Adam Summers is Professor of Biology and School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island, WA. We talk about fish, fish burritos, and animated fish.

For more information:

• Natural History: An Engine for Bioinspiration by Adam Summers

• How Sharing Big Data is Changing the World by Adam Summers

• X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology

• oVert Thematic Collection Network

• Q&A: Fabulous fact fisher by Daniel Cressey

• Picturing Science

Gabriela González is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. We talk about LIGO, women in physics, and Argentina.

For more information:

• LIGO NSF Press Conference in February 2016

• LIGO Livingston website

• 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

• Gabriela González's 2017 TED Talk

• Gabriela González's 2016 TEDxCórdoba Talk

• Love and the two-body problem by Valerie Jamieson

Jelani Nelson is Associate Professor of Computer Science John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. We talk about algorithms, programming contests, and Ethiopia.

For more information:

• Jelani Nelson on Quora

• Jelani Nelson's MIT classes

• Jelani Nelson's TEDxAddis talk on streaming algorithms

• Jelani Nelson on EBS TechTalk with Solomon (Part 1 and Part 2)

• AddisCoder

John C. Mather is Senior Astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. He is currently Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope. We talk about cosmic microwave background, building telescopes, and the role of science in society and government.

For more information:

• John C. Mather's Nobel Prize Telephone Interview, Biographical, and Lecture

• TEDx talk on gravitational waves

• Interview with American Visionary Art Museum

Marcelo Ang is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Acting Director of the Advanced Robotics Center at the National University of Singapore. We talk about self-driving cars, robotics competitions, and international collaborations.

For more information:

• Marcelo Ang's TEDxNUS talk

• Singapore unveils self-driving scooter, ideal for phone-obsessed walkers by Yiming Woo

• nuTonomy

Eng Eong Ooi is Professor and Deputy Director of the Emerging Diseases Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. We talk about dengue fever, Singapore, and family.

For more information:

• Eng Eong Ooi's 2011 Open Conversations Interview at Duke-NUS

• Eng Eong Ooi's 2013 Interview with the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Duke-NUS

• Eng Eong Ooi's 2014 Interview with AsiaNews

Rich Cohen is the Associate Director of Technical Programs at Bolt Threads in Emeryville, CA. We talk about spider silk, applied science, and my biotech startup idea.

For more information:

• Bolt Threads Website

• This Limited Edition Hat Is Made From A Bioengineered Silk And Natural Wool Blend by Rachel Arthur

• Sustainable Silk, Stella McCartney

• Industrial brewing yeast engineered for the production of primary flavor determinants in hopped beer by Keasling and coworkers

• Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World by Paul Shapiro

• cleanmeat.org

Catherine Bliss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. We talk about sociogenomics, qualitative methodology, and personal genetic testing.

For more information:

• Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice by Catherine Bliss

• Social by Nature: The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics by Catherine Bliss

• The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future by Dalton Conley and Jason Fletcher

• Ambiguity and Scientific Authority: Population Classification in Genomic Science by Aaron Panofsky and Catherine Bliss

• Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work by Kimberly Kay Hoang

Heran Darwin is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine in New York. We talk about the proteasome, basic science, and mentorship.

For more information:

• The Ligo Project Art of Science

• Performance Art Proteasome

• Heran Darwin's Twitter

Alison Olechowski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto in Canada. Kapil Amarnath is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. Amanda Vernon is a graduate student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, MA. We talk about technology, popular culture, and claiming scientists.

For more information:

• The Eighth Day of Creation, book by Horace Freeland Judson

• Simone Giertz's website

• Adafruit

• Why you should be rooting for The Martian come Oscar Sunday by Kapil Amarnath

• A Faster Horse, documentary

• Mom and Dad Are Fighting, podcast by Slate

• Science Vs, podcast by Gimlet Media

• The Ever-Tightening Job Market for Ph.D.s by Laura McKenna