Podcast Board
Scientific literature is not the only medium to discover mathematical models, techniques, and applications in biology. Below is a listing of several popular podcasts that discuss complex systems, mathematics, biology, and more. Like the Model Board and Job Board Pages, these listings are updated autonomously when a new podcast episode is published.
Complexity Podcast from Santa fe Institute
- Peter Dodds on Text-Based Timeline Analysis & New Instruments for The Science of Stories
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”– Vladimir Ilyich LeninWhen human beings saw the first pictures of the Earth from space, the impact was […]
- Scott Ortman on Archaeological Synthesis and Settlement Scaling Theory
The modern world has a way of distancing itself from everything that came before it…and yet the evidence from archaeology supports a different story. While industrial societies tend to praise […]
- Helena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing Systems
Organisms aren’t the only products of the evolutionary process. Cultural products such as writing, art, and music also undergo change over time, subject to both the constraints of the physical […]
- David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method
On the one hand, we have math: a world of forms and patterns, a priori logic, timeless and consistent. On the other, we have physics: messy and embodied interactions, context-dependent and contingent […]
- Introducing Alien Crash Site, a new SFI Podcast with host Caitlin McShea
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our […]
Mathematically Speaking
- Episode 3.2- A Slice of Transcendence
On this episode of the show, we look at our first historical figure of the season! Aryabhata! He gave us one of the first approximations for Pi. But what is Pi exactly? Listen to find out! […]
- Episode 3.1- The Big, the Small, and Everything in Between
On this episode, we see the results of Indian Mathematics from a birds-eye perspective. The overview is given to show the impact of the Indian Culture on its math, and how abstracting math away from […]
- Epiosde 2.8: The Woman Behind the Men
On this episode, we end season 2 with 4 different mathematical giants, one of which is our first named woman mathematician. We have 3 revolutionary texts and the editor/commentator who made sure they […]
- Episode 2.7: A Lever Large Enough
This episode begins with a 9 minute moment of silence in honor of George Floyd, and all other black men and women who are victims of police brutality. During that time I encourage you to donate here: […]
- Episode 2.6- Euclid: They wrote the Bible
On this episode, we move on to the city of Alexandria. We talk about the father of geometry, Euclid, and his book, The Elements. --- Send in a voice message: […]
bioinformatics.chat
- #53 Real-time quantitative proteomics with Devin Schweppe
In this episode, Jacob Schreiber interviews Devin Schweppe about the analysis of mass spectrometry data in the field of proteomics. They begin by delving into the different types of mass spectrometry […]
- #52 How 23andMe finds identical-by-descent segments with William Freyman
In this episode Will Freyman talks about identity-by-descent (IBD): how it’s used at 23andMe, and how the templated positional Burrows-Wheeler transform can find IBD segments in the presence of […]
- #51 Basset and Basenji with David Kelley
In this episode, Jacob Schreiber interviews David Kelley about machine learning models that can yield insight into the consequences of mutations on the genome. They begin their discussion by talking […]
- #50 ENCODE3 with Jill Moore
In this episode, Jacob Schreiber interviews Jill Moore about recent research from the ENCODE Project. They begin their discussion with an overview and goals of the ENCODE Project, and then discuss a […]
- #49 Most Permissive Boolean Networks with Loïc Paulevé
In systems biology, Boolean networks are a way to model interactions such as gene regulation or cell signaling. The standard interpretations of Boolean networks are the synchronous, asynchronous, […]
Women in Math: the limit does not exist
- Episode 37 - Marie Curie
Anushka Naiknaware gives a biography on Marie Curie, the 19th century Polish double Nobel Prize winner. Anushka gives insight about Marie's perseverance, overcoming barriers, selflessness, and the […]
- Episode 36 - An Interview Recap of Amy Cakebread by Olivia Myers
In this episode, Liv Myers recaps an interview she had the previous day with Portland Community College instructor Amy Cakebread. Unfortunately, the interview got lost, but Liv continues on to speak […]
- Episode 35 - A Conversation Between Triplets - Abigail, Lydia, and Rachel Pung
Abigail, Lydia, and Rachel chat about being triplets in education, their individual and collective experiences as women in STEM courses, identity, expectations, the importance of early childhood […]
- Episode 34 - A Conversation Between Anwesha Mukherjee & Naomi Grant
Anwesha Mukherjee & Naomi Grant have a conversation on a range of topics including music, education, inspiration, science, mathematics, computers, and being women in the STEM fields. They talk […]
- Episode 33 - An Interview with Dr. Nichole Schimanski
Naomi Grant interviews Dr. Nichole Schimanski, a data scientist for Portland Research and Development company Galois. In this interview, Dr. Schimanski discusses why she decided to major in […]
Computationally Yours
- Ep25: Science News Recap and Season finale
In this season finale episode, we discuss recent scientific news covering COVID vaccines and vaccine related jargon, results from a simulation study related to climate change and the nature […]
- Episode 24: Breaking the glass ceiling: Marie Curie
In light of the monumental weekend in the United States, we got thinking about women who changed Science forever, and the first name that comes up is Marie Curie. This episode highlights her […]
- Episode 23: Statistics in Genomics 101
In this episode, Arshi Arora takes you over a brief journey of data science and statistics in the field of Genomics. What are the steps of a typical data analysis pipeline, and some fun analogies to […]
- Episode 22: Science News Recap October
Starting this month, we will be highlighting the main news in science for the month. This month, we highlighted three main stories: 1. Nobel Prize in Chemistry for CRISPR 2. Editorial in New England […]
- Episode 21: Bioinformatics - What you should know
In this episode of Computationally Yours, host Dr. Sabah Kadri discusses a topic she has been mulling over converting into an episode for a long time - the nuts and bolts of Bioinformatics. She […]
Models featured on Mindscape
- 120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible
Erwin Schrödinger’s famous book What Is Life? highlighted the connections between physics, and thermodynamics in particular, and the nature of living beings. But the exact connections between […]
- 110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology
Physicists have traditionally simplified systems as much as possible, in order to shed light on fundamental properties. But small, simple parts build up into large, complex wholes. Are there new […]
- 106 | Stuart Bartlett on What “Life” Means
Someday, most likely, we will encounter life that is not as we know it. We might find it elsewhere in the universe, we might find it right here on Earth, or we might make it ourselves in a lab. Will […]
- 99 | Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity
There are some problems for which it’s very hard to find the answer, but very easy to check the answer if someone gives it to you. At least, we think there are such problems; whether or not they […]
- 79 | Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life
We are all alive, but “life” is something we struggle to understand. How do we distinguish a “living organism” from an emergent dynamical system like a hurricane, or a resource-consuming […]
Big Biology
- Turn down the lights: The ecological effects of bright nights (Ep 53)
How has the amount of artificial light changed over the last 150 years? In what ways does artificial light affect human health and wildlife? And how can new lighting technologies ameliorate the […]
- Coronavirus III: Town Hall (Ep 52)
How can local and state governments repair the damage done by COVID-19? Is there a vaccine on its way to a pharmacy near you? And what should you expect about lockdowns, facemasks, and new COVID-19 […]
- A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and Contingency (Ep 51)
What is the role of chance in explaining variation in biology? How has it shaped the history of life on Earth? And how do scientists incorporate chance into their performing experiments? In this […]
- Big Blue: How whales evolved to become ocean titans (Ep 50)
Are whales the biggest animals to have ever lived? Why have they evolved to become so gigantic? What key adaptations support their immense size? On this episode of Big Biology, we talk to Jeremy […]
- The Vital Question: The Chemistry of Early Life (Ep 49)
How did life originate on Earth? Why is it that eukaryotes but not bacteria or archaea evolved large size and complicated body forms? How likely is that life has arisen independently elsewhere in the […]
Systems Biology from MITopencourseware
- Interspecies interactions
This lecture by Prof. Jeff Gore covers models and experiments of predator-prey interactions and oscillations. He begins with the Lokta-Volterra model, which has been called both "bad" (mathematically […]
- Dynamics of populations in space
In this lecture, Prof. Jeff Gore finishes the discussion of the Lotka-Volterra competition model. He then moves on to the topic of non-transitive interactions, what he calls rock-paper-scissor […]
- Ecosystem stability, critical transitions, and biodiversity
In this lecture, Prof. Jeff Gore discusses the stability, resilience, and diversity of populations at a systems level. He begins by considering a single population, and then moves on to a simple […]
- The neutral theory of ecology
In this lecture, Prof. Jeff Gore asks why are some species abundant and others rare? Are there universal patterns at play? And what lead to these patterns?
- Clonal interference and the distribution of beneficial mutations
In this lecture, Prof. Jeff Gore covers the principles of the scientific article "An equivalence principle for the incorporation of favorable mutations in asexual populations."