Hacking the Colony
Today, Ashay Aswale and Tony Lopez shared their work on swarm robotics and what they have learned from ants. Robotic swarms must solve the same problems that eusocial insects do. What if your pheromon...
8 Aug 202441min
Primate Poses
During this season we have talked with researchers working to utilize machine learning for behavioral observations. In previous episodes, you have heard about the software people like Richard use, but...
31 Jul 202432min
Generating 3D Animals with YouDream
Generative AI can struggle to create realistic animals and 2D representations often have mistakes like extra limbs and tails. If 2D wasn't hard enough, there are researchers working on generative 3D m...
23 Jul 20241h
Weird Communication
Today, we sat down with Dr. Ignacio Escalante Meza to learn about opiliones and treehoppers. Opiliones, known as "daddy long legs" in the US, are understudied arachnids known for their tenacious locom...
15 Jul 202438min
Reducing the Impact of Ship Noise on Marine Mammals
Human shipping operations have increased significantly in the past few decades. While that means international trade and cheap goods for humans, it also means the ocean has experienced an increase in...
1 Jul 202436min
Analysis of Unstructured Data
Robbie Moon from the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business joins us to discuss the analysis of unstructured data and the application of NLP methodologies towards financial data.
28 Jun 202427min
iNaturalist
Have you ever participated in citizen science? Do you want to? One of the most popular platforms for crowdsourcing biodiversity data is iNaturalist. In addition to being a great science tool, the iNat...
24 Jun 202437min
Learn to Code
Do you code or are you interested in learning to code? Join us today and hear from three individuals that are at very different stages of their coding journeys. Becky Hansis-O'Neill (also our co-host ...
18 Jun 202449min
