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BioScience Talks

BioScience Talks

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We hope your enjoy these in-depth discussions of recently published BioScience articles and other science stories. Each episode of our interview series delves into the research behind a highlighted story, giving listeners unique insight into scientists' work.

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Using Citations to Find Scientific Communities

Published: March 17, 2021, 6:57 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 19 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Thomas Lovejoy

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 5:05 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 19 seconds

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Indigenous Systems of Management for Healthier Fisheries

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 3:44 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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SlothBot: Engaging the Public with Robot Ecology

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 4:20 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 16 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Peter Raven

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 55 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Alan Covich

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 58 seconds

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Virtual Meetings in the Pandemic Era: American Society for Gravitational and Space Research

Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 6:21 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 5 seconds

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Science Leaders Issue Clarion Call for Evidence-Based Policy

Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 49 seconds

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Trump Administration Delists Gray Wolves: Response from the Experts

Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 4:39 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 46 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Paul Ehrlich

Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 59 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Marvalee Wake

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 3:16 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 6 seconds

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Often Understudied, Fences Pose Ecological Threats

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 8:19 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 50 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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Measuring Metabolism: How Much Food Does a Bear Need?

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 6:11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 57 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Gene E. Likens

Published: Aug. 17, 2020, 2:27 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 33 seconds

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21st Century Natural History Collections

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 2:24 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Hot Days and Tree Transpiration

Published: July 28, 2020, 5:11 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 32 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Douglas Futuyma

Published: July 8, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 3 seconds

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Leveraging Biodiversity Science Infrastructure in the COVID-19 Era

Published: June 23, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 34 seconds

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Using Metacommunities for Better Biological Assessments

Published: June 9, 2020, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 2 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Judith Weis

Published: May 29, 2020, 3:51 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 29 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Gregory Anderson

Published: May 18, 2020, 3:31 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 9 seconds

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Lessons from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study

Published: May 13, 2020, 2:44 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 18 seconds

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Addressing COVID-19 Supply Shortages with 3D Printing

Published: May 8, 2020, 4:58 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds

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Race and STEM Diversity

Published: April 27, 2020, 4:19 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 21 seconds

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Impact Series: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Testing, Next Steps, and the Role of Small Business

Published: April 13, 2020, 5:12 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 45 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Joel Cracraft

Published: April 8, 2020, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 8 seconds

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American Society for Gravitational and Space Research 2019 Annual Meeting (Denver)

Published: March 31, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes

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The Ecological Context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Published: March 24, 2020, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 53 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Susan Stafford

Published: March 11, 2020, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 59 seconds

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Fireflies Face Global Threats

Published: Feb. 24, 2020, 8 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Diana Wall

Published: Feb. 12, 2020, 1:32 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 55 seconds

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Impact Series: Tympanogen, Gels, and Helping Children Heal

Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 8:08 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 20 seconds

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Room for Complexity? The Many Players in the Coffee Agroecosystem

Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 10:40 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 24 seconds

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Better Science through Peer Review

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 53 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Kent Holsinger

Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 5:01 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 32 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Rita Colwell

Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 30 seconds

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting Report

Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 7:38 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 36 seconds

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Impact Series: Solving Medical Mysteries with Aperiomics

Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 43 seconds

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Threshold-Dependent Gene Drives in Wild Populations

Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 9:54 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 40 seconds

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Bridging the Gap between Behavioral Science and Animal Ethics

Published: Sept. 11, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 55 seconds

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Readying the National Park Service for Change

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 46 seconds

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Better Governance for Better Resource Management

Published: Aug. 6, 2019, 4:24 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 55 seconds

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Advancing Opportunities for Convergence at NSF BIO

Published: July 10, 2019, 4:13 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 39 seconds

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The Makings of an Invasion: The Slender False Brome

Published: June 12, 2019, 3:51 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds

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Building a Better Understanding of "Resilience"

Published: May 28, 2019, 5:12 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 1 second

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ASGSR Annual Meeting - Maryland

Published: May 8, 2019, 3:26 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 5 seconds

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Biodiversity and the Extended Specimen Network

Published: April 10, 2019, 2:07 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 46 seconds

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Inequality and the Human Right to Food

Published: March 13, 2019, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 22 seconds

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Half-Earth Preservation with Natura 2000

Published: Feb. 13, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 13 seconds

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Chromatin Looping: Seeing DNA in 3D

Published: Jan. 9, 2019, 12:47 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 35 seconds

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Saving Species with Better Monitoring

Published: Dec. 12, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 52 seconds

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Using the Plant Microbiome to Restore Native Grasslands

Published: Nov. 14, 2018, 4:20 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 54 seconds

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Tracking Aedes aegypti across the Ages

Published: Oct. 31, 2018, 4:06 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 48 seconds

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Scientists Warn that Proposed US–Mexico Border Wall Threatens Biodiversity, Conservation

Published: Oct. 10, 2018, 1 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 51 seconds

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Big Data is Synergized by Team and Open Science

Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 4:01 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 50 seconds

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Synbio Ethics: What the Researchers Think

Published: Aug. 3, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 59 seconds

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Undergraduate Research Makes for Better Science

Published: July 11, 2018, 12:43 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 59 seconds

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Bonus Episode: Disease-Carrying Ticks and How to Avoid Them

Published: June 13, 2018, 1:48 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 57 seconds

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Bridging the Gaps in Global Conservation

Published: May 9, 2018, 2:04 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 14 seconds

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One Thing Leads to Another: Causal Chains Link Health, Development, and Conservation

Published: April 11, 2018, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 11 seconds

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ASGSR Annual Meeting

Published: March 14, 2018, 1 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 33 seconds

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Urban Mind: Measuring the Benefits of Nature in Real Time

Published: Feb. 14, 2018, 3:11 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 38 seconds

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Specimen Collection, Populations, and Biodiversity Science

Published: Jan. 10, 2018, 2:20 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 26 seconds

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A Waterway Bounces Back following the Passage of the Clean Water Act

Published: Nov. 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 21 seconds

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Wildlife Trade Management

Published: Oct. 11, 2017, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 34 seconds

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The Benefits and Pitfalls of Urban Green Spaces

Published: Sept. 13, 2017, 1:01 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 19 seconds

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Damming and Its Effects on Fish

Published: Aug. 9, 2017, 12:41 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 30 seconds

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The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2017 Annual Meeting

Published: July 26, 2017, 12:35 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 24 seconds

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Low Oxygen in Chesapeake Bay

Published: July 12, 2017, 1 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds

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Understanding River Thermal Landscapes

Published: June 14, 2017, 1 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 28 seconds

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Conservation Endocrinology in a Changing World

Published: May 10, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode #23: The Redomestication of Wolves

Published: April 11, 2017, 4:35 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 22: Nature's Mental Health Benefits

Published: March 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 21: Bright Spots of Resilience to Climate Disturbance

Published: Feb. 8, 2017, 3:54 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode #20: Eucalypts Spotlight Biosecurity Failures

Published: Jan. 11, 2017, 5:01 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode #19: Microbial Biodiversity in the Environment Can Alter Human Health

Published: Dec. 14, 2016, 5 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode #18: Reservoirs Are a Major Source of Greenhouse Gases

Published: Nov. 9, 2016, 2 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode #17: Big Data and Good Science

Published: Oct. 13, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 30 seconds

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Bonus Episode: Bear Behavior and the Recent Montana Grizzly Mauling

Published: Oct. 5, 2016, 6:43 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode #16: Hardened Shorelines Are a Threat to Ecosystems

Published: Sept. 14, 2016, 4 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode #15 - Marine Citizen Science: Room for Growth

Published: Aug. 10, 2016, 4 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 14: Hydroelectric Dams Kill Insects, Wreak Havoc with Food Webs

Published: July 13, 2016, 3:55 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 2 seconds

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Gene Drive Technology: Where is the Future? (Bonus Episode)

Published: June 29, 2016, 3:55 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode #13: Landscape Ecology and its Role in Policymaking

Published: June 8, 2016, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode #12: Current Methods Cannot Predict Damage to Coral Reefs

Published: May 11, 2016, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode #11: How to Save Aggregate-Spawning Fish

Published: April 13, 2016, 4 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode #10: Nitrogen's Threat to Biodiversity

Published: March 9, 2016, 5:01 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode #9: Plague-Afflicted Prairie Dogs and Modeling Animal-Borne Disease

Published: Feb. 10, 2016, 5:01 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode #8: Preventing Midwest Grain Failures

Published: Jan. 13, 2016, 5:01 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode #7: Contact with Nature May Mean More Social Cohesion, Less Crime

Published: Jan. 12, 2016, 9:01 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 9 seconds

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Bonus Episode: Complex Data Integration

Published: Nov. 25, 2015, 2:22 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode #6: A Successful Intervention Boosts the Gender Diversity of STEM Faculty

Published: Nov. 11, 2015, 5:01 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode #5: When Tree Planting Hurts Ecosystems

Published: Oct. 14, 2015, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode #4: Fire in the Amazon

Published: Sept. 9, 2015, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode #3: Extracellular Vesicles Everywhere

Published: Aug. 12, 2015, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode #2: Transgenic Fish on the Loose?

Published: July 8, 2015, 4 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 42 seconds

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BioScience Talks Episode #1: Coupled Human and Natural Systems

Published: June 10, 2015, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 12 seconds

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Preview of BioScience Talks Episode 1

Published: May 28, 2015, 8:35 p.m.
Duration: 39 seconds

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