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Just finished recording an episode for our second season. Recording remotely felt weird at first, but we're really excited to get started again. Looking forward to all the conversations this season will bring!
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Another exciting chapter of our sibling podcast!
Looking for objects that doesn’t glow in a place without starlight is incredibly difficult. Hear how Mia de los Reyes brings to light both the hidden parts of space and the importance of increasing diversity in science in chapter 3 of Not My Thesis!
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It was a real pleasure to talk with @HeidiKlumpe in our season one finale! Make no mistake: it's a fun episode. 😊
Ever needed advice on how to handle a pipetting robot or the escape of a massive colony of vicious ants? We offer some tips, but mistakes may be a necessary, albeit painful, teacher. Check out the finale of @BiospherePod first season!
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It’s another installment of #MythobiologyMondays! Today, we are exploring the way that the Tower of Babel is reflected in one of the most fundamental processes in biology: speciation.
Join us for this #SciComm journey. A thread! 🧵👇
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ALT The Tower of Babel by Pieter Brugel (1563). The architecture is reminiscent of the Colosseum in Rome.
This is a powerful and moving piece. Thank you, @LivWithoutLimit!
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. @Caltech PhD candidate Olivia Wilkins shares her personal struggle with mental health issues and advocates for increased resources for the graduate student population.
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University labs in the US are starting to make plans for returning to work. This raises many issues because academia carries many overt and implicit forms of coercion.
At the core are questions of culture, inclusion, and assimilation, which we explore in two episodes:
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In our third episode, Fitting In, @JMyrmecoWagner showed us how fruit flies were found to have a form of culture. We used this lens to talk about how we chose our labs and how we feel about them now.
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Welcome to #MythobiologyMondays, where we profile how themes from myths and stories show up in the living world.
Today: one-eyed beings! They appear in tales all over the world. You might be surprised to learn how rare and special they are in nature. A #SciComm 🧵👇1/9
ALT Sheldon J. Plankton, a villain from SpongeBob SquarePants.
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From SpongeBob’s Plankton to Homer’s Polyphemus to Hitotsume-kozō, there are many stories about beings with a single eye.
But we hardly ever see animals like that. Usually they have 0, 2, or more. However, there is one group of animals that only ever has one. 2/9
ALT Hitotsume-kozō (一つ目小僧) from the Bakemonochakutōchō (夭怪着到牒) ca. 1788. A yōkai with the appearance of a bald child with one large round eye. This image is in the public domain.
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Instability disrupts life, but on the young planet Earth it may have spurred life's emergence. Join our conversation about what may have been going on before there were cells, and what doubts/uncertainties we've been facing as young scientists.
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The main difference between most rod-shaped bacteria and this hamburger is that the bacteria would not cause any turbulence.
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Top of the Monday to you! Being new to Biosphere, having an untried hobby in mind, and wanting to hear about giant bacteria and tropical fish living together are all intimately tied together. How? You'll just have to take a listen:
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We proclaim that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but what does biology have to say about it? What would life be without fear? Join in the discussion on the latest episode of @CaltechLetters Biosphere! Listen anywhere podcasts live.
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This episode, @the_technetium talks with us about how fear comes up in both biology and our experiences as scientists.
What has your experience of fear and uncertainty in research and academia been like?
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