Michael Eisen is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at the University of California, Berkeley. We talk about fruit flies, Open Access, and running for political office.

For more information:

• it is NOT junk, Michael Eisen's blog

• Eisen Lab at UC Berkeley

• PLOS: Public Library of Science, Open Access publisher and advocacy organization

• Publisher for the People by Will Harper

• Q&A: Michael Eisen bids to be first fly biologist in the U.S. Senate by Jon Cohen

• The Largest Number Of Scientists In Modern U.S. History Are Running For Office In 2018 by Alexander C. Kaufman

• Here’s How The Scientists Running for Office Are Doing by Ed Yong

• How The Word 'Scientist' Came To Be, Science Friday