最佳Cell Ecology播客 (2024)

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Electric ecology 1:33:10

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There's a bit of a buzz out there, right now, but maybe you haven’t noticed. It's in the water, it's in the air. It's electricity—and it's all around us, all the time, including in some places you might not have expected to find it. We humans, after all, are not super tuned in to this layer of reality. But many other creatures are—and scientists ar…

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S10E1 - Jason Delborne – Science Policy, Soft Power, and Responsible Development 1:03:07

12d ago1:03:07

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Science Policy, Soft Power, and Responsible Development: Reflections on the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office Hybrid | Jason Delborne spent the 2023-24 academic year as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in Washington, DC, working at the National Nanotechnology Coordination Offi…

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The nature of nurture 1:16:48

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The idea of a "maternal instinct"—the notion that mothers are wired for nurturing and care—is a familiar one in our culture. And it has a flipside, a corollary—what you might call “paternal aloofness.” It's the idea that men just aren't meant to care for babies, that we have more, you know, manly things to do. But when you actually look at the biol…

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Identifying the Multiple Drivers of Cactus Diversification - Dr Nick Priest 18:15

26d ago18:15

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Professor Turi King, director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, discusses Dr Nick Priest's research paper into the identification of the multiple drivers of cactus diversification, published in Nature Communications.由Milner Centre for Evolution

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The Evolution of Sex Roles: The Importance of Ecology & Social Environment - Professor Tamás Székely 16:22

1M ago16:22

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The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Tamás Székely about his latest scientific paper titled, The Evolution of Sex Roles: The Importance of Ecology and Social Environment, which has just been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.…

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The space of (possibly) sentient beings 1:07:17

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We may not know what it's like to be a bat, but we're pretty confident that it's like something—that bats (and other mammals) are sentient creatures. They feel pleasure and pain, cold and warmth, agitation and comfort. But when it comes to other creatures, the case is less clear. Is a crab sentient? What about a termite, or a tree? The honest answe…

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Cases of Whooping Cough are on the Rise: Is There Anything we can do About it? 20:59

2M ago20:59

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The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Andrew Preston about his research into the group of organisms called Bordetella. The most prominent member of the Bordetella group is Pertussis which causes Whooping cough, a disease that is on the rise again.由Milner Centre for Evolution

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From the archive: Cities, cells, and the neuroscience of navigation 1:17:38

2M ago1:17:38

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Hi friends, we're still on a brief summer break. We'll have a new episode for you later in August. In the meanwhile, enjoy this pick from our archives! ---- [originally aired September 21, 2022] If your podcast listening habits are anything like mine, you might be out for a walk right now. Maybe you’re wandering the neighborhood, just blocks from h…

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Mammalian Sexual Dimorphism is Associated with Changes in Sizes of Brain Development Gene Families 9:29

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The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Benjamin Padilla-Morales about the research paper he is first author on, and that has just been published in Nature Communications, titled: Sexual size dimorphism in mammals is associated with changes in the size of gene families related to brain development.…

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From the archive: What does ChatGPT really know? 55:10

2M ago55:10

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Hi friends, we're on a brief summer break at the moment. We'll have a new episode for you in August. In the meanwhile, enjoy this pick from our archives! ---- [originally aired January 25, 2023] By now you’ve probably heard about the new chatbot called ChatGPT. There’s no question it’s something of a marvel. It distills complex information into cle…

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Using Genomics to Understand the Evolution of Plants - Dr James Clark 16:35

2M ago16:35

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The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr James Clark about his research into plant evolution.由Milner Centre for Evolution

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From the archive: Medieval monks on memory, meditation, and mind-wandering 1:02:10

2M ago1:02:10

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Hi friends, we're on a brief summer break at the moment. We'll have a new episode for you in August. In the meanwhile, enjoy this pick from our archives! _____ [originally aired May 17, 2023] You know the feeling. You're trying to read or write or think through a project, maybe even just respond to an email, when your attention starts to drift. You…

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Evolution of Complexity: Single Cell to Complex Organism - Professor Dr Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 29:25

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Professor Turi King discusses the career of developmental geneticist Professor Dr Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and how her passion for genetic analysis led to her 1995 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.由Milner Centre for Evolution

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A new picture of language 1:55:11

3M ago1:55:11

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If you've taken Linguistics 101, you know what language is. It's a system for conveying meaning through speech. We build words out of sounds, and then complex ideas out of those words. Remarkably, the relationship between the sounds and the meanings they convey is purely arbitrary. Human language consists, in other words, of abstract symbols. Now, …

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Experimental Evolution, Gene Networks and Bacterial Defences - Professor Tiffany Taylor 23:48

3M ago23:48

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The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Tiffany Taylor about her research which centres on three main and interlinking areas, experimental evolution, gene networks and bacterial defences.由Milner Centre for Evolution

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Climate, risk, and the rise of agriculture 1:11:09

3M ago1:11:09

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It's an enduring puzzle. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors were nomadic, ranging over large territories, hunting and gathering for sustenance. Then, beginning roughly 12,000 years ago, we pivoted. Within a short timeframe—in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas—humans suddenly decided to settle down. We started to store o…

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Pneumococcal Bacteria Evolution and Vaccine Development - Associate Professor Stephanie Lo 14:26

4M ago14:26

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The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Associate Professor Stephanie Lo about her research into Pneumococcal diseases, the formulation of more effective vaccines and the impact those vaccines can have on reducing our reliance on antibiotics.由Milner Centre for Evolution

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Consider the spider 1:17:45

4M ago1:17:45

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Maybe your idea of spiders is a bit like mine was. You probably know that they have eight legs, that some are hairy. Perhaps you imagine them spending most of their time sitting in their webs—those classic-looking ones, of course—waiting for snacks to arrive. Maybe you consider them vaguely menacing, or even dangerous. Now this is not all completel…

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Nourishing Motherlines 35:16

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In which I read a few pieces from my new Substack. Bone, blood, milk, and marrow... Nourishing Motherlines is a collection of memoir-adjacent personal writings exploring my evolving understanding of nourishment (not nutrients), how my mitochondria and minerals were inherited from my motherline (and yours from yours), my hEaLiNg JoUrNeY as I navigat…

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111. Nourishing Motherlines

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Bone, blood, milk, and marrow... Nourishing Motherlines is a collection of memoir-adjacent personal writings exploring my evolving understanding of nourishment (not nutrients), how my mitochondria and minerals were inherited from my motherline (and yours from yours), my hEaLiNg JoUrNeY as I navigate hypothyroid and hypoadrenal exhaustion and a host…

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Altruism, Synonymous Sites and Gene Evolution - Professor Laurence Hurst 25:44

4M ago25:44

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The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Laurence Hurst about his career, his research, and his passion for all things evolution.由Milner Centre for Evolution

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Can we measure consciousness? 1:10:29

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A cluster of brain cells in a dish, pulsing with electrical activity. A bee buzzing its way through a garden in bloom. A newborn baby staring up into his mother's eyes. What all these entities have in common is that we don't quite know what it’s like to be them—or, really, whether it's like anything at all. We don't really know, in other words, whe…

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The Burgess Shale, Arthropods and Macroevolution - Professor Matthew Wills 29:02

5M ago29:02

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The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Matthew Wills about his career, his current research, and his passion for all things evolution.由Milner Centre for Evolution

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Rehabilitating placebo 39:04

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Welcome back friends! Today we've got a first for you: our very first audio essay by... not me. I would call it a guest essay, but it's by our longtime Assistant Producer, Urte Laukaityte. If you're a regular listener of the show, you've been indirectly hearing her work across dozens and dozens of episodes, but this is the first time you will be ac…

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Cosmopolitan carnivores 1:02:22

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They tend to move under the cover of darkness. As night descends, they come for your gardens and compost piles, for your trash cans and attic spaces. They are raccoons, skunks, and coyotes. And if you live in urban North America, they are a growing presence. Whether you consider them menacing, cute, fascinating, or all of the above, you have to gra…

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S9E10 - Barbara Herr Harthorn – Societal and ethical implications of synthetic cells 59:28

5M ago59:28

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Final GES Colloquium podcast of Spring 2024 Investigating the societal and ethical implications of synthetic cells Barbara Herr Harthorn, PhD, Research Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara Profile | DOWNLOAD SEMINAR POSTER This talk introduces 3 ongoing NSF-funded collaborative interdisciplinary projects investigating …

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S9E9 - Eric Hallerman – Gene Technology in Aquaculture 59:47

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Gene technology in aquaculture: Potential, constraints, and first products to commercialization Eric Hallerman, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech University While aquaculture biotechnology has the potential to improve the sustainability of aquaculture, its realization will depend upon enab…

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The Importance of Understanding Evolution: Professor Turi King in conversation with Jonathan Milner 14:48

6M ago14:48

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The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Jonathan Milner about the origins of his passion for evolution, and his reasons for setting up the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath.由Milner Centre for Evolution

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From the archive: Myths, robots, and the origins of AI 1:04:32

6M ago1:04:32

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Hi friends, we're busy with some spring cleaning this week. We'll have a new episode for you in two weeks. In the meanwhile, enjoy this pick from our archives! _____ [originally aired Nov 30, 2022] When we talk about AI, we usually fixate on the future. What’s coming next? Where is the technology going? How will artificial intelligences reshape our…

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S9E8 - Steve Heine – Essentialism and Distortion in Eugenics and GMO Attitudes 59:08

6M ago59:08

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How essences distort our understanding of genes: Implications for eugenics and GMO attitudes Steven Heine, PhD, Professor of Cultural & Social Psychology, University of British Columbia Profile | @StevenHeine4How psychological biases of essentialism distort the ways people understand genetics, eugenics, and GMO products. Download semin…

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S9E7 - Anna Krome-Lukens – Eugenics and the Welfare State in North Carolina 59:04

6M ago59:04

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Eugenics and the Welfare State in North Carolina + Anna Krome-Lukens, PhD, Teaching Associate Professor, Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill Profile | Download seminar poster In North Carolina, social reformers and welfare officials relied on eugenics ideology as they built the welfare state before the New Deal, with lasting effects for our contempora…

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The borderlands of perception 1:36:01

6M ago1:36:01

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We've all seen those illusions. The dots seem to dance, when in fact they're completely still. The lines look like they bend, but in reality they're perfectly straight. Here's the thing: It doesn't matter that you know the ground truth of these illusions—the dancing and bending won't stop. And that we see the world one way, even though we know it's…

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110. Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen 1:27:34

6M ago1:27:34

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Chinese Medicine holds that women’s bodies are 10x harder to heal than men’s, as our reproductive system is biologically much more precious and metabolically more intensive to maintain. In this conversation my good friend, third time guest, and Doctor of Chinese Medicine Suuzi and I catch up one year after we both underwent severe energy loss to sh…

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110. Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

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Chinese Medicine holds that women’s bodies are 10x harder to heal than men’s, as our reproductive system is biologically much more precious and metabolically more intensive to maintain. In this conversation my good friend, third time guest, and Doctor of Chinese Medicine Suuzi and I catch up one year after we both underwent severe energy loss to sh…

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