SPECIAL GUEST: Amy Martin (UoA)
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Amy Martin is a researcher at the University of Auckland that studies the incredible private lives of orchids that trick male wasps into mating with them. By depriving these wasp populations of male sperm they can actually have long term effects on the wasp populations. Amy says that this is why deceptive orchids the world over tend to use haplodiploid insects as their pollinators as their unique mating systems make them ideal dupes.
Amy’s scientific specialties in animal behaviour and mathematical modelling come as no surprise when you find out that she is the daughter of a mathematician and an animal behaviour researcher. In this interview we chat about what it’s like following your parent’s footsteps into a career in academia and whether their support and interest can be a blessing or a curse.
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Music: ‘Strange Stuff’ by Sonic Wallpaper - www.sonicwallpaper.bandcamp.com
Ep 43. Microbial Game of Thrones with Gal Winter
Ep 42. Curious minds, homeward bound and just wingin' it with Mary McMillan
Ep 41. Pollinators, Bond films and ecosystem services with Manu Saunders
Ep 40. Twitchers, miners and presidential decorum with Paul McDonald
Ep 39. Dingo fences, desert spice and writings in the sand with Charlotte Mills
Ep 38. Mr Do Bee, Katydids and Superstars of STEM with Kate Umbers
Ep 37. Career changes, science buses and Buster the skink with Siobhan Dennison
Ep 36. Lumping dinosaurs and paleo name-dropping with Nic Campione
Ep 35. Microbats, bushfires and learning Norwegian with Clare Stawski
Ep 34. Natural history, sinister mates and the school of hard knocks with Greg Holwell
Ep 33. Frog calls, monsoons and haunted tennis courts with Jodi Rowley
Ep 32. Life Vs Science
Ep 31. Giant spiders, motherhood and lazy journalism with Lizzy Lowe
Ep 30. Monster girls, parasites and social media with Tommy Leung
Ep 29. Electrons, eigenstates and oil paintings with Stephen Bosi
Ep 28. Hadrosaurs, dino-riders and underdogs with Phil Bell
Ep 27. Thorny devils, pangolins and other outliers with Phil Withers
Ep 26. Semantic gravity and the March for Science with Tom Gordon
Ep 25. Car trips, conferences and sweaty mammal boxes with Christine Cooper
Ep 24. Dung beetles, climate change and fake caterpillars with Nigel Andrew
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