The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like,... more
In this interview with author Deborah Gordon, Kyle asks questions about the mechanisms at work in an ant... more
This season it’s become clear that computing skills are vital for working in the natural sciences. In this episode, we... more
In this episode, we talked shop with Hager Radi about her biodiversity monitoring work. While biodiversity modeling may sound simple,... more
Today, Ashay Aswale and Tony Lopez shared their work on swarm robotics and what they have learned from ants. Robotic... more
During this season we have talked with researchers working to utilize machine learning for behavioral observations. In previous episodes, you... more
Generative AI can struggle to create realistic animals and 2D representations often have mistakes like extra limbs and tails. If... more
Today, we sat down with Dr. Ignacio Escalante Meza to learn about opiliones and treehoppers. Opiliones, known as “daddy long... more
Human shipping operations have increased significantly in the past few decades. While that means international trade and cheap goods for... more
Robbie Moon from the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business joins us to discuss the analysis of unstructured data and... more
Have you ever participated in citizen science? Do you want to? One of the most popular platforms for crowdsourcing biodiversity... more
Do you code or are you interested in learning to code? Join us today and hear from three individuals that... more
You’ve heard of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), now get ready for Animal Computer Interaction (ACI). Ilyena has made a career... more
Cat observes great apes in the wild and in the lab to crack the code of their gestural communication. We... more
In this episode, Kozzy discusses his endeavors to compare the cognitive abilities of humans, animals, and AI programs. Specifically, we... more
Théo Michelot has made a career out of tackling tough ecological questions using time-series data. How do scientists turn a... more
Brian Taylor shares his research on magnetoreception. Animals like birds and sea turtles use magnetoreception to use the Earth’s magnetic... more
Modeling evolutionary processes goes way beyond the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium we all learned in biology class. Natural selection comes from many... more
It’s almost impossible to think about animal behavior without thinking of dogs! Our canine friends are a subspecies of wolf... more
In this episode, we are joined by Barbara Webb and Anna Hadjitofi. Barbara runs the Insect Robotics lab at the... more
Many researchers and students have painstakingly labeled precise details about the body positions of the creatures they study. Can AI... more
Our guest in this episode is Sebastien Motsch, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, working in the School of... more
Our guest in this episode is Ryan Hanscom. Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in a joint doctoral evolution program at... more
We are joined by Hank Schlinger, a professor of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. His research revolves around... more
On today’s episode, we are joined by Aimee Dunlap. Aimee is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis... more
We are joined by Tamar Gutnick, a visiting professor at the University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy. She studies... more
Claire Hemmingway, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee... more
On today’s show, we are joined by our co-host, Becky Hansis-O’Neil. Becky is a Ph.D. student at the University of... more
On this episode, we are joined by Stephen Larson, the CEO of MetaCell and an affiliate of the OpenWorm foundation.... more
Our guest is Becky Hansis-O’Neil, a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri, St Louis, and our co-host for the... more
Kyle is joined by friends and former guests Pramit Choudhary and Frank Bell to have an open discussion of the... more
We are joined by Darren McKee, a Policy Advisor and the host of Reality Check — a critical thinking podcast.... more
It took a massive financial investment for the first large language models (LLMs) to be created. Did their corporate backers... more
We celebrate episode 1000000000 with some Q&A from host Kyle Polich. We boil this episode down to four key questions:... more
In this episode, we are joined by Amir Netz, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the CTO of Microsoft Fabric.... more
Our guest today is Eric Boyd, the Corporate Vice President of AI at Microsoft. Eric joins us to share how... more
We are excited to be joined by Aaron Reich and Priyanka Shah. Aaron is the CTO at Avanade, while Priyanka leads... more
In this episode, we are joined by Jenny Liang, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studies the... more
We are joined by Aman Madaan and Shuyan Zhou. They are both PhD students at the Language Technology Institute at... more
In this episode, we have Alessio Buscemi, a software engineer at Lifeware SA. Alessio was a post-doctoral researcher at the... more
On the show today, we are joined by Jianan Zhao, a Computer Science student at Mila and the University of... more
Today, we are joined by Rajiv Movva, a PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell Tech University. His research interest... more
We are excited to be joined by Josh Albrecht, the CTO of Imbue. Imbue is a research company whose mission... more
On today’s show, we are joined by Thilo Hagendorff, a Research Group Leader of Ethics of Generative AI at the... more
Nieves Montes, a Ph.D. student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, joins us. Her PhD research revolves... more
We are joined by Maximilian Mozes, a PhD student at the University College, London. His PhD research focuses on Natural... more
Our guest today is Vid Kocijan, a Machine Learning Engineer at Kumo AI. Vid has a Ph.D. in Computer Science... more
Today, We are joined by Petter Törnberg, an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam and... more
In this episode, we are joined by Carlos Hernández Oliván, a Ph.D. student at the University of Zaragoza. Carlos’s interest... more
Hongyi Wang, a Senior Researcher at the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us. His research is in... more
On today’s episode, we have Daniel Rock, an Assistant Professor of Operations Information and Decisions at the Wharton School of... more
On today’s episode, we have Daniel Rock, an Assistant Professor of Operations Information and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University... more