Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker

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Science Podcast

News Commentary, News, Science

4.2 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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First up this week, International News Editor David Malakoff joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the most recent developments in U.S. science under Donald Trump’s second term, from the impact of tariffs on science to the rehiring of probationary employees at the National Science Foundation. Next, we tackle the question of extra-pair paternity in people—when marriage or birth records of parentage differ from biological parentage. Contributing Correspondent Andrew Curry writes about researchers looking into the question of how often children are genetically unrelated to their presumed fathers by using genealogy and genetic testing. Finally, Susanne Schweizer, Scientia associate professor at the University of New South Wales, talks about her article on intrusive thoughts in the perinatal period as part of a special issue on women’s health in Science Advances. Almost all pregnant and recent mothers experience intrusive thoughts about harm coming to their offspring. Schweizer and colleagues suggest gaining a better understanding of intrusive thoughts during this highly predictable window could help explain the phenomenon more broadly. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.5	I'm Sarah Crespi.
0:42.8	First this week, international news editor, David Malikoff, joins me to talk about the most
0:47.7	recent developments in U.S. science under the new administration.
0:52.1	After that, we have contributing correspondent Andrew Curry.
0:55.0	We're going to talk about researchers looking into the question of how often children are genetically unrelated to their presumed fathers using geneal
1:04.0	and genetic testing.
1:06.0	Finally, researcher Suzanne Schweitzer discusses intrusive thoughts in the perinatal period as part of a special issue on women's health in science advances.
1:14.6	Almost all pregnant people and recent mothers experience intrusive thoughts about harm coming to their offspring.
1:21.6	Schweitzer and colleagues suggest that gaining a better understanding of intrusive thoughts during this highly predictable window
1:28.5	could help explain the phenomenon more broadly.
1:35.5	As the science news team tries to keep up with the daily changes to the scientific enterprise
1:41.0	in the United States, we here on the podcast are lucky to catch a reporter and editor once a week to give us the download.
1:47.5	Right now it's Tuesday, March 4th.
1:49.4	The podcast will go live Thursday, March 6th.
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