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Rachael Moeller Gorman

Host and science writer Rachael Moeller Gorman has written hundreds of articles for magazines like Smithsonian, The Scientist, Men's Health and EatingWell, and has won several awards for her work, including four James Beard Foundation Journalism awards.

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Dr. Allison Brager

Major Allison Brager, PhD, is a neurobiologist working to keep soldiers safe by understanding their sleep, because not getting enough can cause "a cognitive lapse that is the difference between life and death." Her many research papers focus on circadian rhythm, jet lag, stress, sleep deprivation, caffeine and napping. She has a very active Instagram account. You can follow her @docjockzzz on Instagram.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-brager-80a58210/

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Dr. Louis Bont

Dr. Louis Bont is a world-renowned respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) researcher and pediatrician who heads the Department of Pediatrics at Wilhelmina Children's Hospital at University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, and co-leads the non-profit ReSViNET, a foundation which seeks to make RSV less harmful all over the world. 


X: @BontLouis

UMC Utrecht: https://research.umcutrecht.nl/researchers/bont/

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Dr. Michela Mariani

Paleoecologist Michela Mariani, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham in the UK. She's originally from Milan, Italy, and her research takes her to Australia, where she examines cores of mud full of ancient pollen pulled from beneath Tasmanian lakes. Her latest paper in Science determined that indigenous people removed the shrub layer from their forests, which prevented devastating wildfires from destroying their lands. 


X: @MarianiMichaela 


Bluesky: @michela-mariani.bsky.social


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https://www.linkedin.com/in/michela-mariani-322522159/?originalSubdomain=au

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Dr. Samuel Dicken

Samuel Dicken, PhD, is a research fellow at University College London, studying the foods people eat and how they affect their health and weight. In a new study published in Nature Medicine, he gave 55 people either an ultraprocessed or a minimally processed diet and watched how their bodies reacted. 


Find Samuel on LinkedIn, X, or Instagram.

https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/79347-sam-dicken

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