We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to...
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 12 min
This month, we are chatting with Lida Halilovic, a plant pathology graduate student at UC Riverside, and Henry Harrison, a political science student at UCR. How do organisms and nations "make" decisions when in conflict? How are these complex systems made, and what limits them? Get ready for an episode about plants, fungi, and political science!
May 16, 2025•1 hr 20 min
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to...
Jan 24, 2025•1 hr 21 min
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 26 min
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to...
Aug 15, 2024•1 hr 4 min
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 11 min
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to...
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr 45 min
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 8 min
We at Across the Cline and SciComm@UCR, would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the land, water, and air on which we record this podcast: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. This place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including our colleagues, guests, and community, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 18 min
When we talk about science, we often are specifically referring to Western science. Yet, what are we losing in writing off other ways of knowing? Today, we talk with Michael Blackstock, an Indigenous artist, poet, and scholar from the Gitxsan Nation, and Jeff Ellis, a PhD student in the Statistics Department at UC Riverside, about how we can interweave Western science and Indigenous knowledge to better understand our world and address current crises. Are models just metaphors? To learn more abou...
Oct 18, 2023•2 hr 21 min
We’ve previously talked about conservation in terms of biology and art, but what about the role of art in species conservation? Join us as we talk to Elijah Hall from the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology at UCR and Michelle Wilson and Anne Beck, creators of the Rhinoceros Project, about how art can help preserve natural spaces and species. To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at: The Rhinoceros Project Michelle Wilson: Website Anne Beck: Website Elijah’...
Aug 29, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Communicating concepts and findings are important parts of being a scientist, but how do you do it well? Today, we talk with Dr. Bruce Kirchoff from the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and Dr. Faith Kearns from the California Institute for Water Resources about their experiences in communicating science, tips for early scientists, and what the future holds for science communication. To learn more about our guests, please connect with them at: Dr. Bruce Kircho...
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 38 min
How do you bring something that no living human has ever seen to life? We join Marvel Studios animator, Kristina Mickahail-Giblin, and Director of Visitor Engagement and Education of the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology and co-founder of Cosplay for Science , Gabriel Santos, to learn more about how incorporating science and art in visual storytelling make fantasy worlds and the prehistoric past feel real and why we need to keep the A in STEAM. Time to get your nerddom on! To learn more abou...
Jun 22, 2023•1 hr 43 min
Our world is increasingly becoming one where we use computers and machines to help us make decisions. Surely, lines of code are better at handling bias than people, right? Or are they not so different from us at all? Today, we’re joined by two UCR students, Kayla Chaplin, a Social Psychology PhD Student , and Dimitris Chatziparaschis, an Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Student , to learn about the back and forth between psychology and computer sciences in reducing the biases in ourselves...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 45 min
What can math and social insects tell us about what happens when concepts or individuals come together? Are we more than the sum of our parts? In this episode, Andrea Stine, a grad student in UCR’s Department of Mathematics , and Dr. Brian Whyte, who completed his PhD in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, join us to explore emergent properties, the ideas of scaling and relationship in their fields, and different systems to determine truth. If you enjoy...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 23 min
What happens when we exclude half of the population? In celebration of International Women’s Day (March 8th), we are joined by Paige Goodwin, a feminist playwright and lecturer at UCR, and Nora Wolcott, a PhD candidate in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at UC Santa Barbara , to discuss the history of sexism in both theater and neuroscience and its influences our perceptions of success and validity in these fields today. We’ll also learn how Nora and Paige each work to confront the...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 32 min
How does storytelling as a fantasy writer and as an ecologist further our understanding of the world? We’re going to adventure across this cline with William Ota, a PhD candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at UCR who studies freshwater ecology and Rachael McLaughlin, a fantasy novelist and UCR Creative Writing alum. Join us as we discuss crafting compelling narratives, defining “truth,” and… bearskin umbrellas? If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn mo...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 40 min
What do you think of when you hear the word “conservation?” In this episode, we’re joined by Annika Rose-Person, a PhD candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at UCR and Anisha Gupta, a PhD student in the Department of Art Conservation at the University of Delaware . Together, we’ll explore what conservation means in the worlds of biology and art as well as how society has shaped practices and what’s in store for the future of conservation in these fields. If yo...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 37 min
What do the worlds of bird courtship and Cambodian classical dance have in common? Today, we are joined by Ayala Berger, a PhD candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at UCR who is researching hummingbird courtship, and Ryan Boun, a Cambodian dancer. As we explore this cline, we’ll uncover what beauty and complexity mean to both our guests and chat about how song and dance as means for communication have changed and continue to do so over time. Some examples of ...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min
The SciCom club at UCR is proud to present a new science communication podcast, Across the Cline. Your host Jessica Maccaro and Catherine Nguyen bring together two experts for seemingly different fields to discuss the similarities their studies share. This voyage into what unites us in science will leave you wondering what else can be found just...Across the Cline. Podcast to be released on the 1st of every month with new guest and newer discoveries. Production and sound editing by Joshua Reger....
Nov 23, 2022•3 min
