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In this episode, the hosts say goodbye and share some of their favorite moments from the podcast. Thank you to everyone who has tuned in at any point during our podcast run. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts reflect on the first Pride Parade as a commemoration and celebration of the Stonewall protests by discussing the long history of the fight against anti-LGBTQ science from the 19th century to today.

This livestream was part of our April pledge drive on Patreon. The hosts talk about bonkers things men have said about women’s bodies, do a Q&A with the audience, and play a game of Balderdash! Make a pledge at www.patreon.com/ladyscience. For show note and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience/com/donate.

The hosts talk about the history of sex research, starting with Victorian sexologists and ending with current day sex self-help. Featuring interview clips with sociologist Alyson Spurgas, author of “Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the 21st Century.” For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

Leila talks with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein about her new book “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred”: why exploring what we don’t know about the universe is just as important as what we do know; what is the physics of melanin; what can physics teach us about the gender binary; why is the freedom to look at the night sky a basic human right? For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts discuss the long history of women in the world of beer and brewing. From ancient godesses to medieval brewsters and alewives, women dominated brewing until changing economies and men gradually pushed them out. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts discuss the rise of modern domestic engineering in the early 20th century. As changes in science and technology swept the world, women sought to raise house work to its level by bringing modern techniques of industry into the home.

Leila and Rebecca are joined by guest host KJ Shepherd, Lady Science’s social media editor. They talk about the plight of Jewish women refugee scientists attempting to come to the U.S. during World War II and how the U.S. and academia could have done more to save more refugees. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

Anna and Rebecca are joined by guest hosts Emily McCartan and Lexie Briggs to talk about the National Parks Service. For show notes and transcripts, visit ladyscience.com/podcast.

We talk with historian and author Dr. Jaipreet Virdi about the history of deafness cures and technologies for hearing loss. She is the author of the recently published book “Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History” from Chicago University Press. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this bonus episode, Rebecca and Anna talk with the hosts of the Dope Labs Podcast Zakiya Whatley and Titi Shodiya about how Dope Labs came to be, how they approach each episode, and how the podcasting landscape needs to change. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts dive into the history of recipes, or receipts, and chat about what historical recipes can tell us about women’s knowledge and lives in the past. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

For Pride Month, the hosts talk about queer physicians Sara Josephine Baker and Louise Pearce and their polyamorous relationship with novelist Ida A. R. Wylie. They also discuss the Heterdoxy, a feminist club in Greenwich Village, and the importance of queer community. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

Emily Graslie, science communicator and Chief Curiosity Officer at the Field Museum in Chicago, joins Leila and Rebecca to talk about her new PBS show “Prehistoric Road Trip.” For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts dive into the history of science museums and how education and public service roles in museums became a “pink collar” profession. Since women staff such a large portion of these roles, women museum workers have been particularly hard hit by COVID-19 layoffs. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

In this episode, the hosts chat with Wendy Zukerman, executive producer and host of the Gimlet Media podcast Science Vs, about what it’s like to be a science journalist in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and what it’s like to be a woman in science journalism. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

This is the second and final part of Herbarium Heist. Find out if your intrepid lady scientists are able to defeat their foes and lift the cholera epidemic from London. For credits and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

This is part one of two of a special Dungeons and Dragons campaign set in a Lady Science world, called Herbarium Heist. Joined by special guests, Stephen McGann from “Call the Mdiwife,” Alexis Pedrick from Distillations Podcast, and Jessica Lynn Parsons from “The Dungeon Run,” your hosts embark on a mission to save London from a cholera epidemic. For credits and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com

In this episode, dendrochonologist Valerie Trouet of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona talks with Anna and Leila about her new book, Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings. She talks about the fascinating science of tree-rings and what they can tell us climate patterns and ecosystems. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.

The hosts dive into the history of menopause and trace how it became known as a specifically female experience. Dr. Susan Mattern joins in to talk about her new book, The Slow Moon Climbs, and menopause as a cultural syndrome. For show notes and transcripts, visit www.ladyscience.com/podcast.