The A Level Biologist Podcasts
TAB Podcasts brings the most diverse set of experiences and people in life science. Scientists, business people, educators, investors and healthcare professionals all live here. Based on the first A level biology hub in the world, TAB Podcasts jumps on the podcast as the most entertaining medium to share the most exciting area in the world. Your host, Arian Mirzarafie Ahi, boasts a dizzying breadth of life science experience across academia, research, business and communication. Beyond the standard qualifications and work experience, it is the people and places which most inspired Arian that make it to TAB Podcasts. Arian climbed those ladders so you don’t have to. All you have to do is tune in.
Episodes
39 episodes
🌌 Shepherd the Dark, Inspire the Light
This composite, double-recorded episode explores one of the richest nature photography editions of the Curious Natural Philosopher as it straddles the special announcements and recording of the first guest episode of Season 4 with Dr. Marios Ky...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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21:41
🍀 3's for Luck
Celebrate with me 3 amazing pieces of news this edition and episode:🥳 4 years of the podcast - Can you believe it? Leave a review if you were here in Season 1!🏆 My first photography competition - And why I will not win...🖼️ Plan...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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21:26
📱 How Technology Is Changing Our Biology with Dr. Marios Kyriazis
When I found out that neurons get to compete with sex cells for resources, I found a deep well of research artfully brought together by Dr. Marios Kyriazis under the indispensable soma hypothesis. As technology advances, the positive stress it ...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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50:39
🌏 And Boy Do I Like This
The experience of life on Earth underpins our psyche in our smallest everyday encounters. This edition, with a blue moth, red-faced duck and the sky's crack of summer. Oh, and the heaven trees. Again. They're kind of a leitmotif now.Fin...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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13:24
🌄 San Pellegrino
The mysterious sticker on the small glass water bottle hinted at a place long gone. It read: San Pellegrino Terme - Italia - 1899. The place is still alive. Want to visit? Find the Newsletter edition with the same title on Li...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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13:38
✅ Yes to Everything
After 2 years of teacher training in '20-'22, I finally graduated in Kent with my PGDE. This time, nothing could stop me celebrating 🎉 Live from a sweaty rental car on the first unofficial day of summer in Cambridge.Find the Newsletter ...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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9:11
🎭 Err... Interval!
An inadvertent interval was bound to happen in Season 4, the first weekly season of the podcast. Weeklies will be back soon, just like the background birdsong 🐦
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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2:50
🤖 Light and Windows (A Peek into ChatGPT's Prose)
I sat and looked through my window, and the image of the tree in the distance looked the same as the wallpaper on my Windows. It was a thread weaved through mental exploration. This has now advanced into artificial intelligence that is persuasi...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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17:55
☀️ Key Performance Indicator: Joy
Reflecting on the interview with special guest, Dr. Daria Chrobok, I explore the meaning of happiness at work, and the importance of combining talents with opportunities. More recently, I found out about Dr. Chrobok's personal story detailing a...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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12:50
🦆 The Attenborough Nature Reserve and the Odd Feathered Duck
An impromptu escapade to Nottingham revealed a cherished reserve stretching over vast ponds. Have you ever seen an unusually looking duck? Find out what her boyfriend thought as they approached me out of the river...Each Newsletter edit...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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12:47
🐝 The Yellow Jacket Landed on Mine
The first reflection on the Curious Natural Philosopher Newsletter starts with this edition about a wasp that found its peace on my jacket, comforted by its familiar micropattern. Subscribe to the Newsletter on LinkedIn to stay up to date with ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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11:02
🧬 Life: Survival versus Reproduction (Paper Analysis)
I analyse one of my most popular papers on the overarching phenomenon of life, and argue that the mere act of repeating a developmental pathway t...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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31:36
🌊 Avatar: The Way of Water (Top 5 Biology Moments)
Happy 2023! Welcome to Season 4 with episodes released every Wednesday. We launch this season with a deep dive into Avatar: The Way of Water and explore the most interesting and controversial themes and scenes:🐳 The Role of Aggression i...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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25:16
💯 The Mathematical Reason We Need So Many Sperm Cells
Why are there so many? Learn why. Also learn the plethora of things we've intuitively learnt from sperm over the eons of time. Welcome to the first solo episode deep dive of the Season, and since the launch of the MCBE on LinkedIn.Curio...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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14:53
📰 The Exclusive Story of the NHS Dentist Who Risked Her Job to Secure Govt U-turn on Vaccine Mandate
Season 1 guest Mariana Visan explains why she would not succumb to the double-jab mandate to keep her job as an NHS dentist. Featured in national news covering many protests, she describes the experience from start to finish and reflects on the...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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26:11
📚 Dodging Uni to Help Students Study Better in London with Mohammad Awais
An offer to study at King's College, London did not sway Mo in the year preceding the pandemic. Under pressure from society and family, Mohammad Awais took the increasingly popular decision to forego higher education when faced with high debt a...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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39:57
🎨 How to Freelance Scientific Illustrate with Swedish Entrepreneur Dr. Daria Chrobok
Talented artist and Plant Physiology PhD, Dr. Chrobok paved a way out of academia by starting up DC SciArt, serving many diverse scientists and publishers, and cultivating a beautifully illustrated collection with well-engaged followers online....
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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46:30
🤖 PhD Premiere: AI & Mental Health with Dr. Kasia Kozdon
Newly minted PhD Kasia reveals their unexpected journey to complete an AI science doctorate. Hear the staff neuromorphic engineer and member of the International Society for Artificial Life's eye-opening artificial life anecdotes, personal stor...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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44:23
🔥 Season 3 Announcement
Thank you for Season 2 - can you guess which city and country topped the listenership this year? Are you in the top 10 countries? You know what to expect of this fun and light bridge between seasons. Newly featuring are poetry and percussion.
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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8:23
🌿 Herbs to Fight PMS with Lauren & Matt
Husband and wife, Dr. Matthew Crane and Lauren Lee, went on a mission to alleviate Lauren's lifelong struggles with PMS and advanced endometriosis by leveraging Matt's natural investigative acumen. What they found could help millions.Le...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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31:24
👶 Baby Brain, a Theory of Hormonal Regulation
Tying together insights about mood disturbances across the human life cycle to enlighten the etiology and treatment of PMS, PMDD and postnatal depression. As a foetus creation tool, "female" hormones signal being born. Baby Brain kicks in, guid...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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25:38
🧠 Life Science Consulting with Dr. Iris Batalha
Nanomedicine expert Iris has recently been awarded a “La Caixa” Foundation Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowship after consolidating a career in academia with consulting and pharma industry stints. Learn about the Portuguese scientist's journey...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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37:55
🧬 Hilary's Hilarious Science History
(Finally!) retired science teacher and chief examiner Hilary Tunnicliffe weighs in on curricula, alternatives to exams and the power of being a red pen-wielding teacher.Learn more about Hilary at
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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49:54