A group of scientists have biweekly informal discussions about evolutionary biology and palaeontology... over beer.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 19 days 4 hours 1 minute
Podcast 26 - Let's Get This Over With Part 2, Foram Harder
In this episode, the evil forces of internet lag and food coma conspire to destroy the podcast gang.... and evil pretty much succeeds. However, despite being utterly defeated, the gang still has time to...
Podcast 25 - #anomalocarissellouts
In response to the slightest amount of "success", the gang immediately tries (and fails) to sell out the podcast with James and Curt racing to the bottom in a soulless attempt to cater the show to potential sponsors....
Podcast 24 - We never should have podcasted about Wiwaxia
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. If only we had known that, despite our best intentions, we weren't prepared for the sheer insanity of trying to podcast about the ambiguous Burgess Shale taxon Wiwaxia. The...
Podcast 23 - Pirates and Vikings
In this episode, it becomes painfully obvious that James has been escaping the terrible winter rain by playing a bunch of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag since he somehow manages to take a discussion on macroecological patterns...
Podcast 22 - And the Curse of the 11% Beer
When the gang eagerly decides to drink a festive high alcohol content holiday beer while discussing how species are named, the three young scientists are unprepared for the baffling complications that will arise....
Podcast 21 - In Your Box
The gang discusses a paper about scientific error and spin that into a larger discussion on error and reproducibility in science in general. Also, Amanda and Curt start the "Canada Appreciation Moment", James...
Podcast 20 - Chasing the Red Queen
In this episode of Palaeo After Dark we discuss Van Valen's Red Queen Hypothesis, as well as recent reviews of the concept. Meanwhile, James freely partakes in historical revisionism to tell us his fictional accounts of the...
Podcast 19 - Lagging Brains
The gang soldiers on against the horrible vexations of internet lag and losing an hour of recording to discuss a fascinating set of papers looking at fossilized arthropod brains from the Chengjiang. Meanwhile, James...
Podcast 18 - 'Live' from GSA!
Having fixed the audio problems from the last podcast, the gang reconvenes at the Denver Geological Society of America Meeting to discuss the cool and exciting new research that was presented at the conference. Meanwhile,...
Podcast 17 - Jawsome
With everyone scattered across the country, the gang attempts to use the mystery box called the internet to still record a podcast... Things could have gone better. Audio glitches and echoes abound, but we'll do better...