The Last Episode #642

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