Our first guest is comic writer Melody Dickens, who has a background in applied biomedical sciences and science education. We talk about her experiences with research, with teaching science, and, inevitably, a lot of Star Trek.

Transcript and notes for this episode are available on our website: https://asabpodcast.com/2020/08/04/episode-4/

Melody can be found on Twitter @MelodyDickens. Her comic can be found @Schmultsy, and the first 200 strips can be purchased together on Amazon. 

You can find us @cockroacharles and @spacermase, and the show on Twitter @ASABpod or our website, asabpodcast.com. 

In this episode we use the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Chase" (Season 6, Episode 20) to talk about evolution, philosophy of science, whether life is governed by laws, and how extraterrestrial life might develop. 

Charles talks about biological taxonomy, systematics, and nomenclature. If that sounds boring to you, it probably will be, there's no hidden twist it's just about taxonomy. 

A transcript is available on our website here: https://asabpodcast.com/2020/07/21/episode-2/

In this ep Tessa describes some of the background of astrobiology as a field, and talks about her own research. 

A basic introduction to the podcast and to its two hosts, Tessa (astrobiology) and Charles (entomology). Transcript available on our main website.