IndSciComm podcasts

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IndSciComm is a science communication collective founded and run by Abhishek Chari and Shruti Muralidhar. Our goal is to communicate science in a clear and concise manner to the Indian public at large... more

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March 29, 2018A Soupçon of SciComm with Anusha Shankar on hummingbirds and energy budgets
Hummingbirds are some of the tiniest birds with one of the highest metabolism rates ever found in the animal kingdom. Listen to Anusha Shankar explain how they manage to sleep at night and not die of starvation!

Links:
Anusha’s website
Anusha’s twitter
Anusha is a National Geographic Explorer!
End music – “Hawaiian Winter” from Hooksounds
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March 27, 2018 Shoot the Shit – 2
Listen to our first ever yearly round-up of what we do for work, in our free time, our favourite shows and our scientific, nerdy and geeky pet peeves.
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March 27, 2018A Soupçon of SciComm with Arnab Dasgupta on Cosmology
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of Starship IndSciComm. Its continuing mission - to explore strange new science. To seek out new scientists and new explanations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Links:
Six Easy Pieces

Feynman's lectures

LIGO , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO

Baryonic asymmetry

Beauty factory

Quark

Antimatter (from NASA Science News)

Higgs Boson

General Relativity
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March 27, 2018A Soupçon of SciComm with Deeptha Vasudevan on Zebrafish and Neurogenesis
Deeptha thinks Zebrafish are the coolest fish in the world. Probably even the coolest animal ever? Do you know why? Listen!
Links:
Zebrafish are native to the Himalayan region!

The Dorsky Lab at the University of Utah

General introduction to Zebrafish and studying their brain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZDwo20hl1E

Zebrafish embryogenesis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ6vkDr_Dec
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March 27, 2018A Soupçon of SciComm with Shrinivasan Raghuraman on cone snails that hunt
Shrinivasan Raghuraman studies some really shy animals. But they hunt, taser, harpoon and even suck blood! Want to learn more? Press Play!
Related links -
Shrini's work on cone snail toxins and other cellular profiling

Baldomero "Toto" Olivera's laboratory

A hunting cone snail

A net hunting cone snail

Vampire snails

Artist: All Free Sound Effects
Song: Telephone Ring Pick Up
Download/Stream: https://audiograb.com/UcwwPO9I
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March 27, 2018A Soupçon of SciComm with Chintan Sheth on Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Chintan Sheth can fly to any spot on the planet, whenever he wants. In fact, he can even fly to Mars if he so wishes! He can do this with a click and a scroll. He wants to tell you that you can too! Listen to him talk about his work!
Links -
Chintan on Twitter

Global Explorer

Chintan's writing in The Wire

Chintan's work featured in The Indian Express
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March 27, 2018A Soupçon of SciComm with Devayani Khare on Citizen Science
Devayani Khare is a Geomorphologist who talks to us about Citizen Science and all the different ways in which normal everyday people can get involved in doing science.
Links -
Devayani on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Geo_Sophist

Devayani's posts on the Travel Scope blog - http://travelscopeindia.com/blog/?author=2

India Biodiversity Portal - http://indiabiodiversity.org/

Article on Citizen science projects in India - https://indiabioscience.org/columns/indian-scenario/how-citizen-science-is-helping-solve-indias-environmental-challenges

Seasonwatch - run by the NCBS

Zooniverse - an archive of citizen science projects

Eyewire - Reconstructing neurons in 3D
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March 27, 2018A Soupçon of SciComm with Vaishali Rawat on the importance of Geography
In this edition of our mini-podcast series, we talk to Vaishali Rawat who is a writer and conservation advocate at Wildlife Conservation Society in India. She is also Sanctuary Asia Magazine's Young Naturalist of the year for 2017. She talks to us about the importance of ecology, wildlife conservation and geography in our everyday lives.
References:
Wildlife Conservation Society India - http://www.wcsindia.org/

Prerna Singh Bindra - http://prernabindra.com/

Tiger Link - http://ranthambhorefoundation.org/tiger-link/

http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/people/earth-heroes/10742-vaishali-rawat.html
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March 27, 2018 A Soupçon of SciComm with Parshati Patel on planet formation
We talk to Parshati Patel who is an Astronomer turned Science Communicator and currently works as an Education and Outreach Program co-ordinator at Western University in London, Ontario in Canada. Parshati talks to us about visualising and understanding how planets form.
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March 27, 2018A Soupçon of SciComm with Devayani Khare on Citizen Science
Devayani Khare is a Geomorphologist who talks to us about Citizen Science and all the different ways in which normal everyday people can get involved in doing science.
Links –
Devayani on Twitter – https://twitter.com/Geo_Sophist
Devayani’s posts on the Travel Scope blog – http://travelscopeindia.com/blog/?author=2
India Biodiversity Portal – http://indiabiodiversity.org/
Article on Citizen science projects in India – https://indiabioscience.org/columns/indian-scenario/how-citizen-science-is-helping-solve-indias-environmental-challenges
Seasonwatch – run by the NCBS
Zooniverse – an archive of citizen science projects
Eyewire – Reconstructing neurons in 3D
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FAQs about IndSciComm podcasts:

How many episodes does IndSciComm podcasts have?

The podcast currently has 79 episodes available.