Science Research Weekly

By Mark R Williamson

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Episodes: 196

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A weekly overview of helpful scientific research topics and the successor of the podcast Statistics Weekly. Every week, I will cover 3 topic areas: Research Articles, Research Tools, and Research Funding. Science On.

Episode Date
Expand Your Scientific Scope (Season 5: Episode 15)
May 18, 2026
Not-so-Rarified Space (Season 5: Episode 14)
May 11, 2026
Attack of the 50-foot Octopus! (Season 5: Episode 13)
May 04, 2026
Dropping the PepHammer (Season 5: Episode 12)
Apr 20, 2026
Super Special Stellar Objects (Season 5: Episode 11)
Apr 13, 2026
Call me Isoptera (Season 5: Episode 10)
Apr 06, 2026
My Science List is Weirder Than Yours (Season 5: Episode 9)
Mar 30, 2026
Cellular Senses and Psyche’s Interior (Season 5: Episode 8)
Mar 23, 2026
Space Hummus and 3D Ants (Season 5: Episode 7)
Mar 16, 2026
Spinosaurus with an Attitude (Season 5: Episode 6)
Mar 02, 2026
Oops, All Singularities! (Season 5: Episode 5)
Feb 23, 2026
And the Crowd Goes Wild for Chitons (Season 5: Episode 4)
Feb 17, 2026
Cave Robots in Space (Season 5: Episode 3)
Feb 09, 2026
Beat AI By Being Above Average (Season 5: Episode 2)
Feb 02, 2026
Back for More Science (Season 5: Episode 1)
Jan 26, 2026
So Long and Thansk for All the Stats (Season 4: Episode 41)
Dec 22, 2025
Beating Blindness and Resilient Microbiomes (Season 4: Episode 40)
Oct 24, 2025
When It Rains, It's Aliens (Season 4: Episode 39)
Oct 17, 2025
Metal Power and Mitochondria Precision (Season 4: Episode 38)
Oct 10, 2025
Eat Electronics, Not Wetsuits (Season 4: Episode 37)
Oct 03, 2025
Controversies in Medicine and Math (Season 4: Episode 36)
Sep 26, 2025
Little Red Dots and Exo-Neptune Ridges (Season 4: Episode 35)
Sep 19, 2025
Gotta Hand it to the Microbes (Season 4: Episode 34)
Sep 12, 2025
Vomiting Cells and Extreme Ankylosaurs (Season 4: Episode 33)
Sep 05, 2025
Arsenic Worms and Medication Turns (Season 5: Episode 32)
Aug 29, 2025
Rings, Vaccines, and Tiny Implausible Things (Season 4: Episode 31)
Aug 22, 2025
Antarctic Submarine Canyons (Season 4: Episode 30)
Aug 15, 2025
Proving Einstein Wrong (Season 4, Episode 29)
Aug 08, 2025
Fishing out Fakes (Season 4: Episode 28)
Aug 01, 2025
Forming Planets, Breaking Plastics, and Classifying Lobopodians (Season 4, Episode 27)
Jul 25, 2025
Massive Spinning Phenomena in Physics (Season 4: Episode 26)
Jul 18, 2025
Double Detonation Supernovae (Season 4: Episode 25)
Jul 11, 2025
Pre-Cambrian Scuttles (Season 4: Episode 24)
Jul 04, 2025
Mars, Microbes, and Microstructures (Season 4: Episode 23)
Jun 27, 2025
Pandora’s Post-Bayesian Box (Season 4: Episode 22)
Jun 20, 2025
Painkillers, Crystals, and Giant Marine Viruses (Season 4: Episode 21)
Jun 13, 2025
DNA from Air, Cancer from Dinosaurs (Season 4: Episode 20)
Jun 06, 2025
Strange Patterns in Science (Season 4: Episode 19)
May 30, 2025
Microplastics-Free Gumbo (Season 4: Episode 18)
May 09, 2025
Detection, Detection, Detection (Season 4: Episode 17)
May 02, 2025
Busting Tauopathies (Season 4: Episode 16)
Apr 25, 2025
How about a Cephalopod? (Season 4: Episode 15)
Apr 18, 2025
Biologists Mapping Stuff (Season 4: Episode 14)
Apr 11, 2025
Genomes from Green Places (Season 4: Episode 13)
Apr 04, 2025
Water from the Dawn of Space and Time (Season 4: Episode 12)
Mar 28, 2025
Dense Subject Matter (Season 4: Episode 11)
Mar 21, 2025
Megalodon Goes on a Diet (Season 4: Episode 10)
Mar 14, 2025
Don't Clean the Space Station! (Season 4: Episode 9)
Mar 07, 2025
The Life-Altering Glaciers and Volcanoes of Deep Time (Season 4: Episode 8)
Feb 28, 2025
Sharks and Their Secret Bases (Season 4: Episode 7)
Feb 21, 2025
Mantis Shrimp's Punch-Out (Season 4: Episode 6)
Feb 14, 2025
Ribosomal Hip Check (Season 4: Episode 5)
Feb 07, 2025
Venti Vanilla Frozen Star, To Go (Season 4: Episode 4)
Jan 31, 2025
Jello Microbe My Old Friend (Season 4: Episode 3)
Jan 24, 2025
Antivenom from Scratch (Season 4: Episode 2)
Jan 17, 2025
Year of the Mollusk (Season 4: Episode 1)
Jan 10, 2025
The Close of 2024 (Season 3: Episode 48)
Dec 27, 2024
Expect the Unexpected (Season 3: Episode 47)
Dec 13, 2024
Messy Disease Busting (Season 3: Episode 46)
Dec 06, 2024
Tumors and Gas Giants (Season 3: Episode 45)
Nov 29, 2024
Organisms on the Extreme Edge (Season 3: Episode 44)
Nov 22, 2024
A Prokaryotic Dance of Plastics and Electricity (Season 3: Episode 43
Nov 15, 2024
It Came from Interstellar Space! (Season 3: Episode 42)
Nov 01, 2024
Monster Meteorites and Miniscule Grappling Hooks (Season 3: Episode 41)
Oct 25, 2024
Short Chaos (Season 3: Episode 40)
Oct 18, 2024
Slap a Hype Sticker on It (Season 3: Episode 39)
Oct 11, 2024
Not Today, Supervillains (Season 3: Episode 38)
Oct 04, 2024
Artificial Silk, Real Volcanoes (Season 3: Episode 37)
Sep 27, 2024
The Morality of Regression Models (Season 3: Episode 36)
Sep 20, 2024
Drop the Bose (Season 3: Episode 35)
Sep 13, 2024
Science Smashups (Season 3: Episode 34)
Sep 05, 2024
Rogue Planets and Meandering Mitochondrial DNA (Season 3: Episode 33)
Aug 30, 2024
What is the Antimatter with You? (Season 3: Episode 32)
Aug 23, 2024
An Order of Boba-seq with Extrachromosomal Genes on the Side (Season 3: Episode 31)
Aug 16, 2024
R You Ready for Charcuterie? (Season 3: Episode 30)
Aug 09, 2024
My Alias is SuperRex (Season 3: Episode 29)
Jul 26, 2024
What Are You LUCA-ing At? (Season 3: Episode 28)
Jul 19, 2024
Selfish Gene Warfare (Season 3: Episode 27)
Jul 12, 2024
Dinosaur Loki and the Seven Rs (Season 3: Episode 26)
Jul 05, 2024
Crispy Secrets of the Tardigrades (Season 3: Episode 25)
Jun 21, 2024
What Soft Robot Hands You Have (Season 3: Episode 24)
Jun 14, 2024
Millions of Peptides, Billions of Rows (Season 3: Episode 23)
Jun 07, 2024
Stomp-Rocket of the Gods (Season 3: Episode 22)
May 31, 2024
It’s a Cell-Eat-Cell World (Season 3: Episode 21)
May 24, 2024
R-Code with a Shotgun (Season 3: Episode 20)
May 17, 2024
IceCube in a Glass of Quantum Gravity (Season 3: Episode 19)
May 10, 2024
Of Cosmic Glitches and Waffle Sketches (Season 3: Episode 18)
May 03, 2024
Cnidarian Nightlight (Season 3: Episode 17)
Apr 26, 2024
It’s Raining Antibiotics! (Season 3: Episode 16)
Apr 19, 2024
Dark Stars and Metastatic Microbiomes (Season 3: Episode 15)
Apr 12, 2024
The Birds Are Up to Something (Season 3: Episode 14)
Apr 05, 2024
Starquaking in My Boots (Season 3: Episode 13)
Mar 29, 2024
Your Brain on Cosmology (Season 3: Episode 12)
Mar 22, 2024
Gastronomical Gallivanting (Season 3: Episode 11)
Mar 15, 2024
Vertebrates and Hat Tricks (Season 3: Episode 10)
Mar 08, 2024
Ask the Genie for Some Cake (Season 3: Episode 9)
Mar 01, 2024
The Birds and the Beta-amyloids (Season 3: Episode 8)
Feb 23, 2024
Eeny, Meeny, Mimas, Moe (Season 3: Episode 7)
Feb 16, 2024
Plankton Power (Season 3: Episode 6)
Feb 09, 2024
Great Sharks! (Season 3: Episode 5)
Feb 02, 2024
Convergence Research or Bust (Season 3: Episode 4)
Jan 26, 2024
Science is Coming Up Sixes! (Season 3: Episode 3)
Jan 25, 2024
Science, Roll Out! (Season 3: Episode 2)
Jan 18, 2024
Trojan Plants Bearing Vesicles (Season 3: Episode 1)
Jan 11, 2024
Episode 50: Christmas or Break
Dec 29, 2023
Episode 49: Unnaturally Cool
Dec 22, 2023
Episode 48: Diamond Doppelgangers and Distant Oceans
Dec 15, 2023
Episode 47: Tis the Season for Better Espresso
Dec 08, 2023
Episode 46: Good Friends and Bad Graphs
Dec 01, 2023
Episode 45: Thanks for All the Keystone Species
Nov 24, 2023
Episode 44: Composite Hands and Mitochondrial Medicine
Nov 17, 2023
Episode 43: Invasion of the Paleobionics!
Nov 10, 2023
Episode 42: Life, the Near Infrared, and Everything
Nov 03, 2023
Episode 41: Things are Heating Up
Oct 27, 2023
Episode 40: Brain Cell Atlas Shrugged
Oct 20, 2023
Episode 39: Bulking Up on Microbial Dark Matter Proteins
Oct 13, 2023
Episode 38: Dancing DNA in the Detection Field
Oct 06, 2023
Episode 37: Code with me, I’m from the Future
Sep 29, 2023
Episode 36: Bone Lost in Space
Sep 22, 2023
Episode 35: Wi-Fi Reading and Microflying
Sep 15, 2023
Episode 34: Ribozyme Samurai
Sep 08, 2023
Episode 33: Microbe-Skewering Micro-Spikes
Sep 01, 2023
Episode 32: The Kirigami Engineers
Aug 25, 2023
Episode 31: Are You Not Entertained?
Aug 18, 2023
Episode 30: A Bit of a (DNA) Stretch
Aug 11, 2023
Episode 29: Greengenes 2, This Time, It’s Personal
Aug 04, 2023
Episode 28: Fungal Enlightenment
Jul 28, 2023
Episode 27: Dog Bites Dinosaur
Jul 21, 2023
Episode 26: Living Cameras and Old Universes
Jul 14, 2023
Episode 25: Top Transposon, Maverick
Jul 07, 2023
Episode 24: My Chemical Sequence
Jun 30, 2023
Episode 23: Sir Ankylosaurus, I Presume?
Jun 23, 2023
Episode 22: Of Vikings and Tokamaks
Jun 16, 2023
Episode 21: Eukaryote Fell Down and Broke Its Crown
Jun 09, 2023
Episode 20: Tintin and the Rare-Earth Elements
Jun 02, 2023
Episode 19: Small Things Considered
May 26, 2023
Episode 18: DNA, DNA Everywhere
May 19, 2023
Episode 17: Regressing towards the Mean
May 12, 2023
Episode 16: Guardians of the Genome
May 05, 2023
Episode 15: Buzzing Across the Pond
Apr 28, 2023
Episode 14: Of Space Rats and Shiny Apps
Apr 21, 2023
Episode 13: Crazy Ants, Crazier Viruses
Apr 14, 2023
Episode 12: Snowstorms and Dolphins
Apr 07, 2023
Episode 11: Cue the Sci-Fi Dystopia Film Score
Mar 31, 2023
Episode 10: Sticks and Cones May Break My Bones
Mar 24, 2023
Episode 9: Robot Parade!
Mar 17, 2023
Episode 8: Flash Grants in the Pan
Mar 10, 2023
Episode 7: Life, the R-Universe, and Everything
Mar 03, 2023
Episode 6: Boss-Level Antibiotics
Feb 24, 2023
Episode 5: A Bouquet of Space ROSEs
Feb 17, 2023
Episode 4: To Err in R is Human
Feb 10, 2023
Episode 3: The Ocean that Snuck up on Me
Feb 03, 2023
Episode 2: What Double Teeth You Have
Jan 27, 2023
Episode 1: An Explosive Beginning
Jan 25, 2023
Science Research Weekly Trailer
Jan 24, 2023
Episode 40: The Close of 2022
Dec 30, 2022
Episode 39: Last Stat Before Christmas
Dec 23, 2022
Episode 38: Ho, Ho, Holiday Statistics Projects
Dec 16, 2022
Episode 37: Hexadecimal Codes of Christmas
Dec 09, 2022
Episode 36: Curb your Stats-thusiasm
Dec 02, 2022
Episode 35: Turkey v. Tukey
Nov 24, 2022
Episode 34: Genomics, My Dear Watson
Nov 18, 2022
Episode 33: Healthy Heaping of Free Stats
Nov 10, 2022
Episode 32: Spooky Scary Statistics
Nov 04, 2022
Episode 31: Awash in Acronyms
Oct 28, 2022
Episode 30: The GitHub Secret Sauce
Oct 21, 2022
Episode 29: Business or Bust
Oct 14, 2022
Episode 28: Everything’s Coming Up Machine Learning
Oct 07, 2022
Episode 27: Statistical Models on the Quick
Sep 30, 2022
Episode 26: Random Learning on the Short
Sep 23, 2022
Episode 25: Machine Learning vs. Magic
Sep 16, 2022
Episode 24: The Way of the R Warrior
Sep 09, 2022
Episode 23: Biting Off More Statistics Than I Can Chew
Sep 02, 2022
Episode 22: Python with a Side of Waffles
Aug 26, 2022
Episode 21: Behind the Statistical Software Curve
Aug 19, 2022
Episode 20: The Count of Monte Carlo
Aug 12, 2022
Episode 19: Get Python Not Sleep
Aug 05, 2022
Episode 18: The Software Formerly Known as RStudio
Jul 29, 2022
Episode 17: Tidal Waves of R Packages
Jul 22, 2022
Episode 16: The Wizard of Stats
Jul 15, 2022
Episode 15: Data Synthetic and the Multiverse of Modeling
Jul 08, 2022
Episode 14: Outliers from the Reaches of Sample Space
Jul 01, 2022
Episode 13: Funny-Looking Bioinformatics
Jun 24, 2022
Episode 12: Bayesian Fire Engine
Jun 17, 2022
Episode 11: Putting the Meta in Meta and Drooling Over Donut Plots
Jun 10, 2022
Episode 10: Multiple Last Names and Growing a Backbone
Jun 03, 2022
Episode 9: Boxes and Babies
May 27, 2022
Episode 8: Shortened Blankets
May 18, 2022
Episode 7: Riding the Python Lightning
May 13, 2022
Episode 6: Mixes and Metabolomics
May 06, 2022
Episode 5: Stretching the Limits and Vigorous Calisthenics
Apr 29, 2022
Episode 4: Stealing Python’s Thunder and Rolling Your Rs
Apr 22, 2022
Episode 3: Jackknifing, Leibniz, and Feeling the Python Breeze
Apr 15, 2022
Episode 2: Lies, Two-Truths and a Lie, and Statistical R-packages
Apr 08, 2022
Episode 1: Getting a Flat Distribution Under Us
Apr 01, 2022
Statistics Weekly Trailer
Mar 30, 2022