Science Communication: Hard Conversations with Ethan Tapper
Someone who identifies as a nature lover might not be excited to see trees cut down or large machines rolling across the forest floor. Science doesn’t always align with everyone’s expectations, and of...
24 Joulu 202435min
BONUS: Bats! (1999) with Amanda Grunwald
Amanda and I discuss and review Bats! (1999) Our ratings: Enjoyability: 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 Accuracy: 🦇🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 This episode is the first in a new bonus series where I watch B-list horror movies with sc...
10 Joulu 202435min
A New Malagasy Spider with Matjaž Gregorič
On an expedition to Madagascar, Matjaž Gregorič and his research team came upon a damaged termite nest that had a few other invertebrate visitors. When they experimentally damaged the nest again, they...
10 Joulu 202420min
Two New Cave-Dwelling Snails with Rodrigo Salvador
Rodrigo’s paper “Idiopyrgus Pilsbry, 1911 (Gastropoda, Tomichiidae): a relict genus radiating into subterranean environments” is in November 8th issue of Zoosystematics and Evolution It can be found h...
26 Marras 202427min
A New Schizomid with Sean Birk Bek Craig
What happens when a hymenopterist finds a mysterious arachnid in a Danish hothouse? Sean Birk Bek Craig was exploring the floor of a hothouse, also known as a greenhouse, when he came upon an interest...
12 Marras 202445min
Two New Pseudoscorpions with Danniella Sherwood
In this episode, Danniella Sherwood brings us two new pseudoscorpions from Ascension Island, one of the most remote islands in the world. Ascension’s ecological history is full of many twists and turn...
28 Elo 202448min
A New Polychaete Worm with Chloé, Marcos, and Juan
This paper started because Chloé Löis Fourreau and Marcos Teixeira were both too sick to dive during a NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) bioblitz expedition in the Red Sea. Hoping to at l...
31 Heinä 202440min
A New Gall Wasp with Louis Nastasi
Louis Nastasi has a deep love of wasps, and a particular fascination with Cynipid wasps, gall wasps that can specialize on just a few plants or even a single species. In this episode he tells us about...
23 Heinä 202447min
