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2Scientists
Curious about the cosmos? Intrigued by evolution? Two scientists put their heads together to help answer your questions. You can show your love for science by supporting us on patreon.com/2scientists
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2ScientistsBiology in Numbers - Olivia Walch
So your hostess with the mostess Parmvir, now spends much of her time making paid podcasts for other organizations. One such org is the Society for…
2ScientistsMaking science Crystal clear
Find the pics and a full transcript for this episode on our website: 2scientists.org/podcast/crystal-clear Dr. Crystal Mendoza loves talking science and wants…
2ScientistsCatfishing Cancers
Find the pics and a full transcript for this episode on our website: 2scientists.org/podcast/catfish Dr. Julie Dragon is an Associate Professor at the…
2ScientistsCancer in our Community - The caregiver's episode pt 2
This episode is dedicated to my beautiful sister Sukhneil, also known as Sukhy and Pickle. Terms like hospice and palliative care can instantly make us think…
2ScientistsCancer in our Community - The caregiver's episode pt 1
Cancer is a profoundly disabling illness, whether that is due to side effects from the life-saving treatments or the disease itself. Understandably then…
2ScientistsNeobe and the cancer matrix
Using bacteria to treat a disease like cancer may not seem very intuitive, but there are very smart reasons for doing so. No one knows this better than Dr…
2ScientistsBrains, drones and smart apps for our phones
Have you ever just though how easy it would be to control everything with your brain? Poof, the lights go on, and Netflix just chooses your favorite show…
2ScientistsThis time it's personal...
It may feel like 2Scientists has dropped off the face of the planet since our last release, so we wanted to check in and let you all know where we’re at.
2ScientistsThe pharmacovigilante
He’s here, he’s there; Dr. Hillman brings drug safety everywhere! So given the rules and regulations he needs to follow, the title “vigilante” could be nothing…
2ScientistsThe salamander scientist
He conserves wild spaces, he climbs tall trees, he records flying amphibians. He is: Christian Brown – the Salamander Scientist! We talked about his graduate…
2ScientistsThe ambassador for microfluidics
Microfluidics is, as the name might imply, the study of small amounts of liquid. Now this may not sound super exciting until you hear Dr. Éadaoin Carthy…
2ScientistsSerendipity in chemistry
Chemistry and chemicals get a bad rap, but unfairly so. Certainly that’s the view of AP De Silva, someone who fell in love with the subject in his native Sri…
2ScientistsThe Patient Doctor
That a doctor listens to their patients should not be a surprise, but that they use information from their patients to help improve care may well be. Enter Dr…
2ScientistsPiensa en los niños
So with much fanfare, we launch our accompanying podcast 2Cientificos in Spanish! You’ll be able to find all future episodes on our new dedicated page, but for…
2ScientistsThis one's for the kids
Dr. Carina Rodriguez is physician-researcher who has transported her skills from her home nation of Argentina to the US. While she has experience in the…
2ScientistsThe science of cancer and care
Dr. Brandon Blue is an oncologist and physician-scientist at Moffitt Cancer Center. As a medical doctor he spends his time treating blood cancers, so this is…
2ScientistsPsychology, psychopathy and creating positive change
What happens when your psychology research just doesn’t quite scratch that itch any more? Well, in the case of Prof. Edelyn Verona, it means you join with your…
2ScientistsNDN Science on Earth Day
Meet Annie Sorrell the lover of manatees, from Montana (Annie is from Montana - not the manatees). And Loga Fixico, scientist, philosopher and studier of…
2ScientistsFrom pikas to politics
Prof. Nancy Huntly is the scientist who almost never was. All through high school and university she didn’t feel like science was for her, but her curiosity…
2ScientistsMath the vote pt II: Polls and predictions
While at Northwestern University, Dr. Alexandria Volkening and her colleagues developed compartmental mathematical models to predict the 2020 US elections…
2ScientistsMath the vote pt I: The geometry of gerrymandering
Gerrymandering has been described as the process by which the people being elected get to chose the people that elect them. It turns out that, while many…
2ScientistsCOVID-19 special: The Math Epidemiologist
A journey through ecology, evolution, infectious disease, mathematics and computational biology in medicine is what has made Dr. Brandon Ogbunu the scientist…
2ScientistsCOVID-19 special: The Microbiologist
Dr James Gurney is a microbiologist interested in infectious diseases. He is also a big fan of science communication whether that means talking to students in…
2ScientistsCOVID-19 special: The Conservation Biologist
Bats are a hot topic right now in light of COVID-19, but anyone working on them will tell you these are some of the most misunderstood mammals. Thankfully Dr…
2ScientistsEat the crust
Eat the crust? No, we’re not talking bread, we are talking about that layer of our planet earth, because our guest is geoscientist, Beth Bartel. For someone…
2ScientistsThe doctor will see you now
Oz Ismail went from being a research scientist taking pictures of bones, to a doctoral scientist, taking pictures of brains. He spent his PhD imaging as part…
2ScientistsThe H.E.A.R.T. doctor
How many people knew what they wanted to do when they were 9? Sure, maybe you wanted to be a rockstar or a fire fighter, but a psychologist? Well we know one…
2ScientistsWhen science gets political
Science, genetics, teaching and policy. Four things that easily define our guest Dr. Amy J Hawkins. She’s studied the ways that DNA can be damaged in cancer…
2ScientistsAcademic stand-up
Knock knock. Who’s there? Since this is the extent of our joke-telling ability, we’ll leave the real thing to the experts and one of our favorites is Kyle…
2ScientistsThe power of words
What’s the shape of a word? How do you save a dying language? How is studying languages a science anyway? All excellent questions for our guest Prof. David…
2ScientistsMental health in Mandarin and modeling in Montréal
Julian (Zunping) Xue is an MD/PhD (so good they doctored him twice!). He’s a mathematician trying to understand evolution. Why does it set off down a certain…
2ScientistsThe eccentric nucleus
Ankita Patil studies mircrotubules, which as the name suggests are small tube-like structures. They can assemble and disassemble in neurons to transport things…
2ScientistsSame same but different
Despite our physical differences, humans are genetically 99.9% the same. Graduate student Renée Fonseca is fascinated by why this is, and how it is important…
2ScientistsBreathing and bugs and biofilms...Oh my!
Bugs of a biofilm flock together, or so says Dr. Sophie Darch. Sophie and her lab study how bacteria interact with each other. She’s interested in what these…
2ScientistsStem by name, stem by nature
She enjoys STEM advocacy, she works on stem cells, she is: Dr. Kristi Stemler. While she works at MD Anderson, she isn’t a cancer researcher. Rather she looks…
2Scientists23 and them
In the immortal words of Jeff Goldblum (well, his character anyway) “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to…
2ScientistsWhat a scientist looks like
Picture a scientist. Do you see the typical white lab coat, and a researcher trying to cure diseases? Who do you consider to be a scientist? Could it be a…
2ScientistsScience out in the open
Anson Mackay studies the effects of climate change on freshwater ecosystems. His work often takes him way out to areas like Lake Baikal in Siberia, but…
2ScientistsStatistically speaking
Ask the average scientist about statistics and watch them squirm. Not Dr. Karen Lamb though, she loves applying her training to real life problems. We met up…
2ScientistsStars in indigenous eyes
How does seeing monsters in the stars help scientists understand where ancient wildlife could be found? Much in the same way that a cultural man and…
2ScientistsDr Schaumberg (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the pill)
Mia Schaumberg always loved science, but she also loves exercise, so it would seem natural that she would end up as an exercise physiologist. Having received…
2ScientistsAddiction and attachment in monogamous mammals
Part III of our Stanford Special. Dr. Natalie Nevárez is first generation Mexican, the first in her family to go to college, but only the second to receive a…
2ScientistsWhen brain meets machine
Part II of our Stanford Special. No one wants someone poking around in their head and neither does your brain. This is a puzzle for scientists like Dr. Marc…
2ScientistsThe protein folding biologist: Marie Kondo of the cell
Part I of our Stanford Special. Dr. João Rodrigues decided early on that as much as he loved biology, he didn’t want to get his hands too dirty, so now he…
2ScientistsThe queen of oxytocin
Oxytocin is often touted as the “love hormone”, but it’s also the focus of neuroscientist Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin. Bianca sat down to tell us about her work on…
2ScientistsThe storytelling geneticist
Dr. Kat Arney has studied genetics, written many books, recorded podcasts and now is helping other people to tell their stories through her organization First…
2ScientistsWait wait...Earth isn't doomed!
Howdy friends! We’re back with Season 6 of our podcast, but this episode is a little bit different. taste of science DC partnered with the wonderful Kasha…
2ScientistsThe bird man
Chris Whelan is the bird man. From a small boy to an experienced scientist his interest hasn’t faltered. What would a world without birds look like? (A clue -…
2ScientistsThe archeology of a "good year"
Davide Tanasi is a native Sicilian and specialist in specialist in Mediterranean archaeology. He reconstructs ancient villas with drones and the latest in…
2ScientistsThe running scientist
John Brewer is a runner who works in science, and a scientist who studies running. We hear stories about the right kind of shoes, diet, hydration and…
2ScientistsThe nanochemist
Nanotubes...nanobots...nanonachos?! Terms you may have heard but what do they mean and what do they do? We asked Maia Mombrú a graduate student in chemistry at…
2ScientistsEngineering the human machine
What do you get if you cross an engineer with a love for tiny blood vessels? Shayn Peirce-Cottler: a professor at the University of Virginia studying the role…
2ScientistsOf microbes and men
Tara Bracken is a specialist in Infectious disease and Global Health, a champion of vaccines, a blogger and just all round great communicator of many things…
2ScientistsIt's the end of the world as we know it...
...and we're feeling kind of queasy if we're honest. Les Shaw is a researcher at the University of South Florida and he studies the resistance of bacteria to…
2ScientistsThe original paleo diet
We've all heard of "The Paleo Diet", but what did our paleolithic ancestors actually eat? Well we found exactly the scientist to ask. Briana Pobiner is a…
2ScientistsBright lights and sleeping tight
Sunlight, blue light, red light, sleep tight! Virginie Gabel is a neuroscientist and a specialist in light and sleep cycles. Why do we sleep less when we're…
2ScientistsMarch for Science: The Advocate
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ph.D. is a marine biologist, policy expert, and founder of Ocean Collectiv, a consulting group for ocean conservation solutions that…
2ScientistsMarch for Science: The Scientist
Andrew Steele is an astrobiologist who is most at home hiding in his lab analyzing his data. Given that he is looking for life on other planets - so would we…
2ScientistsMarch for Science: The Artist
The March for Science was a global celebration of science. Attended across the world by scientists and non-scientists from every background. It was a…