BioAudio
Welcome to BioAudio: The Teaching Podcast. After many years teaching biology in universities in the UK and in Canada I've come to the conclusion that we can do better than text books. I always want something more flexible, that can be updated with new topics and new discoveries. After years avoiding textbooks… I've created BioAudio a collection of discussions to accompany lectures in university biology courses . So let's ditch the textbook and just listen.
Podcasting since 2023 • 34 episodes
BioAudio
Latest Episodes
Fossils, Rocks and Radioactive Clocks: How to date the ancient past
Today on the BioAudio podcast, it's all about dating! (no not that kind). Have you ever wondered how we figure out when things happened way in the past? When a scientist says "it's 100 million years old..." just how did they figure it out?<...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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37:22
What is a phylogeny for?
In this episode I"m joined by Bahar Roohshad, an undergraduate student from one of my classes to talk about phylogenetics. What are they? what are they for and how might we use on?
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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20:42
Biodiversity and Insect Declines
We keep hearing that biodiversity is in decline. But what does this mean? How is biodiversity distributed and what does "decline" look like? In this episode PhD student Hadil Elsayed talks to us about her experience tracking insects in some of ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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32:34
Beaver, Otters and Wolves: Ecosystem Engineers and Trophic Cascades
Today on the BioAudio podcast Prof Alex Mills returns to talk about how we recognize and describe an "ecological community" and the unique roll of keystone species, ecosystem engineers and apex predators. We will also talk about three famous tr...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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24:17
Disease Ecology: Parasites in Community Ecology
This week on the BioAudio podcast we are talking about disease ecology with Prof Dan Becker. It's a field that combines mathematical modeling, ecology, evolution, medicine, veterinary science... and he actually got into this as a cultural anthr...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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34:21
