Cara Santa Maria
@CaraSantaMaria
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#SciCommFTW | 🎓 #ExistentialPsychology 🎓 | 🎙 @TalkNerdy_Pod & The @SkepticsGuide 🎙| 📺 @NatGeoChannel #BrainGames📺 | 🏳️🌈 she/her 🏳️🌈
Los Angeles
Joined January 2010
🎙New #TalkNerdy is up! 🎙 This week, I chat w/ author and Harvard University associate Prof in the Department of the History of Science - Dr. Eram Alam. We discuss her book, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare." 🔗: https://t.co/AGEHMqRHGr
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Want more Cara in your life? She was a guest on Rationable Conversations to talk about her book, Pseudoscience in Therapy! https://t.co/p05RwbEONa
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Great news, everybody! The "Donorcracy" book is in its final stages of development and will soon be produced. Share this post if you're interested in getting the earliest copy. We'll contact you once it's ready.
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Need a brain break from the news? On @TalkNerdy_Pod I chat w/ award-winning earth scientist Dr. Anjana Khatwa about her book, "The Whispers of Rock: The Stories That Stone Tells About Our World and Our Lives." 🎧Listen below or wherever you get pods! https://t.co/TkC24Yw20c
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Post-halloween blues? Listen to the latest @TalkNerdy_Pod w/ geosciences and diversity advocate - Dr. Anjana Khatwa! @AnjanaKhatwa Her book is: The Whispers of Rock: The Stories That Stone Tells About Our World and Our Lives. 👇🏼 Listen on #TalkNerdy👇🏼 https://t.co/TkC24Yw20c
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SGU Episode 1059 is now up
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News Items Dimming the SunLLMs Will Lie to be HelpfulShould We Stop Quest for SuperintelligenceCT Ghost
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Happy Halloween from the SGU! 💀🎃👻
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I am so excited to be on @TalkNerdy_Pod! Thanks for having me again, @CaraSantaMaria! https://t.co/Cwzx32pG0i
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carasantamaria.com
In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined award-winning scientist and science communicator, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez. They discuss her newest book, Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in...
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The wonderful Rachel @ignotofsky is back on @TalkNerdy_Pod to chat about her new DINO BOOK! "Dinosaurs: Exploring Prehistoric Life and Geological Time" is out today (10/14)! 🦖🦕🦴 👇🏼Listen to our dino chat on #TalkNerdy below👇🏼 https://t.co/kSWSiAh3JH
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi. Steve explains their research and its impact. https://t.co/BKxMzBO11F
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Each year I like to write a post about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. While advocating for higher standards of science in medicine we tend to spend much of our time criticizing pseudosc...
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SGU Episode 1056 is now up
theskepticsguide.org
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On this week's @TalkNerdy_Pod episode, I talk Sea Monsters with Dr. @prema_arasu! We chat about their work, art, and beautiful new book, "The Book of Sea Monsters". 🎧 Listen below or anywhere you get pods. https://t.co/BUrW4Mc52H
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“See the invisible. Believe in change. Create a healthier future.” - @DrTomFrieden discusses key takeaways from his newly released book on the latest #TalkNerdyPod. Support the show on @Patreon and listen ad-free. 👇🏼 https://t.co/KaapNHJaQa
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This week's #TalkNerdy guest! 🩺👏📔
My new book, The Formula for Better Health, just launched yesterday—and it’s already the #1 New Release in Sociological Study of Medicine on Amazon! But here’s the real headline: we can prevent millions of unnecessary deaths. Public health isn’t about statistics in a textbook —
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New #TalkNerdy is up w/ public health expert and former CDC Director -- @DrTomFrieden 👏 We discuss his new book, "The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own." 🎧 Listen on @TalkNerdy_Pod now! https://t.co/Ddc6YNw9Y2
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Cara shares more tidbits about her hysterectomy journey on this week's #TalkNerdy w/ @sarahehillphd! Sarah's new book is, "The Period Brain: The New Science of Why We PMS and How to Fix It: A Manifesto for Women." 🎧 Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://t.co/ND9yFRj7kI
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SGU Episode 1055 is now up
theskepticsguide.org
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Trump, RFK Jr, and Dr Oz had a press conference to fear monger about Tylenol and autism - let’s talk about it. https://t.co/MmR31KksOR
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Yes, we have to talk about that press conference with Trump, RFK Jr and Dr. Oz., which some are characterizing as the absolutely worst firehose of medical misinformation coming from the White House...
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