Episode 28: A new species named because of this podcast (!!) and another after the father of modern medicine!
Alireza Zamani is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Turku in Finland. He talks to me about his paper published in ZooKeys on August 3 in which he and his coauthor describe a new genus and ten new...
17 Aug 202130min
Episode 27: Tiny spiders from Central America and a brief discussion of “spider porn” and a species named after a Brazilian soccer team!
Dr. Thiago da Silva Moreira is an Adjunct Faculty at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He talks to me about his recent paper published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society an...
3 Aug 202133min
Episode 26: The taxonomic impediment, Part II, an interview with the founder of Pensoft Publishing!
Dr. Lyubomir Penev is the Managing Director and Founder of Pensoft Publishing and a Professor of Ecology at the Bulgaria Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria. He talks to me about the founding of Pe...
20 Jul 202132min
Episode 25: Four new species of armored scale insects and working on groups of organisms on which few others want to work!
Dr. Scott Schneider is a Research Entomologist in the Systematic Entomology Lab at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, MD, USA. He talks to me about his paper published in the June...
6 Jul 202132min
Episode 24: Huntsman spiders from Madagascar, David Bowie, and collecting spiders the size of dinner plates!
Dr. Peter Jaeger is the Head of Arachnology at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. He talks to me about his paper published in the June 10 issue of the...
29 Jun 202130min
Episode 23: Reefs built by a new species of oyster instead of being built by corals!
Dr. Graham Oliver is an Honorary Research Fellow at the National Museum of Wales in the UK. He talks to me about his paper published in the June 15 issue of the ZooKeys in which he and his coauthors d...
22 Jun 202131min
Episode 22: Four new beetle species and why the term “adventive” should be used more!
Dr. Adam Brunke is a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes. He talks to me about his paper published in the...
15 Jun 202131min
Episode 21: The Taxonomic Impediment: a special episode in which we talk about the need for more evolutionary biologists!
Dr. Jason Bond is the Schlinger Chair in Insect Systematics at the University of California - Davis. He talks to me about a special topic of concern—something called the taxonomic impediment, which is...
8 Jun 202139min
