In this episode, scientists speak back to ideas about collection building, knowledge making, and the role of art and creativity in research. <a href="https://bryology.uconn.edu/bernard-goffinet/">Bernard Goffinet</a> and <a href="https://fishlab.eeb.uconn.edu/people/eric-schultz-3/">Eric Schultz</a>, professors in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, discuss their roles in building and maintaining UConn’s Biodiversity Research Collections and their vision for how scientific knowledge, data, and research will shape our future.Learn more about the Seeing Truth exhibition at <a href="https://futureoftruth.uconn.edu/seeing-truth">our website</a>.Follow us on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/whyarguepod">@WhyArguePod</a> and on Instagram <a href="https://instagram.com/whywearguepod">@WhyWeArguePod</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Seeing Truth in Picturing the Pandemic:

Hosted by political philosopher and Vanderbilt University professor Robert Talisse, Why We Argue is an interview podcast that brings in academics, philosophers, historians, journalists, politicians, and other notable public figures to think about the nature of truth in a time of viral misinformation. Created by Future of Truth, a project of the University of Connecticut's Humanities Institute and funded by the University of Connecticut, the Henry Luce Foundation, and Vanderbilt University.