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 Gaming with Science is a podcast that looks at science through the lens of tabletop board games. If you ever wondered how natural selection shows up in Evolution, whether Cytosis reflects actual cell metabolism, or what the socioeconomics of Monopoly are, this is the place for you. (And if not, we hope you’ll give us a try anyway.) So grab a drink, pull up a chair, and let’s have fun playing dice with the universe!Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) 科学
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  • S3E03.1 - The Mating Game (bonus)

    S3E03.1 - The Mating Game (bonus)
    2026/05/13
    #PangolinScienceGames #TheMatingGame #SexualSelection #BoardGames #Science #Bonus Summary In this bonus episode of Gaming with Science, we’re joined by Dr. Andrea Roth Monzón and Dr. Andrew Thompson of Pangolin Games to discuss their upcoming Kickstarter project, The Mating Game. We dive into how they’ve translated complex evolutionary concepts like sexual selection and reproductive trade-offs into a vibrant, cartoony tabletop experience that’s as much a teaching tool as it is a game. From the strategic nuances of "flashy" versus "sneaky" mating behaviors to the challenges of designing for a K-12 classroom, Andrea and Andrew share their eight-year journey of balancing hard science with high-energy fun. Whether you want to learn why an elephant seal dresses like a luchador or how games can foster a lifelong love of discovery, join us for a look at the wild world of sexual selection with The Mating Game. Timestamps 00:00 - Introductions03:52 - Game vision and origin11:57 - Balancing science and fun17:01 - Tuning complexity23:31 - Tabletopia and classroom accessibility26:41 - Favorite other games31:50 - Kickstarter pitch Links The Mating Game - On Kickstarter and Tabletopia Pangolin Science Games on Instagram and Facebook, and Bluesky Find our socials at https://www.gamingwithscience.net This episode of Gaming with Science™ was produced with the help of the University of Georgia and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Full Transcript (Some platforms truncate the transcript due to length restrictions. If so, you can always find the full transcript on https://www.gamingwithscience.net/ ) Jason 0:06 Hello and welcome to the gaming with science podcast where we talk about the science behind some of your favorite games. Brian 0:12 Today, we're having a creator interview with the creators of the mating game by pangolin games. Hey, welcome back to a bonus episode. This is Brian. Jason 0:22 This is Jason Brian 0:23 and today we are joined by Andrea Roth Monzón and Andrew Thompson, the creators of the mating game. Why don't you introduce yourselves? Andrea 0:31 I'm Andrea, a researcher. I've worked with a very broad different kinds of things. I've done anything from like herpetology to more like evolutionary ecology stuff to basically parasitology, which is where I'm at at the moment. And I've always been interested in teaching science and getting people interested in science, specifically from an experiential point of view. I think science is to be discovered. And so I think games create an opportunity to discover, basically science, to have an opportunity to discover the process before you actually learn about it through a game. Brian 1:05 Awesome. Thank you. Jason 1:06 And some vocabulary for our listeners. So herpetology is the study of like snakes and lizards and reptiles and stuff. Parasitology is the study of parasites. So it basically sounds like Andrea studies creepy crawly squiggly things. Brian 1:18 Herpetology is my favorite paraphyletic science. When I talk about jargon, it's a group of things that are not actually related to one another, right? Because you got amphibians and snakes and lizards and all the things that crawl across the ground, all the vertebrates that drag their bellies, Andrea 1:32 but you also have all the cool stuff. I still tell people they're my first love, and would always be my love. Brian 1:39 What about you? Andrew? Andrew 1:41 Yeah. So my name is Andrew Thompson. I actually met Andrea in grad school, so that's where we started this venture together. My background is in microbiology, and I transitioned from microbiology as an undergraduate into biology, and I did some microbial ecology in soils, and I also did some astrobiology. So I got the opportunity to work down antarctica with the largest ice free region in Antarctica, and we were studying soils down there to understand kind of fundamental ecological processes, because it's a lot the diversity is so reduced to that you can actually ask some of these big questions. that led into astrobiology. And I've always been a big kind of sci fi idea guy, and so that fit really well. And after grad school, I decided that I was kind of tired of research, and I liked ideas more than I liked research. And so I've been transitioning since then towards more of a sci fi author, game entrepreneur thing, but I still am actively researching my postdoc right now, doing some computational biology work with soil food web modeling and also some more soil environmental microbiology. Brian 2:38 So just to clarify, you guys are both PhDs, correct? Yes, yes. Okay, so you're Dr Andrea and Dr Andrew. Andrew 2:46 Yes, that's correct. Brian 2:48 Okay, but I did want to follow up. So you worked at, were you at McMurdo Station? Andrew 2:52 I was yes, in the dry valleys. Brian 2:55 I actually, I ...
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    36 分
  • S3E04 - Diatoms (Diatoms)

    S3E04 - Diatoms (Diatoms)
    2026/04/29
    #Diatoms #DONA #Ludoliminal #Microbiology #BoardGames #Science In this episode we're going microscopic to talk about everything Diatoms! Starting from the game by Ludoliminal and going through the classic (and obscure) Victorian art form of arranging these beautiful glass-shelled organisms on microscope slides, our special guest Laura Aycock--collections manager at the world's *largest* diatom herbarium--helps us understand all the beauty and wonder of these tiny, shimmingering marvels. From tepid ponds to hot springs to arctic ice, diatoms are everywhere, and they do a lot for us while looking absolutely fabulous. So grab a microscope and prepare to never look at pond scum the same way again! Timestamps 00:00 Introductions01:09 Fun facts: diatom oxygen and ice habitats03:53 Overview of Diatoms the game11:41 What is a diatom?15:06 What is a diatom herbarium?20:55 Diatom reproduction (and shrinkage!)25:43 Diatom artwork32:20 Diatomacious earth35:06 DNA complicating things38:15 Weird diatom facts42:05 Nitpick corner & grades47:27 Wrap-up Links Diatoms official website (Ludoliminal Games)Diatoms living in arctic ice (Stanford University)Diatom art (Google image search)Diatoms of North America (and recorded lectures)Jeffrey Stone's diatom electron micrographs (Instagram)The Diatomist documentary (Vimeo)Henry Dalton's micro-mosaics (Microscopist.net) Amazon rain forest fertilization (Wiley.com)Diatom slide preparation part 1 & part 2 (YouTube)Specific diatoms: Ancient diatoms (ScienceDirect)Campylodiscus - Pringles chip shaped diatom (ResearchGate)Entomoneis - twisted figure 8 (Diatoms.org)Ethnomodiscus - 2m diatom (Wikipedia)Aulacodiscus - Diatom with antennae (MIcroscopy UK) The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Find our socials at https://www.gamingwithscience.net This episode of Gaming with Science™ was produced with the help of the University of Georgia and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Full Transcript (Some platforms truncate the transcript due to length restrictions. If so, you can always find the full transcript on https://www.gamingwithscience.net/ ) Brian 0:00 Jason, hello and welcome to the gaming with Science Podcast, where we talk about science behind some of your favorite games. Jason Wallace 0:10 Today, we will be talking about diatoms by ludoliminal Games. All right, everyone, welcome back to gaming with science. This is Jason. This is Brian, and today, for our special guest, we have Laura Aycock. Laura, can you please introduce yourself? Laura 0:25 Sure. I'm Laura Aycock. I am the Collection Manager of the diatom herbarium at the Academy natural sciences in Philadelphia that's affiliated with Drexel University. And I've been working with diatoms for about 15 years, and I find them fun and enjoyable. Brian 0:38 That's really cool. Thank you for coming on, Jason. How did you manage to get the exact right person to come talk to us? Good job Jason Wallace 0:44 being very persistent with emails. Laura 0:46 Theres also not very many of us Jason Wallace 0:49 there is that when there's actually a website called diatoms.org, that has all the nation's top diatoms scientists linked to it, somehow, it's not that hard to find someone. So before we get into this lovely game about absolutely beautiful, microscopic creatures. Let's start with our fun science facts. So Laura, as our guest, we usually pass the privilege to you to start. Do you have something you'd like to share with our audience? Laura 1:09 Sure. My favorite fact about diatoms is they produce about a fourth of the oxygen we breathe. So they're very important to life on Earth, and we wouldn't survive without them. Brian 1:16 So trees get all the credit, but they're stealing that Jason Wallace 1:19 we talkabout plant blindness, where people just don't look at plants. There's definitely what macroscopic bias, where we just don't think about all the things that aren't within, you know, human size scale. So yeah, trees get all the credit, but all these little microbes are actually doing a whole bunch of the work there. Laura 1:33 Yeah, diatoms, along with other groups of algae, actually produce about half of the oxygen we breathe, so they are as important, if not more important, than land plant, but no one thinks about them, sees them, or really acknowledges them. Brian 1:44 So let me think. Then I'm thinking about this track of carbon dioxide that we've been seeing sort of dip and rise and dip and rise and dip and rise. Now that dip and rise that's from the like Alpine forests in the northern continents, right? But the stable activity that's presumably all the algae in the ocean, right? Or do they also fluctuate on an annual cycle? Jason Wallace 2:04 I'd assume they'd also fluctuate annually, just because of temperature, if nothing else. Laura 2:07 It depends on the environment. ...
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    49 分
  • S3E03 - Cellulose (Plant Cell Biology)

    S3E03 - Cellulose (Plant Cell Biology)
    2026/03/25
    #Cellulose #GeniusGames #InDefenseOfPlants #Plants #Botany #CellBiology #MolecularBiology #BoardGames #Science #SciComm Summary This mont we talk Cellulose and all things plants with special guest Matt Candeias, of the In Defense of Plants podcast. In this sequel to Cytosis, we dive inside of a plant cell in a worker-placement game that while similar to its predecessor also adds a lot of new mechanics and strategy. As usual, Genius Games's science is top-notch, and we get to talk about photosynthesis, Rubisco, how plants nearly wrecked the environment (twice!), why C4 photosynthesis is the best photosynthesis, and the weirdest ways plant use their energy. So grab a houseplant and settle back for all things Cellulose. Timestamps 00:00 Introductions02:40 Pollen and pointy sticks07:59 Intro to Cellulose13:47 Rubisco & chloroplasts20:47 The cell wall25:15 Plant movement29:12 Elements of photosynthesis32:09 CAM & C4 photosynthesis38:03 Water and light shaping plant distributions42:14 Weirdest use for cellulose44:52 Nitpick corner51:12 Grades56:27 Wrap-up Links Official Game Website (Genius Games)In Defense of Plants (Podcast & Book)430,000 year old wooden tool (Science.org)The evolution of C4 photosynthesis (New Phytologist)Skunk cabbage and philodendron making heat (In Defense of Plants) Find our socials at https://www.gamingwithscience.net This episode of Gaming with Science™ was produced with the help of the University of Georgia and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Full Transcript (Some platforms truncate the transcript due to length restrictions. If so, you can always find the full transcript on https://www.gamingwithscience.net/ ) Jason 0:00 Hello, and welcome to the gaming with Science Podcast, where we talk about the science behind some of your favorite games. Brian 0:10 Today, we're going to talk about cellulose by genius games. Hey, welcome back to gaming with science. This is Brian. This is Jason, and we have a very special guest with us today, Dr Matt Candeias, who is holding up the wall against plant blindness. He is the host of In Defense of Plant, and I'm already breaking my thing. I should be letting him introduce himself, Matt, tell us about yourself. Matt 0:36 Well, first off, thank you guys so much for having me. It's an honor to be here. My name is Matt Candeias, yeah, I'm an ecologist by training. I have always had an interest in sort of the way the natural world interacts with itself, us including and for about the last probably 20 years of my life, that has largely been focused on how plants set the foundation for everything in this world. So yeah, my PhD is in plant ecology. I spent a lot of time looking at how plants kind of form communities and structure themselves over different gradients in the environment. It's been a lot of fun. And as you mentioned, I run in defense of plants, so for many, many years of my life, surprisingly, that number goes up every year and just hits me with a whole new sense of, Oh, I'm getting older. Yeah. It's been a, basically my Ode to My love to plants, and trying to share that passion with the world and try to get people to see plants the way I do. You know, it was one of those things where I just kind of always thought that plants got the short shrift when it came to science communication and the way we looked at the natural world. You know, cheetahs are exciting, elephants are brilliant. Why aren't we talking about plants like that, other than as food or medicine, which is cool, but plants are their own organisms, so I created in defense of plants to celebrate that. And it's been a love affair of communicating that in many different forums, but mostly through podcasting, ever since, Brian 1:51 you are the host, but you have talked to everyone. You have had so many episodes, and you have on special guests pretty much almost every episode. I can't imagine what it's like to schedule all of that. Matt 2:03 Calendars give me anxiety. So it's always anxious. I have tons of anxiety around it, but it's kind of streamlined at this point, and it's just fun. And it turns out that people really want to share their passion too. And when you come in and say, Hey, I'd like to promote the science you're doing, I think it's really cool. People are really receptive to that. So, you know, they my guests make it very easy on me as best as they can. You know, it's the herding cats. The phrase always comes to mind though. You know, we just do our best. Brian 2:29 All right, so I'm glad that you were able to join us for a very plant centric game. I know it's much more cellular biology than ecology, but again, couldn't pass up the opportunity to try to get you to come on and talk to us. But before we get into talking about cellulose, let's do a little bit of science banter. So what's something cool you learned recently or heard about a story or anything like that? We usually let ...
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