#642 The Last Episode

Join the team of Science for the People for one last episode, where we interview... ourselves. We talk about our time as Skeptically Speaking and Science for the People, the rebranding, our favourite episodes, how the podcast has changed us, and what it's been like to be a science podcast from 2009 to 2023. To our listeners: thank you all for sticking with us all these years, for supporting us, and most importantly for listening. We hope you'll continue to ask questions, to support science, and to think critically about the world around you. It's been an honour and a...

Join the team of Science for the People for one last episode, where we interview... ourselves. We talk about our time as Skeptically Speaking and Science for the People, the rebranding, our favourite episodes, how the podcast has changed us, and what it's been like to be a science podcast from 2009 to 2023.

To our listeners: thank you all for sticking with us all these years, for supporting us, and most importantly for listening. We hope you'll continue to ask questions, to support science, and to think critically about the world around you. It's been an honour and a pleasure to have been Science for the People.

Updated to add: We discovered after publishing this episode that our email inbox had squirrelled away some amazing feedback from you in a strange place. When we found it we wanted to include a few more of your messages, so we've recut the episode to include them. If you haven't listened yet and you downloaded before 3 January 2024, please redownload to get the most up to date file!

Episode Mentions and other Shout Outs:

Marion Kilgour's first appearance, as a guest talking about supermarket science: #4 Science of Love
Marion's first guest hosting episode: #397 Risk Management
Rachelle Saunders' first guest hosting episode: #119 Mistakes Were Made
Bethany's first appearance as a guest: #100 Semen Science
Bethany's first episode as a host: #362 Roadkill
The episode that changed Bethany's mind: #310 Circumcision
Carolyn Wilke's first episode as a host: #553 Scan All Fishes
The one with Adam Savage: #25 Surprise Guest Adam Savage!
The one with Randall Munroe: #27 Randall Munroe of XKCD
The ones with Mary Roach:

#385 Grunt
#590 Furry Felons and Mammalian Misdemeanors

The ones with Ed Yong:

#146 Spider Silk
#262 Me, Myself, and Why
#430 Bacteria in Bodies and On The Farm

The one with Dan Savage: #361 Too Hot To Handle
The one with Noam Chomsky: #222 The Evolution of Language
Carolyn's favourites:

#567 Because Internet
#631 Tenacious Beasts

Bethany's favourite: #415 Weapons of Math Destruction
Rachelle's favourites:

#236 Fukushima
#434 The Dictionary
#585 Lightning Flowers
#564 Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies

Marion's favourites:

#622 What's Wrong Colonel Sanders? Feeling Chicken?
#487 Knitting in PEARL

Another shout out favourite from Rachelle: #577 Vaccine Moonshot
More favourites from Bethany:

#560 That's the Yeast of Your Worries
#579 It's a Pandemic, Why Are We So Bored?

Ryan's favourites:

#521 The Curious Life of Krill
#208 Brain on Fire

K.O.'s favourites:

#85 Cooking for Geeks
#95 The Science of Allergies

Betsy Ladyzhets and The Sick Times newsletter about Long Covid
Ed Yong's reporting archive at The Atlantic where you can find his Long Covid stories
The one with Andy Weir: #312 Impossible Space
The one with Roberto Trotta: #293 The Edge of the Sky
In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg
Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald
On Being with Krista Tippett
The one about rebranding to Science for the People: #234 Science for the People
The new Science for the People organisation we are not affiliated with and often get confused with
Bethany's book Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains"
Bethany's website
Voxtopica
K.O. at Particulate Media
Carolyn's website
Ryan's game Catlandia