{"id":445,"date":"2015-11-03T16:46:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/?p=445"},"modified":"2015-11-16T19:39:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T00:39:33","slug":"batty-about-bats-preview-white-nose-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/departments\/math\/batty-about-bats-preview-white-nose-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Batty About Bats Podcast Preview: White Nose Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The ScientEphic is thrilled to introduce a new podcast series. Today we&#8217;re presenting a preview of our first podcast, &#8220;Batty About Bats.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By Elizabeth Jacobsen &#8217;16 and Avital Lipkin &#8217;19<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, many people enjoyed the traditional symbols of Halloween: pumpkins, costumes, and bats.\u00a0 In honor of the occasion, we decided to take a closer look at bats.<\/p>\n<p>In this preview,\u00a0we\u00a0talk to math professor Julie Blackwood and her thesis student, Alex Meyer, to learn about the little brown bat, which lives right here in the Berkshires.\u00a0Blackwood and Meyer explain\u00a0that a fungal disease called white nose syndrome is decimating bat populations in the northeast, and they\u00a0discuss\u00a0what the best course of action might be to stop its spread.<\/p>\n<p>Look for our full podcast next week!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Batty About Bats Preview: White Nose Syndrome\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2FScientEphic%2Fwhite-nose-syndrome-preview%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: Moriarty Marvin, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ScientEphic is thrilled to introduce a new podcast series. Today we&#8217;re presenting a preview of our first podcast, &#8220;Batty About Bats.&#8221; By Elizabeth Jacobsen &#8217;16 and Avital Lipkin &#8217;19 This past weekend, many people enjoyed the traditional symbols of Halloween: pumpkins, costumes, and bats.\u00a0 In honor of the occasion, we decided to take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/departments\/math\/batty-about-bats-preview-white-nose-syndrome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Batty About Bats Podcast Preview: White Nose Syndrome<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":922,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[54453,14043,65460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-math","category-podcasts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}