Bats, pandemic and women
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This is second part of the conversation with Prof. Alice Hughes. She is working at XTBG in China. Her work focuses on understanding patterns of biodiversity and drivers of biodiversity change, with an aim to form more rigorous & appropriate conservation. In this conversation we discuss about what are bats, evolution of bats, importance of the bats for the biodiversity, bats and viruses, eating bats, bats and pandemic, biodiversity, importance of biodiversity, various ways for biodiversity conservation, diversity in science and women in science.
About the guest
0:00 Introduction
0:51 What are bats?
04:57 How many species of bats?
05:42 Evolution of bats?
08:12 Habitats of bats?
11:35 Immunity of bats
17:00 Are bats beautiful?
21:14 Eating bats
24:49 Why we should know, what to eat
26:30 Lifestyle for you and others
27:18 Why do we need biodiversity?
31:10 Biodiverse world
31:31 Challenges for the conservation of biodiversity
34:22 Biodiversity and role of consumers
36:13 Being conscious of what are you eating
39:13 What you can do from distance for biodiversity conservation?
44:03 Supporting local populations to support biodiversity
51:17 Diversity in science
52:28 Gender roles in science
54:53 Science of genders
57:02 How to overcome gender biases?
1:00:30 Can 50-50% formula work in research institutes?
1:05:10 Education and science communication to flourish science
1:07:27 Nobel prizes for women!
1:09:38 Experience of a woman in science
1:11:24 Find out more about Alice's work
1:12:07 Thanks!