How rats invaded the Faroes (3 times)
The Faroe Islands are a North Atlantic archipelago, famed for being a Viking stronghold. However, for the past few centuries the islands have themselves been besieged by one of the world's greatest in...
28 Aug 201914min
How to breed a climate resilient cow
How do you breed a high-production cow fit for a changing world? It's rare that we discuss the impact of climate change on cattle agriculture, yet it's important to consider how rising temperatures wi...
14 Aug 201915min
Tips on collaborations and range expansions
Collaboration is an essential aspect of modern science, and the authors featured in today's episode epitomise this relationship. In our most ambitions interview to date, all four first authors of a re...
24 Juli 201922min
Hot and cold hardiness across complex life cycles
Some like it hot. Some like it cold. But whatever an organism's preference, our changing climate is likely going to force them to adapt to new temperature regimes. This raises a particularly interesti...
10 Juli 201914min
Scientific storytelling: an interview with Prof. Enrico Coen
Storytelling facilitated both the emergence of the scientific discipline and the evolution of human intelligence. At least, that's what Prof. Enrico Coen argues. A former President of the genetics soc...
19 Juni 201918min
Genetics and evolution, a century of bias: an interview with Laurence Hurst
We tend to think of science as objective, but as with any human endeavour it is fraught with biases: cognitive, technical, personal and cultural. Interestingly, it turns out that inheritance can also ...
12 Juni 201918min
Is evolution faster in the tropics?
Why do the tropics contain such a diversity of life? In this episode, we explore this question with Matt Orton and Prof. Sarah Adamowicz from the University of Guelph. Listen to them discuss their rec...
22 Maj 201915min
Orchids in the cloud
In this episode we explore the genetic structuring of orchids in the cloud rainforests of Ecuador. While we mainly think of orchids as ornamental houseplants, many wild species are vulnerable to poach...
8 Maj 201913min
