Michael Hochberg is Distinguished Research Director with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) and based at the University of Montpellier, France. His research has for many years spanned fields from ecology to epidemiology to biodiversity to innovation to the communication of science and touches every scale imaginable, from cells to societies.

Show Notes:

• the magic of doing science (04:20)
• Howell Daley (13:00)
• Some of the breadth of Michael's publications (13:30)
  • Ecology drives the worldwide distribution of human diseases
  • An ecosystem framework for understanding and treating disease
  • Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies
• An Editor's Guide to Writing and Publishing Science (13:40)
• The richness of the evolutionary perspective (14:00)
• social parasitism (22:00)
• How social interactions factor into how he sees the world (34:00)
  • Chinchorro culture
  • Marquet et al., Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile
  • The connection of climate change and culture change
• Essence of innovation (44:20)
• The adjacent possible - Stuart Kauffman (44:30)
  • Origins of Order by Stuart Kauffman 
• Article: Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies (46:10)
• Parallel between mutation in biology and invention in technology (47:00)
• Are We Publishing Too Many Articles? (51:30)
• The knowledge commons (51:45)
• The hedonic treadmill (52:10)
• Science and art (55:30)
• Evaluation culture (55:50)
• Lightning round (01:05:20)
  • Book: Exercised by Daniel Lieberman
  • Passion: Listening to and playing music music
  • Heart sing: blogging
  • Screwed up: Remaining in certain collaborations too long
• Find Michael online:
  • Blog: https://mehochberg.wixsite.com/blog
  • Twitter: @HochTwit
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • Michael’s playlist