Bioinspired Engineering
Brian Taylor shares his research on magnetoreception. Animals like birds and sea turtles use magnetoreception to use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation, but it's not a sense that's well underst...
14 Maj 202438min
Modelling Evolution
Modeling evolutionary processes goes way beyond the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium we all learned in biology class. Natural selection comes from many sources like resources availability, mate preferences,...
9 Maj 202441min
Behavioral Genetics
It's almost impossible to think about animal behavior without thinking of dogs! Our canine friends are a subspecies of wolf that has been co-evolving with us for tens of thousands of years. The transi...
30 Apr 202447min
Signal in the Noise
In this episode, we are joined by Barbara Webb and Anna Hadjitofi. Barbara runs the Insect Robotics lab at the University of Edinburgh, and Anna is a PhD student at the School of Informatics at the un...
25 Apr 202441min
Pose Tracking
Many researchers and students have painstakingly labeled precise details about the body positions of the creatures they study. Can AI be used for this labeling? Of course it can! Today's episode discu...
16 Apr 202450min
Modeling Group Behavior
Our guest in this episode is Sebastien Motsch, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, working in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Science. He works on modeling self-organized bi...
8 Apr 202440min
Advances in Data Loggers
Our guest in this episode is Ryan Hanscom. Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in a joint doctoral evolution program at San Diego State University and the University of California, Riverside. He is a terrestria...
25 Mars 202435min
What You Know About Intelligence is Wrong (fixed)
We are joined by Hank Schlinger, a professor of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. His research revolves around theoretical issues in psychology and behavioral analysis. Hank est...
20 Mars 202441min
