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The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The University of Edinburgh
19 episodes
1 week ago
The Tartan Tardigrade is a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe.
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The Tartan Tardigrade is a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe.
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Natural Sciences
Episodes (19/19)
The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 19 Nick Lane
This episode, University of Edinburgh PhD candidate Mia Belle Frothingham chats with Dr Nick Lane,  Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at the University College London. We talk about Nick's motivation to dethrone the primordial soup theory, what is directed panspermia, and the connection between the origin of life and consciousness.
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1 week ago
45 minutes 12 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 18 Christopher Cowie
This episode, University of Edinburgh PhD candidate Mia Belle Frothingham chats with Dr Christopher Cowie, philosopher and associate professor at the University of Durham. We talk about Chris's interesting work in the intersection between philosophy and astrobiology, what's behind some claims of alien spacecraft in recent news, and how astrobiologists should adopt a different framework for the search for life.
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3 weeks ago
27 minutes 43 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - SPECIAL Episode 17: Astrobio & Planetary Sci MSc
In this special Tartan Tardigrade episode, Mia Belle Frothingham, PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, interviews 5 MSc students currently in the Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences MSc at Edinburgh. We will learn about their individual interest in astrobiology, what astrobiology question they are working on, and how the programme has benefitted their long term career goals.
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3 months ago
53 minutes 5 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 16 Graeme Ackland
This episode, University of Edinburgh PhD candidate Mia Belle Frothingham chats with Dr Graeme Ackland, professor of computer science at the University of Edinburgh. We talk about Dr Ackland's unusual path to astrobiology in regards to hypermolecules, how it feels to see your experiment produce something cooler than you expected, and his work in various fields and projects (including COVID-19) and what it taught him.
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4 months ago
35 minutes 53 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 15: Katherine Baxter
This episode, The University of Edinburgh PhD candidate Mia Belle Frothingham chats with Dr Katherine Baxter from the University of Glasgow. We talk Dr Baxter's innovation in bio-imaging, the impact of microgravity on skin microorganisms, and what the biggest challenges we might face in maintaining astronaut health in future missions.

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8 months ago
22 minutes 19 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 14: Andrew Bissette
This episode, The University of Edinburgh PhD candidate Mia Belle Frothingham chats with Dr Andrew Bissette, the Editor in Chief of Cell Reports Physical Science. We talk about what a "recovering chemist" means, what to expect when submitting a paper and publishing in a journal, and how Dr Bissette sees the discoveries in astrobiology impact the work in chemistry.
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9 months ago
24 minutes 34 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 13: Ralph Lorenz
This episode, The University of Edinburgh PhD candidate Mia Belle Frothingham chats with Dr Ralph Lorenz from the University of Arizona and Johns Hopkins University. We talk about the Dragonfly mission, Dr Lorenz’s role as mission architect, why Titan is so fascinating, and an out-of-this-world keyring souvenir!
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12 months ago
25 minutes 3 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 12: David Deamer
This episode, University of Edinburgh PhD candidate Mia Belle Frothingham chats with Professor David Deamer from the University of California Santa Cruz. We talk about Deamer’s exciting career path, what to consider when becoming a scientist, and future missions in the search for life!
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1 year ago
43 minutes 6 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 11: Caprice Phillips
This episode University of Edinburgh MScR student Mia Frothingham speaks to PhD candidate Caprice Phillips from The Ohio State University. We talk about her exciting research on gas dwarf planets and the fact that scientists are people, too!
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2 years ago
29 minutes 38 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 10 - Peter Vickers
Episode 10 of the Tartan Tardigrade, a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe.

In this episode we talk to Peter Vickers from Durham University, a philosopher who approaches astrobiology from a fresh perspective. We discuss how astrobiology fits in with the philosophy of science, and easy questions such as the nature of truth.
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5 years ago
34 minutes 28 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 9 - Roberto Orosei
Episode 9 of the Tartan Tardigrade, a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe.

In this episode we talk to Roberto Orosei from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, who told us about his recent discovery of a subsurface lake on Mars and his research of radar applications on other planets.
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5 years ago
16 minutes 55 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 8 - Ernesto Di Mauro
Episode 8 of the Tartan Tardigrade, a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe. In this episode we talk to Ernesto di Mauro from Sapienza University of Rome, who discussed how biological molecules can be formed from different pre-biotic chemistry, and the definitions of life that play such a big part of astrobiology.
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5 years ago
22 minutes 42 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 6 - Mohit Melwani Daswani
Episode 7 of the Tartan Tardigrade, a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe. In this episode we talk to Mohit Melwani from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who told us about the possibility for life and geochemical limits of habitability on Icy Moons (and a little bit of Mars).
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6 years ago
16 minutes 29 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 6 - Mark Van Zuilen
Episode 6 of the Tartan Tardigrade, a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe. In this episode we talk to Mark Van Zuilen from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, who told us about their work on determining whether biosignatures we observe in the environment are truly produced by biology.
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6 years ago
29 minutes 3 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 5 - Kathryn Harriss
Episode 5 of the Tartan Tardigrade, a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe.

In this episode we talk to Kathryn Harriss from the University of Kent, who studies impacts in the solar system, and tells us about their effects on life.
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6 years ago
18 minutes 52 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 4 - Rosaly Lopes
Episode 4 of the Tartan Tardigrade, a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe.

This episode features Rosaly Lopes, an interplanetary volcanologist who works at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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6 years ago
24 minutes 14 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 3 - Axel Hagermann
Episode 3 of the Tartan Tardigrade, a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe.

This episode features Axel Hagermann from the University of Stirling, who investigates ices on other worlds in the solar system and works on a number of space missions.

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6 years ago
14 minutes 48 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 2 - Magnus Ivarrson
Episode 2 of the Tartan Tardigrade, a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe.

This we were talking with Magnus Ivarrson from the Natural History Museum of Stockholm. Magnus told us about his work on the deep biosphere, how he ended up working in palaeontology, and how that led him to Mars... 
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6 years ago
18 minutes 24 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade - Episode 1 - Susannah Porter
The first episode of the Tartan Tardigrade, a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe.

This episode features a chat with Susannah Porter from the University of California Santa Barbara about her work on fossil evidence for early eukaryotes, and signs that vampire-like predators were active before predation was previously thought to happen.
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6 years ago
17 minutes 58 seconds

The Tartan Tardigrade - Astrobiology Chats
The Tartan Tardigrade is a podcast where scientists from the UK Centre for Astrobiology talk to guests from around the world about their research in astrobiology, their careers, and the prospects for life in the universe.