BioAudio

About 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.

Publisher

Elizabeth Clare

Category

science · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Aug 2023

Latest episode

23 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

34 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Feb 2025

   Fossils, Rocks and Radioactive Clocks: How to date the ancient past

   Send us a text 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? Today I'm talking to Dr. Matthew Jones. He's a paleontologist at Arizona State University and his specialty is fossil mammals (though he admits he was a dinosaur kid). It's often his job to figure out just how old is this rock and he's going ...

2. 

   10 Feb 2025

   What is a phylogeny for?

   Send us a text 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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   30 Jan 2025

   Biodiversity and Insect Declines

   Send us a textWe 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 the most protected habitats in Canada.

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 22 / 100

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Quality

12

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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