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Leila and Rebecca are joined by guest host KJ Shepherd, Lady Science’s social media editor. They talk about the plight of Jewish women refugee scientists attempting to come to the U.S. during World War II and how the U.S. and academia could have done more to save more refugees. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

Anna and Rebecca are joined by guest hosts Emily McCartan and Lexie Briggs to talk about the National Parks Service. For show notes and transcripts, visit ladyscience.com/podcast.

We talk with historian and author Dr. Jaipreet Virdi about the history of deafness cures and technologies for hearing loss. She is the author of the recently published book “Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History” from Chicago University Press. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this bonus episode, Rebecca and Anna talk with the hosts of the Dope Labs Podcast Zakiya Whatley and Titi Shodiya about how Dope Labs came to be, how they approach each episode, and how the podcasting landscape needs to change. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts dive into the history of recipes, or receipts, and chat about what historical recipes can tell us about women’s knowledge and lives in the past. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

For Pride Month, the hosts talk about queer physicians Sara Josephine Baker and Louise Pearce and their polyamorous relationship with novelist Ida A. R. Wylie. They also discuss the Heterdoxy, a feminist club in Greenwich Village, and the importance of queer community. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

Emily Graslie, science communicator and Chief Curiosity Officer at the Field Museum in Chicago, joins Leila and Rebecca to talk about her new PBS show “Prehistoric Road Trip.” For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts dive into the history of science museums and how education and public service roles in museums became a “pink collar” profession. Since women staff such a large portion of these roles, women museum workers have been particularly hard hit by COVID-19 layoffs. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts chat with Wendy Zukerman, executive producer and host of the Gimlet Media podcast Science Vs, about what it’s like to be a science journalist in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and what it’s like to be a woman in science journalism. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

This is the second and final part of Herbarium Heist. Find out if your intrepid lady scientists are able to defeat their foes and lift the cholera epidemic from London. For credits and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

This is part one of two of a special Dungeons and Dragons campaign set in a Lady Science world, called Herbarium Heist. Joined by special guests, Stephen McGann from “Call the Mdiwife,” Alexis Pedrick from Distillations Podcast, and Jessica Lynn Parsons from “The Dungeon Run,” your hosts embark on a mission to save London from a cholera epidemic. For credits and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com

In this episode, dendrochonologist Valerie Trouet of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona talks with Anna and Leila about her new book, Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings. She talks about the fascinating science of tree-rings and what they can tell us climate patterns and ecosystems. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

The hosts dive into the history of menopause and trace how it became known as a specifically female experience. Dr. Susan Mattern joins in to talk about her new book, The Slow Moon Climbs, and menopause as a cultural syndrome. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts talk about open source software and how its seemingly liberal ethos can perpetuate some of mainstream tech’s same gender and racial biases. STS and communications scholar Christina Dunbar-Hester joins in to talk about her book Hacking Diversity and how some open source advocates are attempting to make their communities more inclusive. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts talk about the history of children’s science toys and then get a little nostalgic telling each other about their own childhood toys. Historian and writer Rebecca Onion joins in the discussion to talk about science and childhood in the U.S. and about her book, Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Public Science in the United States. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts look at the Indigenous knowledge and science that produced the first Thanksgiving and the ways Indigenous knowledge has been dismissed by modern Western science. Kelsey Dokis-Jensen of the Indigenous STS group at the University of Alberta joins in to talk about her research on caribou populations, which combines Indigenous knowledge and modern research methods. For show notes and transcripts, visit ladyscience.com/podcast.

The hosts dive into the long history of the Anatomical Venus, a three-dimensional life-sized dissectable female wax model. They discuss its origins in the Middle Ages and the lasting influence it has had on biological theories about race. Amanda Mahoney, curator of the Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum at at Case Western Reserve University, joins into to talk about the ethical considerations curators need to take into account in today’s museums. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.history-anatomical-venus-wax-anatomy.

This episode is all about sports! The hosts discuss the history of sex verification testing in women’s sports, looking at the examples of Stella Walsh and Caster Semenya. They are joined by Amira Rose Davis, professor of History, African American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University and co-host of Burn It All Down, a feminist sports podcast. Davis talks about her research on black girls and women in 20th century sports. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

The hosts go behind the scenes of the BBC series ‘Gentleman Jack,’ based on the diaries of Anne Lister, with the show’s consultant Anne Choma. Choma tells us about adapting Lister’s diaries for television drama, Anne Lister’s science reading list, and more! For show notes and transcripts, visit. www.ladyscience.com/podcast/behind-the-scenes-gentleman-jack-anne-lister-anne-choma.

In this episode, the hosts talk with Ingrid Okert, who researchers the history of science education on television. Ingrid goes behind the scenes of the Children’s Television Workshop to show what made the programs Sesame Street and 3-2-1 Contact so special. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.