#5 is Skeptics with a K, which is a podcast about science and skepticism produced by the Merseyside Skeptics Society (the poly stuff doesn't come up too often, don't want to be misleading - it's just that recently every so often they mention going out with other club members and stuff and then add "oh in case you missed it, we're poly, it's all fine".)
If you liked my Let's Read A Scientific Paper post, that's basically what they do, only in audio and with more bad jokes and they tend to alternate between looking at actual scientific papers and looking at advertising that makes scientific claims (and occasionally do things like go to Flat Earth conferences or start a legal challenge to keep the national health service from paying for snake oil. One of the hosts does a lot of placebo and scientific method stuff, one does a lot of health and sexuality stuff, and one does a lot of science-in-the-media topics. And there's a recurring guest who's really great who does pseudoscience in the prison system. I like them partly because they're more likely to cover that kind of thing than the easy targets a lot of other skepticism outreach does.)
#12 is Archaeological Fantasies, which is run by Serra Zander, a PhD student and working CRM archaeologist, and features her co-hosts, Jeb Card and Ken Feder, who are both established and tenured research professors at different institutions, who met through her blog rather than through academic circles. I find the way they balance that dynamic really interesting even if not always perfect. Unfortunately it's recently been moving more toward the interview-new-people format than the hosts-chat-about-stuff format, so you don't see as much of the friendship dynamic between them.
But it's still fun if you want to hear working archaeologists rip apart racist nonsense like Ancient Aliens every month, and they also cover a lot on both the history of archaeology (they have a drinking game that involves the word 'Victorians' said in a certain tone of voice) and the cutting edge of archeology (they had a recent episode on the archaeology of open-sandbox mmorpgs that was fascinating.)
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If you liked my Let's Read A Scientific Paper post, that's basically what they do, only in audio and with more bad jokes and they tend to alternate between looking at actual scientific papers and looking at advertising that makes scientific claims (and occasionally do things like go to Flat Earth conferences or start a legal challenge to keep the national health service from paying for snake oil. One of the hosts does a lot of placebo and scientific method stuff, one does a lot of health and sexuality stuff, and one does a lot of science-in-the-media topics. And there's a recurring guest who's really great who does pseudoscience in the prison system. I like them partly because they're more likely to cover that kind of thing than the easy targets a lot of other skepticism outreach does.)
#12 is Archaeological Fantasies, which is run by Serra Zander, a PhD student and working CRM archaeologist, and features her co-hosts, Jeb Card and Ken Feder, who are both established and tenured research professors at different institutions, who met through her blog rather than through academic circles. I find the way they balance that dynamic really interesting even if not always perfect. Unfortunately it's recently been moving more toward the interview-new-people format than the hosts-chat-about-stuff format, so you don't see as much of the friendship dynamic between them.
But it's still fun if you want to hear working archaeologists rip apart racist nonsense like Ancient Aliens every month, and they also cover a lot on both the history of archaeology (they have a drinking game that involves the word 'Victorians' said in a certain tone of voice) and the cutting edge of archeology (they had a recent episode on the archaeology of open-sandbox mmorpgs that was fascinating.)