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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Meet our recent guest: Susanne Renner🌷🌱 To learn more about her work, check out our recent episode: "A tribute to slow science: remembering Bob Ricklefs."

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Meet our featured scientist: Bob Ricklefs ❤

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That's a wrap!! 👏 Subscribe to our Substack today for all upcoming season 9 content! #bio #sci #podcasters #scicomm

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The relationship between humans and flowers is an interesting one. As Big Biology guest David George Haskell explains, it’s like we “hybridize” with them when we put on botanical perfumes or wear floral prints. We use flowers as a way to make a statement about ourselves. 🌺💐🙋🏻‍♀️

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our recent episode "Flower Power" featured Guest David George Haskell and special host Clayton Glasgow, who discussed the key roles of flowers in ecosystem development, flowers' distinct genomic traits, and the significant relationship between humans and flowers.

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Did you know grasses are flowering plants? 🌺 Not only that, but grasses have been essential to our evolution as humans. Humans evolved in grasslands and much of our diet in the past and present relies on grasses.

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Why do flowers “copy and paste” their genomes? 🌷🌷 Guest David George Haskell explains that genome duplication is a fruitful exercise for these plants to play around with more genetic innovations. And then evolution can pare down those innovations to the ones that best help the flowers to survive 🌺🌻

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ready to test your knowledge of recent guest, David George Haskell? Haskell is a writer and biologist who's most recent book, How Flowers Made our World, explores the creative powers of flowering plants. This episode, we discussed the biology and history of flowers. Link in bio to listen!

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Are you an undergrad, MS or PhD Student in Biology? Send us a 60-90s audio or video clip talking about your research for a chance to be featured on Big Biology’s podcast, Substack, and social media 🤩

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Meet our recent guest, David George Haskell!

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Episode 153 "Flower power" is out now 🌟 On this special episode, we talk with David George Haskell, a writer and biologist. We discuss his most recent book, "How Flowers Made our World", which explores the creative powers of flowering plants.

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Flower power (Ep 153)

How have flowers shaped the modern world?

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Guest Diego Vázquez talks about the importance of long-term data collection for understanding trends and ecological patterns. In his case, his team has been collecting population data on solitary bees in Villavicencio Nature Reserve in Mendoza.🐝

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

How can you tell which pollinators will interact with which plants? Big Biology guest Diego Vázquez says that abundance is still the best predictor, over methods using traits and phylogenies. Diego first found evidence for this theory back when he did his PhD research at the University of Tennessee

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Guest Diego Vázquez investigated the symmetry of specialization- the idea that specialists mostly interact with other specialists and generalists interact with other generalists. What he found studying plant-pollinator interactions was evidence that specialization asymmetry was more prevalent.

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Calling all student researchers! We want to hear about your work! Send in a 30-90 second clip talking about your work for a chance to be published on our substack. For more information, click the link in our bio.

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Meet our most recent guest, Diego Vázquez! Diego Vázquez is a biologist broadly interested in ecology, with an emphasis on community ecology, plant-animal interactions, especially pollination and other plant-animal mutualisms, ecological networks, and invasions biology.

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ready to test your knowledge of recent guest? Diego Vázquez is a ecologist studying pollination and plant-animal mutualisms. His work has shown that interaction networks are often asymmetric, making species interaction difficult to predict. Check out our latest episode to learn about his work!

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Episode 152 "A coevolutionary conundrum" is out now 🌟 On this episode, we talk with Diego Vázquez, a community ecologist at CONICET in Mendoza, Argentina, who has spent his career mapping the networks of interaction between plants and pollinators.

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A coevolutionary conundrum (Ep 152)

When a bee visits a flower, what decides the match?

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Matt Kaplan says the science funding system doesn’t encourage enough innovation. Instead, scientists are rewarded for incremental studies that build on a previous body of work. While that science is important, we also need people making big leaps and working in areas they haven’t before.

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Get to know our blogger, Clayton Glasgow!

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Louis Pasteur lied, stole, and performed deadly experiments for an audience to get his science to be taken seriously 💉🦠 While we don’t condone his methods, he did show the importance of communicating to the public and getting their support for science.

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Get to know our artist, Brianna Longo! Brianna is a graduate student studying marine science. Her passion for art and science communications drove her to joining biology!

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Ready to quiz yourself on Ignaz Semmelweis, the "savior of mothers" who was ostracized, rejected, and eventually committed to an asylum? To find out why his revolutionary improvements to bedside care were not implemented for nearly 20 years, check out our recent episode with Matt Kaplan.

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Doctors used to think the wind, weather, and stars controlled if you got sick😷. As guest Matt Kaplan explains, this wasn’t as far from the truth as we first might think. Some illnesses are seasonal like influenza. While the weather and wind don’t cause these diseases, but do correlate with them. 💨🌧️

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Meet our most recent guest, Matt Kaplan! Matt is an author, science correspondent for The Economist, and lead editor for the UNEP-WCMC. Tune into our most recent episode to hear more from Matt! #science #scicomm #biology #sciencecommunication

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Episode 151 "The Cost of Correctness" is out now 🌟 On this episode we talk with Matt Kaplan, a science correspondent at @theeconomist and author, about his most recent book "I Told You So! Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled and Imprisoned… For Being Right". Art by Brianna Longo.

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

John Wingfield's "Challenge hypothesis" describes a testosterone system which helps white crowned sparrows balance aggression and parental care, rising and falling in response to specific social challenges. To learn more, check out our recent eps "Hormones gone wild." #bigbiology

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Looking for a new podcast? Try big biology today and get your first month on us! Head to our substack page to sign up!

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🌟 Bonus audio🌟 This week we have an extra special bonus audio about John Winfield, told by his former graduate student Sara O’Brien. She tells several stories about him in the field. 🪶 Become a paid subscriber to Big Biology on Substack to access the full audio. 🎧 #science #scicomm #biology

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

John Wingfield started his career studying the hormone levels of fish collected by trawlers in the North Sea and Southeast Iceland.🐟 Then he worked on white-crowned sparrows, which became his main species of study. This led him to conducting a set of famous experiments called the “stress series” 🐦🧪

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Meet our most recent guest, John Wingfield! Tune into Ep 150 “Hormones Gone Wild” where he dives into how hormones help animals cope with stress, seasons, and climate change. #biology#scicomm

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Want to test your knowledge of our most recent episode? See how many questions you can get right about John Wingfield, field endocrinology, and the role different endocrines play in behavior. #science #scicomm #bigbiology #biology

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Episode 150 “Hormones gone wild” is out now 🎉 On this episode, we host John Wingfield, Emeritus Professor of Physiology and Behavior, at the University of California, Davis. John helped develop many fundamental hypotheses in the field of endocrinology through his work on wild bird populations.

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Meet our most recent guest host, Dr. Fran Bonier.

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Dan Simberloff is perhaps best known for his work that is foundational to the field of invasion biology. He recently wrote the book “Ecological Explosions: The History of Biological Invasions and Invasion Science”, which explores the history and evolution of the field. 📖

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Pop Quiz ⭐ Test your knowledge of our most recent episode with Dan Simberloff!

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Our recent guest Dan Simberloff discussed an early experiment he did to test some of the predictions of island biogeography theory. To do so, Dan and his collaborators had to find a way to wipe out all of the arthropod species on some small islands in Florida. 🏝️

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Why do some islands have more species? Dan Simberloff’s early research explores this very question. Learn more by tuning into our newest episode! #ecology #biology #conservation #biodiversity

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Guest Dan Simberloff talks about the allegations that he was part of the “Tallahassee mafia”. He explains that this term was coined by a writer at Science to label the group comprised of Dan, Don Strong, Fran James, Larry Abele and their students at Florida State.

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Get to know our most recent guest, Daniel Simberloff! In our most recent episode, “Invasion of the Ecosystem Snatchers”, we dive into island biogeography, the Tallahassee mafia, and why certain species become invasive and reshape ecosystems. Tune in today!

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Episode 149 "Invasion of the ecosystem snatchers" is out ✨ On this episode, we bring you a live recorded conversation we had with Daniel (Dan) Simberloff at the Laurel Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee!

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Our blog this week is about how climate change is altering the physics of the ocean, particularly for very small creatures.

Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Big Biology guest Brad Gemmell talks about a key feature of his research—the fact that many marine organisms are very small, at least at some point in their lives. 🔍 🔬