Always entertaining and informative. Enjoy the puns. Great work!

I love this podcast. Interesting topics discussed by knowledgeable people in an intelligent way. Have you done a story about the loss of science museums? The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum in Philadelphia, the oldest natural history museum in this hemisphere, recently closed its doors. There is a large contingent of scientists, former staff, and fans of this iconic museum fighting to get it reopened and on firm ground. The Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Kansas is also being shuttered. What is going on here? I’d love to hear your views on this tragic turn of events. Thanks!

We needed a more aggressive followup questioning when the interviewees answer to a study showing 25% of the participants will have brain injuries leading to CTE. The response was, it needs more study. How cruel! The activity should be halted immediately! Participants paying a torturous price and the family and community pick ip the bill!

I love this series! However, there’s no way to listen without suffering insipid commercial interruptions. I’d pay for a commercial-free subscription if they offered one.

They spend about half the time talking about everything but the actual topic itself.

I love Science Friday and tune in for world-class research, but there is a recurring dynamic when female scientists are interviewed. Flora Lichtman frequently presses female guests on how difficult their gender made their career path or repeatedly asks leading questions to extract stories of sexism. Even when a scientist explicitly states that wasn't her experience and tries to steer back to her research, the questioning persists. It feels reductive to force a pre-packaged struggle narrative onto experts who just want to discuss their actual work.

SciFri consistently interviews the most interesting people in science. Recent episode w/ Dr. Jennifer Chayes, the founding Dean of Computing, Data Science, and Society had me marveling at all the visionary scientists I’ve been introduced to bc of this show. Listen if you love science, wonder, and awe.

Love this show! Science Friday provides reliable, well researched scientific information in a way that’s easily accessible and fun. I’m a longtime listener and a huge fan.

The topics are wide ranging, and the information is well researched. You never know what the new topic will be; it’s like opening a surprise gift every weekday. I’m proud to be a monthly supporter.

Great show! Always fascinating and informative.

Each daily segment opens up a whole new world. Thank you Ira and Flora.

I have been listening to this show for years, and have learned so much along the way. I didn’t think anyone could be as good as Ira, but Flora is his equal: both are skilled interviewers, have wonderful voices, and bring a broad understanding of science to the job. They ask all the questions I want to ask, and many more I wouldn’t have thought of. Thanks, and keep up the wonderful program.

I have always loved this program and podcast, but in the last year it’s really sounding great. The topics are broad, the guests are well chosen, and the entire listening experience is fun. You can tell the hosts love their jobs! I also like how the program has been broken and into shorter pods, making the listening experience easier throughout the week and allowing me to determine which stories to prioritize. Science Friday makes me feel like no subject in science is beyond my grasp or interest.

Science, Friday has been one of my top three podcasts for years now. It keeps me informed on current trends in science, and sometimes Miche or unique, perspectives, and things we would never think about.

Is there a scientific study comparing the White Collar people vs. the Blue Collar workers like carpenters, elecrticans, plumbers, etc. ???

Each Sci Fri episode creates more fascination for me about the vastness of the scientific world. I find myself smiling and can’t wait to share my new knowledge with others- I love my new regular dose of dopamine!

Science Friday covers such a wide range of topics and Flora brings thoughtful and insightful questions to each interview. Your work is so important in our current times so thank you!!

I’ve been listening to Science Friday since early 2000s and if, for some reason, I can’t listen to it for a few days, I experience withdrawal symptoms! It’s just great. Highly relevant and interesting topics, with a scientific angle, discussed with experts keeping us all well informed. Listen and support and spread the word!!

I’ve been an avid NPR listener since literally childhood, I “discovered” Science Friday over over 30 years ago listening between classes during medical school. I’ve been addicted ever since. Since I got a “smart phone” about 2020 years ago, I’ve missed fewer episodes after discovering podcasts as I can now listen any time. Everything I could possibly say is positive but beyond my limited vocabulary. My listening got interrupted for a while and am now starting back after over a year hiatus. I’m going back to where I left off. It’s still”new to me”! I have one and only one critical comment. PLEASE go back to the podcast format of just playing the show beginning to end as two long segments. With the newer format sorted approximately 2023, each short segment seems to be missing the first 1-3 words which is frustrating.

I look forward to each new Podcast. They are entertaining, knowledgeable, funny and brighten my day! I learn so much about science and related topics, that I would never have had the opportunity to enjoy otherwise. Ira has helped me increase my understanding of science for many years. His ability to explain complicated issues and bring so much of the world of science to me. Flora makes me smile every time I hear her voice. She brings out the best in each interview with a combination of humor and asking just the right questions. You can tell that each interviewer truly enjoys being on the show! You both are my hero’s for bringing a smile to my heart and knowledge to my life!!! Thanks Vance

All the topics are very interesting because all the things they talk about are things I wouldn’t have ever thought about but they usually are very interesting topics.

I love the show!! The episode on beavers ahhh I’m now obsessed with beavers lol!! As a double science major this pod taps into my love of science 🥰🥰

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We have loved SciFri for decades. Enjoy the bite-sized daily episodes even more. Keep up the good work!

Scifri is my absolute favorite podcast to satisfy my curiosities about the world, open up new pathways to understanding the world, and provide context in a way that is meaningful, applicable, entertaining and interesting.

There has not been an episode that I have not enjoyed. I’m curious about so much and I love Science Friday. It fills my curiosity beyond measure

I’ve listened to Science Friday’ for 30 years and it is the only podcast I listen to every day. I work professionally as a researcher in biology and the things I already know are treated very accurately and I listen to learn about things I don’t know. It’s entertaining and fun on top of all that.

Flora’s sincerity and excitement is so contagious. The topics covered are so diverse, and I never know what I’m going to learn each episode- and I love that. This podcast brings a sense of awe to my life in way no other one does. It’s easily my favorite show to recommend.

Just tuned into program on Neanderthals and couldn’t listen long. Just all this child like giggling every minute. Not understanding the reason or purpose. Nothing humorous but all this giggling. Just hard to listen to content so signed off.

Thanks Flora for being one of the most thoughtful and impactful voices of science for the next generations. On a foundation of curiosity, compassion and joy that Ira and many other voices have established, your agility of mind and breadth of understanding expands what science contributes to today, and also who chooses to be a scientist. Thanks to producer Shoshannah Buxbaum and all of the SciFri team for 35 years of getting us together on “the back porch at the end of the radio week” to relax, have fun, meet new people, and learn cool stuff. Thanks for creating and sustaining this great tradition! ❤️🎵🔬🔭💫

If Ira or Flora are talking I’m listening. I always learn something new! Thank you for the wide range of topics and voices!

It doesn’t matter what the topic being discussed is, if Flora Lichtman gets excited about it, I’m soon completely invested.

In a digital world filled with shallow influencers and brainless content, these curated topics fill your brain with curiosity and awe of science and nature. I also admire the platform they give to researchers and thinkers in society. Highly recommend to lifelong learners.

Very interesting. As a citizen scientist for years I have been studying my yawns almost nightly lying in bed before going to sleep. I find a perfect correlation between yawning and an increase in heart rate of about 2-3 bpm that lasts for about 10-15 seconds after the yawn before it returns lower again. I think that this could be an indication of the temporary increased blood flow to the brain as mentioned in the podcast. I’d like to hear if anyone else has experienced this.

My favorite science podcast, have been listening since I was a kid.

Flora is such a fun curious person! She and Ira are both witty and punny. I love to learn new stuff with you!

I listen to this show on a regular basis. And I enjoy the content part of the time. However, they have people come on with a political bias and express their personal views as if it’s fact.

I love this show! Ira and Flora are both fantastic, different styles but equally curious and fun. I learn something new every time, even on topics I don’t expect to enjoy. It’s a great mix of important science and a much-needed escape from our current hellscape.

No matter the topic, always fascinating!

It’s an approachable but not dumbed-down way to learn about science and technology for all ages. I learn so much and frequently share episodes with friends and family.

SciFri is excellent brain food for a lifelong learner.

I love learning scientific facts,but worry so much about climate change.

As a retired physician, I so enjoy science Friday as one of my favorite podcasts. Keeps one up-to-date on a variety of science topics in a way that is easy and fun to listen to. I tried to play it while my grandkids are in the car.!!!

I love this show! The new shorter length is perfect for in the car. And it helps me feel like my brain is healthy, balancing out social media time!

This show regularly provides information I can use in my life and keeps me informed on matters that I may need to consider when I vote in the future.

Great podcast, love the daily format

First - thank you Ira for finding Flora - as she assumes a greater roll in “SciFri” I have come to the conclusion that you are a visionary. I should have trusted you when you first introduced her, but I am a creature of habit and not very accepting of changes to my routine. But, Flora, you have won me over - your happy, breezy, but always reverent style is the perfect antidote to our current predicament. I think you make me smile AT LEAST once an episode, and I often listen to two a day. And your interviews are astounding - I was blown away by two in particular - Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold (from ditching school to driving a taxi to creating a whole new field of research) and Dr. Brian May (makes you reassess everything you thought about rock musicians - and astronomers…). Your ability to provide these amazing scientists with a platform to discuss their humanity gets me every time. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I was in graduate school back when the WWW was born on the NeXT computers - yes, I had one, but sold it to a computational science lab because I couldn’t get it to work with all the bioinformatics software the lab had for the Apple computers… But I digress. Back then we listened to Science Friday religiously - where else were we going to hear about great science in disciplines unrelated to molecular biology. Ira was a godsend in those days before the internet really took off. His fascination with all types of science was infectious, but, more importantly, it was broad and bolstered by interviews with icons and iconoclasts alike (grad students love iconoclasts). Indeed, other than Ira, Cell, Science, JBC, and Nature, we grad students got our popular science fixes via USA Today - okay, we got a lot of our information on the real world by reading USA Today, because the labware kitchen staff made it available to us when they let us eat lunch in there… But I digress again. The point is I have been listening, and loving Science Friday for a LONG time. If you are reading this, you should tune in. It will bring a smile to your face and amaze you at the same time. Flora and Ira - you guys ROCK.

Flora Lichtman might be the best interviewer of any genre. She actually listens to the interviewee and bases her questions on what the person is saying, not using some predetermined list of questions that she is determined to ask, while ignoring answers as so many others do. I absolutely love her shows.

just listened to the podcast about cognitive brain training that reduced dementia risk by 25%. The “ positscience“ company website mentioned by the Johns Hopkins researcher produced a lengthy “quiz“ exactly like that used by Noom and other subscription driven services. After taking a long, time consuming “test” you are presented with a number of pay to play options. The particular program mentioned by the Johns Hopkins scientist was nowhere to be found. You should vet your recommendations much more thoroughly. As it is, you’ve served as a great promotion for a scam.

I listen to this podcast every week and love it for the source of relevant and new science news. If you are curious about what’s going on in Science, then you should subscribe to this podcast!