Thanks to Chris for joining me virtually from my former place of work, Leeds Uni!

https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/school-of-biology/staff/79/dr-christopher-hassall

Hassall Lab - Home

The BioDAR Project on radar and ecology:: Home - BioDAR.

The Extinction Studies DTP is here: Extinction Studies DTP.

I spoke to Andrew back in February about a great many things, from informatics to family to Jack Birch.

Andrew's York profile: https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/people/masonandrew/

Most relevant recent preprint:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657659

Andrew's websites:https://asmasonomics.github.io
https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/our-staff/masonandrew/

His LinkedIn profile:www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-mason-7a383263

Recent blog on ELIXIR and teaching/data stewardship:https://elixiruknode.org/blog/2026/embedding-my-elixir-uk-material-in-university-teaching/

It was great to talk to Chris earlier this year about his life and career.

His profile: https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/people/chris-macdonald/

Foldable portable microscopes:https://foldscope.com/ The Garforth restaurant we mentioned: https://www.thestationhousegarforth.co.uk/

It was fantastc to speak to current Head of Department James Chong, a very friendly and accessible leader and someone who represents the fantastic, collegiate atmosphere in Biology at York.

Please be aware that James' reserch involved anaerboic digestion and the treatment of different kinds of human waste - it's probably not an episode to listen to while you eat!

Pint of Science - what a great idea!

I attended Pint of Science in York on 19 May 2026

https://pintofscience.co.uk/events/york/

Fortyfive Vinyl was a cracking venue: https://www.fortyfiveuk.com/

Some speaker info/links below

Nicole: https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/nicole-levermore
Océanehttps://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3772318.3791849

Jadie is a 'triple threat' - former year in industry student, GenerationResearch alumna and current PhD student/researcher at the University of York!!

We talked about Jadie's student journey and her current PhD research . (Some of which happens at Jimmy's, even if Jadie wasn't famiiar with the TV show!)

Jadie's recent poster from STEM for Britain can be found here: https://stemforbritain.org.uk/posters-awards-2026/ja1109_POS.pdf

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jadie-acklam-from-university-of-york-investigating-share-7439697550619693056-HSiA/

Delrio's is also recommended! https://www.delriosrestaurant.com/

It was great to talk to James Moir about his work and research - and his time as Head of Department during a very interesting period of recent history!

Taking a break to get some new interviews recorded for Season 2.

I'll be back in early summer... thank you for listening!!!!