Former Evolutionary Biology Professor - Now Science Friday's Stewardship Manager because sharing science with the broadest audience possible is a critically important public good.https://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3mb5fkwqenk2x2025 has been challenging for science & scientists in the US, as well as for nonprofits (thanks, Captain Obvious!). If you care about science & sharing it with the public and want to support Science Friday (an independent nonprofit), you can do so by going to https://secure.everyaction.com/axMTwZk4WUSF6mXZRur14g2.29 Dec 2025 17:50 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb5fkwqenk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m6zer5loiq2wDeeply care about #conservation? Then listen to @gilbertjacka.bsky.social from @scrippsocean.bsky.social discuss the importance of microbial conservation as the foundation for all other conservation (including us macrobes). https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/microbe-conservation-movement/02 Dec 2025 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6zer5loiq2whttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m6x7hmlae224As a kid, I picked up every rock I came across and took loads of #Geology along w/my Bio major courses. Absolutely love the passion @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social has for rocks and their stories. This was a great way to start my week back! Thanks Flora & Anjana! https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/whispers-of-rock-book/01 Dec 2025 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6x7hmlae224https://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m65lcrijfk2eCan we love something to death? Are we loving African grey parrots to extinction in the wild? Flora talks with Rene Ebersole, co-founder of @wire-wildlife.bsky.social. Podcast version below or listen to the full show today from 2-4pm ET at sciencefriday.com https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/african-grey-parrot-trade/21 Nov 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m65lcrijfk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m6347pq72c2tTrivia games are a fun way to learn/teach science. Take 12 minutes for some food science fun and try the Super Food Science Excellence Trivia Blowout (SFSETBO) w/Flora & @parttimegenius.bsky.social co-host Mangesh Hattikudur (Mango). Fun food facts! https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/food-science-trivia-part-time-genius/20 Nov 2025 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6347pq72c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m5yqluo56s22More fascinating #animals this week! These #superagers live ‘long’ healthy lives - much longer than expected for the types of animals they are. What can we learn from them? Flora talks with Vera Gorbunova (U of Rochester) and Juan Manuel Vazquez (Penn State U) https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/animal-fountain-of-youth/19 Nov 2025 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5yqluo56s22https://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m5whnozk6c2kHeard of the Evelyn Tables? Displays of real human nerves & blood vessels in their positions in the body. Love that @realgdt.bsky.social included these 17th century science artifacts in #Frankenstein. Love this article by @emmalgometz.bsky.social, too! https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/frankenstein-2025-lymphatic-system-evelyn-tables/18 Nov 2025 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5whnozk6c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m5wabnuy7c2uAlphafold (released 5 yrs ago) won the 2024 Nobel in Chemistry. If you don’t work in protein structures, you may not know what it is. Ira talks w/John Jumper (Nobel recipient) about what Alphafold is, what it does well & doesn’t do well, & where it's headed. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/alphafold-biology-google-deepmind/18 Nov 2025 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5wabnuy7c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m5tjx2w5gs26Animals are endlessly fascinating! Two cool animal studies to kick off the week: 1) How #woodpeckers peck wood, and 2) How #ants crown a queen. Flora talks with @nickantonson.bsky.social about woodpeckers and @danielkronauer.bsky.social about ants. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ant-queen-and-woodpeckers/17 Nov 2025 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5tjx2w5gs26https://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m5md7uxvyk2wIn today's podcast, Dr. Steve Ramirez - Boston U (@okaysteve.bsky.social) says memory manipulation in mice is #Inception & #Severance type manipulations. What??? He also shares that memory & imagination light up the same #brain regions. Catch it all at https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/how-to-change-a-memory-neuroscience-book/14 Nov 2025 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5md7uxvyk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m5jlrbyzss2cMany humans see us as apart from nature. This study points out we are part of the natural world for other organisms. Plus, bearded vultures are cool - eating mostly bones. Flora's 12 min conversation w/ Dr. Ana Belen Marín-Arroyo - Universidad de Cantabria https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bearded-vultures-nests-human-artifacts/13 Nov 2025 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5jlrbyzss2chttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m5gzdusoek2hConfession - I've loved the music of @phish.com since their 1st album. I especially love the live jams with the guys in #flowstate. Love that this conversation between Flora and @mike-gordon.com (bassist) and Dr. Greg Appelbaum (UCSD) is about flow state. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/phish-flow-state-research/12 Nov 2025 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5gzdusoek2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m5ejdwv5ak2qEver wonder what the journey to a Nobel Prize is like? Take a 36 min dive into the not-so-straight path that led @ardemp.bskyverified.social from roach-stomping as a child in Lebanon to Nobel Prize winning scientist. Armed's conversation with Flora is great. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ardem-patapoutian-biology-nobel/11 Nov 2025 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ejdwv5ak2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m5cdbywz722uTake a 13 min break for an interesting discussion on the potential impact of COVID mRNA vaccines on cancer treatments & cancer patients. Ira talks with Adam Grippin (@mdanderson.bsky.social) and @erictopol.bsky.social (The Scripps Research Inst.). https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/covid-mrna-vaccines-cancer-treatment/10 Nov 2025 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5cdbywz722uhttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m52f6qm4r22eFossil Friday anyone? Finish the week with Dinosaurs. Today's SciFri podcast focuses on the latest late Cretaceous research - Were Dinos thriving at the end? (w/ @stevebrusatte.bsky.social ) and Nanotyrannus is real (w/Lindsay Zanno). https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/dinosaur-population-asteroid-studies/07 Nov 2025 15:25 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m52f6qm4r22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m4yknkwhg22x#NYC area folks - SciFri event at the Greene Space - Friday 12/5 6-9pm. 1st hour - open bar, hors d'oeuvres & talking w/ @heyira.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social. Only 130 seats. Tickets $200/each. Come for a fun night of science! https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/sean-m-carroll-event-nyc-december-5/06 Nov 2025 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4yknkwhg22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m4y5kwcqnk2fAfter you cram lots of pixels into a small space, does it matter if you cram in some more? What are the limits of our vision? Today's SciFri podcast is "Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Resolution On A TV?" with Dr. Maliha Ashraf, U of Cambridge, and Dr. Bryan W. Jones, U of Pittsburgh [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Nov 2025 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4y5kwcqnk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m4vdpxuan22xKeeping human-introduced carp out of the Great Lakes Today's SciFri podcast: "Can A Billion-Dollar Barricade Keep Carp Out Of The Great Lakes?" with Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco (@juanpab.bsky.social), WBEZ environment reporter, and Dr. Cory Suski, U of Illinois. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/invasive-carp-barricade-great-lakes/05 Nov 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4vdpxuan22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m4tdxpll6k2iAxolotls are so interesting! Today's SciFri podcast is "Inside The Race To Save Wild Axolotls" with Dr. Alejandro Maeda-Obregón, University College London, and Dr. Luis Zambrano (@zambranol.bsky.social), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/saving-wild-axolotls/04 Nov 2025 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4tdxpll6k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m4qnlui7wc23One in 10 women with a uterus experience endometriosis in their lifetime. Today's SciFri podcast is "Endometriosis Is Common. Why Is Getting Diagnosed So Hard?" with Dr. Linda Griffith, Scientific Director of The MIT Center for Gynepathology Research. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/endometriosis-diagnosis-science/03 Nov 2025 18:29 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qnlui7wc23https://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m4isudfqkk2gIt’s Science Friday! I'm looking forward to segments with @whatknows.bsky.social, @drkencarter.bsky.social & @morbidpsych.bsky.social, @geodesaurus.bsky.social, and @elena-tena.bsky.social. Tune in! 11am - 1pm PT, Noon - 2pm MT, 1-3pm CT, 2-4pm ET, and 6-8pm GMT. @scifri.bsky.social31 Oct 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4isudfqkk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m4drraysm22wHave you ever dressed up or dressed your kids up in a nerdy costume this time of year? https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/science-halloween-costume-contest/29 Oct 2025 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4drraysm22whttps://bsky.app/profile/george-harper.bsky.social/post/3m2ttwoza3222Get a dose of amazing and end the week on a high note! So much packed into this week's show. I'm really looking forward to Archaeologists recreating the tastes and smells of lost civilizations and hearing more about why many rodents have thumbnails similar to you and me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Oct 2025 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:r7vbivtefrhcfadchuohroa3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ttwoza3222