Trackside Science

By Trackside Science

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Episodes: 81

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A science podcast marinated in just the right amount of alcohol, or caffeine (depending on the time zones involved). Your MCs are a former virologist-turned community college teacher and an active human geneticist and informal science educator. If you want to support the show, visit our Patreon page. Send us an email at tracksidescience@gmail.com, we'd love to hear from you! Thanks for listening!

Episode Date
(54) Where do ideas come from?
Aug 19, 2025
Philatelic Science (53)
Aug 07, 2025
Science Firings part 2 (EXPLICIT)
Apr 20, 2025
(52) Salute to Government Scientists
Mar 08, 2025
(51) Science from Australia!
Dec 29, 2024
(50) International Podcast Day
Sep 29, 2024
Impromptu Science (49)
Sep 09, 2024
(48) Science Video Game - PhD Simulator
Mar 30, 2024
(47) What connects you to science?
Nov 25, 2023
(46) ChatGPT: good for a fart joke?
Nov 20, 2023
Not a secret Chinese bioweapons facility
Aug 05, 2023
(45) Has Money Destroyed Science?
Aug 04, 2023
Virus: Reading Promedmail - Polish Cats & Bird Flu
Jul 06, 2023
(44) Is it a calling, or just a job?
Jan 28, 2023
(43) We were burned out Spring 2021
Jan 14, 2023
(42) Citizen Science Tools for Bioinformatics (that are free!)
Jan 01, 2023
(41) Hereditary Periodic Fever Syndromes
Sep 13, 2022
(40) Eight Science Books
Aug 14, 2022
(39) Stiff Science 3
Jun 20, 2022
(38) Free Fireworks - Science Research
Jun 15, 2022
(37) Science Writing
Jun 03, 2022
(36) Welcome Back
Jun 01, 2022
Science Fairs (35)
May 28, 2021
Virus Questions (5) - UK variant - more infectious, more severe
Feb 14, 2021
(34) The state of journalism with Lou Harry
Jan 03, 2021
Virus Questions (4) Is the mutant coronavirus more dangerous?
Dec 30, 2020
(33) The COVID-19 Vaccines
Dec 27, 2020
Virus special - Does the vaccine prevent infection?
Dec 19, 2020
(32) Back in the Saddle?
Dec 15, 2020
Virus special - -Is COVID-19 more like 1918 flu or 1957 flu?
Aug 15, 2020
(32) COVID-19 vaccine will be available at 12:32AM on Aug 17 2021
Aug 13, 2020
Virus Questions (3) - Cheaper, less sensitive virus tests?
Jul 31, 2020
(31) Science Dads
Jul 28, 2020
Virus Questions (2) Antibody tests - difference between qualitative & quantitative?
Jul 22, 2020
A new series! Virus Questions (1) - What is threshold cycle?
Jul 17, 2020
(30) A Fresh Perspective on Science
Jul 16, 2020
(29) Viral Movie Reviews part 2
Jul 10, 2020
Virus (8) Listeriaphage P100
May 23, 2020
Epidemic Film Reviews (28)
Apr 20, 2020
Can we mask coronavirus?
Apr 07, 2020
Virus (update) - Coronavirus 3 hours in the air? (no)
Mar 23, 2020
Coronavirus episode 2
Mar 13, 2020
Virus (7) - A short history of coronaviruses
Mar 11, 2020
Coronavirus outbreak
Feb 01, 2020
Changing jobs in science (24?)
Jan 04, 2020
Virus (6) Myxomavirus - Part 1
Dec 26, 2019
Interview with John L Rudolph
Dec 11, 2019
Stiff Science 2
Sep 02, 2019
Apollo 11 50th Anniversary with special guest host Pete!
Jul 16, 2019
Science Communication thru Radios
May 21, 2019
Virus (5) - 11 New Viruses
Apr 26, 2019
Stiff Science (20)
Apr 19, 2019
Virus short (4) - Blatella germanica Densovirus
Apr 12, 2019
Lab Techniques - Our Most & Least Favorites (19)
Apr 09, 2019
Virus (3) - Pandoravirus salinus
Mar 30, 2019
Origins part 2 (18) - with Special Guest!
Mar 23, 2019
Virus (2) - Foot & Mouth Disease Virus
Mar 15, 2019
Science Teaching
Mar 08, 2019
Virus (1) - Tobacco Mosaic Virus
Mar 02, 2019
Introducing Virus! - The Government didn't make HIV, Viruses 101 & Why I am doing this
Mar 02, 2019
Bonus - Found Recording 1902 Int'l Conference on Plant Breeding & Hybridization
Feb 26, 2019
New-Old Science Podcast
Feb 25, 2019
Rethinking the Science Career (16)
Feb 23, 2019
Conferences!
Feb 10, 2019
Study Design in the Empire Environmental Health & Safety Division
Jan 20, 2019
2018 End of the year
Dec 30, 2018
Retractions, Negative Data & the Weirdness of Authorship (13)
Nov 18, 2018
The Winner (bonus episode)
Nov 18, 2018
What's for dinner? Lab Grown Meat?
Nov 03, 2018
1902 International Conference on Plant Hybridization - Mendel Rediscovered
Oct 07, 2018
Bonus - rare audio find - 1903 Massachusetts Board of Health recordings
Sep 26, 2018
Re-enactment - 1903 Outbreak of Foot & Mouth Disease Virus, New England
Sep 22, 2018
Our Dissertations! (9)
Sep 07, 2018
The News about Science
Aug 24, 2018
Not Necessarily the News (7)
Aug 11, 2018
Highs and Lows in Our Science Careers
Jul 27, 2018
Science Communication
Jul 14, 2018
What's Your Information Diet?
Jun 29, 2018
Our Science Heros!
Jun 15, 2018
Science Amateur Hour
Jun 01, 2018
Origins of our science careers - part one
May 26, 2018