Whimsical Wavelengths
@whimsicallambda.bsky.social
I Dr Jeffrey Zurek (volcanologist/geophysicist) am the host for this science podcast whimsical wavelengths! Also juggling day job, fatherhood & a “normal” life 😅. Pod found everywhere!
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Before birds ruled the skies, pterosaurs did. A newly described Australian species — Haliskia peterseni — offers a fresh look at how these ancient reptiles once soared over the Early Cretaceous seas, revealing more about flight, evolution, and life in a vanished world.
Before birds ruled the skies, pterosaurs did. A newly described Australian species — Haliskia peterseni — offers a fresh look at how these ancient reptiles once soared over the Early Cretaceous seas, revealing more about flight, evolution, and life in a vanished world.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Before birds ruled the skies, pterosaurs did. A newly described Australian species — Haliskia peterseni — offers a fresh look at how these ancient reptiles once soared over the Early Cretaceous seas, revealing more about flight, evolution, and life in a vanished world.
Before birds ruled the skies, pterosaurs did. A newly described Australian species — Haliskia peterseni — offers a fresh look at how these ancient reptiles once soared over the Early Cretaceous seas, revealing more about flight, evolution, and life in a vanished world.
🧪2/3The 1st fully synthetic plastic was made 1907 — as an electrical insulator for wiring - AC🔌(Tesla in Season 1!).
By WWII, it became a lifeline: scalable, cheap, & versatile. After, it symbolized progress.
Today — beaches littered, oceans polluted, and yet… plastic isn’t the villain we think.
By WWII, it became a lifeline: scalable, cheap, & versatile. After, it symbolized progress.
Today — beaches littered, oceans polluted, and yet… plastic isn’t the villain we think.
October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🧪2/3The 1st fully synthetic plastic was made 1907 — as an electrical insulator for wiring - AC🔌(Tesla in Season 1!).
By WWII, it became a lifeline: scalable, cheap, & versatile. After, it symbolized progress.
Today — beaches littered, oceans polluted, and yet… plastic isn’t the villain we think.
By WWII, it became a lifeline: scalable, cheap, & versatile. After, it symbolized progress.
Today — beaches littered, oceans polluted, and yet… plastic isn’t the villain we think.
I have a data conundrum. The podcast in on a ranked Apple List! Amazing! In Indonesia 🇮🇩! The issue? I don’t have any data suggesting I have any listeners from there!! It is very strange and I don’t know what it means….
October 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I have a data conundrum. The podcast in on a ranked Apple List! Amazing! In Indonesia 🇮🇩! The issue? I don’t have any data suggesting I have any listeners from there!! It is very strange and I don’t know what it means….
🧪🔭1/3 we’re diving into the deep end of the universe: supermassive black holes!
Dr. James Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History and City University of New York, comes to explore the strange physics and luminous surroundings of the darkest objects in the cosmos.
Dr. James Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History and City University of New York, comes to explore the strange physics and luminous surroundings of the darkest objects in the cosmos.
October 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
🧪🔭1/3 we’re diving into the deep end of the universe: supermassive black holes!
Dr. James Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History and City University of New York, comes to explore the strange physics and luminous surroundings of the darkest objects in the cosmos.
Dr. James Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History and City University of New York, comes to explore the strange physics and luminous surroundings of the darkest objects in the cosmos.
1/3 I scream U scream we all scream for Ice cream #science?
🕘for sweet delicious 🧪delivered here
#love the breath here. We investigate the 🧪that goes into the greatest frozen dessert🍦!🍦like other materials (like magma) melt, freeze & deform in complex ways depending on structures within the material
🕘for sweet delicious 🧪delivered here
#love the breath here. We investigate the 🧪that goes into the greatest frozen dessert🍦!🍦like other materials (like magma) melt, freeze & deform in complex ways depending on structures within the material
September 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🧪⚒️🌋1/2 #bluesky Time for Season 2! Time for Basaltic plinian eruptions, melt inclusions, viscosity and more. Today we going to head into one of my papers so volcanology!
When planning my #PhD, I wanted to do more at Masaya #Volcano. Masaya is #complicated...
#beliveitornot #scicomm
When planning my #PhD, I wanted to do more at Masaya #Volcano. Masaya is #complicated...
#beliveitornot #scicomm
September 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🧪⚒️🌋1/2 #bluesky Time for Season 2! Time for Basaltic plinian eruptions, melt inclusions, viscosity and more. Today we going to head into one of my papers so volcanology!
When planning my #PhD, I wanted to do more at Masaya #Volcano. Masaya is #complicated...
#beliveitornot #scicomm
When planning my #PhD, I wanted to do more at Masaya #Volcano. Masaya is #complicated...
#beliveitornot #scicomm
🧪researcher with interesting results to share reach out!
To start the pod goes into #volcanology⚒️ and plinian eruptions, then into food science about ice cream, then Black holes accretionary disks🔭 and then plastic. Geophysics and paleontology episodes are planned as well!
To start the pod goes into #volcanology⚒️ and plinian eruptions, then into food science about ice cream, then Black holes accretionary disks🔭 and then plastic. Geophysics and paleontology episodes are planned as well!
September 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🧪researcher with interesting results to share reach out!
To start the pod goes into #volcanology⚒️ and plinian eruptions, then into food science about ice cream, then Black holes accretionary disks🔭 and then plastic. Geophysics and paleontology episodes are planned as well!
To start the pod goes into #volcanology⚒️ and plinian eruptions, then into food science about ice cream, then Black holes accretionary disks🔭 and then plastic. Geophysics and paleontology episodes are planned as well!
2/3 This Ep's guest, PhD candidate Miranda Zammarelli, research is the closest to 🧪 conditions in natural 🌎 - Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
How #birds adapt to changes in #s & #environment? How well do they share habitat, equally or do the dominant take more 🥧? Ideal #Free or #Ideal #Despotic.
How #birds adapt to changes in #s & #environment? How well do they share habitat, equally or do the dominant take more 🥧? Ideal #Free or #Ideal #Despotic.
September 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
1000 download barrier ✅in the 1st season!
BEST NEW🧪PODCAST?
Hosted by Dr Jeff Zurek.
Season 1 it squeaked into top 50% of ALL podcasts!
& Season 2 is nearly here! Will start with an episode about #volcanology & basaltic plinian eruptions! Show the show some Lava!
open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm....
BEST NEW🧪PODCAST?
Hosted by Dr Jeff Zurek.
Season 1 it squeaked into top 50% of ALL podcasts!
& Season 2 is nearly here! Will start with an episode about #volcanology & basaltic plinian eruptions! Show the show some Lava!
open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm....
August 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
1000 download barrier ✅in the 1st season!
BEST NEW🧪PODCAST?
Hosted by Dr Jeff Zurek.
Season 1 it squeaked into top 50% of ALL podcasts!
& Season 2 is nearly here! Will start with an episode about #volcanology & basaltic plinian eruptions! Show the show some Lava!
open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm....
BEST NEW🧪PODCAST?
Hosted by Dr Jeff Zurek.
Season 1 it squeaked into top 50% of ALL podcasts!
& Season 2 is nearly here! Will start with an episode about #volcanology & basaltic plinian eruptions! Show the show some Lava!
open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm....
2/2🧪 early mammals spent >100 million years as small, short-lived animals led to gene loss or inactivation of traits associated with longevity
To talk about this & the #evolution of aging the pod welcomed ,Dr Molly Burke from OSU!
Hope it's awesome summer for everyone. New eps September 15th!
To talk about this & the #evolution of aging the pod welcomed ,Dr Molly Burke from OSU!
Hope it's awesome summer for everyone. New eps September 15th!
August 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
2/2🧪 early mammals spent >100 million years as small, short-lived animals led to gene loss or inactivation of traits associated with longevity
To talk about this & the #evolution of aging the pod welcomed ,Dr Molly Burke from OSU!
Hope it's awesome summer for everyone. New eps September 15th!
To talk about this & the #evolution of aging the pod welcomed ,Dr Molly Burke from OSU!
Hope it's awesome summer for everyone. New eps September 15th!
1/3🧪⚒️This ep includes the greatest scientist you may have not heard of.
Dr. Clair Patterson (Pic ⬇️) geochemist
-ties to manhattan project
-age of the 🌍
-enviromentism
-scientific clean rooms
-ending the lead poisoning of generations
Dr. Clair Patterson (Pic ⬇️) geochemist
-ties to manhattan project
-age of the 🌍
-enviromentism
-scientific clean rooms
-ending the lead poisoning of generations
July 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
1/3🧪⚒️This ep includes the greatest scientist you may have not heard of.
Dr. Clair Patterson (Pic ⬇️) geochemist
-ties to manhattan project
-age of the 🌍
-enviromentism
-scientific clean rooms
-ending the lead poisoning of generations
Dr. Clair Patterson (Pic ⬇️) geochemist
-ties to manhattan project
-age of the 🌍
-enviromentism
-scientific clean rooms
-ending the lead poisoning of generations
Not science related however did get out to listen to some wavelengths last night!
July 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Not science related however did get out to listen to some wavelengths last night!
1/2 🧪⚒️🌋 One more episode to go in the inaugural season of Whimsical Wavelengths - A #Science #Podcast!
We have dived into peer reviewed #research with guests covering
#Birds
#Volcanoes
#Gravitational Lensing
#Galaxy modeling
#Evolution of aging
#Dinosaurs
& More!
We have dived into peer reviewed #research with guests covering
#Birds
#Volcanoes
#Gravitational Lensing
#Galaxy modeling
#Evolution of aging
#Dinosaurs
& More!
July 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
1/2 🧪⚒️🌋 One more episode to go in the inaugural season of Whimsical Wavelengths - A #Science #Podcast!
We have dived into peer reviewed #research with guests covering
#Birds
#Volcanoes
#Gravitational Lensing
#Galaxy modeling
#Evolution of aging
#Dinosaurs
& More!
We have dived into peer reviewed #research with guests covering
#Birds
#Volcanoes
#Gravitational Lensing
#Galaxy modeling
#Evolution of aging
#Dinosaurs
& More!
🧪⚒️Today the pod starts at the ⛽ & the 🙋: Ever wondered why all pumps say “unleaded gas”? Or perhaps why would ⛽need to? The story is #scientific discovery, advocacy, #environmentalism & corporate greed. Has direct ties to the manhattan project & the age of the 🌎.
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open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm...
July 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🧪⚒️Today the pod starts at the ⛽ & the 🙋: Ever wondered why all pumps say “unleaded gas”? Or perhaps why would ⛽need to? The story is #scientific discovery, advocacy, #environmentalism & corporate greed. Has direct ties to the manhattan project & the age of the 🌎.
open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm...
open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm...
🧪Tomorrow a new episode taking a scientific trip down history to look at Leaded gasoline. Why? The short answer is engine knocking. The episode starts with a #history of lead which went through the roman empire & wasn't something viral about the #roman #empire? #meme
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open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm...
July 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
🧪Tomorrow a new episode taking a scientific trip down history to look at Leaded gasoline. Why? The short answer is engine knocking. The episode starts with a #history of lead which went through the roman empire & wasn't something viral about the #roman #empire? #meme
open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm...
open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm...
Happy Canada Day!
To celebrate here is a picture from one corner of the country I took in the Wernecke Mountains, Central Yukon Canada in late July / early August (2006)!
To celebrate here is a picture from one corner of the country I took in the Wernecke Mountains, Central Yukon Canada in late July / early August (2006)!
July 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Happy Canada Day!
To celebrate here is a picture from one corner of the country I took in the Wernecke Mountains, Central Yukon Canada in late July / early August (2006)!
To celebrate here is a picture from one corner of the country I took in the Wernecke Mountains, Central Yukon Canada in late July / early August (2006)!
Pod shows gravity & deformation are better together for 🌋 monitoring. Like 🥜🧈 &jelly!
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This is a #science #podcast that interviews researchers about their work or scientific storytelling.➕bad🧪 #jokes & #puns. & Sometimes I make #memes ➕guests must tell their favourite 🧪joke!⚒️
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This is a #science #podcast that interviews researchers about their work or scientific storytelling.➕bad🧪 #jokes & #puns. & Sometimes I make #memes ➕guests must tell their favourite 🧪joke!⚒️
June 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
1/3🧪⚒️🌋Whimsical Wavelengths - A science podcast is here to show Deformation and #gravity go hand in hand in #volcano monitoring like apple pie and icecream. These 2 techniques say much more together.
For this Ep I reached out to a friend to share her #research on Sierra Negra #volcano, Galapagos!
For this Ep I reached out to a friend to share her #research on Sierra Negra #volcano, Galapagos!
June 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
⚒️Tomorrow is ep 22 of Whimsical Wavelengths - A science podcast
This time all about 🌋Sierra Negra #volcano! Image is a field shot from the guest of the ep! My good friend Dr Antonina Calahorrano-Di Patre joins the #podcast to discuss #science publishing, gravity, deformation & #volcanic behaviour!
This time all about 🌋Sierra Negra #volcano! Image is a field shot from the guest of the ep! My good friend Dr Antonina Calahorrano-Di Patre joins the #podcast to discuss #science publishing, gravity, deformation & #volcanic behaviour!
June 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🧪The latest Episode of Whimsical Wavelengths - A #science #Podcast is out. It is all about #insect respiration! The Diagrams in the back of the #meme are derived from CT scanning insects! The tubes that make up the respiration system don't survive #dissection
Pod found everywhere they are listed
Pod found everywhere they are listed
June 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
🧪The latest Episode of Whimsical Wavelengths - A #science #Podcast is out. It is all about #insect respiration! The Diagrams in the back of the #meme are derived from CT scanning insects! The tubes that make up the respiration system don't survive #dissection
Pod found everywhere they are listed
Pod found everywhere they are listed
2/3🧪 🐜s are incredibly important. Depending on the study and methods used there is more weight on earth within 🐜than humans...They form the backbone of many ecosystems.
Today though we will focus on their respiratory system. How do they breathe? #science
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Today though we will focus on their respiratory system. How do they breathe? #science
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June 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
2/3🧪 🐜s are incredibly important. Depending on the study and methods used there is more weight on earth within 🐜than humans...They form the backbone of many ecosystems.
Today though we will focus on their respiratory system. How do they breathe? #science
open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm...
Today though we will focus on their respiratory system. How do they breathe? #science
open.spotify.com/show/62yumbm...
1/3🧪This episode on the pod is all about insects(🐜)& their respiratory systems?! Have you ever thought about how #insects breathe (see image)? I can honestly say it never occured me to ask that question. However now that the question is asked... Dr Hollister Herhold joins the pod to discuss!
June 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
1/3🧪This episode on the pod is all about insects(🐜)& their respiratory systems?! Have you ever thought about how #insects breathe (see image)? I can honestly say it never occured me to ask that question. However now that the question is asked... Dr Hollister Herhold joins the pod to discuss!
