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The Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Directorate at NSF

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Oct 26, 2022

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For this episode, we're joined by Thyaga Nandagopal, Division Director for the Division of Innovation and Technology Ecosystems, in the newly launched TIP Directorate at NSF. He discusses the directorate's programs, priorities, and future plans.

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Oct 26, 2022

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We hope you enjoy these in-depth discussions of recently published BioScience articles and other science stories. Each episode of our interview series delves into the research behind a highlighted story, giving listeners unique insight into scientists' work.

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Episode #8: Preventing Midwest Grain Failures: Across the United States, record quantities of corn and soybeans have been harvested in recent years. However, according Dr. David Gustafson of the International Life Sciences Institute Research Foundation, this trend may soon change. The combined and un by BioScience Talks
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Episode #7: Contact with Nature May Mean More Social Cohesion, Less Crime: Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefits of contact with nature for human well-being. However, despite strong trends toward greater urbanization and declining green space, little is known about the social consequences of such contact. Netta Weinste by BioScience Talks
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Episode #2: Transgenic Fish on the Loose?: Fast-growing transgenic salmonids are currently being developed for eventual human consumption. Dr. Robert Devlin and his team seek to evaluate the ecological threats posed by these GMO fish. In this discussion, he outlines the uncertainty inherent in the by BioScience Talks
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Episode #16: Hardened Shorelines Are a Threat to Ecosystems: The installation of structures to protect against coastal threats, called shoreline hardening, is a common practice worldwide, with many coastal cities having 50% or more of their shores protected against floods and erosion. Despite increasing evidence o by BioScience Talks
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Episode #15 - Marine Citizen Science: Room for Growth: The burgeoning field of citizen science offers the public an opportunity to participate directly in research and data analysis—and it offers scientists access to robust data sets that previously would have been impossible to collect. Unfortunately, resea by BioScience Talks
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Episode #5: When Tree Planting Hurts Ecosystems: "Forest restoration" is a common conservation theme, often promoted as a means of repairing degraded landscapes and boosting carbon storage. But when the planting areas are poorly chosen, these initiatives have the potential to eradicate ancient grassland by BioScience Talks
19 min listen
BioScience Talks Episode #1: Coupled Human and Natural Systems: In our first episode, we discuss the concept of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) with Dr. Jiquan Chen, of Michigan State University, who studies CHANS on the Mongolian Plateau. The CHANS concept enables the quantification of interacting human and by BioScience Talks
22 min listen
Episode 22: Nature's Mental Health Benefits: Nature's positive impact on mood is easily understood on an intuitive level, but a more fine-grain analysis reveals quantifiable effects with potentially serious implications for human well-being. For this episode of BioScience Talks, we are joined by Dr by BioScience Talks
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Episode #3: Extracellular Vesicles Everywhere: Extracellular vesicles (EVs; article here) are one of the biggest stories in biology. These tiny "packets" are released by cells and constitute a previously misunderstood means of intracellular communication -- and their implications are huge. In humans, by BioScience Talks
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Episode 14: Hydroelectric Dams Kill Insects, Wreak Havoc with Food Webs: Hydropower dams generate more energy than all other renewable sources combined. However, they can also produce dire environmental consequences, including the devastation of aquatic insect populations and the food webs that those insects underpin. A pract by BioScience Talks
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Episode #20: Eucalypts Spotlight Biosecurity Failures: For more than 100 years, eucalypts—woody plants that range in size from shrubs to trees—have been transported from their natural ecosystems in Australia to plantations across the globe. This unique history provides a novel lens for viewing the spread of by BioScience Talks
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Gene Drive Technology: Where is the Future? (Bonus Episode): Gene drives have the potential to revolutionize approaches to major public health, conservation, and agricultural problems. For instance, gene drives might one day prevent mosquitoes from spreading a variety of deadly diseases, including Zika virus, mal by BioScience Talks
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Episode #4: Fire in the Amazon: Human-caused fires have the potential to hugely alter tropical forests—and the world at large. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Jennifer Balch, of the University of Colorado–Boulder. She discusses a long-term experiment in which she and her team deliberate by BioScience Talks
21 min listen
Preview of BioScience Talks Episode 1: This episode previews BioScience Talks' upcoming first episode on coupled human and natural systems, to be released on 10 June. Stay tuned! by BioScience Talks
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Conservation Endocrinology in a Changing World: As species rapidly adapt to altered landscapes and a warming climate, scientists and stakeholders need new techniques to monitor ecological responses and plan future conservation efforts. Writing in BioScience, Drs. Stephen McCormick of the US Geological by BioScience Talks
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Episode #17: Big Data and Good Science: Scientists have long debated the best methods to achieve sound findings. In recent decades, hypothesis-driven frameworks have been enshrined in textbooks and school courses, with iterative and inductive approaches often taking a back seat. However, the a by BioScience Talks
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Episode #19: Microbial Biodiversity in the Environment Can Alter Human Health: The science of human microbiomes is advancing at an incredible pace. With each passing day, more is known about the vast suite of microorganisms that inhabit human bodies—and about the important role that they play in maintaining our health. In this epis by BioScience Talks
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Episode #6: A Successful Intervention Boosts the Gender Diversity of STEM Faculty: Eighty-one percent of US science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) university faculty members are men. The relative dearth of women in the field is a long-recognized problem—but it's one that may be on its way to a solution. Using a three-step int by BioScience Talks
18 min listen
Episode #23: The Redomestication of Wolves: On landscapes around the world, environmental change is bringing people and large carnivores together—but the union is not without its problems. Human–wildlife conflict is on the rise as development continues unabated and apex predators begin to reoccupy by BioScience Talks
25 min listen
Episode #11: How to Save Aggregate-Spawning Fish: Globally declining fish populations are a frequently cited ecological and commercial calamity, but relatively little attention has been paid to the specific threats faced by fish that gather and spawn in large groups. Because they gather in such large g by BioScience Talks
23 min listen
Bridging the Gaps in Global Conservation: To date, the conservation of global biodiversity has relied on a patchwork of international goals and national- and regional-level plans. Hampered by poor planning, competing interests, and an incomplete view of large-scale ecosystem function, these eff by BioScience Talks
27 min listen
Episode #12: Current Methods Cannot Predict Damage to Coral Reefs: The potentially devastating effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs are well known, but the methods used to evaluate the threats are often focused on individual species, viewed in isolation, and often in a laboratory. For this episode of BioScience by BioScience Talks
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Scientists Warn that Proposed US–Mexico Border Wall Threatens Biodiversity, Conservation: Amidst increased tensions over the US–Mexico border, a multinational group of over 2500 scientists have endorsed an article cautioning that a hardened barrier may produce devastating ecological effects while hampering binational conservation. In the BioS by BioScience Talks
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Bonus Episode: Bear Behavior and the Recent Montana Grizzly Mauling: Most interactions between humans and bears result in no harm to either party. However, aggressive bears can occasionally pose a serious threat to human well-being, such as occurred in a recent attack in the Montana backcountry. In this bonus episode, be by BioScience Talks
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Low Oxygen in Chesapeake Bay: Each year, low oxygen levels, known as hypoxia, strike the deep waters of Chesapeake Bay. Arising from a combination of human-induced and natural factors, low oxygen levels have profound effects on fish and other important ecosystem players. Writing in B by BioScience Talks
28 min listen
Bonus Episode: Disease-Carrying Ticks and How to Avoid Them: Ticks pose numerous threats to human health and well-being, ranging from the familiar Lyme threat to spotted fever rickettsiosis and even mammalian meat allergies. For this special bonus episode of BioScience Talks, we chatted with Brian Allan of the Uni by BioScience Talks
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Episode #9: Plague-Afflicted Prairie Dogs and Modeling Animal-Borne Disease: Animal-borne diseases have ruled the news cycle recently—from Zika and Ebola to SARS and MERS. However, little is known about the spread of these diseases in their animal hosts. More perplexing, the mechanisms that lead to human outbreaks remain elusive. by BioScience Talks
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Episode 21: Bright Spots of Resilience to Climate Disturbance: Climate-driven disturbances are having profound impacts on coastal ecosystems, with many crucial habitat-forming species in sharp decline. However, among these degraded biomes, examples of resilience are emerging. For this episode of BioScience Talks, w by BioScience Talks
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Bonus Episode: Complex Data Integration: The integration of data from two or more domains is required for addressing many fundamental scientific questions and understanding how to mitigate challenges affecting humanity and our planet. In March 2015, AIBS convened a workshop that brought together by BioScience Talks
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Episode #13: Landscape Ecology and its Role in Policymaking: The world faces unprecedented environmental transformation. Successfully managing and adapting to a rapidly changing Earth requires the swift action of well-informed policymakers. In a State of the Science report for BioScience, Audrey Mayer of Michigan by BioScience Talks
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