Ep 103: Pest-o, change-o: how culture shapes our view of animal commensals (with Bethany Brookshire)
Big Biologypests, rats, animals, elephants, mice, cats, pigeons, species, writing, kevin, new zealand, sparrows, book, bethany, birds, love, bees, maori, big, humans
Ep 102: Inherency in evolution (with Stuart Newman)
Ep 101: NEON: The promises and challenges of large-scale ecological research (with Scott Collins and Alan Knapp)
Ep 100: A retrospective on agency
Ep 99: Creativity and passion in science communication (with Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher)
Ep 98: There’s a thousand genes for that! (with Nick Barton)
Ep 97: Mutation bias in evolution: climbing Mount Probable (with Arlin Stoltzfus)
Ep 96: The network motifs that run the world (with Uri Alon)
Ep 95: Why are we like this? (with Tina Lasisi)
Big Biologyhair, people, skin pigmentation, populations, humans, question, individuals, phenotype, traits, variation, sexual selection, differences, terms, talking, vitamin d, thinking, necessarily, race, solar radiation, patterns
Ep 94: Synthesizing life on the planet (with John Glass)
Big Biologygenes, cell, organism, mycoplasma, genome, protein, life, synthetic, called, bacteria, minimal, whittle, divides, coli, lab, build, function, biology, put, synthesize
Ep 93: Assembling life in the universe (with Sara Walker)
Ep 92: A journey into the brilliant abyss (with Helen Scales)
Big Biologydeep ocean, deep, people, ocean, species, deep sea, fish, happening, bit, ecosystems, seabed, hydrothermal vents, book, snail, metals, talking, yeti, carbon, crabs, depth
Ep 91: How stealth organs make super soldier ants (with Rajee Rajakumar)
Big Biologyants, phenotypes, soldiers, development, tissue, colony, species, plasticity, workers, morphology, cast, super soldier, developmental, army ants, cells, wing, called, head, organism, rudimentary
Ep 90: Fabricated images threaten the integrity of Alzheimer’s research (with Charles Piller)
Big Biologygenes, alzheimer, cassava, images, papers, people, amyloid, scientists, called, protein, hypothesis, journals, science, problem, field, manipulations, drug, nih, studies, western blot, western blots
Ep 89: How one gene determines the fate of a food web (with Matt Barbour)
Big Biologygenes, keystone, plant, aphids, variation, allele, species, effects, insects, system, community, starting, thinking, genetic variation, influence, population, experiment, maintained, context, chemical compounds
Ep 88: How I learned to stop worrying and follow the data (with Timothy Caulfield)
Big Biologymisinformation, people, science, studies, coffee, topic, book, pandemic, scientific uncertainty, absolutely, microbiome, bad, big, impact, starting, masks, talk, question, happen, important
Ep 87: Life in the lab, are model organisms an asset or impediment to biology? (with Sabina Leonelli and Rachel Ankeny)
Big Biologymodel organisms, organisms, biology, people, model, sabina, species, question, study, genes, human genome project, lab, important, genetic, mouse, scope, research, projects, elegans, work
Ep 86: What the flux? The evolution of oxygen cascades (with Graham Scott)
Little Biology: Zombie Parasites
Ep 85: The rise of the mammals and fall of the dinosaurs (with Steve Brusatte)
