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Send us a Text Message.Welcome back, young scientists. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. Today we're talking about birds with Wes Dowd, a marine biologist and environmental physiologist at Washington State University. Learn about tiny crustaceans called copepods, which are a type of plankton— and rock out to this

Send us a Text Message.Welcome back, young scientists. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. Today we're talking about birds with Jennifer Phillips, an ecologist at Washington State University. Learn about sensory pollution and the difference between a phenotype and a genotypeFind out how birds get tagged and measured�

Send us a Text Message.Welcome back, young scientists. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. Today we're talking about libraries with David Luftig, a science librarian at Washington State University. Find out what a science librarian is and how to become oneLearn how the resources at WSU's Owen Science and Engineering

Send us a Text Message.Welcome back, young scientists. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. Today we're talking about learning with Kira Carbonneau, an educational psychologist at Washington State University. Find out what educational psychologist is and how Dr. Carbonneau became oneLearn the difference between quanti

Send us a Text Message.Welcome back, young scientists. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. Today we're talking about babies with Masha Gartstein, a psychologist who studies infant temperament at Washington State University. Learn about the individual differences that make up a baby's temperament and how scientists st

Send us a Text Message.Welcome back, young scientists. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. Do you love insects? Me, too. In this episode, we meet Rich Zack, an insect scientist at Washington State University. Learn about entomology, the study of insects and arthropods like spiders and scorpions, and how to study inse

Send us a Text Message.Hey, friends. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. In this episode, we meet Adah Crandall. She’s an organizer with the Sunrise Movement. That's a youth-led organization working on solutions for climate change. She started organizing as a middle schooler when she took on the Oregon Department o

Send us a Text Message.Welcome back, friends. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. In this episode, we meet Emily Erickson. She’s part of the Western Monarch Mystery Challenge team. That’s a community science project that asks people to look for monarch butterflies in early spring and send in pictures to help scie

Send us a Text Message.Welcome back, young scientists. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. It's not enough to just do science—you've got to get the science out so people can read all about it. That's where science writers come in. In this episode, we meet Sara Zaske, a science writer at Washington State University.

Send us a Text Message.Welcome back, young scientists. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. What's a postdoctoral fellow? How do rattlesnakes rattle? What's it like searching for snakes in the field or taking blood samples from a grizzly bear? In this episode, we meet Blair Perry, a postdoctoral fellow at Washington S