A retrospective for our 42nd episode
“If you’ve ever stared at a petri dish at 2 a.m., questioning your career choices—then watched it work—you know why biology feels like the answer to life, the universe, and everything.”
— Zeeshan Siddiqui
Zeeshan hosts a reunion with artists, educators, and students shows how curiosity becomes practice, projects, and careers across bioart, education technology, diagnostics, and materials science. We share real tools, honest challenges, and clear next steps for learning and building.
- Bioart as living practice and display challenges
- Automation shaping creative and scientific workflows
- At-home and classroom biotech kits scaling access
- Simulators and free curricula overcoming logistics
- Bioplastics, biomanufacturing, and practical AI modules
- Student paths into labs, diagnostics, and publishing
- Double majors and interdisciplinary momentum
- Moving from competitions to peer-reviewed research
- AI’s risks and value in authentic learning
- Materials science pivots from first principles
If you’re listening to this and you’re a student wondering if you belong in science, you do. If you’re a teacher wondering if this work matters, it does. Keep asking questions, keep building, keep being curious.
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