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Podcast: Big Brains
Episode: What Rats Can Teach Us About Empathy and Racism, with Peggy Mason
Pub date: 2020-03-10

Why do we feel empathy for some people, but not others? Where does this feeling of empathy come from? These questions have been the focus of one University of Chicago neurobiologist’s career. And to find answers, Prof. Peggy Mason started studying an unlikely creature: rats.

It turns out that rodents have a lot to teach us about empathy. And the implications of Mason’s work give us important insights into how to tackle some of society’s most difficult problems.

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Podcast: Everything Hertz
Episode: 103: Swiping right
Pub date: 2020-03-02

Dan and James discuss rejection in academia and emerging science communication mediums. Here are a few links and other things they cover:

• The main university of Sydney bar has closed because all the youth are playing Fortnite and on TikTok
• How should you respond to rejection?
• The rejected paper on fasting during Ramadan and cognitive control
• What if there was Tinder for manuscript submission?
• Josh’s tweet about citations in Wikipedia
• Grant lotteries
• The Steven Bradbury reference
• The use of TikTok for science communication
• Dan and James argues about whether blogs or twitter threads are better
• Disney princesses
• The Corona virus and preprints
• Using instagram for scicomm
• Should twitter remove the ‘likes’ and follower counts?
• Billie Eilish sampling the sound traffic lights make in Sydney
• The Boston train pigeon

Other links

• [Dan on twitter](www.twitter.com/dsquintana)
• [James on twitter](www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
• [Everything Hertz on twitter](www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast)
• [Everything Hertz on Facebook](www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/)

Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)

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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2020, March 2) “Swiping right”, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/5XR2F, Retrieved from https://osf.io/5xr2f/

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