Ologies Creators & Guests

Alie Ward is a writer, actress, and television & podcast host. She hosts the Ologies podcast.

Katherine Spiers is the host and creator of the Smart Mouth Podcast.

James Marshall Shepherd is an American meteorologist, professor at the University of Georgia's Department of Geography, the director of the university's atmospheric sciences program, and was the president of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Amy Narimatsu is a Community Engagement Coordinator at ShoreRivers.

Dr. Randy Lewis is a spider silk expert and SBC director at Utah State University.

Beth Pratt is a regional executive director at National Wildlife Federation.

Jill Taylor is a field researcher, an ornithologist, and puffinologist.

Dr. Mindy Romero is a political sociologist and founding director of USC’s Center for Inclusive Democracy.

Adam Becker is an American astrophysicist and popularizer of science. He is a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Rachel Santymire is director of Lincoln Park Zoo’s Davee Center for Epidemiology and Endocrinology, and she's earned her Dr. Poop nickname by studying the physiology of animals using biomaterials like poop.

Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley is an American video game designer and former agent with Creative Artists Agency representing video game creators.

Joseph Ferrari, PhD, is a professor of psychology and Vincent dePaul Distinguished Professor at DePaul University in Chicago. He is a leading international researcher in the study of procrastination and is the lab director of DePaul’s Center for Social, Personality and Community Research.

Dr. Bobby Corrigan is an Urban rodentologist and consultant.

Em Dale is a Dasyurologist, and Australian critter scientist.

Dr. Tiara Moore is a Postdoctoral Scholar at The Nature Conservancy.

Simine Vazire Ph.D is a Professor of Psychology Ethics and Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; formerly Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. She is a social and personality psychologist who studies how self-perception and self-knowledge influence one's personality and behavior.Vazire was recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology in 2015 for "original contributions to understanding the limits of self-knowledge and the constraints on our knowledge of others." Vazire was recognized as a rising star by the Association for Psychological Science. Her other awards include the SAGE Young Scholar Award (2011), and the Outstanding Early Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity (2011).Vazire co-founded the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), which aims to encourage open, reproducible science; she has served as chair of the SIPS executive committee and is a member of the senior editorial team of their journal Collabra: Psychology. Vazire is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Psychological Science (2016–2019) and is editor of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. With Timothy D. Wilson, Vazire co-edited the Handbook of Self-Knowledge, which reviews the state of the science on how people perceive their own personality traits, behaviors, thoughts, emotions, and relationships.

Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a pain psychologist, medical educator, and leader in the field of pain education.

Dr. Nicholas Barr is a Traumatologist, social worker, and assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.