Podcasts from the Center

Looking for interviews with scientists and managers working on important ecology and conservation issues? Luckily, a new project, called the Voyage of the Beagle has recently started archiving interview podcasts. Jai Ranganathan, a postdoctoral associate at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis started this site to promote current research and researchers and to make lively conversations about research accessible to everyone. Check it often, three new interviews will be posted every week!

The latest podcasts are fed into our blog roll on the right sidebar.

Podcasts

Keeping up with scientific literature is a challenge. Even though is it possible to do a descent job in your super specific area of expertise, it is almost impossible to keep up with literature in general areas of science, such as ecology or evolution, given the hundreds of papers that are published each week. There are many tools that can be used to stay (kind of) updated. One of those are podcasts. If you are reading this blog (and if you frequently read blogs) it is likely that you know a lot about podcasts, but I found remarkable the few people that profits from this awesome resource in academia. There are many nice podcast on science, but few on ecology. The new podcast of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is an awesome one, and I hope that other journals start doing the same thing (let me know if they are more!). This ESA podcast, with music by Nick Gotelli (excellent choice by the way, click here for more of his music), is surely one that you want to have in your mp3 player when you go for walk.

Other nice ones (but not specific on ecology or evolution) are the Nature podcast and the Science podcast, and my preferred one, the Scientific American podcast.