32 | Marty Martin and Art Woods on science podcasting
In this special, we talk about podcasting with the two hosts of the Big Biology Podcast (https://www.bigbiology.org), Marty Martin – professor of disease ecology at the University of South Florida – a...
10 Apr 20231h 1min
31 | Alfred Russel Wallace and night science by candlelight
What was the creative process of Alfred Russel Wallace? In this séance, we channel the legendary self-taught evolutionary biologist, founder of the field of biogeography, and co-discoverer of natural ...
1 Apr 202353min
30 | Zak Kohane and the abstraction of data
Isaac (Zak) Kohane is the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. In this episode, Zak talks with us about how medicine, at its core, is information processing. Bu...
20 Mar 202328min
29 | Jim Collins and the technology-free Friday
Jim Collins is Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT. In this episode, he talks with us about his radical switch of fields in the early 2000’s, when he essentially founded the field of synthetic ...
6 Mar 202341min
28 | Caroline Bartman and the flash(cards) of inspiration
Caroline Bartman is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Princeton’s Chemistry Department, and she is about to start her own lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Caroline’s research focuses on how our metabolis...
13 Feb 202328min
27 | Albert-László Barabási is not afraid to break things
Albert-László Barabási is a distinguished professor at Northeastern University in Boston. In this episode, he tells us how he established the field of network science. He explains the expert’s fallacy...
22 Jan 202339min
26 | Stuart Firestein on artful ignorance, failure, and neglect
Doing science reminds Stuart Firestein of an old saying: “It’s very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room. Especially when there is no cat.” Before studying biology and becoming a professor at ...
2 Jan 202333min
25 | Galit Lahav and the Night Science Tuesday
Professor Galit Lahav is the Chair of the Systems Biology Department at Harvard Medical School, where she creates an environment that is collaborative, stimulating, and interdisciplinary. In this epis...
10 Des 202238min
