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AWIS student award winner Jessica Mathews

Young Women in Science Part 2

Ask A Biologist Podcast, Vol. 63
Guest: Holechek, Susan

Listen in as young women scientists, Farah Eltohamy, Amanda Benedetto and Sarah Sakha talk about their work and interview ASU biologist Susan Holechek. Pauline Davies hosts the show as Dr. Biology is exploring the Panama rainforest to bring back fun and exciting stories.

AWIS student award winner CG Schultz

Young Women in Science Part 1

Ask A Biologist Podcast, Vol. 62
Guest: Ogle, Kiona

Listen in as young women scientists, CG Schultz and Jessica Mathews, talk about their work and interview ASU ecologist Kiona Ogle. Pauline Davies hosts the show as Dr. Biology is still exploring the Panama rainforest to bring back fun and exciting stories. We hope he is not lost.

Bruce Hammock

Biology Business

Ask A Biologist Podcast, Vol. 61
Guest: Bruce Hammock

Biologist Bruce Hammock talks about life as a biologist, being a businessman and mountain climbing. How do these all fit together? Listen in as Dr. Biology learns how these pieces all work together in an interesting career.

Marlene Zuk

Strange Cricket Silence

Ask A Biologist Podcast, Vol. 60
Guest: Marlene Zuk

Love them or hate them, something is going on with male crickets on the island of Kauai. Once evenings filled with a chorus of these tiny singers has become strangely silent. Dr. Biology talks with biologist Marlene Zuk about how things are changing fast – maybe the fastest observed evolutionary change in an animal in the wild.

Mary Liz Jameson

Been There, Dung That

Ask A Biologist Podcast, Vol. 059
Guest: Mary Liz Jameson

Are there really flesh-eating scarab beetles, or is it a movie myth? Dr. Biology and biologist Mary Liz Jameson talk about scarab beetles, dung, and even some insect recipes, minus the dung, for humans to try out for their next dinner or pot-luck.

Dear Aliens

Ask A Biologist Podcast, Vol. 058
Guest: Lucy Hawking

If aliens were to contact us, what would you say? How would you say it? These are just a few of the questions that Dr. Biology talks about with guest Lucy Hawking. The two have fun with these ideas and more as part of the Dear Aliens essay contest.

Baluch with cohosts

Micronauts and Beyond

Ask A Biologist Podcast, Vol. 057
Guest: Page Baluch

Three inquisitive young co-hosts, Stephanie Galindo, Anthony Delgado and Raenesha Willis visit with biologist and microscopist Page Baluch. Together with Dr. Biology they explore the tiny world of inner space and learn that there is more to a flower than can be seen with only the eye.

Skin

Ask A Biologist Podcast, Vol. 056
Guest: Nina Jablonski

Dr. Biology gets the skinny on our largest organ - our skin. Professor and author Nina Jablonski talks about the important ways our skin works for us each day.
Robert Krulwich

Talking Science

Ask A Biologist Podcast, Vol. 055
Guest: Robert Krulwich

Dr Biology sits down with well known science correspondent, Robert Krulwich (Radiolab), for a fun conversation about communicating science. The two talk about media, old and new, and maybe some that may not have been developed.
Bat biologists Hagen and Fisher

Bats, Bones, and Biology

Ask A Biologist Podcast, Vol. 054
Guest: Fisher, Rebecca, Hagen, Elizabeth

Here is something special you can add to your trick-or-treating this year. Find out if there are vampire bats waiting to drink your blood - or if we really have a funny bone in our body? These are just a few of the things Dr. Biology and his guests Rebecca Fisher and Elizabeth Hagen talk about on this show. You can even listen to some real bat chatter.

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