailor55 (Freesound.org) Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952), (Archive.org) Alcohol 2018 La Crema Pinot Noir Escape from Reality Double Hopped Pale Ale Free Online Citizen Science Tools NCBI Virus

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33:07

(41) Hereditary Periodic Fever Syndromes

Trackside Science ·

2022/09/13

An interview with the acclaimed geneticist Dr Robert Pyatt about a set of diseases that is coming up in acclaimed educator Dr Jeff Mahr's class.

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48:20

(40) Eight Science Books

Trackside Science ·

2022/08/14

Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Booze: Chocolate Moon Pie Stout, Naked River Brewing La Grange Point India Pale Ale, Flounder’s Brewing Books: The Last Stargazers, by Emily Levesque Sister, Maiden, Monster, by Lucy Snyder Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, by Steve Brusatte The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi Bright Galaxies Dark Matter & Beyond, the Life of Vera Rubin, By Ashley

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39:45

(39) Stiff Science 3

Trackside Science ·

2022/06/20

Because everyone is constantly dying. Also,we suck at virtual rochambeau. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Rex Golliath - Cabernet Sauvignon Redrum Double Milk Stout (couldn’t find the brewery) Richard Lewonton (Mar 29, 1929 – Jul 4, 2021) - Geneticist John Trojanowski (Dec 17, 1946 – Feb 8, 2022) - Neuroscientist & dedicated partner Donald Caspar (Jan 8, 1927 - Nov 27, 2021) - Structural

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37:38

(38) Free Fireworks - Science Research

Trackside Science ·

2022/06/15

Can two words in the title change the number of downloads of an episode? We discuss downloads, podcast ratings and then decide to try a little experiment. Errol, I am eternally sorry that I forgot your name! Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol: Rob - Hefeweizen by Flounder Brewing Jeff - Cafe Stout by Prohibition Brewery Sounds: Front bumper - Rubber duck small 1 by ermfilm,

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