Dr. David Peña-Guzmán is an Associate Professor of Humanities at San Fransisco State University in the US. He researches the hidden world of intellect in animals, especially exploring the ethical implications this brings. Today, he explains the latest discoveries in this field and their philosophical implications.

Dr. Feras Batarseh is an Associate Professor of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. He researches the safety of AI applications, especially in fields like agricultural and drinking water production. Today, he explains the need to consider formerly different types of risks together.  

To learn more about Dr. Batarseh's work, visit: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oQiAulIAAAAJ&hl=en  

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Megan Griffiths is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. She researches an innovative tool for public health: self-spreading vaccines in wildlife. Today, she explains the history of vaccinating wildlife and how self-spreading vaccines work.  

To learn more about Megan's work, visit: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Megan-Griffiths-13. 

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Dr. Josh Kellog is an assistant professor at the Department of Biomolecular Sciences at Pennsylvania State University in the US. He works as an ethnobotanist: working with indigenous cultures around the world to find drugs from nature. Today, he talks to us about his experiences on the ground and how the field has changed over the years.  

To learn more about Dr. Kellogg's work, visit: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ebu0_H8AAAAJ 

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Dr. Patricia Huston is an interdisciplinary scientist exploring public health, cellular biology, and our culture. She studies how all these influence healthy behaviours like being physically active. Today, we have an INCREDIBLY insightful conversation on the many layers of factors that affect your health!  

To learn more about Dr. Huston's work, visit: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=KuQUs9MAAAAJ&hl=en. Also, you can read the paper of hers we discussed here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4048238 

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Dr. Polymeros Chrysochou is a professor of marketing and consumer studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. He studies how to persuade consumers to adopt healthy behaviours. Today, we talk about how to use something called 'normative statements' to be persuasive!  

To learn more about Dr. Chrysochou's work, visit: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=10OpsRcAAAAJ 

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Clara Wilson is an animal psychologist at Queen's University Belfast in the UK. She studies how dogs can help humans with medical conditions. Today, we talk about how dogs' powerful sense of smell can be used to diagnose diseases like cancer, COVID-19, seizures, and more!  

To learn more about Clara's work, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clara-wilson-990a61162/  

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Dr. Chris Bryant is a psychologist at the University of Bath in the UK. He studies how to get people to reduce animal product consumption. Today, we talk about the problem behind meat consumption, some solutions to change consumer's meat purchases, and what's next in this field!  

To learn more about Dr. Bryant's work, visit: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Wq7j88AAAAAJ&hl=en 

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Dr. Marcio Rodrigues is a Senior researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil. He has decades of experience studying the growing concerns about fungal diseases. Today, we talk about why fungal diseases are neglected, challenging to cure, and growing in size.  

To learn more about Dr. Rodrigues' work, visit https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcio-Rodrigues-2.  

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Dr. Kees Baldé is a Senior Programme Officer at the Sustainable Cycles Initiative at the United Nations University. Dr. Baldé has been monitoring the growing issue of global ewaste for almost a decade. Today, we talk about why our solutions to ewaste are inadequate and the global mess it creates.  

To learn more about Dr. Baldé's work, visit https://unu.edu/experts/kees-balde.html 

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