Episodes

  • Cuckoo Cookbook
    May 27 2022

    ♥️👑🐣🕊🥸🪶🤨🧬🥚Curious about the origin of the term “cuck”? Listen to learn about the bird and the bees who make a living through trickery. The MASTER bait-and-switchers, if you will. And, even more titillating, learn HOW they evolved to do it!

    Link to article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2121752119

    Authors: Claire N. Spottiswoode, Wenfei Tong, Gabriel A. Jamie, Katherine F. Stryjewski, Jeffrey M. DaCosta, Evan R. Kuras, Ailsa Green, Silky Hamama, Ian G. Taylor, Collins Moya, and Michael D. Sorenson

    Music by MondayHopes via Pixabay

    If you’re new here, HI! 🤗We’re SciPod, a podcast that takes the headache out of peer reviewed scientific literature! Take a stroll with us from the fun fact corner, to the jargon corner, to the break down of a recently published scientific article. Prepare for tangents, jokes, rabbit holes, laughs, and friends just havin’ a good time talking about science stuff! Oh and “we” are Madison and Jared, your biology nerds, your science communicators, your buds, your cohosts, your humble servants…sooo…. thanks for listening, folks! 🤗

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    40 mins
  • R U Smarter Than A Fish?
    May 10 2022

    Are YOU smarter than a fish? (Jared isn't).

    Follow science_in_podcast on instagram to see the video!

    Cichlids and stingrays can add and subtract 'one' in the number space from one to five, Scientific Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07552-2. www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07552-2

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    42 mins
  • What that (prehistoric) mouth do?
    Apr 15 2022

    Link to (open access!) article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abl3644

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    37 mins
  • Make Love Not War (Bonobo Style)
    Apr 1 2022

    DOI: 10.7554/eLife.59191

    DONATE to protect Bonobos: https://www.bonobo.org/

    Further Reading:

    https://www.bonobo.org/programs/kokolopori-bonobo-reserve 

    https://news.mongabay.com/2009/05/new-rainforest-reserve-in-congo-benefits-bonobos-and-locals/ 

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030521092615.htm 

    https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/12/getting-to-know-hippie-apes-through-martin-surbeck/ 

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    59 mins
  • End of the world on a Saturday?
    Mar 18 2022

    Let us know what works for your schedule.

    Link to article (paywalled, unfortunately): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-022-09561-5

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    53 mins
  • Froggy dippin'
    Mar 4 2022

    Moretta-Urdiales MM, Ernst R, Pontón-Cevallos J, Bermúdez JR, Jäger H (2020) Eat and be eaten: trophic interactions of the introduced frog Scinax quinquefasciatus in anthropogenic environments in Galápagos. NeoBiota 61: 17-31. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.61.53256

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Male houseflies are FREAKS
    Feb 18 2022

    Source: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.21.465334v1.full.pdf

    A bit more on Entomophthora muscae

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    50 mins
  • Can you fit an elephant anywhere?
    Feb 4 2022

    Link to article: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13766

    OneZoom: https://www.onezoom.org/

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    50 mins