Podcast appearances and mentions of andy dobson

This bonus episode is an impromptu roundtable discussion that was part of a working group at the Santa Fe Institute in February 2024 on biodiversity and the sustainable development goals. The Santa Fe Institute is an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to the study of complex adaptive systems. It was founded in 1984 by a group of scientists, many affiliated with with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. SFI host a range of gatherings at different scales, form public conferences to small working groups. This working group was organized by two SFI affiliated scholars: Andy Dobson who is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, an evolutionary anthropologist who is at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. They group included scholars and practitioners from the social and behavioral sciences, conservation biology and ecology and law. The focus on the group was the question of how to jumpstart progress on halting biodiversity loss in the context of the the UN sustainable development goals. The conversation in this podcast is with several members in the working group. The others in the conversation were Liam Smith, an expert in behavioral change and the director of BehaviorWorks Australia at Monash University; Tim O'Brien, an ecologist who worked for decades at the Wildlife Conservation Society; Margaret Kinnaird, an ecologist and the Global Wildlife Practice Leader at the World Wildlife Fund for Nature – International; Matt Turner, a post-doc and expert on computational modeling at the Stanford School of Sustainability; and Tim Caro, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Bristol.

We chat with song writer Andy Dobson - 16Jan21 - 10am

Andy Dobson was born in London and moved to live in Scotland before starting school. He spent the next fifteen years becoming a keen birdwatcher and bibliophile. He commuted daily from a small village on the edge of the Highlands to Glasgow High School. His family moved to Essex in 1970 and he completed school at King Edwards VI Grammar School, Chelmsford where he spent a lot of time measuring a museum collection of bird eggs and trying to quantify changes in their shape and size. He went to Imperial College, London University as a Botanist and emerged as a Zoologist in 1976, he then went to Oxford to for his PhD on “The Mortality Rates of British Birds”. During his time as a graduate student, he worked as a sous-Chef at the Cherwell Boathouse Restaurant, this generated a lifetime interest in food and its production. He was then a post-doc back at Imperial with Roy Anderson working on the population dynamics of host-parasite relationships, work which led him to Princeton to work on combinations of all of the above with Bob May. He was hired at the University of Rochester in 1987 and after three years returned to Princeton in 1990, he's lived there as a member of the Ecology and Evolution faculty ever since. Andy's research focuses on the role that infectious diseases play in the dynamics of wild animal and plant populations and how this modifies the structure of food webs. Thinking about how to develop mathematical models for these problems takes him to Serengeti, Yellowstone, Panama and along the coast of California. He also works on assorted problems in conservation biology and models for animal social systems and how these interact with the dynamics of different pathogens. This work is based on the wolf population in Yellowstone, but gains insights from the lion studies in Serengeti and a long-term fascination with primate social systems. Andy has published and edited several books: “Conservation and Biodiversity”, “Population Dynamics of Diseases in Natural Populations”, and “Unsolved Problems in Ecology.” He has been an external Faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute since 2011. Increasingly his time there will be spent writing a series of books that provide introductions to the scientific systems he has studied: “Serengeti Lives”, “Parasite Lives”, “Yellowstone Lives”. He is part of the SFI “Arrow of Time” working group that is examining “Timescales and Immunity”. Andy Dobson http://dobber.princeton.edu/

Mathematical models of the world — be they in physics, economics, epidemiology — capture only details that researchers notice and deem salient. Rather than objective claims about reality, they encode (and thus enact) our blind spots. And the externalities created by those models — microscopic pathogens invisible to the naked eye, or differences in the social network structures of two neighborhoods, or food webs disrupted by urban development — have a way of biting back when we ignore them. Structural inequality created by an insufficient model jeopardizes not just the ones left off the map, but the entire systems in which they participate. Science fiction author Philip K. Dick put it well when we said that “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” Ultimately, ecological and social justice is dependent on our rigorous empiricism and our dedication to describing all the relevant dimensions of our complex world.Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and each week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.In this episode, Santa Fe Institute President David Krakauer returns to talk about the latest essays in SFI Transmission series, to shed light on the crucial under-examined margins of our maps — and how good science both enables and demands us to do better.If you value our research and communication efforts, please consider making a one-time or recurring monthly donation at santafe.edu/podcastgive … and/or consider rating and reviewing us at Apple Podcasts. Thank you for listening!Read the essays we discuss in this episode:David Krakauer and Dan Rockmore on out-evolving COVID-19Jon Machta on the noisy equilibrium of disease containment & economic painBrian Enquist on how pandemics rapidly reshape the evolutionary & ecological landscapeMelanie Moses and Kathy Powers on models that protect the vulnerableVisit our website for more information or to support our science and communication efforts.Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast Theme Music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInMentioned in this episode:Melanie Moses, Kathy Powers, Brian Enquist, Jon Machta, Dan Rockmore, David Krakauer, Michael Garfield, Edgar Allan Poe, Auguste Dupin, Dan Brown, Vera Rubin, Kent Ford, Fritz Zwicky, Robert Koch, Martinus Beijerinck, Charles Darwin, Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR, Cory Doctorow, Peter Singer, William Hamilton, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Caroline Buckee, David B. Kinney, Kurt Wiesenfeld, Chao Tang, Per Bak, Cris Moore, Sidney Redner, Manfred Laubichler, William Gibson, François de Liocourt, Andrey Kolmogorov, Geoffrey West, Andy Dobson, Jessica Flack, Steve Lansing, Nicolas Rashevsky, Darcy Wentworth Thompson, Mahzarin Banaji

Where did the new coronavirus come from? How can we be on the lookout for new diseases emerging from animals? Now that the coronavirus has infected humans, what’s the best path forward? In this episode of Big Biology, we talk with Andy Dobson, a disease ecologist at Princeton University who studies epidemics like the current COVID-19 outbreak. We talked with him about the possible animal origins of the virus, the best way to control its spread and strategies to avoid the next pandemic. Andy emphasizes that we shouldn’t blame wildlife for the coronavirus outbreak. It’s human behavior that led to this problem, and it’s human behavior that’s going to have to change to avoid the next ones. This episode is dedicated to Robert May, --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bigbiology/message

In several key respects, COVID-19 reveals how crucial timing is for human life. The lens of complex systems science helps us understand the central role of time in coordinating across scales, and how synchrony or misalignment leads to major consequences—whether it’s in how the metabolic differences between bats and humans can create an opportunity for interspecies epidemics, or in how the timing of society’s return to work could either help reboot or help destroy the world economy. Network research shows us early warning signs of an impending social crisis, the fossils of a vast collective computation as we struggle to adapt to periods of rapid change…and even the analogies we use to talk about these times bely a nested and embodied structure in how we encode the details of reality. These are complex times, indeed—and how civilization mutates to adapt to this pandemic will have everything to do with our ability to think and act at multiple timescales, simultaneously.In Transmission, SFI’s new essay series on COVID-19, our community of scientists shares a myriad of complex systems insights on this unprecedented situation. This special supplementary mini-series with SFI President David Krakauer finds the links between these articles—on everything from evolutionary theory to economics, epistemology to epidemiology—to trace the patterns of a deeper order that, until this year, was largely hidden in plain sight.You can support our research and communication efforts at santafe.edu/give.If you find the information in this program useful, please consider leaving a review at Apple Podcasts. Thank you for listening!Further Reading:005: Andrew Dobson on the Need for Disease Models which Capture Key Complexities of Transmission006: Miguel Fuentes on Using Social Media Data to Detect Signatures of Global Crises007 Danielle Allen, E. Glen Weyl, and Rajiv Sethi on How to Reduce COVID-19 Mortality While Easing Economic Decline008: Michael Hochberg on the Importance of Timing in Restrictive Confinement009: Melanie Mitchell on How the Analogies We Live by Shape our ThoughtsVisit our website for more information or to support our science and communication efforts.Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast Theme Music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn

“We should not have a strategy that involves killing a sizable percentage of the population. But, even if you were going to get over that ethical hurdle, [herd immunity for Covid-19] still isn't going to work.”- Sam ScarpinoFor this special mini-series covering the Covid-19 pandemic, we will bring you into conversation with the scientists studying the bigger picture of this crisis, so you can learn their cutting-edge approaches and what sense they make of our evolving global situation.This week we speak with Samuel V. Scarpino, who earned his PhD at UT Austin before becoming an Omidyar Fellow at The Santa Fe Institute, and now an Assistant Professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. In this episode, we glance off the surface of his extensive epidemiological research to discuss the complexity of interacting biological and behavioral contagions, analyzing Chinese mobility data to evaluate pandemic interventions, and the problem of unequal data collection due to socioeconomic inequality.Note that this episode was recorded on March 20th and we’d like to issue a blanket disclaimer that our understanding of the novel coronavirus pandemic evolves by the hour. We believe this information to be up to date at the time of publication but the findings discussed in this episode could soon be refined by more research.Sam’s Website & Twitter Page.Read the papers we discuss in this episode at Sam’s Google Scholar Page.Visit our website for more information or to support our science and communication efforts.Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast Theme Music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn

Pandemics like the current novel coronavirus disease outbreak provide a powerful incentive to study the dynamics of complex adaptive systems. They also make it obvious, as new information streams in and our forecasts change in real-time, how hard emergent behaviors are to model and predict. For this special mini-series covering the COVID-19 crisis, we will bring you into conversation with scientists in the Santa Fe Institute’s global research network who study epidemics so you can learn their cutting-edge approaches and what sense they make of our evolving global situation.Due to the pace at which the news is changing, we’ll ignore our normal schedule for the next few weeks and get more, shorter conversations out more frequently.  Please take a moment to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, and feel free to suggest questions for upcoming guests on Twitter or in our Facebook group.This episode’s returning guest is SFI External Professor, Princeton epidemiologist Andy Dobson.  Among the questions we discuss:What are the benefits and limits of mathematical models in tracking contagious disease? How do epidemiologists make sense of the tradeoffs between a pathogen’s transmissibility and virulence with spatial and evolutionary models? When is it likely that herd immunity will and will not work as a reasonable response to COVID-19?  What happens if COVID-19 becomes an endemic seasonal infection? How are the dynamics of epidemiological and economic systems related, both at the level of disease transmission and for modeling recovery?You can support our research and communication efforts at santafe.edu/give.Visit our website for more information.Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Andy’s WebsiteAndy’s Google Scholar PageAndy’s first appearance on Complexity Podcast Episode 16Podcast Theme Music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn

Physics usually gets the credit for grand unifying theories and the search for universal laws…but looking past the arbitrary boundaries between the sciences, it’s just as true that ecological research reveals deep patterns in the energy and information structures of our cosmos. There are profound analogies to draw from how evolving living systems organize themselves. And at the intersection of biology and physics, epidemiology and economics, new strategies for conservation and development emerge to guide us through the needle’s eye, away from global poverty and ecological catastrophe and toward a healthier and wealthier tomorrow…This week’s guest is SFI External Professor Andy Dobson of Princeton University, whose work focuses on food webs, parasites, and infectious diseases to help us understand and better manage the complexities of climate change and urban growth, human-wildlife interactions, and the spread of pathogens. In this episode we talk about how network structures can inhibit or accelerate disease transmission, the link between biodiversity and economic growth, and how complex systems thinking leads to better wildlife conservation.For transcripts, show notes, research links, and more, please visit complexity.simplecast.com.If you enjoy this podcast, please help us reach a wider audience by leaving a  review at Apple Podcasts, or by sharing the show on social media. Thank you for listening!Visit our website for more information or to support our science and communication efforts.Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Andy’s WebsiteAndy’s Google Scholar PagePodcast Theme Music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn

Topic: In this episode, your hosts, AntlerBoy an JP, start by lamenting the software industry and their almost arrogant – sometimes not almost arrogant – disregard for the customer and the user experience.  Not that software companies will ever change, but rather a resignation that we have to endure.  But the episode gets productive, or rather reproductive, with the introduction of Andy Dobson and his story of how he was a member of a small team at a company called Chartex that introduced the female condom ; where they started by making hundreds of samples per day by hand, ramping up to a production capacity or 50-million units per year within 18 months.  The rest of this episode is chock-o-block full of stories of Andy’s adventures and experiences in a variety of business. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Guests: Andy Dobson More about Andy on LinkedIn Company: Lean 4 Business About Andy: Andy Dobson has worked in several industry sectors as a change agent with an emphasis on helping organizations work leaner and meaner – but meaner with a level of empathy.  He has driven value to companies like Nokia, Tata Steel, GSK, Baxter, and Lamborghini – before starting his own consultancy practice, Lean 4 Business in 2009 where he works with companies across Europe and beyond in the Operations, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain space delivering game-changing performance increases using Lean, Six-Sigma and Theory of Constraints.  In addition to having been on a small team which brought the Female Condom into volume manufacture in the early 90’s, Andy a passion for helping high-tech, high-value UK Manufacturing and Supply Chains. Andy graduated from Napier University with a BSc in Technology with Industrial Studies.

Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of the Cisco UKI Podcast. In this episode, we are discussing Software Defined Access (SDA) with experts James Harrop and Andy Dobson. They explain what it is, its benefits to an organization and considerations if you want to move to a SDA architecture.

Welcome to Episode 6 of The Ambient Zone Radio Show, featuring tracks from The Ambient Zone Playlists, including our two new releases this month – The Green Kingdom's ‘La Mer Verte' and Hakobune's ‘Undulate' and excerpts from our featured album of the month, Clocolan ‘Everything You See Is You'. The second hour features a Special Christmas Mix for The Ambient Zone from our Podcast host, Andy Dobson, Digitonal. Hour One 1. The Green Kingdom – La Mer Verte (The Ambient Zone) 2. Ben Lukas Boysen – Reaching Light (Erased Tapes) 3. Lambert – Sleep (Mercury) 4. UNKLE – Out Of The Light (UNKLE) 5. Sven Vath – Ritual Of Life (Neutron 9000 Mix) (Cocoon Recordings) 6. Hakobune – Undulate (The Ambient Zone) 7. Clocolan – Everything You See Is You (Enpeg) 8. Clocolan – Obsolete Advancements (Enpeg) 9. Manu Delago – Freeze (Tru Thoughts) 10. Hiroshi Yoshimura – Clouds (Empire Of Signs) 11. Phillip Weigi – Random Access Hour Two – Christmas Guest Mix: Digitonal 1. Digitonal - Mysterium: A Choral Christmas part 2 2. Anon - Lullay, I saw 3. Hans Leo Hassler - Verbum Caro Factum Est 4. Graham Lack - Jesu Swete Sone Dear (Signum Records) 5. Jonathan Rathbone - The Oxen (Signum Records) 6. Peter Warlock - Bethlehem Down (Signum Records) 7. Philip Wilby - The Word Made Flesh (Delphian) 8. Pyotr Tchaikovsky - The Crown Of Roses 9. Einojuhani Rautavaara - Christmas Carol (BIS) 10. William Byrd - Lullaby My Sweet Baby (Venzo) 11. Francis Poulenc - O Magnum Mysterium (Signum Records) 12. Andrew Dobson - The Fisherman's Carol 13. John Jacob Niles - I wonder as I wander (Everest Records) 14. Judith Weir - Illumiare, Jerusalem (Brilliant Classics) 15. Hieronymus Praetorius - Joseph Lieber, Joseph Mein 16. Trad - Salutation Carol

Andy Dobson with an overview of a three-part zoonoses Series.

Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the spin audios.

Transcript -- Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the spin audios.

Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the environmental justice audios.

Transcript -- Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the environmental justice audios.

Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the GM videos.

Transcript -- Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the GM videos.

Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the GM videos.

Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the spin audios.

Transcript -- Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the environmental justice audios.

Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the environmental justice audios.

Transcript -- Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the GM videos.

Transcript -- Course team meber Andy Dobson unpicks some of the issues emerging from the spin audios.