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Started this afternoon (via audiobook): Period: The Real Story of Menstruation by Kate Clancy

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‎PERIOD Podcast: Breakthrough bleed - Illness Stigma and the COVID-19 Pandemic on Apple Podcasts

‎Show PERIOD Podcast, Ep Breakthrough bleed - Illness Stigma and the COVID-19 Pandemic - May 8, 2020

Obviously I am waaaaaay behind on my podcast listening but I appreciated this discussion of stigma.

I was reminded of Angela Bourke, “The Burning of Bridget Cleary (book),” and her proposal that “fairy-belief tradition … might…be labeled a vernacular stigma theory,” (236).

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August 2023 books

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2.15 Science in the Field with Kate Clancy

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We return to our regularly scheduled programming with an episode featuring a conversation with biological anthropologist Kate Clancy about what anthropology research actually entails, how neuroscience and biological anthropology can share so many methods but vary so greatly in perspective, and about Kate and her colleagues' important research into the pervasiveness and effects of sexual harassment and assault in science.

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Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and Assault

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Links and Show Notes

The cover art for this episode was adapted from “R.M. Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries”. To find tons of great images from old scientific texts, head on over to the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Flickr page.

A lot has already been said and written about the shooting in Orlando so please take this opportunity to seek out more diverse voices than the one that hosts this podcast.

The clip of Barack Obama discussing why the CDC does not research gun violence is from a town hall meeting held in Elkhart Indiana on June 1, 2016, 11 days before the shooting in Orlando.

The CDC does not research gun violence because of the “Dickey Amendment”, which states that “None of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.” The amendment was proposed by Jay Dickey- who has since called for its repeal- in response to a 1993 study demonstrating that gun ownership is a risk factor for homicide in the home.

As is made repeatedly clear throughout this episode, sometimes even scientists and science communicators can have hilariously incorrect views on what anthropology actually entails. Luckily, the American Anthropological Association has a whole page devoted to answering the question “What is anthropology?”.

Stated very, very simply, critical race theory (CRT) is a theoretical framework that examines race and racism across dominant cultural modes of expression. Together Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (intro) and Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (intro) make for a reasonably comprehensive primer on the dynamic and eclectic movement.

Helpfully, the Society for Medical Anthropology has a whole page devoted to answering the question “What is medical anthropology, anyway?”.

Irven DeVore is a gigantic figure in the modern history of anthropology- both for his research into the social lives of baboons and for his early support for the controversial fields of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. This interview (text) conducted by Annual Reviews provides an excellent overview of Devore’s life and work.

Although once well known his work studying cognitive processes in monkeys and for teaching "Human Behavioral Biology," (a.k.a. "Sex") alongside Irven DeVore, Marc Hauser is now known for being indicted on multiple counts of scientific misconduct by both Harvard University and the Office of Research Integrity. This internal report (made public by The Boston Globe) provides a thorough (and depressing) overview of the nature and extent of Hauser’s misconduct and the attempts made by his students and colleagues to blow the whistle.

For more on the medicalization of menstruation and the search for menotoxins throughout history, check out Kate’s excellent piece “Menstruation is just blood and tissue you ended up not using”. The paper describing Kate’s research into iron stores and menstruation can be found here.

Kate’s blog, “Context and Variation”, was hosted by Scientific American until 2014 and now resides on her website.

Established by Grazyna Jasienska, the Mogielica Human Ecology Study Site includes five villages in rural Poland where Kate and other researchers investigate the effects of hard physical work on women’s reproductive physiology. Kate described a visit to the study site in a four part (1, 2, 3, 4) series on her blog.

Authored by Kate, Robin Nelson, Julienne Rutherford, and Katie Hinde, “Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and Assault” provided empirical data about the prevalence and effects of sexual harassment and assault within scientific fieldwork settings.

A discussion of the preliminary findings and presentation given by the SAFE team at AAPA in 2013 can be found here.

There was a lot written about the “SAFE13″ paper when it was published in 2014, but take a listen to this episode of the Breaking Bio podcast to hear from all the study authors.

Though probably the most visible cases have come from astronomy, incidents of sexual harassment have come to light across science. This piece by Hope Jahren provides an additional perspective on this looks like from the other side.

This week’s Bold Signals Book Club selection is Hav by Jan Morris, a combination travelogue and alternate history about a fictitious Mediterranean city-state. If you find you have the cognitive capacity to read about an ostensibly peaceful and diverse society sliding towards violence, you’ll find it an excellent piece of anthropological speculative fiction in the vein of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness. If not, now is an excellent time to call up the people in your life in need of support and invite them over for a marathon of The Great British Bake Off.

If you’d like to purchase any of the books discussed in the book club and support the podcast at the same time, take a gander at our Amazon store. The podcast also has an Amazon wishlist if you’d like to donate a book. The full list of book club books is here.

Music in this Episode

“Enterprise 1” by Languis 

"River Lullaby" by Third Person Lurkin 

"Dark Water Jazz" by Jenova 7 

"Track" by Aydio

DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3439784

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When did the girlswithtoys thing start and who organized it? I think your blog might be the only one I have seen putting content out despite my watching various science blogs.

Kate Clancy started the hashtag. It started I think May 16th or so. From her bio on Slate:

Kate Clancy is an anthropologist at University of Illinois studying evolutionary origins of women’s physiology and cultural origins of gender inequality.

You can read the article she wrote about it here.

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Poster for Autism Speaks. April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day.

Learn more about autism and autism research from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative